--- title: "Unlimited Price Alerts, Free (2026): Vela vs TradingView’s Alert Limits | LuxAlgo" description: "Vela by LuxAlgo has unlimited Price Alerts on every plan and Custom Alerts that run until you end them. TradingView’s alert limits and expiry, plan by plan." canonical: https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/alerts-limit/ --- # Unlimited Price Alerts, Free (2026): Vela vs TradingView’s Alert Limits | LuxAlgo > Vela by LuxAlgo has unlimited Price Alerts on every plan and Custom Alerts that run until you end them. TradingView’s alert limits and expiry, plan by plan. ## Unlimited Price Alerts, on every plan. Price Alerts on Vela have no cap, Free included, and every alert runs until you end it, while TradingView allows 3 price alerts on its free plan and expires them after a month. **Quick answer.** 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. Every alert runs on our servers until you end it. On TradingView, the alert limit is 3 price alerts and no technical alerts on the free Basic plan, and alerts expire after 1 month on Basic and 2 months on Essential and Plus. Facts checked November 3, 2026. Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart · Switch from TradingView: https://www.luxalgo.com/switch/ ## Alerts, plan by plan ### Alerts on a price - **Vela**, free plan first: Free Unlimited · Essential Unlimited · Premium Unlimited · Ultimate Unlimited · AI Ultra Unlimited - **TradingView**, free plan first: Basic 3 · Essential 20 · Plus 100 · Premium 400 · Ultimate 1,000 Vela: Price Alerts. TradingView: “Active price alerts”. ### Alerts on indicators and strategies - **Vela**, free plan first: Free 5 · Essential 50 · Premium 100 · Ultimate 200 · AI Ultra 500 - **TradingView**, free plan first: Basic Not included · Essential 20 · Plus 100 · Premium 400 · Ultimate 1,000 Vela: Custom Alerts, intrabar from Essential up; on Free they fire when the bar closes. TradingView: technical alerts on indicators, strategies and drawings. ### How long an alert runs - **Vela**, free plan first: Free No expiry · Essential No expiry · Premium No expiry · Ultimate No expiry · AI Ultra No expiry - **TradingView**, free plan first: Basic 1 month · Essential 2 months · Plus 2 months · Premium No expiry · Ultimate No expiry Vela: every alert runs until you end it, on a date or after a number of fires. TradingView: its “Alert durations” row. ## Where TradingView is ahead - TradingView Ultimate runs 1,000 technical alerts. Vela’s top plan, AI Ultra, runs 500 Custom Alerts. - TradingView adds watchlist alerts on Premium and Ultimate, and native push notifications in its iOS and Android apps on every plan. ## How to do it in Vela 1. **Set a Price Alert.** Right-click the price scale or the chart, or press Alt+A (Option+A on a Mac) at the cursor. Select a drawing to alert on it, and the alert moves with it. 2. **Set a Custom Alert.** Press the bell on any indicator or strategy, your own Pine Script® included, and choose the output it fires on. Or ask Quant, our coding agent, to set it up. 3. **Choose where it reaches you.** In-app, email, browser notifications, Telegram, Discord and Slack on every plan, webhooks from Essential up: up to 16 destinations per alert. 4. **Choose when it ends.** On a date or after a number of fires. Until then it runs on our servers, with Vela closed too. ## Questions Q: How many alerts can I set on TradingView’s free plan? A: On Vela’s free plan, Price Alerts are unlimited, with 5 Custom Alerts on indicators and strategies. TradingView’s free Basic plan allows 3 active price alerts and no technical alerts; its paid plans allow 20, 100, 400 and 1,000 of each. Q: Do TradingView alerts expire? A: On Vela, no alert expires on its own: you choose when it ends, on a date or after a number of fires. On TradingView, alerts expire after 1 month on Basic and 2 months on Essential and Plus, with no expiry on Premium and Ultimate. Q: What is a Custom Alert? A: An alert that runs a script for you, bar by bar on our servers: a saved Pine Script® indicator or strategy, a tool from the LuxAlgo Library, or a condition written by Quant, our coding agent. Free includes 5, firing when the bar closes; paid plans include 50, 100, 200, and 500, and can fire before the bar closes. Q: Can Vela alerts send webhooks? A: Yes, 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 TradingView, webhook notifications also start at Essential. Q: Do alerts keep running with Vela closed? A: Yes. Every alert runs on our servers around the clock, and browser notifications reach your device even with Vela closed. ## More TradingView limits, answered - [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. - [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. - [Vela vs TradingView, row by row](https://www.luxalgo.com/compare/tradingview/) - [Switch from TradingView](https://www.luxalgo.com/switch/) ## Sources - Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Alerts](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/alerts/) - Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Plans and limits](https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/) - TradingView, checked November 3, 2026: [Pricing and plan comparison](https://www.tradingview.com/pricing/) ## The easiest charts you’ll ever switch to. Free to start, no credit card: open a chart and see it for yourself. Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart "TradingView" and "Pine Script" are trademarks or registered trademarks of TradingView, Inc. LuxAlgo is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by TradingView, Inc. Sitemap: https://www.luxalgo.com/sitemap.xml · Machine-readable index: https://www.luxalgo.com/llms.txt