TradingView Free Trial: How Long It Lasts, the Card and How to Cancel

How long is the TradingView free trial?

No public TradingView page says. Its pricing page's code sets 30 days for Essential, Plus and Premium and 14 for Ultimate, and the same page suggests you may not be offered a trial at all. We read that code on 2026-10-18 from a logged-out browser in Thailand. We didn't sign in: our account is on the free Basic plan, we haven't taken a trial, and we can't say whether TradingView would offer us one.

Here is what the page shows and holds:

• Logged out, no trial. The plan cards say Start now, the comparison table says Try free, and either one opens a Sign up window. The page's list of offers for a logged-out visitor is empty, and a setting named disable_trials_globally_anon is at 1.0.
• The lengths. The page's data holds trial_length: 30 and expert_trial_length: 14, and Ultimate is the only plan on today's page it flags as "expert". Its code builds a signed-in plan button from the template Try free for {days} days, but only when the account's offers include a trial. Otherwise the button is an ordinary purchase.
• A setting against trials. The same settings include disable_trials_globally at 0.95. The page's code switches a 0.95 setting on for about 95% of accounts, picked by a hash of the account ID. We can't see what TradingView does with this one on its side; its name points to trials switched off.

TradingView's Terms of Use promise nothing either: "Users may be offered a free trial of selected paid plans. The duration of the trial may vary depending on the plan, region, and platform, and will be shown when the user signs up for the trial." If you are offered one, read the length on your own sign-up screen before you confirm. The Terms name the platform too, so the iPhone and Android apps may show a different length, or none.

These are the US dollar prices TradingView showed our browser in Thailand on 2026-10-18. Its page also holds separate GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD, SGD and MYR price lists, so yours may differ. Tax can come on top: "depending on your location, a sales tax could be added to your final bill." The Terms list tax registrations in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, among others, and in "specific US states and cities". App prices can differ from the website's: Google Play and the App Store have their own payment systems, policies and fees, "including taxes", TradingView says.

Does the TradingView free trial need a credit card?

Expect to add one, or another payment method. TradingView's Terms say that ordering any subscription "(including a free trial period)" means "you authorize TradingView to automatically charge your bank card, PayPal account or other supported payment method". The "No credit card needed" line on the pricing page sits under the free Basic plan's Sign up button and nowhere else. We haven't been through the trial checkout, so we can't show you its form.

On the website TradingView takes Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, Discover, JCB, Maestro, UnionPay, Elo, Hiper and Hipercard cards, plus PayPal, Revolut Pay, Google Pay, Apple Pay and crypto (payment methods). In the apps you pay through the App Store or Google Play. Two snags from its help:

• The phone check. "Phone verification during the trial is a required best practice", and if the code never arrives, "your phone number may have been previously registered to another TradingView account" (SMS help).
• A blocked card. If the payment processor's anti-fraud checks block your card details, "you'll need to wait for a 24-hour period before being able to make another payment attempt" (help).

Which plan does the trial give you?

If you're offered one, it's on the plan you choose: the comparison table has a Try free button on Essential, Plus, Premium and Ultimate. You get one trial in total (more below), so start it on the plan you would actually pay for. What each plan adds is on the pricing page, and our indicator-limit page compares the per-chart limits. This page sticks to the trial's terms.

TradingView names three things about a trial account:

• It can buy extra real-time exchange data: "To add data, you first need to have one of our paid plans or to be a trial member" (pricing page FAQ).
• It doesn't get the MCP Server, TradingView's connector for AI assistants: "Trial plans do not include MCP access" (MCP help). Our TradingView MCP guide covers what that connector does.
• A professional user can only buy Ultimate: "Only the Ultimate plan is available for professional users" (pricing page).

Beyond that, TradingView's own advice for checking a feature is to try it: "the best advice we can give you is take a trial" (help).

One gap we couldn't close. TradingView's help page for free users still lists "I have a trial, but I want to switch my trial plan. How can I do this?" and "Which plan should I trial?", and on 2026-10-18 both links opened TradingView's "Unknown coordinates" error page, as did its older "I would like to cancel my free trial" article. So we can't tell you from TradingView's own pages whether a trial can switch plans halfway.

What happens when the trial ends?

It becomes a paid subscription and you're charged, unless you canceled first. The Terms: "Unless cancelled before the trial expires, the subscription will automatically convert to the monthly or annual paid plan selected by the user, and the applicable subscription fee will be charged at the end of the trial period."

If you picked annual billing, that charge is the whole year, since "The service is billed in advance monthly or annually." At the US dollar prices we were shown, Essential at $12.95 a month billed annually comes to $155.40 in one payment, and Ultimate at $199.95 comes to $2,399.40 (our arithmetic, before tax; the page's own "Save $24 a year" and "Save $480 a year" against monthly billing agree with it).

We found nothing in TradingView's help or Terms that promises a reminder email before a trial ends, and nothing that says what time of day it ends. Put your own reminder in a calendar two days before the end date. On a phone, TradingView's help says "The payment and cancellation dates are available in the App Settings -> Subscription, or in the app of the corresponding store."

