Vela vs TradingView

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.

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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.

At a glance · Both columns checked November 3, 2026

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Charts per tab

Vela

16 on every plan, including Free.

TradingView

1 on the free Basic plan, rising to 16 on Ultimate.

Price alerts

Vela

Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included.

TradingView

3 on the free Basic plan, then 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 by plan.

Alerts on indicators and strategies

Vela

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.

TradingView

None on Basic. Technical alerts on indicators, strategies, and drawings: 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 on its paid plans.

Footprint and TPO

Vela

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.

TradingView

Volume footprint and TPO on Premium and Ultimate, the top two of its four paid plans.

Live CME futures data

Vela

Real-time, licensed CME Group data with 16 years of history, included in every paid plan at no extra cost.

TradingView

Bought separately: TradingView’s paid plans don’t cover the real-time fees most stock and futures exchanges charge.

Coding agent

Vela

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.

TradingView

AI Copilot, a separate add-on for paid plans, on web and desktop: it reads the chart, draws levels, and writes Pine Script®.

Chart types

Vela

Candles, bars, line, area, baseline, and Heikin Ashi, plus footprint and TPO.

TradingView

20+, including Renko, Kagi, Line Break, Point & Figure, and Range. Intraday Renko, Kagi, Line Break, and Point & Figure on Plus and above.

Live broker trading

Vela

Not on Vela: orders fill on paper. Custom Alerts send orders to your own bots over webhooks from Essential up.

TradingView

Chart trading and Depth of Market (DOM) trading through selected brokers, on every plan.

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Charts

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

Charting engine

Vela

State-of-the-art charts engineered in-house, on the open-source core of Vela by LuxAlgo.

TradingView

Supercharts, TradingView’s own in-house charting.

Charts per tab

Vela

16 on every plan, including Free.

TradingView

1 on the free Basic plan, rising to 16 on Ultimate.

Historical bars

Vela

5,000 on Free, up to 50,000 on AI Ultra.

TradingView

5,000 on Basic, up to 40,000 on Ultimate.

Chart types

Vela

Candles, bars, line, area, baseline, and Heikin Ashi, plus footprint and TPO.

TradingView

20+, including Renko, Kagi, Line Break, Point & Figure, and Range. Intraday Renko, Kagi, Line Break, and Point & Figure on Plus and above.

Drawing tools

Vela

66 across 7 groups: the Fibonacci and Gann sets, harmonic patterns, Elliott waves, and position tools with R:R.

TradingView

110+ drawing tools on every plan.

Watchlists

Vela

Unlimited watchlists on every plan: 10 symbols per list on Free, 500 on paid plans.

TradingView

1 watchlist of 30 symbols on Basic. Unlimited lists of 1,000 symbols on paid plans.

Replay

Vela

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.

TradingView

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

Vela

In the browser, and a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

TradingView

Web, and iOS and Android apps on every plan. Its desktop app is listed for paid plans only.

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Alerts

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

Price alerts

Vela

Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included.

TradingView

3 on the free Basic plan, then 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 by plan.

Alerts on indicators and strategies

Vela

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.

TradingView

None on Basic. Technical alerts on indicators, strategies, and drawings: 20, 100, 400, and 1,000 on its paid plans.

How long alerts run

Vela

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.

TradingView

Alerts expire after 1 month on Basic and 2 months on Essential and Plus. No expiry on Premium and Ultimate.

Where alerts reach you

Vela

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.

TradingView

Native push notifications in its mobile apps on every plan, and webhooks from Essential up.

Webhooks

Vela

On Essential and up: a Custom Alert on a strategy’s entries and exits sends each order to your bot as a signed webhook.

TradingView

On Essential and above.

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Orderflow and data

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

Footprint and TPO

Vela

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.

TradingView

Volume footprint and TPO on Premium and Ultimate, the top two of its four paid plans.

Live CME futures data

Vela

Real-time, licensed CME Group data with 16 years of history, included in every paid plan at no extra cost.

TradingView

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

Vela

Real-time US stocks and ETFs, crypto, forex, and commodities on Free.

TradingView

Real-time crypto, and US stocks from Cboe by default. Most other stock and futures exchanges charge for real-time data.

Markets

Vela

Crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, and commodities on every plan, plus CME futures on paid plans.

TradingView

150+ exchanges from 50+ countries.

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Trading and practice

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

Paper trading

Vela

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.

TradingView

Paper trading on every plan.

Live broker trading

Vela

Not on Vela: orders fill on paper. Custom Alerts send orders to your own bots over webhooks from Essential up.

TradingView

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.

Coding agent

Vela

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.

TradingView

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®

Vela

Pine Script® v5 and v6 code runs on Vela through PineTS, our open-source runtime, with a Pine editor beside the chart.

TradingView

Pine Script® is TradingView’s own language, native in its Pine Editor on every plan.

Backtesting

Vela

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.

TradingView

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.

Indicator library

Vela

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.

TradingView

400+ built-in indicators and 100,000+ community-built indicators on every plan.

Tools per chart

Vela

Unlimited on every plan, within fair-use performance limits.

TradingView

2 indicators on Basic, rising to 50 on Ultimate.

For your own AI agent

Vela

The LuxAlgo MCP: free, with no key and no account for anything public.

TradingView

An MCP server in public beta for Essential and above, with delayed market data.

Community

Vela

An active Discord community, open to every plan.

TradingView

A public social network of ideas and scripts. Publishing needs a paid plan.

Open source

Vela

Vela’s open-source core (Apache-2.0) and PineTS, our Pine Script® runtime, are open source.

TradingView

Lightweight Charts™ is open source (Apache-2.0). The TradingView platform is not.

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Plans and switching

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

Free plan

Vela

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.

TradingView

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

Vela

Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, monthly or annual, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment.

TradingView

Essential, Plus, Premium, and Ultimate, monthly or annual. Real-time exchange data is billed on top.

Moving over

Vela

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.

TradingView

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.

Questions traders ask before switching

All comparisons

See it on a chart.

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.

LuxAlgo is an independent company and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by TradingView, Inc. Vela™ is a trademark of LuxAlgo Global, LLC. Vela runs Pine Script® through the independently developed PineTS engine and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or in any way officially associated with TradingView, Inc. “Pine Script”, “TradingView” and “Lightweight Charts” are trademarks or registered trademarks of TradingView, Inc. Third-party details are taken from the vendors' public documentation and may change; corrections are welcome at LuxAlgo.