Robinhood Agents and Agent Apps Explained: What They Do and What They Cost
Robinhood Agent Apps cost $5 to $30 a month each with a one-month free trial, from eleven providers. Robinhood Agents trade from a dedicated agentic account with trade approval on by default. What each does, how the trading MCP fits, and the two settings to check before an agent trades.
Robinhood used its HOOD Summit on September 29, 2026 to announce Robinhood Agents: AI agents inside the Robinhood app that can analyze the market, build strategies and trade on a customer's behalf from a dedicated agentic trading account, with manual approval of each trade on by default. Alongside them come Agent Apps, third-party data and tools at $5 to $30 a month, while the trading MCP server Robinhood launched in May stays available for customers who connect an agent of their own. Robinhood Agents and Agent Apps are coming soon to eligible US customers. Here is how the pieces fit, what they cost, and the two settings to check before an agent touches money.
What are Robinhood Agents?
Robinhood describes Robinhood Agents as a fully embedded AI experience that can analyze the market, build strategies, and trade on your behalf around the clock, from a chat inside the app.
Three design choices define it:
- A separate account. The agent trades from a dedicated agentic trading account and can only access the funds in that account. The rest of your portfolio stays out of its reach.
- Approval on by default. During setup you choose whether to manually approve each trade. The setting defaults to on and is adjustable at any time.
- Your choice of model. You pick a model from several leading AI labs, OpenAI among them, and Robinhood says usage on OpenAI's GPT-Luna is free until the end of the year.
Robinhood also reports that since agentic trading launched, more than 150,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts, and that agents now use Robinhood's tools almost 30 million times a day.
What are Agent Apps, and what do they cost?
Agent Apps give a Robinhood Agent another layer of data and tools from third-party providers, bought as subscriptions inside the app. Robinhood lists eleven companies participating at launch or shortly after, every app with a one-month free trial, at prices from $5 to $30 a month. Named examples include Options Trader by Unusual Whales ($30 a month); Investor Intelligence by Nasdaq, Options Edge by SpotGamma, Government Tracking by Quiver Quantitative and Crypto Fundamentals by Token Terminal (each $10 a month); and Weather Trader by Visual Crossing ($5 a month). A few are marked as coming soon.
What is the Robinhood trading MCP?
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard that lets an AI assistant call outside tools. Robinhood launched a trading MCP server on May 27, 2026, when it opened agentic trading in beta for equities, so customers could bring an agent from anywhere and let it act on a dedicated agentic account. At the summit Robinhood said that server is still there for customers who want to connect their own third-party agents, and its agentic trading page says external agents connected over MCP are monitored alongside Robinhood Agents.
That gives a Robinhood customer two ways to run an agent: the built-in one inside the app, or an assistant they already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Codex, connected to Robinhood over MCP.
Two settings to check before an agent trades
- How much is in the agentic account. The agent can only reach the funds in that account, so the balance you deposit is the most it can put to work.
- Whether trade approval is on. It defaults to on and can be turned off at any time. With it on, the agent proposes and you confirm; with it off, the agent can execute on its own. Robinhood's own disclosures note that AI agents can make errors and act on incomplete or outdated information, which is a sound reason to leave approval on while you learn how the agent behaves.
Research and execution are different jobs
An agent that trades needs two things: something that executes, and something that tells it what is going on. Robinhood supplies the first inside its app and sells the second as Agent Apps. Outside the app the same split holds, and it is worth keeping the two layers separate: a research layer that cannot move money, feeding an execution layer that can.
SentiSense is that research layer. It is read-only by design: it never trades, moves money or touches a brokerage account. Your agent asks it what the market is saying about a stock and what the smart money is doing in it; you decide what to do with the answer. It works with Claude, Claude Code, Codex and ChatGPT through one MCP URL, https://app.sentisense.ai/mcp, with OAuth sign-in and no API key to paste, and with Cursor, Gemini and OpenClaw through the published skills and the REST API.
It covers the questions traders put to an agent before a trade:
- Sentiment and the SentiSense Score for a stock, with history, blended from news, Reddit, X, YouTube and Substack.
- The SentiSense Rating, a daily A to F letter that ranks a stock against every other stock rated that day, across seven signal families from crowd sentiment to technicals.
- Smart money: insider Form 4 filings, congressional STOCK Act disclosures, and institutional 13F holdings and flows.
- Options positioning: IV rank, put/call percentile, max pain and open-interest walls, end of day.
- Analyst ratings: consensus, price-target bands, and the day's upgrades and downgrades.
- Earnings: the calendar, what a company reported, and how its stock reacted to past reports.
Quotes are 15-minute delayed and sentiment is recomputed on a regular cadence, so SentiSense is a research surface, not an execution feed. Coverage is the most-watched US stocks. A free account covers every tool, with 1,000 calls a month; PRO removes the monthly cap and returns full depth on every tool.
Robinhood Agents vs your own agent with a research layer
| Robinhood Agents | Your own agent on Robinhood's trading MCP | Plus a SentiSense research layer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the agent runs | Inside the Robinhood app | The assistant you choose | The same assistant |
| Executes trades | Yes, from the dedicated agentic account | Yes, over Robinhood's trading MCP, from a dedicated agentic account | No. Read-only, never touches an account |
| Trade approval | Setup setting, defaults to on | On by default | Not applicable |
| Market data and tools | Agent Apps, $5 to $30 a month each after a one-month trial | The assistant's own tools plus any MCP servers you add | Sentiment, Rating, insider, congressional and 13F flows, options, analysts, earnings; free tier, PRO for full depth |
| Model | Choose from several AI labs; GPT-Luna free until year end | The assistant's own model | The assistant's own model |
Using SentiSense next to your own agent
If you connect an assistant to Robinhood's trading MCP, you can add SentiSense's read-only connector to the same assistant for research: paste https://app.sentisense.ai/mcp as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Codex and sign in with your SentiSense account. Per-host steps are on the connector page; the launch post shows what one question returns. Our review of Robinhood's trading MCP walks through that pairing in detail. The two connectors do different jobs, and nothing in SentiSense can place an order. Keep Robinhood's trade approval on: the research layer informs a decision, and the approval step is where you make it.
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FAQ
What are Robinhood Agents? AI agents inside the Robinhood app that can analyze the market, build strategies and trade on a customer's behalf from a dedicated agentic trading account, with manual approval of each trade on by default. Coming soon to eligible US customers.
What do Robinhood Agent Apps cost? Agent Apps are third-party data and tool subscriptions bought inside the Robinhood app: eleven companies at launch or shortly after, $5 to $30 a month each, with a one-month free trial. Robinhood also says usage on OpenAI's GPT-Luna is free until the end of the year.
Can I use SentiSense inside Robinhood? No. SentiSense is not an Agent App and is not available inside Robinhood. It is a read-only research layer for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and coding agents, through its own MCP URL, published skills and a REST API, and it never trades, moves money or touches a brokerage account.
SentiSense is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Robinhood. Robinhood, Robinhood Agents, Agent Apps and the third-party product names above belong to their respective owners. Robinhood details are as published by Robinhood on May 27 and September 29, 2026.
SentiSense is a product of SentiSense Labs LLC. This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not investment advice.