# Bookmap vs ATAS vs Exocharts

Three order-flow desktops. The footprint chart is free on one, 49 euro plus VAT on another and 99 dollars on the third, because each meters something else.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/compare/bookmap-vs-atas-vs-exocharts*

- https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bookmap.md
- https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/atas.md
- https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/exocharts.md

## Three prices for the same chart, in three different units

All three are desktop order-flow tools from the futures world that added crypto connectors, and
all three are bought by the same person: a discretionary trader who wants to see what is resting
in the book and what traded into it, and to click an order from the same screen. The template
above shows three subscriptions in the same price range. They do not compare until you say which
chart you want and on how many exchanges, because each vendor meters a different thing.

- **[ATAS](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/atas)** meters **connections and indicators**. The [footprint chart](https://cryptomarkets.tools/glossary/footprint-chart)
  is on the free plan. What money buys is a second exchange (three connections at Pro, 69.95 euro a
  month), more indicators per chart (three, six, twelve, unlimited) and the non-time chart types —
  Volume, Delta, Tick and seconds charts are all Pro and above.
- **[Bookmap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bookmap)** meters **symbols on screen and hours of backfill**. One symbol and
  one hour of crypto history free, three symbols and three hours at 19 dollars, ten and 24 at 49,
  twenty and seven days at 99. The heatmap is on every tier; Footprint, DOM Pro, Execution Pro,
  Absorption and the Sweep Indicator are Global Plus only, at 99 dollars a month.
- **[Exocharts](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/exocharts)** meters **which coins and which client**. The desktop runs free,
  without registration, on pairs whose underlying is SHIBA, DOGE or SOLANA. Everything else is
  Desktop Pro at 49 euro a month, which includes the web app, or Web Premium at 28 euro for the
  browser client alone, with no DOM, no tape and no trading.

So the cheapest way to a live footprint chart on BTC perpetuals is free at ATAS, 49 euro plus your
country's VAT at Exocharts, and 99 dollars at Bookmap. The cheapest way to a live order-book
heatmap is free at Bookmap on one symbol, and on ATAS it is a beta.

**Currency and tab, before comparing any figure.** ATAS and Exocharts price in euro, Bookmap in
dollars. ATAS's page opens on the annual tab, so its large type is the yearly rate divided by twelve;
the figures here are month to month. Exocharts' table excludes VAT, which for an EU consumer is
another fifth. Bookmap's paid subscriptions are non-refundable; ATAS refunds within 14 days of a
first payment.

## What each one is actually for

The three overlap on paper and separate as soon as you say what you read.

**Bookmap is the book.** Its whole argument is the heatmap — resting liquidity painted over time,
with traded volume on top — and its one feature nobody else here has is Multibook, which merges
two to five instruments, across venues, into one picture. That is also where its limit sits: the
vendor's own FAQ says you cannot trade from the merged chart, and suggests opening the single
instrument in another tab. The merged view informs a decision you then execute elsewhere, by hand,
at a price the merged view was not showing. Depth is capped per adapter as well — full on Binance,
200 levels on Bybit — and on a product sold as a picture of the book, the cap is the product.

**ATAS is the footprint, on the exchange you already trade.** Over 400 footprint variations,
Smart DOM and order entry from the chart, connecting to Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, WhiteBit,
Bitfinex, Phemex and Kraken, with every data connector also an execution one. Real-money crypto
trading is on the free plan — the comparison table's "order management on real accounts" row reads
"Only for Crypto" for Start and Plus. The cost of that is mechanical rather than financial: Binance
wants a futures account even for spot, hedge mode is not supported, and OCO orders on Binance are
emulated on your computer, so if the laptop disconnects and one leg fills, the other is not
cancelled.

**Exocharts is the history, and the venues the other two do not carry.** It runs its own
collectors, claims up to six years of tick-by-tick crypto data with open interest and liquidations
attached — a vendor claim this catalogue could not date — and its desktop data list includes
Hyperliquid, Coinbase spot and WOO X futures, none of which Bookmap or ATAS names. Execution is the
narrow part: Bybit only, desktop only, since January 2026, and the vendor's pricing FAQ still says
trading does not exist.

## The history behind the chart

This is the difference the price columns hide. Bookmap is a live instrument: backfill is one hour
free and seven days at the top tier, and anything longer is a recording you made yourself, which
starts at Digital Plus. ATAS keeps seven days of big-trade history from Plus up, with 30 and 90
days on Pro and Ultra described by the vendor as "coming soon", and Market Replay from Plus.
Exocharts' claimed six years is the only figure of the three that would let you scroll back to
last year's move on the same footprint — if it holds for the pair you trade, which the free
SHIBA, DOGE and SOLANA pairs let you check before paying.

