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title: "Vela vs TrendSpider (2026): Free Plan, Alerts & AI Coding | LuxAlgo"
description: "Vela by LuxAlgo is free to start: unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO from real trades, Pine Script® that runs as written, and Quant, our coding agent, on every plan. How it compares with TrendSpider."
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# Vela vs TrendSpider (2026): Free Plan, Alerts & AI Coding | LuxAlgo

> Vela by LuxAlgo is free to start: unlimited Price Alerts, footprint and TPO from real trades, Pine Script® that runs as written, and Quant, our coding agent, on every plan. How it compares with TrendSpider.

## Vela: state-of-the-art charts with a coding agent built in, free to start.

- **Choose Vela** if you want a free plan with unlimited Price Alerts running on our servers around the clock, footprint and TPO from real trades, Pine Script® that runs as written, and Quant, our coding agent, built in.
- **Stay with TrendSpider** if you write indicators in JavaScript, run dozens of strategy bots, or live in its scanners.

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, Replay, paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in, on every plan including Free. Here is how Vela compares with TrendSpider, with TrendSpider’s wins marked as wins.

Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart · Plans: https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/

## At a glance

| | Vela | TrendSpider | TrendSpider source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | ✗ No free plan: four paid plans, Standard, Premium, Enhanced, and Advanced. | Account types and plan limits |
| Price alerts | ✓ Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included. | ± 10 alerts on Standard, 50 on Premium, 100 on Enhanced, and 400 on Advanced, counted together with every other alert. | Account types and plan limits |
| 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 are kept 30 days on Standard, 90 on Premium, 180 on Enhanced, and 365 on Advanced. | Account types and plan limits |
| Footprint and TPO | ✓ Footprint, TPO, CVD and delta, and volume profiles 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. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page, which lists every feature its plans include (checked November 3, 2026). | Pricing |
| 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 that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ± Sidekick: 25 free messages a month on every plan, more with a paid Sidekick package. It writes custom indicators and builds scans, alerts, and strategy bots. | Sidekick |
| Pine Script® | ✓ Runs as written through PineTS: paste a script, press Run, or have Quant port an older one to v6. | ± Doesn’t run Pine Script®: paste code from another platform and its AI translates it to JavaScript, which works in most cases and needs tweaks in some. | Custom indicators (JS scripting) |
| Strategy bots | ± From Essential up, a Custom Alert on a strategy’s entries and exits sends each order to your bot as a signed webhook. | ✓ 5 strategy bots on Standard, rising to 100 on Advanced. | Account types and plan limits |
| Paper trading and replay | ✓ Both on every plan with a free account: a $100,000 paper account with orders from the chart, and Replay, which rewinds any chart to a bar you pick and lets you trade it as it plays. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page (checked November 3, 2026). It lists forward testing of strategies. | Pricing |

Marks: ✓ included, ± partial or paid plans only, ✗ not included, ○ not listed on TrendSpider’s official pages. Vela and TrendSpider facts checked November 3, 2026.

## 01 Charts

The engine, the layouts, the chart styles, and the tools you draw with.

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Workspaces | ✓ 10 saved workspaces on Free, rising to 200 on AI Ultra, with 16 charts per tab on every plan. | ± 5 open workspaces on Standard, rising to 20 on Advanced. (source: Account types and plan limits) |
| Timeframes | ✓ From one second to one month, with custom timeframes from Essential up. | ± 1-minute charting on every plan. (source: Account types and plan limits) |

## 02 Orderflow and data

The flow inside every candle, where the data comes from, and the markets you can chart.

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Footprint and TPO | ✓ Footprint, TPO, CVD and delta, and volume profiles 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. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page, which lists every feature its plans include (checked November 3, 2026). (source: Pricing) |
| Live CME futures data | ✓ Real-time, licensed CME Group data with 16 years of history, included in every paid plan at no extra cost. | ± Real-time CME, NYMEX, COMEX, and CBOT futures data as an optional add-on: $7.50 a month for non-professional users. (source: Pricing) |

## 03 Alerts

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

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price alerts | ✓ Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included. | ± 10 alerts on Standard, 50 on Premium, 100 on Enhanced, and 400 on Advanced, counted together with every other alert. (source: Account types and plan limits) |
| 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. | ✓ Custom indicators work in alerts, and Sidekick builds multi-factor alerts on one ticker or a whole watchlist, within the same alert limits. (source: Custom indicators (JS scripting)) |
| 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 are kept 30 days on Standard, 90 on Premium, 180 on Enhanced, and 365 on Advanced. (source: Account types and plan limits) |

## 04 Code and strategies

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

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ± Sidekick: 25 free messages a month on every plan, more with a paid Sidekick package. It writes custom indicators and builds scans, alerts, and strategy bots. (source: Sidekick) |
| Scripting language | ✓ Pine Script® v6 and v5 run on Vela as written through PineTS, our open-source runtime, with a Pine editor beside the chart. | ✓ JavaScript, for custom indicators that work in charts, strategies, bots, alerts, and scanners. (source: Custom indicators (JS scripting)) |
| Pine Script® | ✓ Runs as written through PineTS: paste a script, press Run, or have Quant port an older one to v6. | ± Doesn’t run Pine Script®: paste code from another platform and its AI translates it to JavaScript, which works in most cases and needs tweaks in some. (source: Custom indicators (JS scripting)) |
| Backtesting | ✓ Strategies mark every entry and exit on the chart, with a Backtest Summary and a full report: performance, trade analysis, the trade log, and Monte Carlo simulation. Backtesting is research, not prophecy. | ✓ Backtests on every plan: 2,000 bars deep on Standard, 10,000 on Premium, 20,000 on Enhanced, and 30,000 on Advanced. (source: Account types and plan limits) |
| Strategy bots | ± From Essential up, a Custom Alert on a strategy’s entries and exits sends each order to your bot as a signed webhook. | ✓ 5 strategy bots on Standard, rising to 100 on Advanced. (source: Account types and plan limits) |

## 05 Trading and practice

Paper accounts, replaying the past, keeping a journal, and what reaches a live market.