Writing to support doesn't count as canceling, either: "An email request or support ticket asking for your subscription to be cancelled is not considered cancellation."

How do I cancel the TradingView trial before I'm charged?

Cancel where you started it: on the website if you signed up there, in the App Store or Google Play if you started it in the app. A plan that is active on one platform "can not be purchased on any other platform" (help), and TradingView says "we cannot cancel the subscription in your Google Account / Apple ID" (help).

On a computer (the website)

From TradingView's website cancellation help:

1. Open Settings and billing, then Subscriptions.
2. Click Cancel subscription.
3. Do it in time: "To avoid being charged for the next billing period, cancel at least 24 hours before your next billing date." For a trial, the billing date is the day it ends.

There's a catch on the website. "A canceled trial will stop immediately after cancellation", says the pricing page's FAQ, and the Terms agree: "Upon cancellation, the trial and associated services will stop immediately, except for any separately purchased data packages." A paid subscription keeps running to the end of the period you paid for; a trial doesn't. Cancel on Day 10 to be safe, as in the film's example, and the days after it are gone.

On an iPhone or iPad

TradingView's help sends you to Apple's steps (published September 29, 2026), the same on iPhone and iPad:

1. In Settings, tap your name.
2. Tap Subscriptions.
3. Tap the TradingView subscription.
4. Tap Cancel Subscription. You may need to scroll down to find it.

Apple: "If you signed up for a trial subscription and you don't want to renew it, cancel it at least 24 hours before the trial ends." TradingView's App Store terms say the same and add that "you retain access to the subscription from the cancellation moment until the end of the current billing period". They also warn that accounts "may be charged for renewal up to 24 hours before the end of the current period."

On an Android phone or tablet

Google Play's steps, also linked from TradingView's help:

1. On your Android device, go to subscriptions in Google Play.
2. Select the TradingView subscription.
3. Tap Cancel subscription and follow the instructions.

Deleting the app isn't enough: "When you uninstall the app, your subscription won't cancel." TradingView's Android terms carry the same 24-hour line as its App Store ones.

We haven't canceled a store trial ourselves. The access-to-the-end line comes from TradingView's App Store and Android terms, which speak of "the current billing period" and don't say in so many words that a trial counts as one.

Can you get a second TradingView free trial?

No. "It is only possible to use the trial period once," say TradingView's Terms, and its help adds "regardless of the platform on which you purchased the subscription". A trial taken in the iPhone app uses up the website one too. And if you cancel a trial and change your mind, "the payment for it will be taken immediately" (help).

New accounts for new trials are a ban risk. TradingView's moderation page says "Immediate and permanent bans may occur when accounts are used for spamming, spreading malware, to exploit the free trial feature" and more (how bans work).

Two offers that look like trials are different things. The "30-day free trial" in TradingView's AI Copilot help is a promotional add-on that TradingView grants and "you can't purchase" (help). Local sales are discounts "for one payment only", after which "Your subscription will renew at the regular price" (Promo FAQ).

Charged after the trial: can you get a refund?

For an annual plan, yes if you ask within 14 calendar days. For a monthly plan, TradingView's own pages disagree.

• The pricing page's FAQ: "Refunds are available for annual plans only and must be requested within 14 calendar days of payment." It adds "There are no refunds for upgrades to a more expensive plan, monthly plans or market data, even if the subscription is cancelled on the same day as the payment has gone through."
• The Terms: "Refunds for monthly subscriptions are available only if requested within 7 calendar days after the payment is made."

TradingView's article for exactly this case, charged after my trial, says it doesn't refund "outside the specified refund windows" but will look at "specific user circumstances", so contact its support. Don't open a card dispute first: the Terms say a chargeback, dispute or claim makes you ineligible. Store purchases follow the store. "App Store purchases can be refunded only by the store", while Google Play ones can be requested "both in the store and on our platform".

Free trial or the free Basic plan?

If Basic's limits don't get in your way, skip the trial. Basic is "$0 forever" and "No credit card needed". The trial is a timed look at a paid plan's limits. On the pricing table of 2026-10-18, Basic allows 2 indicators per chart, 1 chart per tab, 2 simultaneous chart connections and 3 active price alerts, with no technical alerts on indicators. Deep backtesting is ticked only for Premium and Ultimate. Our indicator-limit page has the per-plan counts.

Some things need no trial at all. The desktop app and paper trading are ticked on all five plans, Basic included (desktop app, paper trading). We run TradingView on Basic: its Strategy Tester uses only the bars loaded on the chart (we saw 1-hour history back to 2026-01-01 and 4-hour back to 2024-01-01), which our backtesting guide goes into.

Where we stand

We sell Pine Script indicators as source code. Each tool in our Pine v6 stack is one script, so on Basic it takes one of the 2 indicator slots, and adding it doesn't need a TradingView trial (how to add a Pine script). Our team's TradingView account is on Basic, and we haven't taken a TradingView trial: the trial terms above are TradingView's, read on 2026-10-18.

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