Tiger.com Windows

What it is

A Windows desktop terminal for order-flow trading: candlestick and fully configurable footprint charts, a dynamic DOM with a trade chart and clusters beside it, volume profiles and cluster search, a trade log with a results chart, and a Player that replays recorded market data at the speed you choose. Orders go in from the chart or the DOM, against your own exchange accounts over API keys. The paid Full licence is for stocks, futures and forex — CME, the US equity exchanges and Moscow Exchange among them; crypto is the half it gives away.

It was sold as Tiger.Trade until the rename. tiger.trade answers with a redirect to tiger.com, the help centre and the indicator examples still say "Tiger.Trade" in places, and the C# indicator source sits in a TigerTrade namespace.

Three products share the brand, and this card is one of them. Tiger.com Windows is the terminal. Tiger.com macOS is a separate app on its own site, built on TradingView charts. Tiger.com Broker is a broker account with KYC that routes Binance and Bybit orders at reduced fees, and TigerX is a connector to Binance and OKX that runs through the broker's infrastructure with keys issued by the broker. Both of those are a funded account at a venue by another name, and the catalogue does not list them; they appear below only where they change what the terminal costs.

Pricing

In US dollars, from the prices page read on 23 October 2026. Registration gives every account a free lifetime Crypto licence and a 14-day trial of the Full licence.

• Crypto — free, lifetime. Crypto markets only, live trading and demo trading on live data, no History Player.
• Full — 79 a month, 178 for three months, 579 for twelve, 1,500 for a lifetime licence. Adds the stock, futures, options and forex connections — SMARTcom, QUIK, MetaTrader 5, Rithmic, TRANSAQ, GAIN Capital (OEC) and Interactive Brokers TWS — and the History Player.
• History Player — 25 a month. Replay only, no live data and no trading. You need it only on the Crypto licence.

On Binance, the free licence is paid for by the exchange. The help centre's page on using the Crypto licence with Binance says it in one sentence: by trading in the terminal you support its development, "as Binance will return a portion of the commission to Tiger.com in the form of brokerage fees from your trading commissions." That is the arrangement described in who pays for your free trading bot, and it has a condition attached.

A Binance account opened through somebody else's referral link gets spot only. The same page says a referred account can trade spot on the free licence and nothing else; the licence FAQ puts it more bluntly — with a referral account you "will not be able to trade in Binance" on the free licence. The prices page's comparison row agrees: "Binance referral program support — only Spot" on Crypto. The vendor's two ways round it are to buy the Full licence or to open a Tiger.com Broker account. The Binance connection guide adds a third wording of the rule: "to use the Tiger.com terminal for free, log in with your Tiger.com Broker account credentials", and referral accounts and accounts of other brokers "are not supported". The licence pages do not say a broker login is needed; the connection guide does.

The trial is not a crypto trial. The licence page in the help centre says the 14-day trial has historical data limited to the last ten days and that "no crypto exchange connections are available with a trial license". Crypto runs on the free licence from day one, so the trial matters only for the non-crypto connections.

Data & coverage

Fourteen crypto venues can trade and five more are view-only, by the help centre's connection list on 23 October 2026 read against the release notes: Binance (spot, margin, USDⓈ-M and COIN-M futures, with Binance Alpha view-only), Bybit, OKX, Bitfinex, Bitget, Gate.io, MEXC, KuCoin, Kraken, BingX and Backpack, plus three decentralised venues — Hyperliquid, AsterDEX and Lighter. Coinbase, Weex, XT and Phoenix are labelled view-only, and so is Upbit by the version 7.2 notes, though the list does not label it.

The vendor's own counts do not agree with that list or with each other. The free-licence blurb on the prices page promises "seven cryptocurrency exchanges" and names five — Binance, Bybit, Bitfinex, Deribit and OKX. Deribit is on the prices page and has no connection guide in the help centre. The product page's own block reads "Connections 14". The trading-modes page still says six crypto exchanges and seven terminals.

Every exchange can be watched without keys. Since version 7.2 each connector has a view-only mode that reads public WebSocket and REST feeds, so charts, depth and the tape load with no exchange account at all. Trading needs keys. Chart data is the exchange's own; there is no separate market-data subscription for crypto.

Hyperliquid wants your seed phrase or a builder fee. The setup guide's main route has you type the wallet's seed phrase into the terminal's connection form — "fast seed phrase authentication", in the 7.2 notes. The alternative uses a Hyperliquid API wallet key plus a signed builder-fee approval allowing up to 0.02% per order. The deeper private order book on Hyperliquid is offered only through a Tiger.com Broker connection with a balance of at least 500 dollars. Lighter trading "requires Builder API authorization" by the 7.3 notes.

Three trading modes: Real, Simulator (five internal demo accounts on live data, no leverage) and Player (recorded data, Full or History Player licence).

Integrations

Custom indicators and drawing objects are written in C#; the help centre publishes the source of the built-in Delta, Cumulative Delta, VWAP, volume-profile, open-interest and other indicators as examples. Indicators can raise alerts.

The "Tiger API" is not a data or order API. It is a local WebSocket server inside the terminal, on port 7819 by default, that lets an outside program such as a screener open a symbol in a linked window group. Nothing reads Tiger.com's data out, and nothing places orders through it.

Limitations

• Windows only, and a heavy install. Windows 10 64-bit or later, with 16 GB of RAM and 80 GB of disk recommended. The macOS app is a different product.
• A free licence with a condition the headline does not print. Binance trading beyond spot needs an account with no referral on it, or a paid licence, or a broker account with KYC.
• Seed phrase into a desktop app. The main Hyperliquid route asks for the wallet's recovery phrase, which controls every asset on that wallet, not a trading key scoped to one venue; the 7.2 notes name AsterDEX for the same seed-phrase input. The API-wallet route avoids that and costs a builder fee of up to 0.02% per order.
• No automation. The C# interface covers indicators and chart objects; the help centre documents no strategy runner, and the Player is replay for practice, not a backtester.
• The documentation contradicts itself on counts and conditions — seven exchanges or five, Deribit or not, broker login or not, a trial with crypto or without. The connection list is the one that matches the release notes.
• No dated release history. The help centre's release notes run to version 7.3 and carry no dates, so how recently the terminal changed cannot be read from the vendor's pages.

Alternatives

ATAS and Quantower are the Windows order-flow desktops this is priced against, both with crypto connections and their own free-tier conditions — compared in Quantower vs ATAS. Exocharts runs on the web as well as the desktop. Tealstreet and Insilico Terminal are free terminals paid for by exchange arrangements in the same way, without the footprint focus. Bookmap is the heatmap-first choice.