StockCharts vs TradingView

TradingView costs less to start than StockCharts. Its Essential plan is listed at $12.95 per month billed annually on TradingView's pricing page, which shows the annual figures under a "special price" label without saying when that price ends and advertises savings of up to 17% for annual billing. StockCharts lists Basic at $19.95 per month, Extra at $29.95 and Pro at $49.95 on its pricing page; prepaying 12 months earns a 13th month free, so Basic comes to $239.40 for the year. Real-time data is sold separately on StockCharts, so the monthly total depends on the region you need. The plans are not like-for-like: TradingView's Essential allows 20 active price alerts, while StockCharts Basic allows 2 and its Free level allows none. Both vendors publish prices in US dollars. All figures were taken from the vendors' own pricing pages and were last checked in October 2026.

StockCharts has a Free service level, but it is narrow: the pricing table gives 3 indicators and 3 overlays per chart and marks intraday charting, saved charts, ChartLists, scans, price alerts and multi-chart layouts as not included. A first month of paid service is free, and trial accounts start at the Extra level. TradingView's Basic plan is listed as "$0 forever" with 1 chart per tab, 3 active price alerts and 2 indicators per chart. Real-time data is priced alike on both sides: StockCharts sells US, Canada and UK real-time plans at $9.95 per month each, billed separately from the subscription, while TradingView lists its US stock bundle and its CME Group data at $9.95 per month each for non-professional subscribers. Without a real-time plan, StockCharts shows BATS real-time US data and delayed data for other markets, and TradingView shows Cboe real-time US data by default. Figures come from the vendors' pricing pages, last checked October 2026.

StockCharts has no scripting language for custom indicators; it offers a text scan syntax instead. Its Advanced Scan Workbench accepts scans written in that syntax, up to 8000 characters long, and its help pages describe ACP plug-ins as the route to specialized indicators. TradingView lists Pine Script in all five plan columns, with a 40-second script calculation limit on Essential and 100 seconds on Ultimate, alongside 400+ built-in and 100K+ community indicators. On devices, StockCharts runs in the browser, with StockChartsACP showing up to twelve chart panels, a mobile-friendly site and an iOS app. TradingView is available on the web, on iOS and Android, and as a desktop app with multi-monitor support. Only TradingView lists a language for writing your own indicators or strategies. Details come from each vendor's help and pricing pages, last checked October 2026.

StockCharts allows 2 price alerts on Basic, 100 on Extra and 500 on Pro according to its pricing table, and the Free level includes none. Vendor pages differ here: its Support Center alerts page says Extra members can have up to 200 price alerts. Alerts can notify by email, text or a banner on the workbench. TradingView lists 3 active price alerts on its free Basic plan, then 20 on Essential, 100 on Plus and 400 on Premium. On history, StockCharts' pricing table shows daily charting data starting in 1980 for Basic and Extra and in 1900 for Pro, but its FAQ gives 1990 for most stocks on Basic and Extra and 1970 and earlier for Pro. Intraday charts of 1 to 15 minutes go back 20 days. TradingView lists 10K historical bars on Essential and 40K on Ultimate. Counts were last checked in October 2026 on the vendors' own pages.

StockCharts does not list backtesting: its pricing, features and scan help pages show no strategy-testing feature. The closest tool is the Advanced Scan Workbench's Starting Date Adjuster, which runs a scan against a chosen past day to show historical signals. Scans use daily, weekly or monthly bars only, not intraday bars, and saved scans run from 1 on Basic to 200 on Extra and 500 on Pro. TradingView lists strategy backtesting with basic report metrics on all plans, advanced metrics and CSV export from Essential, and Deep Backtesting only on Premium and Ultimate, capped at 2 million bars per calculation. Its screeners cover stocks, ETFs and crypto with 500+ fundamental and technical fields, and the Pine Screener is limited to Premium and Ultimate. The facts come from the vendors' help and pricing pages, last checked October 2026.

StockCharts covers exchanges in four countries: NYSE, Nasdaq, Amex and BATS in the US, TSX, TSX-Venture, CSE and NEO in Canada, the London Stock Exchange in the UK and the NSE in India, plus indexes, currencies, commodities, futures and cryptocurrencies. Its features page cites over 50,000 symbols in the scan workbench. Trading from charts goes through a partnership with Tradier Brokerage, where the Tradier page lists US equities as free for Tradier accounts and unlimited options for a flat $25 per month. StockCharts states that it is not a broker. TradingView's help center lists major stock exchanges, global currency pairs, worldwide indexes and 70 crypto exchanges, and its comparison table checks trading through selected brokers, simulated trading, chart trading and DOM trading on all five plans. Coverage and broker terms were last checked in October 2026 on the vendors' own pages.