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Best Robo-Advisors

Rates last checked September 7, 2026. 2 offers compared.

Wealthfront if you want it fully automated, including tax-loss harvesting. If you are willing to buy one broad index fund and leave it alone, a plain Fidelity account costs less.

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Best Robo-Advisors

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  • These are not ranked by cost: what is best here depends on which features you need, so the table is the answer rather than the order.

Compared side by side

2 compared on the 3 things that decide it. A blank cell means we could not confirm the answer, not that the answer is no.

ProviderManagement feeMinimumTax-loss harvesting
Wealthfront Best overall0.25% a year$500Yes, daily on all balances
Fidelity Cheapest alternative$0 under $25,000, then 0.35% a year$0 to openNo

Every offer, priced the same way

Ranked by what it costs you over a year. The arithmetic behind each figure is shown so you can check it. Offers we could not price are listed at the bottom with the reason.

  1. 1. Wealthfront — Wealthfront

    Best overall

    Automated allocation and rebalancing, with tax-loss harvesting on taxable accounts.

    Priced from national figures.

  2. 2. Fidelity — Fidelity

    Cheapest alternative

    Not a robo-advisor, but a single index fund achieves most of the benefit with no management fee.

    Priced from national figures.

How we ranked these

We compare the annual management fee, the account minimum, whether tax-loss harvesting is included, and which account types are supported.