MBS Highway alternatives
What can replace MBS Highway, and what cannot?
Last checked August 24, 2026
The short answer
Be careful what you are replacing. MBS Highway bundles three things: daily market and rate direction commentary, borrower-facing timing arguments like Cost of Waiting, and an agent content engine. No single tool replaces all three, and the commentary in particular has no real substitute at any price. If what you actually need is per-deal loan comparison rather than market intelligence, Mortgage Clarity or Mortgage Coach do that better and Mortgage Clarity costs about half as much. If you need the market read, keep MBS Highway.
The options, ranked for this question
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Mortgage Clarity
Loan comparison and client presentation platformBest for: Advisors who bought MBS Highway for the comparison tools rather than the market read
Price: $189/mo Originate, $289/mo Retain, custom Branch (our pricing page)
If you use MBS Highway mainly to build borrower-facing comparisons, a purpose-built presentation platform does that job better at $189 to $289 per month, and adds a client workspace, an agent login and regional closing cost accuracy. It will not tell you where rates are going.
Cons
- No market commentary, rate direction or lock guidance
- No county appreciation forecasts
- No social or flyer content engine
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Mortgage Coach
Borrower presentation platformBest for: Advisors replacing the presentation half at enterprise scale
Price: From $150 per month for an individual loan officer (trustengine.com)
The platform that defined this category. Its Total Cost Analysis puts loan options side by side and projects each one out over the years the borrower will actually hold it: payment, cash to close, equity, interest paid, tax position. Founded by Dave Savage, and now sold by TrustEngine, formed when Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang combined in 2022.
Same reasoning as above with a deeper long-horizon model and an enterprise integration story, at $150 per month and up.
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Free market sources
Newsletters, MBS commentary and Fed calendarsBest for: Replacing the daily read on a zero budget
Price: Free
Public MBS commentary, rate-lock newsletters, the Fed calendar and economic release schedules cover much of the same ground for nothing.
Honest option and worth naming. What you give up is the synthesis and the confident call, which is most of what people pay MBS Highway for, plus the time it takes to do the reading yourself.
Not evaluated hands-on. Drawn from public pages and flagged so you can weigh it accordingly.
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MBS Highway
Market intelligence and content platformBest for: Keeping it, if the daily market read is why you subscribed
Price: Around $199.95 per month, or $1,999.95 per year (Capterra listing)
Barry Habib’s market platform. A daily video read on the bond market and rate direction, lock or float guidance, county-level appreciation forecasts, and a set of borrower-facing arguments built on top of that data: Cost of Waiting, buy versus rent, debt consolidation. Plus a content engine for social posts and open house flyers aimed at agent partners.
There is no equivalent product. If you open it every morning and repeat what you learned to clients and agents, cancelling to save $200 a month is a false economy.
How to choose
Which of the three jobs are you replacing?
Market intelligence, borrower timing arguments and agent content are separable. Write down which one you actually use before shopping, because the answers diverge completely.
Do you need a call, or do you need data?
If you can read the market yourself and only want the underlying numbers, free sources go a long way. If what you are buying is somebody else being accountable for a view, that is the part with no substitute.
Is your gap timing or structure?
Borrowers stuck on whether to buy need timing arguments. Borrowers who have decided and are choosing between structures need a comparison tool. Buying the wrong one is the most common mistake here.
Questions people ask
- What is a good MBS Highway alternative?
- It depends which part you use. There is no real alternative to the daily market commentary. For the borrower-facing comparison side, Mortgage Clarity at $189 to $289 or Mortgage Coach at $150 and up are purpose-built and better at it. For the raw data, free public MBS commentary and the Fed calendar cover a surprising amount.
- How much is MBS Highway?
- Third-party directories list about $199.95 per month or $1,999.95 per year. MBS Highway does not publish a plan table on its own site, so confirm directly before budgeting.
- Can Mortgage Clarity tell me where rates are going?
- No, and it does not try to. It presents the pricing you bring to it. Rate direction is not a feature we offer or intend to.
The verdict
If you open MBS Highway every morning, keep it. If you opened it to build a client comparison and stopped reading the market update months ago, you are paying about $200 a month for a presentation tool and there are better ones for half that.
Checked against each vendor’s public pages on August 24, 2026. Some figures come from third-party software directories rather than a vendor’s own table, noted where it applies. We compete with the products named here, so read accordingly. Wrong or out of date, including if you work there? Write to sales@mortgageclarityplatform.com and it gets fixed. All product names and trademarks belong to their owners.
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