# TradingView Advanced Charts

The chart engine inside half this market — free with visible attribution, not open source.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview-advanced-charts · Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries*

## Also covered on

- [TradingView Advanced Charts on StockMarketStack](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tradingview-advanced-charts.md) — the same licence read against an equities product, and the alternatives with a card

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | TradingView |
| Category | Crypto Charting Platforms & Libraries |
| Job | charting_library |
| Website | https://www.tradingview.com/advanced-charts/ |
| Pricing model | free |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | Proprietary |
| Self-hosted | true |
| KYC required | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-19 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free with attribution | 0 USD | — |
| Contact us | on request | — |

### Coverage

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Asset classes | none |
| Chains | none |
| Venues | none |
| Data latency | none |
| Platforms | library, web |
| AI features | none |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | false |
| Webhooks | false |
| Scripting | JavaScript |
| MCP server | false |
| Export | none |

### Capabilities

Yes: charting

No: screening, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, exchange_import, tax_reporting, alerts, news, onchain_data, wallet_tracking, derivatives_analytics

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-19; capabilities 2026-09-19.*

## What it is

The chart engine other companies put in front of their own users. You get a widget constructor, a
datafeed interface, roughly 110 drawing tools, over 100 indicators, custom indicators in
JavaScript, up to eight price scales, synchronised multi-chart layouts, watchlists and 30-plus
localisations — and you supply every number it draws.

**It is the reason this category has a library half at all.** Open a crypto product that is not an
exchange and there is a good chance you are looking at this: [Velo](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/velo) builds its
derivatives terminal around a TradingView chart, and [Bubblemaps](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bubblemaps) embeds one
next to its holder graph. Neither vendor wrote a candle renderer, and neither advertises whose
they use. That is the normal state of this market.

**The name is a trap.** Most developers know it as the **TradingView Charting Library**, which is
what it was called for years. The vendor renamed it to Advanced Charts and left the old name in
the load-bearing places: the documentation is served from `/charting-library-docs/`, the private
repository is `tradingview/charting_library`, and that is still the package name in the vendor's
own `package.json` snippet. So the search term and the product name have diverged, and reviews
written before the rename are about this.

**It is not the platform and it is not the small one.** The subscription product a trader buys is
[TradingView](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview). The 35 KB Apache-2.0 renderer is
[TradingView Lightweight Charts](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview-lightweight-charts). This card is the middle
one: the full charting application, licensed rather than sold, for a team that wants TradingView's
chart without TradingView's brand owning the user.

## Pricing

**The published price is zero, and the conditions are the product.** The documentation states it
in one sentence: Advanced Charts is available for free provided that the TradingView attribution
remains visible and the implementation environment is public, which the same sentence defines as
not for private use and not behind a paywall. The vendor's comparison table reduces that to a
footnote reading "free with TradingView logo".

Unpack those two conditions before you plan around them, because each one rules out a real class
of product:

- **Attribution stays visible.** TradingView's mark is on your chart, in your product, in front of
  your customers. If your brand guidelines forbid a third-party logo in the main workspace, the
  free licence is not for you.
- **Public, not behind a paywall.** An internal risk dashboard is private use. A charting screen
  that only subscribers reach is behind a paywall. Both are exactly the deployments a crypto
  company is most likely to be building, and the plain reading of the vendor's sentence excludes
  both from the free terms.

**There is a "Contact us" button beside "Get the library" on the landing page, and no price
behind it.** The vendor publishes no figure, term or scope for a commercial arrangement anywhere
we looked, so this card does not state one. If either condition above is a problem for you, that
button is the whole of the published answer.

**Redistribution is barred outright, and the wording is unusually direct.** The quick-start
documentation says the library is not redistributable and that it is prohibited to use any part
of it in public repositories, and adds that obtaining it from third-party services is strictly
prohibited and may lead to legal consequences. That has a practical edge for open-source crypto
projects: you cannot commit the files, so a contributor cannot build your front end without
getting their own access grant first.

## Integrations

**Access is granted, not downloaded.** Submit the request form on the landing page; once
approved, you get a GitHub invitation to a private repository. From there it is either a clone or
a git dependency in `package.json` pinned by semver tag, and the npm route only works if your git
client is authenticated to GitHub — which means your CI needs a deploy key before it can build.

**The files are not bundled, and the docs say so.** Everything under `node_modules/charting_library/`
has to be copied into a static-asset directory by a `postinstall` step, because your bundler will
not process it. The vendor publishes the copy command. This surprises people arriving from a
normal npm dependency, and it is the first thing to get wrong in a Docker build.

**`/charting_library/bundles` is a declared black box.** The documentation says TradingView may
change its contents at any time without notice. Do not read it, do not patch it, and do not build
anything that depends on a file inside it.

**Data arrives through one interface.** You implement the Datafeed API, or you point the bundled
UDF-compatible adapter at an endpoint that speaks its protocol. The repository ships that adapter
under `/datafeeds/udf/` and the docs say you are free to edit it. Shipped alongside are
TypeScript definitions for both the widget and the datafeed, ESM, CommonJS, UMD and IIFE builds,
and mobile-app documentation.

