TradingView alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of TradingView, shown against it.

TradingView thinkorswim TrendSpider StockCharts.com
Vendor TradingView, Inc. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. TrendSpider StockCharts.com, Inc.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free Subscription Subscription
Free tier Yes Yes No Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Retail and active traders who want social-driven charting and Pine Script customization in the browser. Active options and futures traders who already hold, or are willing to open, a Schwab brokerage account. Technical traders who want pattern and trendline detection automated instead of drawn by hand. Retail chartists who want scan-driven technical screening plus a long-standing educational reference.
Pricing

Free forever plan plus four paid monthly tiers (billed annually for the quoted rate) that raise chart, indicator and alert limits.

Free $0
Essential $12.95/mo
Plus $29.95/mo
Ultimate $199.95/mo

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

No subscription fee; included with a funded Schwab brokerage account (trading commissions and options fees apply separately).

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Four monthly tiers (no persistent free tier) starting with a low-cost trial, scaling by workspace/bot/alert limits and charting resolution.

Standard $52.38/month
Premium $65.52/month
Enhanced $87.84/month
Advanced $154.08/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free access to public charts and ChartSchool; three paid monthly membership tiers plus optional real-time data add-ons per exchange.

Basic $19.95/month
Extra $29.95/month
PRO $49.95/month
Real-time data add-on $9.95/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Multi-asset charting (stocks, crypto, forex, futures)
  • Pine Script for custom indicators and strategies
  • Large public library of community indicators
  • Social feed for published chart ideas
  • Paper trading and broker execution integrations
  • Screener across stocks, crypto and forex
  • Price, technical and drawing alerts
  • Advanced multi-timeframe charting with a large study library
  • Options analytics: probability curves, risk profile graphs
  • thinkBack strategy backtesting
  • paperMoney simulated trading
  • Level II quotes and time & sales
  • Custom scripting via thinkScript
  • Futures and forex trading support
  • Automated trendline and chart pattern detection
  • Automated support/resistance and Fibonacci levels
  • Strategy backtesting with configurable resolution
  • Custom 'bots' for scanning and alerting on conditions
  • Multi-timeframe analysis
  • Market replay for historical price review
  • Point-and-figure and Renko charting
  • Advanced Chart tool with technical overlays and indicators
  • Technical scan engine for screening symbols
  • PublicChartLists for sharing annotated charts
  • ChartSchool technical-analysis education library
  • Market summary and sector performance tools
  • Seasonality and relative-strength charts

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