Altrady vs Coinigy vs Tealstreet: where your API keys live

Three answers to "how many exchanges"

The number to read first on a multi-exchange terminal is how many venues it can trade, not how many it can draw. Each of these three relates those two lists differently, and none of the three vendors gives one consistent count across its own pages.

Coinigy charts far more than it trades. Its supported-exchanges table lists 38 venues. It charts all 38, reports balances from 20 and takes orders on 13. The 13 lean old: Poloniex, HitBTC, Coinbase Pro and CEX.IO are the names the card gives. The derivatives venues on the list (Binance Futures, BitMEX, Deribit and OKCoin Futures) are chart-only. FTX International is still on the table. Hyperliquid, Bitget and WOO X are not.

Altrady trades what it charts. Its exchanges table has 19 rows, and you can trade any venue you connect. The one documented exception was BitMEX, which was view-only. BitMEX stopped trading on 23 September 2026, and the table no longer named it when it was re-read on 4 October. The split that matters on Altrady is spot against futures. Eight venues carry both, nine are spot-only (Coinbase, Gate.io, Bitvavo, Crypto.com, Binance US, Huobi, Woo, Poloniex and HitBTC) and two are futures-only. Hyperliquid is its one DEX. The plan also caps how many venues you can use. Basic connects three of the 19 and Essential five. Only Premium connects them all.

Tealstreet does not chart a venue you have not connected. The market dropdown lists only venues you hold a key for, and the screener stays empty until an account is active. The docs have connection guides for 23 venues. One of them is BitMEX, which leaves 22 that still trade. The list leans towards perpetuals and on-chain perp venues: ApeX Omni, AsterDex, Backpack, GRVT, Lighter and Paradex, alongside Hyperliquid, Bybit, Bitget, OKX and Phemex.

Altrady and Tealstreet both trade Binance, Bybit, OKX, BingX, Hyperliquid, Coinbase and WOO X, plus Kraken, which Tealstreet carries as Kraken Futures. Altrady lists WOO X as spot-only. Whether Coinigy trades any of these cannot be worked out from the cards, because its card names four of its 13 order venues and not the rest.

None of the three vendors agrees with itself. Altrady says 19 on its table, "19+" on its feature page and "17 Spot exchanges and 5 Futures exchanges" in its help centre. Coinigy says "over 45" in the prose above a table of 38, and 39 on its API page. Tealstreet's marketing says 25-plus, and its FAQ still names MEXC and KuCoin, which have no version 3 connection page. In all three cases the table with names in it is the only count you can check.

Where the keys live decides what runs while you are away

Coinigy keeps your keys on its servers and says so. Its security policy says keys are stored encrypted, are never returned to the client, and that "your browser does not ever make requests to the exchange API directly from your computer". Trading cannot be switched on without two-factor authentication. Every transactional e-mail carries a lockdown link that disables every key at once.

Altrady encrypts your keys on your machine and stores them on its own. A five-word Vault password, generated when you first connect, encrypts the keys and never leaves your device. The encrypted keys are kept on Altrady's servers. It asks only for read and trade permissions, never withdrawal, and it supports and documents IP whitelisting at the exchange. Lose the five words and you have to generate a new key on every exchange.

Tealstreet keeps your keys in your browser, with one exception it recommends. The version 3 release notes say API data "never leaves your computer". The exception is an opt-in called the Tealstreet Network, which sends your orders from Tealstreet's own infrastructure, and you whitelist its IP addresses at the exchange to allow it. The Bybit guide tells you to enable the Network unless you have a reason not to, so on its best-supported venue the default path is the routed one. The FAQ, in the same set of docs, still describes keys encrypted into a database under AWS-managed master keys. That text describes version 2 and was never deleted.

Read the three together and a pattern appears that no single card states: what a product can do while your laptop is shut follows exactly from where it keeps the key. Coinigy monitors your portfolio and sends SMS alerts while you are logged out because its servers hold the keys. Altrady's grid and signal bots run around the clock on its servers for the same reason. Altrady also says the keys stay locked "even from us", and nothing on its site explains how a server can trade with a key it cannot read. Tealstreet, with the keys on your machine, runs nothing on its own. It has no price alerts at all. Its cross-trades module runs in one browser tab per device. The webhook listener in its command-line tool runs on 127.0.0.1 on your own computer, and the docs say the public relay that would carry a TradingView alert to it "is not live". If something has to fire at three in the morning, either a server holds a trade-enabled key or your own machine stays on.

