Trading journal cost calculator

What it computes

For each journal, the form walks the plans from the cheapest up and stops at the first one whose stated account cap admits your number of broker accounts. It prints that plan's price for a year, on the billing period you choose: yearly is the annual price the card records, monthly is twelve month-to-month payments. The rows are sorted by that figure, all in US dollars.

A plan whose card states no account limit is let through and flagged with a "check before buying" line rather than assumed either way. Every row also carries what else that plan caps or leaves out — trades a month, executions, asset classes, replay — because the cheapest plan that admits your accounts is not always one you can use. A free plan capped at 30 imported trades a month is no use to a day trader, whatever its account limit.

The default is two accounts on yearly billing: the first number at which the account caps of TradeZella, TradesViz and Trademetria move the price.

Where the numbers come from

Every plan, account cap and price is read from the pricing block of that journal's card, as of the date the block was verified, which the calculator prints under the result; the Markdown twin of this page prints each plan with its cap and both prices. Where a card gives the annual price per month billed yearly — Chartlog does — the year is twelve of those, the vendor's own arithmetic. A yearly saving given only as a percentage is not turned into a price: TraderSync's card prints both, and 25 percent off its monthly price does not quite give its annual figure, so the printed figure is the only thing worth multiplying.

TraderSync's own page contradicts itself on accounts: the plan cards say Premium and Elite are unlimited, while a tooltip on the same page says 20 and 50. The table follows the plan cards and prints the tooltip on the row. For how three of these journals differ beyond the price, see Tradervue, TraderSync and TradeZella.

What it leaves out

• Journals whose plans state no account limit. TradeNote's self-hosted and cloud plans state none. Kinfo states none, and gives its yearly saving as a percentage only. TradeFuse caps portfolios, and its card does not say that a portfolio is one broker account; its yearly saving is a percentage too. TradeBench is free, with every feature and no paid plan, and states no account limit.
• One-time licences. TradingDiary Pro is bought once, with an optional yearly fee for upgrades, and states no account limit; a per-year table of subscriptions is the wrong shape for it, so it is on its card and not here.
• Volume caps as an input. Free and entry plans cap imported trades, orders or executions a month, each vendor in its own unit. They are printed on the row, not computed.
• Features. Replay, AI credits, broker auto-sync and report depth separate many plans more than accounts do; Trademetria keeps broker auto-sync to Pro, for instance. The cards say what each plan includes.
• Promotions and taxes. Edgewonk adds VAT in the EU and UK and was selling its yearly price as a 16-month term on 14 September 2026; trials and introductory discounts change the first year only. None of that is modelled.
• Getting the trades in. If your broker's export is the hard part, see exporting broker trade history.