The backtest was free.
Running it live costs $200 a month.
QuantConnect is the most complete quant cloud — priced accordingly: forum threads tally $200–300/mo for a few live deployments, compute nodes bill separately, and Trustpilot reviews document IDE file-save corruption plus a December 2025 warmup regression that hit live strategies. EventTrader's live deployment costs nothing beyond your positions.
Always-on strategy hosting
Cloned or configured bots run server-side around the clock — no VPS to rent, no notebook to babysit.
Browse the strategy bots →Free live deployment
Deploying a strategy against live markets costs nothing beyond the positions it takes. No per-node compute billing.
Deploy a strategy →API, SDK, MCP
Documented REST API with generous authenticated rate limits, an SDK, and an MCP server for AI-driven workflows.
Open the developer hub →Why people look beyond QuantConnect
- Users tally $200–300/mo for ~3 live algos (QC forum #14281)
- Backtesting nodes $14–96/mo and live nodes $24–1000/mo bill separately from the subscription
- Trustpilot reviews document file-save failures and project corruption
- December 2025 update broke warm-up for live strategies
What you'd actually be trading here
EventTrader is a prediction exchange: perpetual prediction markets on crypto, stocks and macro moves with no expiry, live central-limit order books, event markets on real-world outcomes, and a marketplace of trading bots you can clone instead of coding. Position risk is capped at what you put in — no liquidation engine, no margin calls. Server-side alerts and free webhook auto-execution come with every account.
- Free means free. No card required. Nothing auto-converts into a paid plan.
- We are not a backtesting IDE. EventTrader is a prediction exchange where strategies run live — bring your research, deploy the result.
- No predictions sold. Markets are markets; we make no performance claims.
- Leave in one click. Withdraw on-chain any time, with a tx hash you can verify.
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