Only Tealstreet's card quotes its terms on liability. They cap it at the total fees you have paid, which today is zero. The terms also bar residents and citizens of the United States, mainland China and Ontario. Coinigy's key disclosure comes from its security policy and Altrady's from its help centre. Neither card says what those vendors' terms of service say about a compromised key.

What the subscription buys, and what is free

The three ladders meter different things, so the headline prices cannot be compared directly.

Altrady charges by counts. Its tiers set how many exchanges you can connect (3, 5 or unlimited), how many trading accounts (5, 15 or 30), how many bots (2, 5 or 50) and how many days of minute candles and trade history you keep (30, 90 or unlimited). Basic allows 50 price alerts and Essential 350. Prices are in euros: €28, €50 and €90 a month, or €20, €35 and €63 a month billed annually. The USD figures on the page are a conversion. CSV and tax export come only with Premium. DEX charting and outbound webhooks start at Essential. TA Scanner Pro is a €30 add-on that Premium includes, and Backtesting Pro costs €10. Paper trading is free on every plan, including the free tier, but needs a connected key. The free tier is where an expired trial lands, and it has no published feature list. The trial lasts five days and needs no card.

Coinigy charges for features. Starter is free and covers connected accounts, charts, portfolio monitoring and the mobile app. It has no price or volume alerts, no stop-limit orders and no SMS, and its sessions time out, which is the limit you hit first on a screen you leave open all day. Pro Trader, at $18.66, adds unlimited API accounts, unlimited session length, wallet tracking, advanced order types and SMS alerts. It also unlocks the screener, the ArbMatrix for cross-exchange spreads, Returns Radar and The Crypt. API Dev Pro, at $99.99, adds CryptoFeed, the enterprise API and priority support. The pricing page has no billing-period control, so whether those figures are month-to-month rates cannot be seen from outside the checkout. Coinigy has no bots, no paper trading and no backtester.

Tealstreet charges nothing and has one tier. You get the chart, the DOM, the order book, the screener, the command line with its TWAP, scale-ladder, bracket and chaser recipes, custom panels in React and TypeScript, the experimental cross-trades module, and position history that works as a trade journal including fees. Bybit's demo mode is supported, and the command line has a simulation toggle. It has no alerts, no backtester, no native mobile app and no public HTTP API.

Line the ladders up by what a retail trader asks for:

• Smart orders. Altrady's Smart Orders hold an entry, up to ten take-profit levels and a stop-loss that moves to break-even, follows each filled target or trails price. Coinigy keeps stop-limit and its other advanced order types behind Pro Trader. Tealstreet's chasers, scale ladders and brackets are free and are typed as commands. The Altrady card does not say which tier includes Smart Orders.
• Scanners. Altrady has a base scanner, plus a TA scanner whose version included in Basic is one strategy on two timeframes. Coinigy's screener requires Pro Trader. Tealstreet's screener is free once an account is connected.
• Bots. Only Altrady sells bots that it hosts. Its grid bots run on spot only, on all 19 venues. Its signal bots can trade futures, and a TradingView webhook can drive them on every tier.
• Journal. Altrady has a journal with risk rules, but you can only export the records as CSV on Premium. Tealstreet's position history serves as a journal. The Coinigy card describes no journal.
• Portfolio. All three build one from your keys. Altrady can also track read-only wallet addresses on seven chains. Coinigy's portfolio monitoring is free, and unlimited wallet tracking needs Pro Trader.

The cheapest paid entry is Coinigy Pro Trader at $18.66, against Altrady Basic at €20 billed annually or €28 month to month. Those are not the same purchase. Coinigy's buys unlimited accounts on the 13 venues where it takes orders. Altrady's buys three exchanges out of 19. On Altrady, unlimited exchanges cost €90 a month, or €63 billed annually.

If you want to drive the terminal from your own code, the three differ again. Coinigy has a documented REST API that reads your accounts and places orders across connected exchanges, on the $99.99 tier. Altrady has no public API. It offers inbound webhooks, outbound alert webhooks and a local MCP server that prepares trades for you to confirm. Tealstreet has its command-line tool and a hosted MCP connector, and none of the connector's scopes can place an order.

