TradingView

What it is

The default screen. Candles, 110-plus drawing tools, indicators written in the house scripting language, alerts, screeners and a social layer, sold as five subscription tiers and running on web, iOS, Android and a desktop build for Windows, macOS and Linux.

It is not a crypto product, and the card is here because so much of crypto is downstream of it. The vendor's coverage page lists 429 data sources; 112 of them are tagged Cryptocurrency. That is roughly a quarter, and the rest is equities, futures, FX, bonds and economics. The features the platform advertises hardest — earnings calendars, analyst consensus, 10-K and 10-Q documents, dividend-adjusted charts, twenty years of financial history — are all about the other three quarters. If what you want is a crypto-native screen, this is the wrong shape and one of the derivatives screeners in this category is the right one.

What crypto gets in exchange is coverage breadth no crypto-only product matches, on the same screen as everything else. Of the 112 crypto sources, 49 are individual DEX pools named with their chain — Uniswap v2, v3 and v4, PancakeSwap, Raydium and its CLMM and CPMM variants, Orca, Meteora DLMM and DYN, Aerodrome, Velodrome, Camelot, Curve, SushiSwap, STON.fi, SunSwap, Cetus, Bluefin, Turbos — across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, BNB chain, Avalanche, Optimism, Sui, TON, Cronos, zkSync, Ronin, Gnosis, TRON, Pulsechain, Unichain and Hyperliquid. The remainder are exchanges: Binance with spot, swaps, futures and indices, plus Bybit, OKX, Coinbase, Kraken, Deribit, HTX, Bitget, Bitfinex, Bitstamp, BingX, Crypto.com and a long tail.

This is the platform half of a vendor that sells three products. The chart engine inside somebody else's exchange is TradingView Advanced Charts, and the small open-source renderer is TradingView Lightweight Charts. Nothing on this card is buyable by a developer embedding a chart, and nothing on those two cards is buyable by a trader.

Pricing

Read the toggle first. The pricing page opens on annual billing, so the figures in the big type — 12.95, 29.95, 59.95 and 199.95 USD a month — are all the discounted annual rate, and each card says "billed annually" underneath in small type. Month to month the same plans are 14.95, 34.95, 69.95 and 239.95 USD, which is where the numbers in the tier list above come from: the page's own structured-data block publishes the monthly rate even while the visible price is the annual one.

Basic is free forever and is a real tier, not a teaser. One chart per tab, 5,000 historical bars, ads, and — the two omissions that matter — no webhook notifications and no MCP access. Screeners are on every plan including Basic, with auto-refresh reserved for paid plans.

The paid ladder is mostly quantities. Charts per tab go 2, 4, 8, 16; historical bars go 10K, 10K, 20K, 40K; alert allowances go 20, 100, 400, 1,000. Two features are genuinely gated rather than metered: webhooks and data export start at Essential, and second-based intervals and second-based alerts start at Premium. If you are wiring TradingView alerts into a bot, Essential is the floor; if you care about sub-minute bars, Premium is.

Trials are 30 days on Essential, Plus and Premium, and 14 days on Ultimate. Enterprise is quoted and the vendor's stated threshold for the conversation is 100 or more subscriptions. Payment in crypto is accepted, processed through Triple-A, directly or through Binance Pay.

One line in the footnotes is worth more than any of the feature rows: only the Ultimate plan is available to professional users. If your firm makes you a professional subscriber, the ladder has one rung.

Data & coverage

Crypto data is free in real time, and that is unusual enough to be the headline. On the vendor's coverage page every crypto source is priced at $0.00 a month for real-time access, for non-professional and professional users alike. The US Stock Markets bundle on the same page is 9.95 USD a month for a non-professional. So on crypto a subscription buys platform features and nothing else — the feed is the same on Basic as on Ultimate.

Depth beats any crypto-only screener; history is capped by plan, not by the data. Even on Ultimate a chart loads 40,000 bars. At one-minute resolution that is about 28 days. The limit is a subscription limit rather than an archive limit, and it is the first thing to check if you came here expecting to pull a long minute series.

Derivatives metrics exist and are narrower than the specialists'. Crypto open interest and funding rate ship as built-in indicators under Fundamentals and Derivatives, available aggregated or per exchange, and also as columns in the crypto screener and a Derivatives tab on each coin's symbol page. The aggregated funding rate is weighted by open interest. The venue list is twelve entries with vendor-published start dates — Binance and Bybit and OKX and Deribit from early 2020, HTX from April 2020, Kraken from September 2021, Bitget from August 2021, Coinbase from December 2023, Hyperliquid from September 2025 for open interest and May 2023 for funding, plus two Hyperliquid HIP-3 venues and BitMEX. Those last three are excluded from the aggregate, so an "all exchanges" figure here is ten exchanges, not twelve, and not the thirty a dedicated derivatives screener counts.

