Pricing

Quant24 charges a subscription. Not a cut of your trades, not a share of what a strategy makes — a monthly price for software, published in full on this page.

The one rule that decides which plan you need

The fence between plans is access to real capital. It is the only thing you cannot get by assembling pieces à la carte, and it is deliberately the only thing.

Everything else — how many strategies run at once, how often the Executor reviews them, how many creations you get in a month — is a dial, and every dial is designed to be sold separately on whatever plan you are already on. If you want a sixth strategy, buy a sixth strategy. If you wanted a five-minute review cadence on Paper, you would buy the cadence rather than move up a plan. You never have to move up a plan to get a bigger number.

You move up a plan when you want the engine to place orders in a real futures account of your own. That step is different in kind, not in degree: it is where the Guardian's limits start protecting money instead of a simulation, and where your approval stops being a formality.

The catalog

Sandbox is free and stays free. One strategy, created and validated end to end, with the full E1–E6 report including the sealed holdout. No card, no broker account, no waiting list. Sandbox is not a trial with a clock on it: it is how you find out whether the evidence this engine produces is worth paying for.

Paper (Paper plan: $29/mo) runs strategies against a market simulation with no real money at stake, at a faster review cadence and with more room to create. It is the plan for someone who wants to watch evidence accumulate before any capital is exposed.

The Live plan (from Live plan: $79/mo) is the first plan where the engine can place orders in a futures account you already own. You bring your own account (BYOK) and Quant24 never holds your funds; the Guardian enforces its loss limits before every order; no deployment happens without your explicit approval.

The Live Pro plan (Live Pro plan: $189/mo) is the same access with more of everything: more strategies in parallel, a shorter review cadence, and coverage across every session the contracts trade.

Business and Enterprise are quoted and invoiced rather than sold from this page. They are for teams, prop firms and desks; they price a per-seat fee on top of a platform fee, and they have a floor that does not move with the size of the contract.

The price shown for the Live plan is a placeholder inside a band that closes with real willingness-to-pay research from the founding cohort, not with a number invented later.

Plugins

Six add-ons, priced against what they actually cost us to run. Four of the six are on the waiting list in this build: the three faster review cadences and around-the-clock coverage are priced here and cannot be bought yet, because the runner advances a replay in batches every fifteen minutes — we will not sell a cadence it does not honour, and coverage changes nothing about a replay on a fixed schedule. The extra active strategy and the extra creations are the ones the checkout accepts today. The discount runs inversely to the marginal cost: an extra active strategy (Extra active strategy: $25/mo) and around-the-clock coverage cost us close to nothing to add, so they are cheap. A one-minute review cadence (One-minute review cadence: $45/mo) has a real marginal cost and gets no discount at all. Extra creations are priced Extra creation: $7 per creation or Extra creations, pack of ten: 10 for $49 as a pack. Faster review cadences cost Ten-minute review cadence: $5/mo for ten minutes and Five-minute review cadence: $12/mo for five.

What is deliberately missing

There is no annual plan except on Paper: committing you to twelve months needs at least three months of our own churn data, and we do not have it yet.

The regional band for Latin America and Asia-Pacific, which will price the Live and Live Pro plans 40% below the US band, is not open either. It belongs to Month 6–12 of the roadmap, not to a launch.

The founding cohort

Founding cohort pricing locks in for life.

That is the whole of it, and it is not a slogan: the price a founding member joins at is the price they keep when the catalog opens to everyone. The Founder Program has its own terms, reviewed by a lawyer before anyone operates under them.

What you see, and when

The full catalog on this page sits behind a flag (PRICING_FULL_CATALOG). With the flag off, the page falls back to two lines — Sandbox is free, and the Live plan starts at Live plan: $79/mo with a waitlist — and nothing else is announced.

That is a governance rule, not a growth tactic. No plan gets announced until the founding cohort shows sustained retention, because a correct price for a product with no track record is still a correct price for nothing.

Why the entry price is what it is

Cost is the loudest thing this segment says about its tools: 32.7% of surveyed traders want to pay as little as possible, and around 61% put cost first.VERIFIED — checked against a primary source^F16 That is why Sandbox is free rather than time-limited, and why the first paid step is small enough to be a decision rather than a commitment.