I swear they hold my options orders for minutes before filling me even though I hit the bid. Happens more frequently than before. Disgusting. I have an entire thread on that.
They are the first that offered free commissions as an app on the phone, not the first that offered free commissions on stocks.
A broker with DMA like Lightspeed will be cheaper than a free broker that takes money by frontrunning you, either internally or via Wolverine or Citadel, many free brokers also charge you a ticket price per option order, mostly Lightspeed for options will be cheaper.
I'm biased off course but I would choose a firm like IBKR and use IBKR Pro who do not sell order flow. Check the 606 report on each brokers page showing where flow is directed.
Any way to get stats on IBKR Lite? Anything would be great...I noticed on the November press release they gave a bullet point on the number of Lite executions per day but then it was taken off the December release. https://investors.interactivebrokers.com/ir/main.php
I imagine a work in progress on how to present all the new info. Dec stats will be released around Jan 2 so stay tuned.