Comparison
ORTEX Charts Compared With ChartIQ
ChartIQ is an enterprise charting product sold on an annual contract whose price is not published and is generally in the tens of thousands of dollars. Its public demo transfers 4.4 MB of JavaScript across 65 files before a chart appears. ORTEX Charts is 76.9 KB gzip in one file for a full shell with a toolbar, indicators, drawings and order flow, is bought with a card at $590 per developer per year or $299 per product per month unbranded, and first paints 100,000 bars in 32 ms.
Payload and timing figures were measured on 2026-09-04 in Chromium against the vendors' own published files and public demos; the feature review was carried out on 2026-09-03. Prices are the vendors' own published prices where they publish one, and are marked as unpublished where they do not. Where ChartIQ is better, this page says so.
Head to head
How the Two Line Up
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| What | ORTEX Charts | ChartIQ |
|---|---|---|
| A full shell | 76.9 KB gzip in one file | 4.4 MB transferred across 65 files |
| Create to first paint, 100,000 bars | 32 ms | Not measurable from code without a licensed build |
| License | Commercial, per developer or per product | Enterprise contract, quote on request |
| Price | $590 per developer per year, published | Not published; generally tens of thousands of dollars per year |
| How it is bought | A card payment, and a key by email | Procurement |
| Order flow | Footprint, volume profile, market profile, delta, cumulative delta | Partial: volume profile |
| Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers | Yes | No |
| Sparkline build | 4.8 KB gzip | None |
| Treemap and heatmap in the family | Yes | No |
| Native mobile SDK | No, the web build in a WebView | Yes |
What Is ChartIQ Good At?
- A broad, mature feature set: a large indicator library, a large drawing set, Renko, Kagi and Point and Figure, and session-anchored intraday bars.
- Draggable price alerts and linked charts with a shared crosshair.
- A native mobile SDK, which ORTEX Charts does not have.
- Enterprise delivery: professional services, integrations and a procurement process that some institutions require.
What Does ChartIQ Cost?
- Not published. ChartIQ is sold as an annual platform contract, generally in the tens of thousands of dollars.
- It is procurement rather than a card payment, which adds a quarter to the evaluation before a line of code is written.
What Can ChartIQ Not Do?
- No footprint bars with imbalance marking, and no delta, cumulative delta or relative volume.
- No bar replay with higher-timeframe followers.
- No sparkline build for tables and cards.
- No treemap or heatmap in the same family, and no color-blind safe palettes out of the box.
- It cannot be evaluated at 4.4 MB across 65 files on a page that has a payload budget.
Where Does ORTEX Charts Win?
- Payload, by a wide margin: 76.9 KB gzip in one file against 4.4 MB transferred across 65 files.
- Order flow computed from aggressor volumes rather than inferred, including footprint bars, exact volume profile and market profile.
- Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers.
- Buying. A card payment through Stripe and a key by email, against an annual enterprise contract.
- A published price, which ChartIQ does not have.
- A 4.8 KB sparkline build for tables and cards, and treemaps and heatmaps on the same engine.
Where Does ChartIQ Still Win?
- Catalogue breadth. ChartIQ has years of accumulated indicator and drawing coverage behind it.
- Native mobile SDKs.
- Institutional procurement fit: professional services, long-term contracts and the assurances that come with them.
Which One Should You Choose?
Choose ChartIQ when an institution requires an enterprise vendor with professional services and a native mobile SDK, and the payload is somebody else's problem. Choose ORTEX Charts when the page has a performance budget, when order flow is the reason for the chart, or when the evaluation has to finish this month rather than after procurement.
Features
What Each One Ships
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| Feature | ORTEX | ChartIQ | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candlestick, bar, line, area, baseline, histogram | ● | ● | |
| Heikin-Ashi and hollow candles | ● | ● | |
| Renko, Kagi, Point and Figure, line break | ● | ● | |
| Multiple resizable panes with independent scales | ● | ● | |
| Built-in indicator library | ● | ● | |
| Custom indicators without a proprietary language | ● | ● | Advanced Charts uses Pine Script for user studies. |
| Drawing tools | ● | ● | |
| Footprint bars with imbalance marking | ● | ○ | |
| Volume profile and market profile | ● | ◐ | Exact per-price volume needs the aggressor data ORTEX Charts accepts. |
| Delta, cumulative delta, relative volume | ● | ○ | |
| Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers | ● | ○ | Replay on a second timeframe is one of the most requested missing features on TradingView. |
| Draggable price alerts reported to the host | ● | ● | |
| Session-anchored intraday bars | ● | ● | |
| Linked charts and shared crosshair | ● | ● | |
| Host-owned layouts and drawing storage | ● | ◐ | Advanced Charts expects a save and load server implementing their contract. |
| Color-blind safe palettes out of the box | ● | ○ | |
| Sparkline build under 10 KB | ● | ○ | |
| Treemap and heatmap in the same family | ● | ○ | |
| React bindings | ● | ● | |
| One file, no chunk loader | ● | ○ | |
| Licensed for private, authenticated and paywalled applications | ● | ● | |
| Screen-reader description and data table | ◐ | ◐ | Highcharts has the strongest accessibility story in the category. ORTEX Charts has ARIA on the shell and keyboard pan and zoom; the description and data table are open work. |
Licensing and price
The Part That Decides the Shortlist
ORTEX Charts
Per developer for Team, per product for White-label, OEM by contract.
$590 per developer per year for Team; $299 per product per month for White-label; OEM as agreed.
Canvas 2D rather than WebGL: built for financial data sizes, not for ten-million-point scientific plots.
ChartIQ
Enterprise contract, quote on request.
Not published; sold as an annual platform contract, generally in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Procurement, not a card payment, and 4.4 MB of JavaScript across 65 files before a chart appears.
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