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Investor relations website providers compared for US issuers

Investor relations website providers fall into three groups: large IR suites such as Q4 and Notified, web specialists such as Equisolve and B2i, and wire services such as ACCESS Newswire. Issuers is a fourth option, an IR website inside the workspace where your team already prepares releases, meetings and filings, at a price you can see.
An investor relations manager marking up a printed wireframe of a new investor website at a desk in the evening

01 Comparison

Six IR website providers side by side

Based on each vendor's public positioning at the time of writing. Prices change and most are quoted, so ask every shortlisted provider for a written quote that splits setup, yearly hosting and extras.

Investor relations website providers compared by offer, pricing model and best fit
Provider What it sells Pricing model Best fit
Q4 Inc IR websites, virtual earnings events, IR CRM and shareholder intelligence in one suite. Private since its 2024 buyout by Sumeru Equity Partners. Quote through sales Large and mid caps that want website, webcasts and surveillance from one established vendor
Notified IR websites, webcasting and investor events next to GlobeNewswire distribution and public relations tools. Quote through sales Companies that buy wire distribution, webcasting and the IR site as one package
Equisolve Specialist IR website builder with several website tiers for public companies of every size, plus SEC filing feeds and hosting. Quote through sales Issuers that want a dedicated web vendor and a custom design
ACCESS Newswire (formerly Issuer Direct) Newswire, IR website and compliance tools aimed at micro and small caps. Renamed from Issuer Direct in January 2025. Flat rate packages, quote by module Micro caps that want press release distribution and a basic IR site from one supplier
B2i Custom corporate and IR websites, real-time data widgets and digital IR services for micro and small caps. Quote by project Small caps that want widgets dropped into an existing corporate site
Issuers IR website on your subdomain inside an IR workspace with CRM, meeting briefs, ownership, disclosure workflow and data rooms. Public plan from $1,499 a month billed yearly, checkout on the pricing page Lean IR teams that want the site and the work behind it in one tool at a known price

Q4, Notified, Equisolve, ACCESS Newswire and B2i are names of their owners, used only to identify the products compared. Check each vendor's site for its current offer.

02 Three models

Suite module, web specialist or a site inside your IR workspace

The provider you pick decides who publishes your results at 7am on earnings day, and how many vendors your IR lead manages. That matters more than the template gallery.

A suite vendor sells the website as one line in a larger contract with webcasting, CRM and surveillance. You get one account team and one invoice, and you pay for the whole bundle whether you use it or not. A web specialist builds a polished site and keeps the filing feeds running, but your CRM, meeting notes and approvals live somewhere else. A wire service adds the site to press release distribution, which suits micro caps that mostly need releases out and archived.

Issuers takes the fourth route. The IR website is a module of the same workspace that holds the investor CRM, the disclosure calendar and the approval chain, so an approved release goes to the site without a second upload and a known investor's visit shows up in their next meeting brief.

IR suite module

Website, events, CRM and surveillance from one vendor. Strong on large cap webcasts. Priced by quote, often with a multi-year term.

Web specialist or agency

Custom design and reliable feeds. Content and approvals still run through email and tickets, and analytics sit apart from your CRM.

Site inside your IR workspace

The site reads from the records your team already keeps. Approvals are logged, visits tie to contacts, and the price is on the page.

03 Checklist

What to ask every IR website provider before you sign

Send the same eight questions to each vendor on your shortlist and compare the written answers, not the demo.

  1. 01

    Who can publish, and is it logged

    Can your IR team publish without a ticket, and does every page change carry an approver and a time stamp? Under Regulation FD a release has to reach the public broadly, so the site update should follow the wire, not lag it by hours.

  2. 02

    How the SEC filings feed works

    Ask how often the EDGAR feed refreshes, whether exhibits and Section 16 filings appear, and what happens when EDGAR is slow on a busy filing day.

  3. 03

    Stock data source and delay

    Share price widgets use licensed exchange data. Ask who pays the exchange fee, what the delay is, and whether the as-of time is shown next to the price.

  4. 04

    Accessibility

    Ask for the WCAG level the templates meet and how documents such as PDF annual reports are handled. Investors read releases on phones and with screen readers.

  5. 05

    Analytics you can act on

    Page views are table stakes. Ask whether visits can be tied to named contacts who reached the site from your own emails, and where that data goes.

  6. 06

    Your domain, your archive

    The site should run on your subdomain, and the contract should let you export every release, document and page when you leave, with redirects for old links.

  7. 07

    Security and uptime

    Ask for the uptime commitment on results day, how releases are protected before they go live, and whether the vendor holds a security certification such as ISO 27001.

