Free vs Pro: Which Plan Fits Your Trading Style?

Three Plans, Three Different Workflows

Alphactor offers three tiers: Free, Pro at $19/month, and Premium at $49/month. The right choice depends on how you trade, how many stocks you track, and which analytical tools you actually use. This is not a "premium is better" pitch. For some workflows, Free is genuinely sufficient. For others, Pro or Premium unlocks capabilities that fundamentally change what you can do.

Here is what each tier looks like in practice. You can start free and upgrade as your needs grow.

Free: Getting Started with Real Analysis

The Free plan is not a crippled demo. It is a functional analysis platform with meaningful constraints.

What you get. Five stocks in your watchlist, one portfolio, three saved strategies per stock, interactive charting with technical indicators, alerts and notifications, and insider and trends sentiment data.

Who this fits. An investor who follows a small number of stocks and wants to track them with better tools than a basic brokerage app. If you have a concentrated portfolio of 3-5 positions and want charting, fundamental data, and basic strategy tracking, Free covers it.

A typical Free workflow. You add your five most-watched tickers. You set up a portfolio with your actual holdings. You build a simple moving average crossover strategy on each stock and track whether it generates buy or sell signals. You set price alerts so you are notified when a stock hits your target entry. You check insider sentiment to see if executives are buying or selling.

Where Free hits its limit. When you want to track more than five stocks, manage multiple portfolios, or use the credibility scoring and optimization tools. If you find yourself wanting to add a sixth ticker and having to remove one, it is time to consider Pro.

Pro: The Active Trader's Toolkit

Pro unlocks the quantitative analysis features that separate Alphactor from a basic charting platform.

What you get. Fifty stocks in your watchlist, five portfolios, twenty saved strategies per stock, the Strategy Finder and Optimizer, credibility scoring with Deflated Sharpe Ratio and Monte Carlo simulation, the stock screener, paper trading, an earnings calendar, full fundamentals with peer comparison, and WSB and lobbying sentiment data.

Who this fits. An active trader or investor who monitors dozens of stocks, builds and tests multiple strategies, and wants statistical validation before committing capital. If you regularly ask "does this strategy actually work or did I just curve-fit it," Pro gives you the tools to answer that question.

A typical Pro workflow. You maintain a watchlist of 30 stocks. You use the Strategy Finder to discover which indicator combinations work best on each ticker. You run the credibility pipeline on promising strategies and filter out the ones that fail Monte Carlo or show parameter instability. Before earnings, you check the calendar and review fundamental data with peer comparisons.

The key upgrade from Free. Credibility scoring. On the Free plan, you can build and run strategies. On Pro, you can test whether those strategies are statistically credible. That distinction is the difference between "this strategy returned 25%" and "this strategy returned 25% and passed Monte Carlo simulation."

Premium: Institutional-Grade Depth

Premium is for users who want every data source and the most rigorous validation available on the platform.

What you get. Unlimited stocks and portfolios, unlimited saved strategies, walk-forward validation, 13F explorer for institutional holdings, congress tracker for trades tracking, regime analysis, dark pool and government contracts data, conviction scoring, and priority compute.

Who this fits. A serious analyst or institutional-style investor who wants the full alternative data stack and deepest credibility validation.

A typical Premium workflow. You run strategies across your full universe with unlimited capacity. Walk-forward validation tests each strategy on rolling out-of-sample windows. Regime detection shows which strategies thrive in bull, bear, and high-volatility environments. You check 13F data, Congress Trades, and dark pool activity for additional signal sources. Priority compute keeps backtests fast across dozens of tickers.

Making the Decision

Here is a simple framework.

Start with Free if you are new to quantitative analysis or you follow fewer than five stocks. There is no cost and no time limit. Use it to learn the platform and see whether the analytical approach fits your style.

Upgrade to Pro if you want credibility scoring, you track more than five stocks, or you want to use the Strategy Finder to discover strategies automatically. Pro is where backtesting turns from "interesting exercise" into "actionable intelligence." At $19/month, it costs less than a single bad trade.

Upgrade to Premium if you want institutional data sources, walk-forward validation, regime detection, or you are managing enough capital that the depth of analysis justifies the cost. At $49/month, it is priced for users who treat analysis as a core part of their investment process, not a side activity.

Annual billing saves 20% on both Pro and Premium, bringing Pro to $15.20/month and Premium to $39.20/month.

You Can Always Change

Plans are flexible. Start with Free, move to Pro when you hit the watchlist or strategy limit, and upgrade to Premium when you want alternative data or deeper validation. There is no lock-in, and your data carries forward across tier changes. Your watchlists, portfolios, and strategies stay exactly where they are.