Quantower vs TradingView

TradingView has the lower headline entry price, but the two prices use different billing terms. TradingView's pricing page lists Essential at $12.95 per month billed annually, while Quantower's pricing page lists its All-in-One licence at 70 per month on the monthly term, a figure shown without a currency symbol. Quantower also lists annual 588 and lifetime 1,690 prices, which are reported from the page rather than opened by hand, and sells single extensions on top of its free version. Neither price includes third-party market data. Both sides have a free tier with no time limit. Quantower offers a 7-day All-in-One trial; its FAQ says activation needs support contact while Help docs say it starts after email confirmation. On refunds, Quantower gives 10 calendar days on initial orders only and excludes lifetime licences, with no dedicated refund policy page; TradingView allows 14 days on annual and 7 on monthly plans. Last checked 5 October 2026.

TradingView has a volume footprint, but only on its Premium and Ultimate plans, while Quantower sells footprint analysis as a package on top of its free version. TradingView's comparison table checks Time Price Opportunities, Volume footprint and Volume candles for Premium and Ultimate only, and DOM trading on all five plans. Quantower's Cluster chart is its footprint chart, with Single, Double or Imbalance view. Its Volume Analysis package adds the Cluster chart with Imbalance, all volume profile types, VWAP and Dynamic VPOC. DOM Surface shows order-book changes as a heatmap, and the free version includes a DOM Trader panel. The Multi-Asset licence includes Volume Analysis and Advanced Features but not TPO Chart, DOM Surface or Power Trades, which sit in All-in-One. Quantower does not include market data, so order-flow detail depends on the connected feed. Details come from the vendors' own pages, last checked 5 October 2026.

Quantower is scripted in C#, while TradingView uses Pine Script. Quantower Algo uses C# with Visual Studio integration and an open API, so no proprietary scripting language is required. The vendor says the API for custom indicators and strategies is included in the free version, together with the Algo extension for Visual Studio. API documentation is published at api.quantower.com, with example strategies and indicators in a GitHub repository. A Backtest & Optimize panel runs strategy backtests manually or through optimization algorithms. TradingView's comparison table has a Pine Script checkmark in all five plan columns, with a separate Pine Screener row checked only for Premium and Ultimate. TradingView also notes that its market data is licensed for display only and that automated trading and other non-display uses are prohibited. Quantower's Terms say orders may be routed to third-party systems and it is not responsible for their errors. Checked on the vendors' pages on 5 October 2026.

Quantower offers a Market Replay panel plus a separate Backtest & Optimize panel, while TradingView combines Bar Replay with a strategy backtester. Quantower's Market Replay lets users manually backtest strategies on any instrument with any data provider or broker, using Tick, 1 minute or 1 day data and Last or Bid/Ask/Last execution types. Its Advanced Features package lists Market Replay and a Trading Simulator, which emulates order execution even for connections that do not allow trading. TradingView's Bar Replay, with Indicators Replay and trading in replay, is checked on all five plans, while replay by the tick covers 7 days and is Ultimate only. Its table lists basic report metrics on all plans, advanced metrics with CSV and XLSX export from Essential, and Deep Backtesting from Premium, capped at 2 million bars per calculation. Last checked 5 October 2026 on the vendors' own pages.

Quantower does not include market data, so users connect supported brokers and data feeds. The homepage claims 60+ connections, a vendor claim not independently measured. Help lists futures connections through CQG, Rithmic, Certigo and CTS, stock connections through Interactive Brokers, Alpaca and Tradier, and crypto connections to Binance, Bybit, OKX, Hyperliquid and Deribit. Data feeds include dxFeed, IQFeed and Polygon.io, and several providers can run at once. The free version allows one active connection; the default dxFeed Simulated connection is delayed 24 hours, and real-time dxFeed data needs a separate subscription. TradingView advertises 100+ brokers, also a vendor claim, and sells CME Group real-time data at $9.95 per month for non-professional subscribers, with free 10-minute delayed data. Quantower covers CFDs, futures, options, stocks and crypto; TradingView's broker page filters by stocks, crypto, forex, futures, CFDs, ETFs and options. Last checked 5 October 2026.

Quantower runs on Windows only; the download page offers Windows 10/11 64-bit, and the FAQ says a Mac version is planned. Vendor pages differ on the runtime: Help docs list .NET Desktop Runtime 10 with 16 GB RAM recommended, while the older FAQ text lists .NET Framework 4.8. A paid licence cannot be used on several computers at once. TradingView is delivered on the web, iOS, Android and a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Quantower support is live chat, a contact form, Telegram and Facebook; its pages differ on hours, with the footer giving Monday to Friday 1:00am to 3:00pm CST and the FAQ giving 9am to 6pm CET. TradingView lists support levels from Regular on Essential to First Priority on Ultimate. Quantower is operated by QUANTOWER LLC in Ukraine; no founding year or SLA figure was found. TradingView is provided by TradingView, Inc. Last checked 5 October 2026.