Traders Prism vs Tradecopia

What each one is for

Tradecopia is a futures trade copier. Its entry plan is a native desktop app for Windows and macOS running on your own machine; higher plans move it to managed hosting or a dedicated single-tenant VPS with a static IP. It copies between mixed brokers in a group, applies per-account risk profiles, and ships a journal and prop-firm tracker.

Traders Prism is a hosted copier with a journal and a prop-firm risk layer on one plan. There is no desktop app and no VPS — the copier runs on our infrastructure and holds the broker connections itself.

The differences that decide it

• What has to stay up. Ours is our servers. On their $49.99 plan it is your own machine — their documentation gives minimum requirements of 16GB of RAM, a modern CPU and a wired Ethernet connection. Always-on hosting is their $79.99 and $149.99 plans, and their pricing page offers the free trial on the desktop plan only.
• Sizing. They scale each follower to that account's balance. We offer a per-follower multiplier plus micro conversion by contract value, and no percent-of-equity mode. This one is theirs.
• Rules on by default. A preset applies to a follower as soon as it is attached, and a resolver shows which rules can actually fire. Their documentation states risk parameters must be explicitly enabled.
• News events. We can block entries around scheduled economic releases. No news-event lockout appears in their documentation.
• Prop-firm rules. We model six firms per phase and account size with live drawdown proximity, and call it monitoring rather than compliance. Their fine print states: "Compliance with each prop firm's specific rules remains your responsibility — Tradecopia provides the tooling, not a guarantee."
• Platforms. We connect Rithmic, Tradovate, NinjaTrader and Topstep's ProjectX API. Their FAQ and documentation list five: Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, TopstepX and TradingView.

Where Tradecopia wins

• Equity-based sizing to each account's balance — a capability we do not have.
• You can run the copier on hardware you control, including a dedicated VPS with a static IP.
• More rule types: symbol whitelists, weekly loss limits and trade-frequency caps.
• Roughly 87 help-centre articles against our twenty or so.
• TradingView execution, which we do not support at all.
• A cheaper entry price at $49.99 and a large published network of prop-firm partner discounts.

Pricing

Traders Prism: $79 a month or $853.20 a year. One plan, unlimited accounts, seven-day card-free trial, 14-day money-back guarantee, self-serve cancellation.

Tradecopia: $49.99 desktop, $79.99 managed hosting, $149.99 dedicated VPS, with quarterly discounts; unlimited follower accounts and groups on every plan. Seven-day card-free trial on the desktop plan only. Their terms state all purchases are final and non-refundable, with an exception only for first-time subscribers in exceptional circumstances; cancellation is self-serve at the end of the billing cycle.