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title: "Vela vs TradingView (2026): Free Plans, Alerts, Orderflow & Code | LuxAlgo"
description: "Vela by LuxAlgo puts 16 charts per tab, unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO from real trades, and Quant, our coding agent, on the free plan. How it compares with TradingView, row by row."
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# Vela vs TradingView (2026): Free Plans, Alerts, Orderflow & Code | LuxAlgo

> Vela by LuxAlgo puts 16 charts per tab, unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO from real trades, and Quant, our coding agent, on the free plan. How it compares with TradingView, row by row.

## Vela: state-of-the-art charts, orderflow included, free to start.

- **Choose Vela** if you want room on the free plan: 16 charts per tab, unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO from real trades, paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in.
- **Stay on TradingView** if you trade live through its brokers or on its phone apps, or need Renko, Kagi, Point & Figure, or markets worldwide.

Facts checked November 3, 2026.

Vela is our next-generation charting platform: charts engineered in-house, footprint and TPO built from real trades, unlimited Price Alerts, paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in, on every plan including Free. Here is how Vela compares with TradingView, 30 rows in one scroll, with TradingView’s wins marked as wins.

Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart · Switch from TradingView: https://www.luxalgo.com/switch/

Marks: ✓ included, ± partial or paid plans only, ✗ not included. Vela and TradingView facts checked November 3, 2026.

## 01 Charts

The engine, the layouts, the chart styles, and how you study history.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charting engine | ✓ State-of-the-art charts engineered in-house, on the open-source core of Vela by LuxAlgo. | ✓ Supercharts, TradingView’s own in-house charting. |
| Charts per tab | ✓ 16 on every plan, including Free. | ± 1 on the free Basic plan, rising to 16 on Ultimate. |
| Historical bars | ✓ 5,000 on Free, up to 50,000 on AI Ultra. | ✓ 5,000 on Basic, up to 40,000 on Ultimate. |
| Chart types | ± Candles, bars, line, area, baseline, and Heikin Ashi, plus footprint and TPO. | ✓ 20+, including Renko, Kagi, Line Break, Point & Figure, and Range. Intraday Renko, Kagi, Line Break, and Point & Figure on Plus and above. |
| Drawing tools | ✓ 66 across 7 groups: the Fibonacci and Gann sets, harmonic patterns, Elliott waves, and position tools with R:R. | ✓ 110+ drawing tools on every plan. |
| Watchlists | ± Unlimited watchlists on every plan: 10 symbols per list on Free, 500 on paid plans. | ± 1 watchlist of 30 symbols on Basic. Unlimited lists of 1,000 symbols on paid plans. |
| Replay | ✓ On every plan with a free account: pick a start bar, play it forward, and trade it on a replay account of its own, with a results card when it ends. Up to 16 charts replay on one clock. | ✓ Bar Replay and trading inside a replay on every plan. Deeper intraday history on paid plans: minutes from Essential, seconds from Premium, and 7 days of ticks on Ultimate. |
| Apps | ± In the browser, and a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. | ✓ Web, and iOS and Android apps on every plan. Its desktop app is listed for paid plans only. |

## 02 Alerts

What you can alert on, how many you get, how long they run, and where they reach you.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price alerts | ✓ Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included. | ± 3 on the free Basic plan, then 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 by plan. |
| Alerts on indicators and strategies | ✓ Custom Alerts run any indicator or strategy, your own Pine Script® included: 5 on Free, then 50, 100, 200, and 500 by plan. From Essential up they can fire before the bar closes; on Free they fire on the bar’s close. | ± None on Basic. Technical alerts on indicators, strategies, and drawings: 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 on its paid plans. |
| How long alerts run | ✓ Every alert runs on our servers around the clock, even with Vela closed, and you choose when it ends: on a date or after a number of fires. | ± Alerts expire after 1 month on Basic and 2 months on Essential and Plus. No expiry on Premium and Ultimate. |
| Where alerts reach you | ✓ In-app, email, browser notifications, Telegram, Discord, and Slack on every plan, and webhooks from Essential up: up to 16 destinations per alert, each with its own message. | ✓ Native push notifications in its mobile apps on every plan, and webhooks from Essential up. |
| Webhooks | ± On Essential and up: a Custom Alert on a strategy’s entries and exits sends each order to your bot as a signed webhook. | ± On Essential and above. |

## 03 Orderflow and data

The flow inside every candle, the markets you can chart, and what is live.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Footprint and TPO | ✓ On every plan, including Free, built from real trades. Orderflow lookback scales by plan: 1 day on Free, 30 days on Essential, up to full history on AI Ultra. | ± Volume footprint and TPO on Premium and Ultimate, the top two of its four paid plans. |
| Live CME futures data | ✓ Real-time, licensed CME Group data with 16 years of history, included in every paid plan at no extra cost. | ± Bought separately: TradingView’s paid plans don’t cover the real-time fees most stock and futures exchanges charge. |
| Real-time data on the free plan | ✓ Real-time US stocks and ETFs, crypto, forex, and commodities on Free. | ± Real-time crypto, and US stocks from Cboe by default. Most other stock and futures exchanges charge for real-time data. |
| Markets | ± Crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, and commodities on every plan, plus CME futures on paid plans. | ✓ 150+ exchanges from 50+ countries. |

