Comparison
ORTEX Charts Compared With TradingView Advanced Charts
TradingView Advanced Charts is free of charge under a signed agreement whose free tier requires the TradingView mark to stay visible and the chart to sit on a public page outside any paywall or login, which most fintech products are not; anything else is priced by conversation. The licensed drop is 154 JavaScript files totalling 4,757.5 KB uncompressed. ORTEX Charts is 76.9 KB gzip in one file for the full shell, is licensed for private, authenticated and paywalled applications from $590 per developer per year, and removes its own mark for $299 per product per month.
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 Prices are the vendors' own published prices where they publish one, and are marked as unpublished where they do not.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 Advanced Charts is better, this page says so.
Head to head
How the Two Line Up
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| What | ORTEX Charts | Advanced Charts |
|---|---|---|
| A full shell | 76.9 KB gzip in one file | 4,757.5 KB uncompressed across 154 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 | Signed agreement, companies only |
| Price | $590 per developer per year; $299 per product per month unbranded | $0 on conditions; otherwise undisclosed |
| Allowed behind a login or a paywall | Yes | Not on the free tier |
| Vendor mark removable | Yes, on White-label and above | Not on the free tier |
| Custom indicator language | Plain JavaScript | Pine Script |
| Order flow | Footprint bars, exact volume and market profile, delta, cumulative delta | Partial: a visible-range volume profile |
| Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers | Yes | Partial |
| Sparkline build | 4.8 KB gzip | None |
| Native mobile SDK | No, the web build in a WebView | Yes |
What Is TradingView Advanced Charts Good At?
- Breadth. Its built-in study and drawing catalogue is the largest in the category.
- A finished chart application: symbol search, multi-chart layouts, compare, marks and a familiar interface traders already know.
- A native mobile SDK exists, which the ORTEX answer does not.
- Pine Script lets end users write their own studies, which is a product requirement for some platforms.
What Does TradingView Advanced Charts Cost?
- Zero dollars on the free tier, under a signed agreement, for companies only.
- The real price is the conditions: the TradingView mark must stay visible, and the chart may only appear on a public page that is not behind a login or a paywall.
- Anything outside those conditions is priced by conversation, and the figure is not published.
What Can TradingView Advanced Charts Not Do?
- It cannot legitimately appear inside a private, authenticated or paywalled application on the free tier. This is the single most common reason a team cannot use it.
- It cannot be unbranded on that tier. The TradingView attribution stays.
- Custom studies go through Pine Script rather than plain JavaScript.
- No footprint bars, and no delta or cumulative delta beyond partial coverage; the visible-range volume profile does not use aggressor data.
- No sparkline build for tables and cards, and no treemap or heatmap in the family.
- It is 154 files and 4,757.5 KB uncompressed on disk, loaded through a chunk loader rather than as one file.
Where Does ORTEX Charts Win?
- Licensing fit. ORTEX Charts is licensed for exactly the private, authenticated and paywalled cases the free TradingView tier excludes, and a White-label license removes the ORTEX mark entirely.
- Payload. The full ORTEX shell is 76.9 KB gzip in one file, against 154 files and 4,757.5 KB uncompressed.
- Order flow. Footprint bars with imbalance marking, exact volume profile and market profile, delta, cumulative delta and relative volume, computed from aggressor volumes.
- Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers, which is one of the most requested missing features on TradingView.
- Indicators in plain JavaScript rather than a proprietary language, with your own study appearing in the menu, the legend and the saved layout like a built-in one.
- Host-owned layouts and drawing storage: JSON in and out, with no save-and-load server contract to implement.
- A 4.8 KB sparkline build, treemaps and heatmaps on the same engine, and color-blind safe palettes out of the box.
Where Does TradingView Advanced Charts Still Win?
- Catalogue breadth. Advanced Charts has years of accumulated studies and drawing tools behind it.
- Native mobile. The honest ORTEX answer is the web build inside a WebView.
- End-user scripting. There is no Pine Script equivalent and there is no plan for one.
- Price, where the free tier's conditions happen to fit your product.
Which One Should You Choose?
Choose Advanced Charts when the product is a public, free, unauthenticated page, the TradingView mark is acceptable, and catalogue breadth matters more than payload. Choose ORTEX Charts when the chart sits behind a login, inside a subscription product or on an internal desk tool, when the mark has to go, or when order flow and replay are the features being bought.
Features
What Each One Ships
A filled circle is shipped and demonstrable, a half circle is present but partial, an empty circle is absent. The notes are the honest part.
| Feature | ORTEX | Advanced Charts | 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.
TradingView Advanced Charts
Signed agreement, for companies only.
Undisclosed for any product behind a login or a paywall.
The free tier requires their mark to stay visible and the chart to sit on a public page outside any paywall or login, which most fintech products are not. Anything else is priced by conversation.
Other comparisons: Lightweight Charts, Highcharts Stock, ChartIQ, SciChart JS.