  8. 08

    Total cost over three years

    Ask for setup, yearly hosting, feeds, webcasting and change requests as separate lines, plus the notice period and renewal terms. Compare three year totals, not month one.

04 Cost

What an investor relations website costs in practice

Few IR website providers publish a price list, so most buyers only learn the number after two demos. The bill usually has four parts: a one time design and setup fee, a yearly subscription for hosting and feeds, licensed stock data, and extras such as webcasting, email alerts or premium analytics.

The cheapest line on the first invoice is rarely the cheapest over three years. Change requests billed by the hour, a webcast fee per quarter and an automatic renewal with a price step add up quickly for a small cap with four results cycles a year.

Issuers publishes every price. The IR website is part of the Public plan, which also includes the investor CRM, meeting briefs, the shareholder base view and the disclosure workflow. Full limits per plan are on the investor relations software pricing page.

05 Honest view

Which IR website provider fits which issuer

Choose a large suite if

you are a large cap with big earnings webcasts, you want surveillance services and an account team, and procurement prefers one established vendor for everything. Q4 and Notified are built for that. See how Issuers compares in the Q4 Inc alternative page.

Choose a web specialist if

design is the priority, your IR tools already work for you, and you only need the public site replaced. Equisolve and B2i focus on that layer, and an agency can match the corporate brand exactly.

Choose a wire bundle if

you are a micro cap whose main job is getting releases out on the wire and archived, with a simple investor page next to them. ACCESS Newswire sells that combination.

Choose Issuers if

your IR team is one to three people, you want the site, the investor CRM, the disclosure management software and meeting briefs in one place, and you want to buy at a published price. Issuers does not host webcasts, so keep your event provider.

06 Switching

Moving your IR site to a new provider in five steps

  1. Step 1

    Check the contract

    Find the notice period and renewal date of your current provider, and ask for a full export of releases, documents and page addresses.

  2. Step 2

    Map old addresses

    List every page and PDF address that releases and filings link to. Each one needs a working page or a redirect on the new site.

  3. Step 3

    Build on a preview

    Rebuild news, results, events, governance and documents on a preview address and import the archive.

  4. Step 4

    Review and approve

    IR, the CFO and counsel review the preview through the approval chain before anything is public.

  5. Step 5

    Point the subdomain

    Change the CNAME for ir.yourcompany.com. TLS is issued automatically, and the old site can stay up until renewal.

The site is one part of the investor relations platform. Once it runs, the same workspace shows who your holders are through shareholder identification from public holdings filings.

Buy the Public plan See the IR website module

Questions

Questions before choosing an IR website provider

Who are the top investor relations website providers?
For US listed companies the names that come up most often are Q4 Inc, Notified, Equisolve, ACCESS Newswire (the former Issuer Direct) and B2i, plus design agencies that build IR sections by hand. Q4 and Notified sell the site as part of a larger suite, Equisolve and B2i specialise in the web layer, and ACCESS Newswire bundles it with wire distribution. Issuers includes an IR website in its Public and Enterprise plans next to the CRM and disclosure workflow.
How much does an investor relations website cost?
Most IR website providers do not publish prices. Expect a setup or design fee and a yearly subscription for hosting, filing feeds and stock data, with webcasting and premium analytics as extras. ACCESS Newswire, as Issuer Direct, listed IR packages from $895 a month in a 2017 investor presentation, which is a dated reference point only. Issuers includes the IR website in the Public plan at $1,499 a month billed yearly, or $2,999 billed monthly.
How long does it take to switch IR website providers?
A typical switch takes two to six weeks. Most of the time goes into moving the archive of releases, results and governance documents and checking that old links still work. The DNS change itself is minutes. Run the new site on a preview address, have counsel review it, then point the IR subdomain at the new provider and end the old contract at its renewal date.
Do IR website providers pull SEC filings automatically?
Yes, almost every provider shows a filings page that reads from SEC EDGAR, so a new 10-Q or 8-K appears without a manual upload. Check how fast the feed refreshes, whether exhibits are linked, and whether the feed covers Section 16 filings. Issuers links filings from EDGAR on the documents page and publishes approved releases from the same approval chain as your announcements.
Should the IR website sit on our main domain or a subdomain?
Most listed companies use a subdomain such as ir.company.com, because the IR provider can run it without touching the corporate site, and the links in releases and filings stay on your own domain if you change vendors later. A path on the main domain is possible with a reverse proxy, but it ties every IR change to your web team.

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See the work behind the site on your own ticker

Type your ticker and read a sample investor brief built from your public filings. The IR website comes with the Public plan, bought from the pricing page without a sales call.

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