Software pricing usually tracks either value or cost. Copier pricing that tracks value ends up metering signals, which sounds fair until you notice what it does: the vendor now earns more when the trader takes more trades. For a product that places leveraged orders, that is an incentive worth refusing. So CopySignals is priced against cost, and the cost has one shape.
The unit of cost is a terminal, not a message
A signal arrives once and is parsed once, for every subscriber watching that channel. The parse is cheap and it is shared. What is not shared is the other side: each connected trading account gets its own MT4 or MT5 terminal running on our infrastructure, logged in to your broker, holding a bridge that takes one instruction at a time and reports open positions back.
That terminal runs whether or not a signal ever arrives. It runs on Sunday. It runs during the fortnight your channels post nothing. It consumes memory and a slice of a machine continuously, it needs a supervised restart when a broker drops the session, and it needs somebody to notice when a broker migrates a server. Ten connected accounts is ten of those, regardless of how many trades pass through them.
This is the structural reason we run the terminals ourselves rather than renting a third-party execution API, described in the product overview. The trade-off is exactly this cost: a vendor API would let us price flat and blame someone else when an order vanished.
What per-signal pricing does to behaviour
Consider a trader watching three channels, two of which are quiet and one of which posts a dozen setups a day. Under per-signal pricing, that trader's bill is set by the noisiest channel, and the software's revenue rises with the exact behaviour that most often ruins accounts. Add the second-order effect: a vendor with that model has a reason to make skipping signals slightly inconvenient, to make the spread guard slightly less prominent, to default the open-position cap slightly higher.
None of that has to be deliberate to happen. It is what pricing does to a roadmap over two years. Per-account pricing leaves the software indifferent to whether you take a signal, which is the only position a copier should hold on that question. The settings that stop trades are then free to be as aggressive as they need to be, as laid out in the risk settings guide.
Why the second account is cheaper than the first
The first $19.00 USD covers the copier and one account. The second and every account after is $9.00 USD. The gap is the copier itself: the Telegram session, the parser, the channel rules, the follow-up handling. That work is done once for you no matter how many accounts receive the result. Only the terminal is duplicated, so only the terminal is charged again.
The practical effect is that running a demo account alongside a live one is cheap on purpose. We want people doing that comparison, because a month of parallel statements answers the question that generates most disputes about copiers, which is whether a disappointing month was the channel, the sizing or the broker.
Cheap extra accounts are not an argument for many accounts. Three accounts copying the same channel take the same trade three times, and the position cap is applied per account. The total exposure across accounts is yours to calculate.
Where this model gets uncomfortable
It is not the friendliest model for every case. A trader running eight small accounts for a multi-account management arrangement pays eight times the terminal charge even if seven of them are barely funded, and there is no volume break in the published list. Someone who watches twenty channels and copies four signals a month pays the same as a heavy user, which is generous to one and less so to the other.
We prefer that to the alternative. A price a customer can compute in their head before they sign up, from one number and a count they already know, is worth more than a schedule that is theoretically fairer and practically unreadable. If your arrangement genuinely does not fit, the honest answer is that multi-account management at scale is a different problem with different tooling.
What we do not charge for
No setup fee, no per-trade fee, no percentage of results and no charge for the number of channels you follow. The parser improving does not become a tier. Symbol mapping rules, follow-up handling and the guards are not sold as an upgrade, because a copier missing any of them is a copier that places wrong trades, and shipping a version that does that would be a strange thing to charge extra to fix.
There is also no charge for a connection that is failing. If a broker migrated your server and the terminal cannot log in, that is an account you are paying for and not using, which is a fair objection. The answer is that the terminal and its supervision are still allocated, and the fix is usually a field you can update in a minute rather than something that lingers.
The test to apply to any copier vendor
Ask what their price is a function of, then ask what their infrastructure cost is a function of. If the two do not line up, work out who benefits from the gap. A vendor charging per signal while their own cost sits in running connections is selling you a bet on your own trading frequency. Current figures are on copysignals.io.
Leveraged trading carries a high risk of loss, and no pricing model changes that.
"If our revenue went up every time you took a trade, you should not trust our defaults. Pricing per account is how we stay indifferent to whether you press the button."
— Roman Onta, Executive Director, SINGUARD
Key Takeaways
- The recurring cost of a copier sits in a logged-in terminal per connected account, which runs whether or not any signal arrives.
- Per-signal pricing gives the vendor a financial interest in the customer trading more, which is the wrong incentive in leveraged software.
- Parsing and channel rules are done once regardless of account count, which is why the second account costs less than the first.
- The model is deliberately blunt: no volume breaks, and a light user pays the same as a heavy one on the same account count.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why not charge per channel instead?
Watching a channel costs almost nothing, because a post is read once and shared across everyone following it. Charging for it would be a price with no cost behind it.
Do demo accounts cost the same as live ones?
Yes. A demo account needs the same running terminal, the same supervision and the same broker session as a live one, so it carries the same per-account charge.
Is there a discount for many accounts?
The published list has no volume break. Current pricing is on copysignals.io, and anything outside the standard shape is a conversation rather than a published rate.
About the Author
Roman Onta is an Executive Director at SINGUARD. He builds the Prop Firm CRM, the Broker CRM, Scalegram and CopySignals side by side with his brother Alex Onta, and he helped on the design of eTrader, the division Alex built and leads. His ground is worldwide payment processing, AML compliance and the corporate structures brokers are built on, work the two of them carry together, shaped by executive roles in the UAE and international corporates. He lives and works in Dubai for most of the year. Meet the executive duo leading Singuard's five divisions.