## 04 Trading and practice

Paper accounts, practice, and what reaches a live market.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paper trading | ✓ On every plan, Free included: a $100,000 paper account, up to 5 accounts, and market, limit, and stop orders from the chart with a stop loss and a take profit. Every fill lands in your journal. | ✓ Paper trading on every plan. |
| Live broker trading | ✗ Not on Vela: orders fill on paper. Custom Alerts send orders to your own bots over webhooks from Essential up. | ✓ Chart trading and Depth of Market (DOM) trading through selected brokers, on every plan. |

## 05 Code and strategies

Who writes the code, what runs it, and how a strategy is tested.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coding agent | ✓ Quant, our coding agent, built into Vela on every plan: it reads and draws on your chart, writes indicator and strategy code, and tests it against history. Free includes Quant usage, refilling every 5 hours and every week. | ± AI Copilot, a separate add-on for paid plans, on web and desktop: it reads the chart, draws levels, and writes Pine Script®. |
| Pine Script® | ✓ Pine Script® v5 and v6 code runs on Vela through PineTS, our open-source runtime, with a Pine editor beside the chart. | ✓ Pine Script® is TradingView’s own language, native in its Pine Editor on every plan. |
| Backtesting | ✓ Strategies mark every entry and exit on the chart, with a Backtest Summary and a full viewer: performance, trade analysis, the trade log, and simulated alternative outcomes. Backtesting is research, not prophecy. | ✓ The Strategy Tester on every plan. Advanced metrics and exports from Essential, deep backtesting on Premium and above. |

## 06 Library and community

The tools you start from, the agents you connect, and the people around it.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Indicator library | ✓ The LuxAlgo Library, the largest indicator library in trading: hundreds of free indicators on every plan, and the full Library, 800+ advanced tools, from Essential. Each one is a single step from a backtested strategy. | ✓ 400+ built-in indicators and 100,000+ community-built indicators on every plan. |
| Tools per chart | ✓ Unlimited on every plan, within fair-use performance limits. | ± 2 indicators on Basic, rising to 50 on Ultimate. |
| For your own AI agent | ✓ The LuxAlgo MCP: free, with no key and no account for anything public. | ± An MCP server in public beta for Essential and above, with delayed market data. |
| Community | ± An active Discord community, open to every plan. | ✓ A public social network of ideas and scripts. Publishing needs a paid plan. |
| Open source | ✓ Vela’s open-source core (Apache-2.0) and PineTS, our Pine Script® runtime, are open source. | ± Lightweight Charts™ is open source (Apache-2.0). The TradingView platform is not. |

## 07 Plans and switching

What you get for nothing, how the paid plans are sold, and what moves over.

| | Vela | TradingView |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free plan | ✓ Free, no credit card: 16 charts per tab, unlimited tools per chart, unlimited Price Alerts and 5 Custom Alerts, the Orderflow suite with 1-day lookback, Replay, a $100,000 paper account, and Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ✓ Basic, free with no credit card: 1 chart per tab, 2 indicators per chart, 3 price alerts, 1 watchlist of 30 symbols, and ads on the chart. |
| Paid plans | ✓ Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, monthly or annual, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. | ✓ Essential, Plus, Premium, and Ultimate, monthly or annual. Real-time exchange data is billed on top. |
| Moving over | ✓ A guided switch from TradingView: import your watchlists, open your layout from a screenshot, paste your Pine Script® to run through PineTS, and bring your trade history into the journal. | ± Watchlist export needs a paid plan; on Basic, paste the symbols instead. Drawings, notes, and the alerts list have no export. |

## Which one

- **Vela.** For traders who want state-of-the-art charts with room on the free plan: 16 charts per tab, unlimited tools per chart, unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO built from real trades, Replay and paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in. Paid plans add live CME futures data at no extra cost. Free to start.
- **TradingView.** For traders who need live broker and Depth of Market trading, iOS and Android apps, Renko, Kagi, or Point & Figure among 20+ chart types, more drawing tools, markets worldwide, a public social network of ideas and scripts, and second and tick history on its top plans.

## TradingView limits, answered

One limit per page, with what Vela gives on the same plan.

- [Free plan limits](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/free-plan-limits/): Vela Free against TradingView Basic, limit by limit.
- [Indicator limit](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/indicator-limit/): No cap on the indicators and strategies one chart runs.
- [Alerts limit](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/alerts-limit/): Unlimited Price Alerts that run until you end them.
- [Footprint charts](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/footprint-chart/): Footprint charts on every plan, from real bid and ask prints.
- [Volume profile and TPO](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/volume-profile-tpo/): Session, rolling and visible-range profiles, and TPO, on Free.
- [Multiple charts](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/multiple-charts/): 16 charts in one tab, linked, on every plan.
- [Bar replay](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/bar-replay/): Replay minute charts and trade them, on every plan.

