Unusual Whales pricing: choose the correct product
Unusual Whales separates Dashboard & Tools from API access. The official pricing pages checked October 20, 2026 list a delayed free dashboard and paid retail plans; API access has its own pricing. Compare the product, billing period and data rights before comparing the monthly number.
Key Takeaways
- Compare Dashboard & Tools, API and bundles as separate products.
- Annual equivalents do not mean monthly billing.
- Delayed free access can help evaluate a workflow; it cannot prove live performance.
Dashboard prices observed on the official page
The displayed monthly prices are Retail Basic $50, Retail Pro $75 and Retail Max $120. The annual options shown are $504, $756 and $1,224 paid for twelve months, equivalent to $42, $63 and $102 per month. These are observed USD list prices, not a checkout quote or a promise that offers will remain unchanged.
Free access and live data are different
The free dashboard lists options flow delayed by two trading days, news by fifteen minutes and alerts by thirty minutes. Paid dashboard plans list live data. Assess fields and navigation with delayed data; that exercise cannot measure live delivery latency or prove a profitable trading workflow.
API costs belong in a separate budget
The API product page shows Basic at $150 monthly and Advanced at $375 monthly, plus a seven-day trial for new API subscribers. API plans do not include website or mobile access; a bundle is a separate option. Confirm endpoint and streaming access rather than treating a higher dashboard tier as an API license.
Read the renewal and usage terms
The official page describes upfront annual billing, automatic renewal and cancellation of future renewals. It states that sales are final. Check the exact checkout terms, trial conversion date and permitted use before subscribing. Commercial redistribution requires a separate licensing assessment.
Compare cost against a declared task
List the fields, update timing, saved filters, history and exports your task requires. Test one representative query and document any missing requirement. There is no defensible rule that a particular number of monthly trades makes a subscription profitable. For an annual plan, compare the total commitment with twelve monthly payments and your likely period of use.
Pineify is not unlimited free Market Insights
Full Pineify Market Insights currently requires an eligible Expert-or-higher account, with masked previews possible below that level. Public calculators and subscription research features are different products. Review the current Pineify pricing and app access; this page does not claim equal coverage, a guaranteed saving or a direct transfer of flow data into Pine.
Pineify publishes this comparison as a separate product provider. It is based on documentation and the current Pineify implementation, not a live trading or latency benchmark. Market observations and model outputs do not establish participant intent or future returns.