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paper trading and replay | ✓ Both on every plan with a free account: a $100,000 paper account with orders from the chart, and Replay, which rewinds any chart to a bar you pick and lets you trade it as it plays. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page (checked November 3, 2026). It lists forward testing of strategies. (source: Pricing) |
| Trading journal | ✓ A trading journal built into Vela on every plan: paper fills land on their own, with a P&L calendar, stats, breakdowns, and day notes, and exports from other platforms import by file. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page (checked November 3, 2026). (source: Pricing) |

## 06 Platforms

Where it runs and what you need to open it.

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | ± In the browser, and a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. | ✓ In the browser, with native iOS and Android apps and a Chrome extension. (source: Pricing) |

## 07 Plans

What you get for nothing and how the paid plans are sold.

| | Vela | TrendSpider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | ✗ No free plan: four paid plans, Standard, Premium, Enhanced, and Advanced. (source: Account types and plan limits) |
| Paid plans | ✓ Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, monthly or annual, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. | ✓ Every plan includes every feature; higher plans raise the limits. Add-ons such as Sidekick packages are billed separately. (source: Account types and plan limits) |

## Which one

- **Vela.** For traders who want to start free and build on their own chart: unlimited Price Alerts that run until you end them, footprint and TPO built from real trades, Pine Script® that runs as written through PineTS, Replay and paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in on every plan. Paid plans add live CME futures data at no extra cost.
- **TrendSpider.** For traders who build in JavaScript, run up to 100 strategy bots, scan the market on a schedule, and want backtests up to 30,000 bars deep on its top plan.

## Questions traders ask about Vela and TrendSpider

Q: Is Vela a free alternative to TrendSpider?
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. TrendSpider’s four plans, Standard, Premium, Enhanced, and Advanced, are all paid.

Q: How do alerts on Vela compare with TrendSpider?
A: Price Alerts are unlimited on every Vela plan and run on our servers around the clock until you end them, on a date or after a number of fires. Custom Alerts run any indicator or strategy: 5 on Free, then 50, 100, 200, and 500 by plan. TrendSpider’s plans hold 10, 50, 100, and 400 alerts, kept for 30, 90, 180, and 365 days.

Q: How does Quant compare with TrendSpider’s Sidekick?
A: Quant, our coding agent, is built into Vela on every plan: it reads and draws on your chart, writes Pine Script® indicators and strategies, tests them against history, and proposes paper trades for your approval. Free includes Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. TrendSpider’s Sidekick includes 25 free messages a month, with more in paid Sidekick packages, and writes indicators in its JavaScript-based language.

Q: Can I bring my Pine Script® code to Vela?
A: Yes. Pine Script® v6 and v5 run on Vela as written through PineTS, our open-source runtime: paste a script into the Pine editor beside the chart and press Run. TrendSpider writes custom indicators in JavaScript and translates code from other platforms with AI.

Q: What does TrendSpider do that Vela doesn’t?
A: TrendSpider runs strategy bots, up to 100 on its Advanced plan, schedules scans, writes custom indicators in JavaScript, and offers backtests up to 30,000 bars deep. On Vela, Custom Alerts on a strategy’s entries and exits reach your own bot as signed webhooks from Essential up, and orders on Vela fill on paper.

Q: How much does Vela cost?
A: Vela, our next-generation charting platform, 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: Is LuxAlgo affiliated with TrendSpider?
A: No. LuxAlgo is an independent company and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by TrendSpider. TrendSpider facts on this page come from TrendSpider’s own public pages.

Q: Where do these facts come from?
A: Vela’s plan entitlements, product pages, and documentation, and TrendSpider’s official website and help pages, 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: [Charts](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/charts/)
- 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: [Replay](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/replay/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Paper trading](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/trading/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Journal](https://www.luxalgo.com/trade-journal/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Pine Script® on Vela](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/pine-script/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Quant](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/quant/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Desktop app](https://www.luxalgo.com/desktop/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Market data](https://docs.luxalgo.com/platform/charts/data)
- TrendSpider [1], checked November 3, 2026: [Account types and plan limits](https://help.trendspider.com/kb/overview/account-types)
- TrendSpider [2], checked November 3, 2026: [Custom indicators (JS scripting)](https://help.trendspider.com/kb/indicators/custom-indicators-js-scripting)
- TrendSpider [3], checked November 3, 2026: [Sidekick](https://help.trendspider.com/kb/sidekick-ai/trendspider-sidekick)
- TrendSpider [4], checked November 3, 2026: [Pricing](https://trendspider.com/pricing/)

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