## Questions traders ask before switching

Q: Is Vela a free alternative to TradingView?
A: Yes. Vela, our next-generation charting platform, is free to start with no credit card: 16 charts per tab, unlimited tools per chart, unlimited Price Alerts and 5 Custom Alerts, footprint and TPO built from real trades, Replay, a $100,000 paper account, and Quant, our coding agent, with usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. TradingView’s free Basic plan opens 1 chart per tab with 2 indicators per chart and 3 price alerts.

Q: How do alerts on Vela compare with TradingView?
A: Price Alerts are unlimited on every Vela plan, Free included. Custom Alerts run any indicator or strategy: 5 on Free, then 50, 100, 200, and 500 by plan, firing before the bar closes from Essential up. Every alert runs on our servers around the clock and reaches you in-app, by email, as a browser notification, on Telegram, Discord, or Slack, and over webhooks from Essential up, with up to 16 destinations per alert. TradingView’s Basic plan includes 3 price alerts and no technical alerts, and its alerts expire after 1 month on Basic and 2 months on Essential and Plus.

Q: Can I run my Pine Script® code on Vela?
A: Yes. Pine Script® v5 and v6 code runs on Vela through PineTS, our open-source runtime: paste it into the Pine editor beside the chart, or have Quant, our coding agent, write and repair it. Pine Script® is TradingView’s language; LuxAlgo is not affiliated with TradingView.

Q: How do I move from TradingView to Vela?
A: The switch moves four things, each in one step: your watchlists from a downloaded file, your layout from a screenshot, your Pine Script® pasted to run through PineTS, with Quant, our coding agent, changing what needs changing, and your trade history into the journal. Nothing on Vela touches your TradingView account, so you can run both side by side.

Q: Can I paper trade on Vela?
A: Yes, on every plan, Free included: a $100,000 paper account, up to 5 accounts, and market, limit, and stop orders from the chart with a stop loss and a take profit. Every fill lands in your journal. Orders on Vela are paper: nothing reaches a live market.

Q: Are footprint charts free on Vela?
A: Yes. The Orderflow suite, footprint and TPO included, is built from real trades and runs on every plan, including Free. What scales with paid plans is Orderflow lookback: 1 day on Free, 30 days on Essential, 90 days on Premium, 1 year on Ultimate, and full history on AI Ultra. On TradingView, volume footprint and TPO come with its Premium and Ultimate plans.

Q: Is real-time CME futures data included?
A: On every paid Vela plan, from Essential up, at no extra cost: licensed, real-time CME Group data with 16 years of history. TradingView’s paid plans don’t cover the real-time fees most stock and futures exchanges charge, so that data is bought separately.

Q: What does Vela not do?
A: Vela has no live broker trading: orders fill on paper, and Custom Alerts send orders to your own bots over webhooks from Essential up. Vela runs in the browser and as a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, charts crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, commodities, and CME futures, and offers candles, bars, line, area, baseline, Heikin Ashi, footprint, and TPO. TradingView has live broker and Depth of Market trading, iOS and Android apps, markets worldwide, more drawing tools, and 20+ chart types, including Renko, Kagi, and Point & Figure.

Q: Is LuxAlgo affiliated with TradingView?
A: No. LuxAlgo is an independent company. Our team publishes open-source scripts for the TradingView® community, and Pine Script® runs on Vela through PineTS, our own runtime. LuxAlgo is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by TradingView, Inc.

Q: How much does Vela cost?
A: Vela is free to start, with no credit card. The paid plans are Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, billed monthly or annually, and every paid plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. Current prices are on the pricing page.

Q: Where do these facts come from?
A: Vela’s plan entitlements, product pages, and documentation, and TradingView’s public pricing page, help center, and blog, all checked on November 3, 2026 and linked at the bottom of the page. Plans and features change on both sides; corrections are welcome.

## Sources

- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Plans and limits](https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Alerts](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/alerts/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Orderflow](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/orderflow/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Paper trading](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/trading/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Replay](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/replay/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Desktop app](https://www.luxalgo.com/desktop/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Pine Script® on Vela](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/pine-script/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Switch from TradingView](https://www.luxalgo.com/switch/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Chart types](https://docs.luxalgo.com/platform/charts/introduction#chart-types)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Market data](https://docs.luxalgo.com/platform/charts/data)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [LuxAlgo MCP](https://www.luxalgo.com/mcp/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [Pricing and plan comparison](https://www.tradingview.com/pricing/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [Chart types](https://www.tradingview.com/support/solutions/43000703407-chart-types-available-on-tradingview/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [Additional market data](https://www.tradingview.com/support/solutions/43000471705-how-to-purchase-additional-market-data/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [AI Copilot add-on](https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/ai-copilot-now-on-tradingview-61231/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [MCP server beta](https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en/tradingview-mcp-server-public-beta-60864/)
- TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [Lightweight Charts on GitHub](https://github.com/tradingview/lightweight-charts)

All comparisons: https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/

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Free to start, no credit card: 16 charts per tab, unlimited Price Alerts, the Orderflow suite, and Quant, our coding agent, from the first chart. Moving over takes a watchlist file, a screenshot of your layout, and a paste. The easiest charts you’ll ever switch to.

Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart · Switch from TradingView: https://www.luxalgo.com/switch/ · Plans: https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/

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