TradingView vs TrendSpider: a chart you buy more of, or a scan priced by bar size

People who end up choosing between these two usually start from the price gap: TradingView from $12.95 a month billed annually, TrendSpider from $82 at list. The gap is real, but the two ladders do not climb in the same unit, so the prices on the cards above cannot be laid next to each other until you know which unit your trading uses up.

What each tier actually meters

TradingView's tiers meter quantity. Charts per tab go 1, 2, 4, 8, 16; indicators per chart 2, 5, 10, 25, 50; price alerts 3, 20, 100, 400, 1,000; history 5K to 40K bars. The charts themselves are the same on every plan; the rest is counts and a handful of gates.

TrendSpider's four plans have identical features and data. What they meter is resolution — the shortest bar the scanner and the backtester will work on: two hours on Standard, five minutes on Premium, one minute on Enhanced and Advanced — plus the candle count of a backtest, 2,000 to 30,000.

So the conversion is this. A swing trader scanning daily bars is on TrendSpider Standard at $82 for a daily screen that TradingView's screener runs on every plan, Basic included. A day trader who wants a five-minute scan is on TrendSpider Premium at $137 whatever else they need, and TradingView has no plan that sells the equivalent — which is the next section.

A screener is not a scan

TradingView's built-in screeners refresh on a timer — every minute or every ten seconds, and only on a paid plan; on Basic they do not refresh themselves — and hand you a list to look at. The Pine Screener, which lets a screen use your own indicator, needs Premium, runs one scan at a time, calculates on the last 500 bars and does not refresh at all: change the timeframe and it asks you to rescan. The streaming half of the job is done by alerts, which run server-side with the tab closed, in a number capped by plan.

TrendSpider's scanner is a real-time scan over a universe on the bar size your plan allows, and it hands each match to an alert or a bot. That is the job it is priced for, and the only reason to pay its prices.

The data bill runs the other way

TrendSpider includes real-time US equities, ETFs, forex and crypto for non-professionals; futures are $7.50 a month, OPRA options $9.50, and a professional owes NASDAQ $29. TradingView's subscription covers no exchange fees at all. US stocks are real-time out of the box only because they come from Cboe BZX, which charges no per-user fee — with thinner prints on quiet names than the listing exchange. The NYSE, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ and OTC bundle is $9.95 a month for a non-professional, and CME futures and most non-US exchanges stay 10 to 20 minutes delayed until you buy each one. The guide to real-time data fees explains why those are separate lines.

That narrows the gap without closing it. Month to month, TradingView Premium with the US bundle is $79.90; TrendSpider Premium is $137.

Where one of them is simply absent

TrendSpider has no non-US listed equities at any tier — no LSE, TSX, Euronext or Asian single stocks. TradingView covers 50-plus countries. If anything you trade is listed outside the US, the comparison ends here.

TradingView has no execution of its own beyond manual order entry through a connected broker; a strategy leaves by webhook to something you run. TrendSpider's bots execute through SignalStack, five orders a month free and then a second bill.

Neither has a data API. TradingView exports chart bars as CSV from Plus up; TrendSpider exports backtest results, the options map and watch lists.

Prices, and which tab they are on

TradingView's figures are billed annually; month-to-month costs $24 to $480 a year more per plan. TrendSpider's $82, $137, $183 and $321 are the list monthly prices. On 26 September 2026 its pricing page was running a sale advertising up to 45% off the first twelve months — excluding add-ons and data feeds, and non-refundable. There is no free TrendSpider plan: evaluating it is a 14-day trial at $19 to $49 that does not come back.

The recommendation

TradingView, until the thing you need is a scan of a US-listed universe on bars shorter than two hours that fires without you looking at a screen. From that moment, TrendSpider — on Premium for five-minute bars or Enhanced for one-minute, never on Standard, which cannot scan below two hours. If anything you trade is listed outside the US, TradingView whatever the bar size.

The rest of the category is on the charting platforms and screeners page.