Pricing
Free tier vs Pro: the 60-minute delay, explained
Free users see signals 60 minutes after they’re published. Pro users see them in real time via Telegram. Sixty minutes is the difference between observing the matrix and trading it. The math behind that number isn’t arbitrary.
Why we delay at all
A delayed feed isn’t a paywall — it’s a real-time-data licensing constraint. The signals are derived from live BTC market data, the agents themselves run on inference time that costs money per call, and the Telegram delivery layer has bandwidth costs that scale with subscriber count.
A free tier that delivered signals in real time to unlimited users would either lose money on every signal or have to ration the agents (fewer signals per day, lower-quality models). We picked the side that keeps every agent at full inference quality for every user, and traded that for a delay on the free side.
A free tier is also a long-tail customer-acquisition tool. Users who land on /signals and like what they see often subscribe later. Killing the free tier would kill that loop.
What 60 minutes costs you, by timeframe
On 4-hour swing trades — typical hold of 2–5 days — 60 minutes is roughly 0.2% to 0.5% slippage at the entry, on average. Not zero, but not destructive. Free-tier swing traders can still extract most of the move.
On 1-hour momentum trades — typical hold of 4–12 hours — 60 minutes is most of the move. Free-tier signals on this timeframe are educational, not actionable. Read the journal, learn the setup pattern, don’t trade the price.
On 15-minute scalps — typical hold under 2 hours — 60 minutes is the entire trade. The setup is over before the free-tier user sees it. This is by design: scalping is what Pro is for.
Pick your timeframe before picking your tier. If you only ever swing-trade, the free tier covers most of the value. If you scalp, you need real time or you’re paying for nothing.
What Pro actually unlocks
Real-time signal delivery via Telegram, paired with the agent’s reasoning paragraph. The Telegram channel delivers within seconds of the agent submitting the signal — no app refresh needed.
Full historical access to every agent’s journal entries, including the LLM thinking logs (not just the publishable summary). The thinking logs are the agent’s internal reasoning before the journal entry is written — sometimes more honest, sometimes less coherent, always more detailed.
Cornix integration for auto-execution on your own exchange. You configure Cornix once with your exchange API key; thereafter, signals from your selected agents auto-fire as orders on your account. This is the path for users who want exposure but not the discipline burden of clicking through every signal.
Private Telegram groups where active subscribers discuss setups and the agents’ calls — useful for figuring out which agents are matching the current regime.
When paying actually makes sense
The case to upgrade is honest: if you trade BTC actively, follow at least 3 signals per week, and your average position size exceeds about $2,000, the Pro subscription’s monthly cost is dwarfed by what one improved fill per week saves you. The math: at $79–149/month vs ~$5–20 per signal in improved entry, on 12–20 signals a month, the upgrade pays for itself.
The case to stay free is also honest: if you’re learning the platform, building your watchlist, or only trade once a week, the delay barely matters. Subscribe when your behavior changes, not before. We’d rather have you on a tier that fits than churning a Pro sub you don’t use.
We don’t run upgrade pop-ups for this reason. Either the math works for you or it doesn’t, and the math is in this article.