Pricing
The engine is free. You pay when the work has to leave your laptop.
Everything that computes a number is open source and always will be. What costs money is that the work persists, reaches the person who has to act on it, and adds up into something your investors can be shown.
Open source
It computesThe whole engine, on your machine, offline. No account, no key, no network call on import.
- Every statistic, test and correction
- Parameter sweeps, with the trial count derived
- Study files on your own disk
- Runs with the wifi off
Solo
It persistsOne person, one seat, one job — a quant OR a PM. Your runs, studies and decisions stop living in a notebook.
- Everything in Open source
- Runs and studies persist, captured as you work
- Theses, decision journal, monitors
- Your own track record and calibration
Pod
It crosses to someone elseThe moment a quant AND a PM are both involved, there is a handoff — and a handoff is a pod. Several sleeves, one record.
- Everything in Solo
- Quant to PM handoff, and the surface to judge it
- Assignments, shared universe, data connectors
- Ranked signal files out to your own systems
Fund
It adds up over timeFor a CIO over more than one sleeve, and the committee behind them. Where the periods and the evidence live.
- Everything in Pod
- Sleeves, capital allocation, risk budgets
- The close: review packet, letter, attribution
- Committee packet, countersignature, diligence export
Billed monthly, cancel any time. Two months free on an annual term. Access is provisioned by us today, so a paid plan starts with a short conversation rather than a card form.
What we will not do
We never charge for rigour.
There is one common way to ruin an open core, and it is to put the features a person needs to do good work behind the paywall. Every statistic, every correction for how many things you tried, every control that lets the system tell you your idea does not hold up, is in the free tier permanently.
Never gated
The maths, the tests, the trial counting, and every honest degradation. If the system knows a number is weak, it says so at every tier.
Gated on people
Seats, handoffs, and anything that involves a second person reading your work.
Gated on time
Periods, closes, packets and retention. The things that only mean anything once months have passed.
In detail
What is in each plan.
| Feature | Open source | Solo | Pod | Fund |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The engine | ||||
| Every statistic, test and correction | • | • | • | • |
| Parameter sweep, trial count derived | • | • | • | • |
| Study file, portable and versioned | • | • | • | • |
| Offline, no account required | • | • | • | • |
| Your data is never stored | • | • | • | • |
| It persists | ||||
| Runs captured as you work | — | • | • | • |
| Studies, kept and searchable | — | • | • | • |
| Theses and decision journal | — | • | • | • |
| Monitors on what would change your mind | — | • | • | • |
| Track record and conviction calibration | — | • | • | • |
| It crosses to someone else | ||||
| Seats | 1 | 1 (quant OR PM) | Up to 6, mixed types | Unlimited |
| Sleeves | — | 1 | Several | Several, across pods |
| Quant to PM handoff and evaluation | — | — | • | • |
| Assignments and shared universe | — | — | • | • |
| Data connectors | — | — | • | • |
| Ranked signal file export | — | — | • | • |
| It adds up over time | ||||
| Sleeves and capital allocation | — | — | — | • |
| Risk budgets across pods | — | — | — | • |
| Period close and review packet | — | — | — | • |
| Committee packet and countersignature | — | — | — | • |
| Diligence export, retention and audit | — | — | — | • |
| Single sign-on | — | — | — | • |
| Support | ||||
| Channel | Community | Named contact | ||
The full stored and never-stored line lives on the Trust page. Computational tooling, not investment advice.
Getting started
Install it first.
The honest order is that your quant runs the engine on your own data and forms a view, and then you pick a plan. Nothing on the free tier expires and none of it is a trial.
$ pip install alphaengine