A wider view.
A sharper perspective.

The core terminal is free, and there is no trial to expire. All 200 indicators, 20 chart types, alerts, multi-chart layouts, backtesting, the screener, the trading journal and the AI agent are available to everyone. An account is free and optional; it keeps your layouts, drawings and saved work with you between devices. Optional Founders membership is available for $50 USD once for lifetime access or $15 for 30 days, plus provider/network fees, paid in crypto through NOWPayments. Your chosen AI provider may charge separately for inference.

Founders adds Whale Intelligence, explainable Technical Read across timeframes, extended derivatives and options history, stocks and commodities on chart, private Founders MCP tools, priority Telegram contact and a numbered Founder badge. These are optional additions; the core charting and research tools stay free. Membership requires a signed-in account and verified payment.

No. Opening the terminal puts you straight on a live chart with no sign-up, no email and no card. A free account keeps saved workspaces, drawings, alerts and journal entries across devices. An account is also required if you choose to buy Founders membership.

Unlimited indicators on a chart rather than a per-chart cap, 20 chart types including Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi, 3 Line Break and Point & Figure, plus range-bar and one-second timeframes. Multi-chart synced layouts, order-flow footprint data, live derivatives context, a market screener you can backtest, a formula language with 126 functions, and an AI agent that can operate the terminal. None of it is metered.

Live spot and perpetual futures data from major venues, including candles down to one-second bars on Binance, order-flow footprint, derivatives context — funding rates, open interest, long/short positioning, taker flow and liquidations — and options from Deribit, OKX, Bybit and Binance. Market data is public and needs no exchange account.

Yes, free. The options workspace merges Deribit, OKX, Bybit and Binance for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the altcoins they list: open interest by strike and expiry, max pain, modelled dealer gamma, vanna and charm, implied volatility, skew, the volatility surface, options flow with block trades, the full chain and a multi-leg strategy lab. Volatility is read from one reference venue rather than averaged, and every modelled figure states its assumption.

The agent has 69 real tools — it reads candles, computes indicators, checks derivatives, draws on the chart, builds screens, runs backtests and sets alerts, rather than describing what you could do. Inside the terminal you bring your own model key: it is stored in your browser and used to talk to your provider directly, so Basis never holds it and there is no subscription in between. If you would rather not get a key at all, connect the assistant you already have instead — see the next answer.

Yes. Basis runs an MCP server at basischarts.com/api/mcp, so any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol can use the same market data, order flow, indicators, screens and backtests from wherever you already work. There is no API key and no account: the model is the one you are already paying for, and Basis provides the data and the tools. The assistant can also build a chart and hand back a link that opens it live. Setup is one URL, at basischarts.com/mcp.

No. Basis is an analysis and research terminal — it reads market data and does not connect to your exchange account, hold funds or route orders. The position planner sizes a trade and shows its risk, but you place it yourself wherever you trade. Nothing on Basis is financial advice.