ATAS pricing: the annual discount is 20% on the cheap tier and 44% on the expensive one
Four tiers across four billing periods, all published. The lifetime licences pay back in three to four years at the annual rate, and the discount structure quietly pushes you upward.
ATAS publishes a full price matrix, four tiers by four billing periods, which is more disclosure than most trading software offers. The matrix also contains a pattern that is easier to see once it is written out.
The whole grid
Read from the tariffs page on 27 August 2026, prices per month except the last column:
| Tier | 1 month | 3 months | 1 year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| START | €0 | €0 | €0 | free, no time limit |
| PLUS | €24.95 | €23.95 | €19.95 | €999 |
| PRO | €69.95 | €59.95 | €39.95 | €1,799 |
| MBO Bundle | €89.95 | €79.95 | €49.95 | €1,999 |
A 14-day trial is offered, and a refund is available within 14 days of a first purchase.
The discount is not the same on every tier
The header says “up to 44% off” on annual billing. Worked out per tier, the word “up to” is doing a lot:
| Tier | Monthly | Annual, per month | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLUS | €24.95 | €19.95 | 20.0% |
| PRO | €69.95 | €39.95 | 42.9% |
| MBO Bundle | €89.95 | €49.95 | 44.5% |
Committing for a year takes a fifth off the cheap plan and nearly half off the expensive one. So the annual gap between PLUS and PRO shrinks from €540 to €240, and the more expensive tier becomes proportionally easier to justify precisely because you committed.
That is a legitimate pricing choice and it is worth seeing before you choose. We found the same shape, milder, at TradingView, where annual billing saves 13.4% on the entry plan and 16.7% on the top one. Two unrelated vendors discounting the expensive tier harder is a pattern rather than a coincidence.
When the lifetime licences pay back
A lifetime licence is a bet on still using the software years from now. The published rates say how many years:
| Tier | Lifetime | Against annual billing | Against monthly billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLUS | €999 | 4.2 years | 40 months |
| PRO | €1,799 | 3.8 years | 26 months |
| MBO Bundle | €1,999 | 3.3 years | 22 months |
The pattern inverts here. The cheapest lifetime licence takes the longest to pay back, because the annual rate it competes against is already discounted least. Someone on PLUS is committing €999 against €239.40 a year; someone on MBO is committing €1,999 against €599.40.
Anyone confident they will be using this platform in four years can reasonably take the lifetime on any tier. Anyone unsure should note that the honest comparison is against the annual rate, not the monthly one, and that the annual rate is what they would actually pay.
What the price does not include
Market data. ATAS is an analysis and execution front end; the data behind it comes from a broker or a data provider and is billed by them. Exchange fees for futures data are set by the exchange and land on top at every tier, which is the same line item we set out for Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader.
Commission. Orders route through a broker, and that broker’s per-contract rate is a separate cost. For futures it is usually larger than the platform fee at any realistic volume; the arithmetic is in NinjaTrader’s fees.
So the platform line is one of three, and on this kind of software it is frequently the smallest.
What this platform is for
Worth stating plainly, because the tiers make no sense otherwise. ATAS is order-flow software: footprint charts, volume profile, cluster analysis, market-by-order data on the top bundle. The paid tiers buy depth of market microstructure rather than more indicators.
That narrows who the pricing is aimed at. A swing trader working from daily bars needs none of it and should compare charting platforms instead. A futures scalper reading the order book is the intended buyer, and for that person the MBO Bundle is the tier the product was designed around, which is also why it carries the deepest discount.
The free tier is a real one
START costs nothing with no time limit and includes basic indicators, three indicators per chart, standard timeframes, market replay and a BigTrades history with auto-filter.
That is enough to learn whether order-flow analysis suits how you trade, which is the question worth answering before any of the numbers above matter. The platform also offers a subscription freeze, which lets a paid plan be paused rather than cancelled.
How to decide without guessing
Run START until it stops you. Then buy the tier that removes the specific limit you hit, rather than the tier whose feature list reads best.
Compare at the annual rate, not the monthly one. Every tier’s real price is the annual figure, and the gaps between tiers are much smaller there: €20, €40 and €50 a month rather than €25, €70 and €90.
Price the data and the commission first. If those come to more than the subscription, and for an active futures trader they will, then the choice between PLUS and PRO is not the decision you thought you were making.
Treat lifetime as a four-year bet, because against the annual rate that is what it is.
What we checked, and what we didn’t
Every price comes from the ATAS tariffs page, read on 27 August 2026. The discount percentages and the payback periods are our arithmetic on those published figures.
We have not installed the platform, tested it, or verified what data and commission come to through any particular broker, because those depend on the broker rather than on ATAS. Prices are shown in euros on the vendor’s page and we have not converted them.