No crypto options. Not one crypto source on the coverage page carries an Options label. Deribit is listed with spot, swaps and futures only. If you need a crypto options chain, an IV surface or skew, this platform does not have them at any price.

Integrations

The MCP server is first-party and new. It was announced on the vendor's own blog on 16 September 2026 as a public beta, is documented on the vendor's domain, and signs you in with OAuth 2.1 against your TradingView account — there is no API key to issue or rotate. One URL serves every client. The published tool groups add up to about thirty-five tools: watchlists, market data including an OHLCV endpoint that takes BINANCE:BTCUSDT and returns up to 5,000 bars, symbol search, screener, news, fundamentals and forecasts, documents, calendars and alerts.

Two things about it are worth knowing before you plan around it. Eight of the tools write — they create, rename, delete and edit watchlists in your live account, which is an unusual amount of authority to hand an assistant. And the market data it serves is delayed during the beta; the vendor says so in the announcement, alongside a note that the tool list is scoped and daily request caps may be applied. Tool calls are rate-limited to roughly 100 a minute per user. It is included on Essential and above, and trial plans are excluded.

Alert webhooks are how everything else connects. TradingView does not automate anything itself: an alert fires, it POSTs a body you wrote to a URL you own, and something on the other end acts. That is the mechanism behind every "TradingView strategy" a bot advertises — see OctoBot, which defines its own webhook payload format, and Tealstreet, whose public relay for exactly this is not running, leaving you to tunnel to your own machine. Webhooks start at Essential.

Order entry runs through third parties. The Trade panel lists integrated brokers and exchanges — the vendor's blog announced CoinJar, WhiteBIT and Kraken among them over the past weeks — and the account, the funds and the identity checks are theirs. Paper Trading is the exception: it is built in, available globally to every user, and simulates almost every asset class on the platform.

Pine Script is the extension point, and the backtester is attached to it. Strategy scripts simulate trades over historical and real-time bars through a broker emulator, with a Deep Backtesting mode for longer ranges. The docs are explicit that backtest results ignore broker and exchange fees unless you model them.

Limitations

A 40,000-bar ceiling on the top plan. Every plan caps how much history a chart will load, and Ultimate at 239.95 USD a month stops at 40K bars. This is the single most common surprise for anyone arriving from a data API.

There is no market-data API to call. The vendor's product menu and its business-solutions menu together list the widgets, the three charting libraries and the MCP server, and no API among them. The MCP server is account-scoped, rate-limited and currently delayed, which makes it an assistant connector rather than a feed. If your plan involves pulling TradingView's numbers into your own system on a schedule, there is no supported route.

The MCP server serves delayed data and can write to your account. Both are the vendor's own statements, both are current as of the September 2026 beta, and neither is visible from the install instructions.

No crypto options anywhere. Stated above and repeated here because the platform's options product for equities is prominent enough to imply otherwise.

The aggregated derivatives figures quietly exclude three venues. BitMEX and the two Hyperliquid HIP-3 venues have data, and that data is not in the aggregate. An aggregate whose membership is documented in a support article rather than on the chart is a number you should check before quoting.

Second-based intervals cost 69.95 USD a month. Sub-minute resolution is a Premium feature and sub-minute alerts are a Premium feature, which puts the entry price for genuinely fast crypto work three rungs up the ladder.

The screener is a general-markets screener with crypto in it. It ranks coins and pairs on price, volume, change and the derivatives columns noted above. It does not rank by liquidation clusters, order-book depth by venue, or the positioning metrics the crypto-native screeners are bought for.

Professional classification collapses the price list. If you are a professional user, four of the five plans are unavailable and the price is 239.95 USD a month.

Alternatives

If what you want is the crypto derivatives view rather than the chart, CoinGlass covers funding, open interest and liquidations over a far wider venue list, and Laevitas goes where this platform does not go at all — crypto options, implied volatility and skew.

If you want a screen you can trade a specific set of venues from rather than one that charts everything, that is the terminals category: Velo pairs a TradingView-based screen with order entry on Bybit and Hyperliquid, and Tealstreet puts a ticket on twenty-odd venues for free.

And if you are here because you want this chart inside your own product, you want one of the other two cards from this vendor: Advanced Charts for the full engine under a proprietary free-with-attribution licence, or Lightweight Charts for the Apache-2.0 renderer.