## The upper tiers that do not reach crypto

Two of the three sell a top tier built for CME traders, and both cards say so.

ATAS Ultra, the 20-euro step above Pro, is sold on the MBO bundle — Iceberg, Stop Runs and Sweeps
trackers — which the vendor's own tooltip says works only through the Rithmic connector, a futures
gateway. The options board is for options on futures and stocks. For a crypto workflow, Pro is the
ceiling.

Bookmap Global, at 49 dollars, adds eligibility for futures and equity data feeds that cost 34 to
119 dollars a month on top. For crypto alone it buys ten symbols and 24 hours of backfill. Crypto
exchange data is free on every Bookmap tier, which is the cheap half of that product.

## The machine you will need

Bookmap's own recommendation for full-depth crypto is 32 GB of RAM and a modern i9 or Ryzen 9, and
it is the only one of the three with a Linux build. Exocharts runs on Windows and on Apple Silicon
only — the download page says Intel Macs are not supported. ATAS ships two builds: Classic for
Windows, and ATAS X, in beta, for Windows and macOS, with the vendor saying that moving Classic's
panels across will take time. Check that the panel you are buying for exists in the build your
machine can run.

## Which one, and when

**Take ATAS** if you trade on one of its eight exchanges and the footprint is what you read. The
free plan is the whole chart with live order entry; Plus at 24.95 euro adds replay and big-trade
detection; Pro at 69.95 is the price of a second exchange on screen, and nothing above Pro is for
crypto. Before relying on it, switch the Binance account to one-way mode and do not rest an OCO on
it overnight.

**Take Bookmap** if the resting book, not the footprint, is what you read, and seeing several
venues' books merged is worth placing the order in another tab. Digital Plus at 19 dollars is the
tier that does that — Multibook and crypto order entry, three symbols. Do not climb to Global Plus
for the footprint: ATAS gives it away.

**Take Exocharts** if the venue you read is Hyperliquid, Coinbase or WOO X, or if what you need is
months of footprint history on the same chart rather than hours. Accept that you will execute on
Bybit or somewhere else, and ask the vendor where it keeps a Bybit key before you paste one.

**Take none of them** if you want this in a browser. [GoCharting](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gocharting) sells a web
footprint and market-profile plan for crypto at 20 dollars a month, and [CoinAnk](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinank)
draws one in the browser as part of a VIP layer whose web price is unpublished. (The Exocharts card
calls CoinAnk free to look at; CoinAnk's own card puts the footprint behind VIP, and that is the one
to trust.) Both sit under [charting platforms](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/charting-platforms) rather than here,
because neither is bought as a trading terminal.

## FAQ

### Which one gives me a footprint chart for free?

ATAS. Its free Start plan includes footprint and cluster charts with live crypto data and live order entry on a real account, limited to one exchange connection, two instruments and three indicators per chart. Exocharts gives the footprint away only on pairs whose underlying is SHIBA, DOGE or SOLANA; anything else is Desktop Pro at 49 euro a month plus VAT. Bookmap sells Footprint as a Global Plus add-on, which is 99 dollars a month.

### Which one can trade on more than one exchange?

ATAS and Bookmap. ATAS trades on all eight of its crypto connectors, but one at a time until Pro at 69.95 euro a month, which allows three connections. Bookmap trades on most of its adapters from Digital Plus at 19 dollars, with KuCoin and OKEx documented as view-only. Exocharts trades on Bybit only, from the desktop client only, since January 2026.

### Which one shows Hyperliquid order flow?

Exocharts, of these three. Its desktop data list includes Hyperliquid alongside Bybit, Binance, OKX, Bitget, Coinbase spot and WOO X futures. Neither Bookmap's adapter list nor ATAS's eight connectors names Hyperliquid. You still cannot trade Hyperliquid from Exocharts — execution is Bybit only.

### Can I see several exchanges' order books merged into one?

Only in Bookmap, and only to look at. Multibook merges two to five instruments into one heatmap on a paid plan, and the vendor's own FAQ says you cannot trade from the merged chart; you open the single-venue chart in another tab and click there. ATAS shows several exchanges above its Pro tier as several windows, and Exocharts has no consolidated book.

### Do any of these send my exchange keys to the vendor?

Bookmap says no — the adapter documentation states keys are used only to authenticate with the exchange and are not shared with any Bookmap server. ATAS is a desktop application that connects over your own keys, and its card records nothing further. Exocharts' trading documentation does not say whether the Bybit key is held on your machine or on the vendor's servers, which is worth asking before pasting one in.