Comparisons

BullBenchmark vs Parqet: broker sync or one upload

Parqet is one of the better-known portfolio trackers in the German-speaking market. It has put its engineering into getting transactions in without typing them, with broker connections that update themselves and importers that read statement documents.

We chose the opposite import model and sell one of the two products compared here, so read this page with that in mind. It covers what each tool is for, where each one fits better, and five questions you can put to any tracker, including ours.

What each one is

Parqet is a broad portfolio tracker. Holdings arrive through automatic broker connections and document import, and around them sits a wide set of views. It is built to be the one place where your portfolio lives.

BullBenchmark is built around one question, with the bookkeeping attached. You upload the export file from your broker, and the dashboard shows whether what you are doing beat the index you could have bought instead. Positions, dividends, allocation and year reports sit around that comparison.

It costs €5.99 a month or €59.99 a year, with a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card.

Where Parqet is the better choice

There are three cases where Parqet fits better.

You are not going to keep an upload habit. A connection stays current whether or not you remember it exists. A file does not, so our numbers are as fresh as your last upload.

If you know you will not download an export every month or two, a syncing tool will be more accurate for you, and accuracy is what a tracker is for.

Your broker makes a clean file hard to get. Some brokers provide a statement document and little else, and turning that into transactions takes work. We read CSV and XLSX, with a column mapper for layouts we have not seen, and we do not read PDF. If a document is all your broker gives you, that gap is ours.

You want breadth rather than a single answer. If you want many views of your holdings in one place, a wide product fits better than one built around a single number. We narrowed the product on purpose, and a narrow product shows you less.

Where we are different

We never hold a key to your brokerage account. We ask for a file, never a broker password, an API key or an account connection, so there is no credential of yours for us to lose. The price of that is the uploads.

The reasoning is in why we will never ask for your broker login. If you weigh the convenience of a connection higher than we do, that is a valid reason to pick another tool.

The comparison is the product, so it has to be built correctly. Instead of laying the index chart next to yours, we build a simulated index portfolio that received the same deposits on the same dates and put all of it into an index tracker. The same timing luck sits on both sides, so what is left is your decisions.

The benchmark is the total-return version with dividends reinvested, and both sides are converted to your base currency at the historical rate of each day. The method is described in how to check whether you are beating the S&P 500.

One price, six languages, no tiers. The site and the dashboard exist in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian. The weekly email and the year reports are still in English whichever language you set, and everything the product does is in the one subscription.

Language coverage in this category changes quickly, so check what any other tracker offers today rather than relying on a comparison page, ours included.

Five questions to ask any tracker

Feature lists go out of date quickly, so rather than describe someone else's product we publish a test. Put these five questions to any tracker, this one included.

Does it show a time-weighted return, and does it say so? If the only number is a percentage next to your total value, you are looking at something that mixes deposits with performance.
When it compares you with an index, does it replay your cash flows, or does it draw the index's own chart next to yours? Ask for the number after a large deposit and see whether the comparison moves.
Is the benchmark the total-return version of the index, with dividends reinvested?
Is everything converted to one base currency at historical rates, including the benchmark?
Does the calculation include closed positions, fees and withheld tax, or only what you still hold today?

You can check both products against this list in a few minutes with your own data. A tool that cannot answer question two tells you something too.

What we are deliberately not claiming

We do not publish Parqet's prices, the brokers it connects to or the documents its importer handles, because those lists change and we would be quoting them from memory.

We have not run our own broker files through their import, so nothing above says it works badly. What we wrote about Parqet is general and, as far as we know, correct at the time of writing in August 2026.

What we can state precisely is our own side. BullBenchmark costs €5.99 a month or €59.99 a year, in one plan. The trial is 14 days and takes no card.

We read CSV and XLSX files with a column mapper, we do not read PDF, and we never connect to a broker. Prices refresh while markets are open and settle on the official closing prices after the US close, so an intraday figure is an estimate.

Who should pick which

Pick Parqet if automatic updates are what you are paying for, if your broker only gives you documents, or if you want a wide tracker rather than a narrow one.

Pick BullBenchmark if you want to know whether your stock picking beats an index, if you would rather no product held a key to your brokerage account, or if your money sits across several brokers and currencies.

Pick both if they answer different questions for you. A file import does not stop you from also running a tool that syncs.

The live demo is a sample portfolio across two brokers with the same screens a subscriber gets, so you can check our answer to question two before deciding anything.

BullBenchmark reads the transaction export from your broker and shows your return next to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100, fed with the same deposits on the same dates, in your own currency. The first two weeks are free and no card is needed.