Who else is paid when you trade

Altrady says nobody. Its pricing FAQ says it is "a pure software platform and takes no cut of your trades". No builder code, broker programme or routing rebate appears on its pricing page, its exchanges page or the help centre.

Tealstreet is paid by the venues, and on one of them you pay too. Its terms say it "may receive a fee or commission arising from the fees and commissions charged by Digital Asset Exchanges". On Hyperliquid, the key will not finish linking until you approve a builder fee. The docs say it is "usually 0.01% (1 bps), and can be higher if you signed up through an affiliate who sets their own rate". That makes it the only charge per fill on top of the exchange's own fee among the three, and the only one whose rate depends on whose link you arrived through. On Bitunix, since November 2025, the key works only on an account opened through Tealstreet's referral link. On every other venue the referral arrangement is invisible when you trade, and the vendor publishes its referral codes for 25 venues.

The Coinigy card says nothing either way. It describes no fee on fills, no builder code and no rebate, and it does not quote the vendor saying there are none. The only related item on the card is a leftover in-app offer to sign up with Lightspeed Crypto to "eliminate your Coinigy subscription fees". The card treats that offer as a dead feature. Ask Coinigy before you assume either answer.

How these arrangements work across the category is in who pays for your free trading bot.

Real-time, by which route

All three cards mark their data as real-time. Only Tealstreet's card says how the data arrives: prices, books and fills come live from the connected exchange's own websocket, with no aggregated feed and no history product of its own. Version 3 replaced ccxt with the vendor's own safe-cex library, which the release notes credit for the responsiveness. Orders go from your browser unless the Network is on.

On Coinigy, every request to an exchange API goes through Coinigy's servers. Its card does not say how chart data reaches your browser. On Altrady, orders and bots travel through Altrady's infrastructure, and the vendor publishes no latency figure or execution region. For discretionary trading the extra hop does not matter. If you trade off a DOM, Tealstreet is the only one whose card documents a direct line to the exchange, and its own Bybit guide moves you off it.

None of the three merges order books. Altrady's order-book widget shows the market in front of you. On Tealstreet, fifteen accounts in one window sit side by side, not in one consolidated ladder. Coinigy's cross-venue tool is the ArbMatrix, which shows spreads.

The cards were not read on the same day

Altrady's pricing, coverage and capabilities were verified on 19 September 2026, and Coinigy's on 21 September. Tealstreet's pricing and capabilities were verified on 19 September, and its coverage block carries no verification date at all. BitMEX stopped trading on 23 September, after all three checks. Altrady's exchanges table was re-read on 4 October. Coinigy's list and Tealstreet's connection guides were not re-checked for BitMEX. Coinigy's price could not be verified as monthly or annual at all.

How fresh each product is also differs. Coinigy's changelog ends at a release on 17 December 2024, and its mobile app stops in March 2025. Tealstreet's desktop download is version 3.0.12 from 30 April 2025, while its web app is described as "in a state of constant flux". The Coinigy card calls Altrady actively developed.

Which one, and when

Take Tealstreet if you trade perpetuals at the screen on venues it lists and want your keys to stay on your own machine. That especially applies to on-chain perp venues: Lighter, Paradex, GRVT and the rest are not on Altrady's table, Coinigy's card names none of them, and of the two only Altrady carries Hyperliquid. Expect to pay one basis point on Hyperliquid, check whose referral link you used, and keep the Network off on Bybit if local keys were the reason you came. Tealstreet is closed to you if you live in the United States, mainland China or Ontario.

Take Altrady the moment something has to keep running after you close the laptop, such as a grid bot on spot or a signal bot on futures driven by a TradingView alert. Take it too if you need a journal you can later export and file for tax. The price is a trade-enabled key stored, encrypted, on Altrady's servers. Budget for Premium at €90 (or €63 billed annually) if you want your records out as CSV or more than five exchanges connected, and do not expect a grid bot on futures.

Take Coinigy only if your venues are among the 13 where it takes orders and you want one of the two things the others lack: a REST API over all your connected accounts on the $99.99 tier, or SMS alerts at $18.66 on top of free portfolio monitoring, both running while you are logged out. On every other axis it is behind. Nothing has been released since December 2024, there are no bots and no paper trading, and its list still carries FTX. If your venues are not on that list, Altrady does the same job and is still being developed.