--- title: "Pricing: pay for the work you run · Trado Strategy Lab" description: "Building strategies is free. Backtests, optimizations, Copilot replies and deployments use credits, priced by the work, and you see the price before you run." canonical: "https://algo.trado.trade/pricing" lastModified: "2026-10-06" --- # Build strategies for free. Pay only for what you run. Creating and editing strategies costs nothing. Backtests, optimizations, Copilot replies and deployments use credits, priced by how much work they are, and you see the price before you run. Prices include GST. ## How credits work One credit ledger pays for everything that uses compute. Each action has a price in credits, shown before you confirm it: a small backtest costs little, a long multi-coin run costs more, and an optimization is reserved at its time budget and charged for the time it actually uses. A backtest or optimization that fails is refunded. Bring-your-own-AI access to the Lab is free; only the runs your agent starts use credits, exactly as if you had started them yourself. - **Free:** creating, editing and versioning strategies, the form builder, the canvas, and reading your results. - **Credits:** backtests, optimizations, Copilot replies, exports and paper or live deployment days. - **Plans** include an allowance of credits each period; **packs** are credits you buy when you need them and use for anything. ## Pay as you go, or take a plan There is no subscription you have to keep. Buy a credit pack when you need one, or take a plan if you run the Lab every week. A plan lasts one period and does not renew by itself: buy it again to keep it, and a few days of grace keep your limits meanwhile. Waitlist founding members get launch credits, and their first plan order for any plan above Starter costs the Starter price. See the [waitlist](https://algo.trado.trade/waitlist). ## Pricing questions ### Will I know the cost before I run something? Yes. Every run, optimization and deployment shows its price in credits before you confirm it, and the Copilot states the cost before it runs anything. ### What happens if a run fails? A backtest or optimization that fails is refunded in credits. ### Do prices include GST? Yes. The prices shown include GST, and invoices are issued for every purchase. ### Does bringing my own AI cost extra? No. Connecting Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to the Lab is free. The backtests and optimizations your agent starts use credits like any other run. See [bring your own AI](https://algo.trado.trade/bring-your-own-ai.md). ## Current plans Read from the live price list; prices include GST. New accounts also get 25 welcome credits once their email is verified. - **Free:** Free. 20 backtests. Best for trying it out. - **Starter:** ₹499 / month. 400 backtests · 300 optimizations · 150 Copilot. Best for one strategy a week. - **Pro:** ₹1,499 / month. 1,500 backtests · 1,200 optimizations · 600 Copilot · 100 data export. Best for daily research. - **Scale:** ₹4,999 / month. 6,000 backtests · 5,000 optimizations · 2,500 Copilot · 600 data export. Best for teams and agents. ## Credit packs (pay as you go) Pack credits work for anything and last 365 days. - **Small:** 200 credits for ₹199 (₹1 per credit). - **Medium:** 1,250 credits for ₹999 (₹0.80 per credit). - **Large:** 7,500 credits for ₹4,999 (₹0.67 per credit). ## What things cost - Backtest, small (runs on the Lab server): 1 credit. - Backtest, one coin for a year: 3 credits. - Backtest, 30 coins for three years: 6 credits. - Copilot reply, typical: 19 credits. - Optimization, 5 minutes (settled to the time used): 78 credits. - Optimization, 30 minutes (settled to the time used): 403 credits. ## Next steps - [Join the waitlist](https://algo.trado.trade/waitlist) ## Related - [What algo trading tools cost](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/what-algo-trading-tools-cost.md): Subscriptions for tools you use twice a month add up. What to look for in algo trading pricing, and how credits priced by the work compare. - [Bring your own AI via MCP](https://algo.trado.trade/bring-your-own-ai.md): Connect Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to Trado Strategy Lab over MCP. Your agent builds strategies, runs backtests and reads reports for free; runs use credits. - [Join the waitlist](https://algo.trado.trade/waitlist.md): Join the Trado Strategy Lab waitlist for 500 launch credits, early access by invitation and referral rewards. Launch: 1 November 2026, 00:00 IST.