## Limitations

**It ships no data, which is the whole design.** The documentation's strapline is "your servers,
your data, TradingView's charts". Every candle, every tick and every historical bar is your
problem, and in crypto that usually means the work in the
[market data](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/market-data-apis) category has to be done before this library is worth
installing. The demo feed in the quick start updates every ten seconds and exists to prove the
chart renders.

**670 KB.** The vendor's own figure for the component, against 35 KB for Lightweight Charts. That
is not a criticism — it is a full charting application with drawing tools, indicator engine and
dialogs — but it is nineteen times the size of the alternative from the same vendor, and it is
the number to put in front of anyone who says "just add a chart".

**The trading UI is a different product.** Order entry on the chart, the advanced order ticket,
depth of market, bracket orders, account and position tracking, multi-chart layouts: in the
vendor's comparison table those rows belong to Trading Platform, which is the 900 KB tier above
this one. Bitpanda's Fusion, announced by the vendor in September 2026, runs Trading Platform —
not this. If you are building an exchange front end and assumed the order ticket was included,
check the table before you scope the work.

**You cannot read the source.** The repository is private, the bundles directory is explicitly
undocumented, and a rendering bug is a support conversation rather than a patch. That is the
trade for not writing a charting engine, and it is the opposite of the trade Lightweight Charts
offers.

**Custom indicators are JavaScript, not Pine Script.** Scripts written for the TradingView
platform do not move into a product built on this library. If your users expect to paste in a
Pine indicator they found, the answer is no.

**Public repositories are out.** Stated under Pricing and repeated here because it is the clause
most likely to be discovered late: an open-source crypto front end cannot vendor these files, and
every contributor needs their own grant.

## Alternatives

From the same vendor, [TradingView Lightweight Charts](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview-lightweight-charts) is
the honest comparison and usually the right first question: Apache-2.0, 35 KB, no indicators, no
drawing tools, no licence conversation. If your product needs a price chart rather than a
technical-analysis workstation, start there and come back here only when a user asks for
Fibonacci retracements.

If neither the attribution nor the paywall condition works for your deployment, the choice moves
to libraries that sell a licence outright rather than granting one — the commercial financial
charting packages — and the card you should read next is whichever of those this catalogue has
open in [charting platforms and libraries](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/charting-platforms).

And if you were looking for the product a trader subscribes to rather than the one a developer
embeds, that is [TradingView](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview).

## FAQ

### Is this the same thing as the TradingView Charting Library?

Yes. The product was renamed to Advanced Charts, and the old name is still what most developers call it. The vendor kept the old name in its URLs — the documentation lives under /charting-library-docs/ and the private repository is still called charting_library, which is also the package name in the vendor's own npm install snippet.

### Is Advanced Charts open source?

No. The vendor's own library comparison table states the licence as Proprietary and open source as no, against Apache 2.0 for Lightweight Charts. The source lives in a private GitHub repository you are invited to after an access request, and the terms forbid putting any part of it in a public repository.

### What exactly does "free" mean here?

The documentation states the condition in one sentence — Advanced Charts is available for free provided that the TradingView attribution remains visible and the implementation environment is public, meaning not for private use and not behind a paywall. The comparison table's footnote puts it more bluntly as "free with TradingView logo".

### How do I actually get the files?

Submit the access request form on the product's landing page. Once approved you receive a GitHub invitation to a private repository, and from there you either clone it or add it to package.json as a git dependency pinned with a semver tag. Installing that way needs your git client authenticated to GitHub.

### Does Advanced Charts come with market data?

None at all. The documentation's own strapline is "your servers, your data, TradingView's charts". You implement the Datafeed API or adapt the bundled UDF wrapper against your own feed. The demo feed in the quick start exists to make the first chart render and updates every ten seconds.

### What is the difference between Advanced Charts and Trading Platform?

Trading Platform is the same engine plus the trading surface — order entry on the chart, an advanced order ticket, depth of market, bracket orders, account and position tracking. Those rows belong to Trading Platform in the vendor's comparison table, not to Advanced Charts. Bitpanda's Fusion, announced in September 2026, runs Trading Platform rather than this.

### How big is it?

The vendor puts the component at 670 KB, against 35 KB for Lightweight Charts and 900 KB for Trading Platform. It is a full charting application rather than a renderer, and the files in the package are served as static assets rather than bundled by your build.

## Also from TradingView

- [TradingView Lightweight Charts](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview-lightweight-charts.md)
- [TradingView](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview.md)

## Also worth comparing

- [ChartIQ](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/chartiq.md) — Heavyweight broker charting SDK, domain-locked, priced by an account manager.
- [DXcharts](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dxcharts.md) — The paid half of the open core — 100+ indicators, 40+ drawing tools, from $499 a month.
- [DXcharts Lite](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dxcharts-lite.md) — The MPL-2.0 renderer under a broker charting product — candles and axes, no indicators.
- [Highcharts Stock](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/highcharts-stock.md) — Per-seat commercial charting whose free licence excludes anything you sell.
- [KLineChart](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/klinechart.md) — Zero-dependency candle engine with no market-hours rules to switch off for 24/7.
- [DEX Screener](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/dex-screener.md) — DEX pair screener and charts on 64 chains, paid for by token promotion rather than by you.