Does TradeZella have a free trial? No. Here's what you can get instead
No. TradeZella has no free trial and no free plan, and its terms say every payment is final. What it does have is 25% off for paying yearly, 20% coupon codes that come from its partners, and a monthly plan you can cancel. Here's what each one costs, how to try it for as little as possible, and free journals to try first.
The short version
There's no way to try TradeZella for free. The cheapest way in is one month of Essential at $35, paid monthly and cancelled before it renews, because a payment can't be refunded. Only pay yearly, for 25% off, once you know you'll keep using it. If you mainly want to find out what your mistakes cost before paying anyone, Actal is free while in beta.
- You'll use trade replay and backtesting every week
- You want broker auto-sync and AI reports
- You've kept a journal before and know what you want from one
- $35 to $99 a month is fine for you
- You want to try journaling before paying for it
- You want every trade graded on how well you followed your plan
- You want to see what each mistake has cost you in dollars
- You trade more than one account and don't want to pay $59 a month for Pro
The short answer
| Question | Answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial? | No | None on the pricing page or in the help center |
| Free plan? | No | Every plan is paid, from $35 a month |
| Refunds? | No | Terms of service: all payments are final and non-refundable |
| Yearly discount? | 25% off | Pricing page |
| Coupon codes? | 20% off, handed out by TradeZella partners | Help center, Partner Program article |
Is there a TradeZella free trial?
Not as of November 2026. Each plan on the pricing page has a Get Started button and no trial, the help center has no article about one, and there's no free plan to fall back on. If you read about a trial somewhere else, check it against the pricing page before you count on it.
The closest thing to a trial is one month of Essential: $35, cancelled before it renews. You cancel from Settings, under Subscription, and the plan stays active until the end of the month you paid for. TradeZella's terms put it on you to cancel in time and to confirm the cancellation went through.
Essential connects one active account and its pricing page lists no trade replay. If replay or several accounts are the reason you want TradeZella, the month to test is Pro at $59.
Does TradeZella give refunds?
No. Its terms of service say it has a no refund policy after sign-up and that all payments are final. Downgrading doesn't give money back either: the help center says a downgrade takes effect immediately and doesn't start a refund.
That makes the yearly plan a bigger decision than it looks. $315 for Essential, $531 for Pro or $891 for Ultra is spent the day you pay, whether you use it for a week or a year. Pay monthly until you know.
TradeZella discount codes and coupons
Two discounts are real, and both are on TradeZella's own site:
- Paying yearly takes 25% off. Essential is $26 a month instead of $35, Pro $44 instead of $59 and Ultra $74 instead of $99, billed once a year.
- Partner codes take 20% off. TradeZella's Partner Program gives a personalized 20% coupon code to partners who have referred 10 paying customers, to hand out to their audience. If a trading creator you follow has a TradeZella code, that's where it comes from. You enter it at checkout, and the help center says the discount carries into renewals as long as the code is still valid.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly, per month | Yearly total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | $35 | $26 | $315 |
| Pro | $59 | $44 | $531 |
| Ultra | $99 | $74 | $891 |
TradeZella doesn't say whether a partner code works on top of the yearly price or which plans it covers. The checkout shows the final price before you pay, so look there.
If you subscribed before July 14, 2026, you keep your old price for as long as your plan stays exactly as it is. Upgrading, downgrading, switching to yearly, or cancelling and coming back all move you to the current prices, according to the help center.
Can you get TradeZella for free?
Only by referring people. In the Partner Program, referring one paying customer earns you a free month of TradeZella, and referring 100 earns a free lifetime account. There's no free version for traders who just want to use it.
Free journals to try first
If the point of a trial was to find out whether a journal helps you, you can find that out without paying anyone:
| Journal | What's free | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Actal | Everything, while in beta | Futures, forex, stocks and options, graded on how well you followed your plan |
| TradesViz | Basic plan: stocks only, 3,000 executions a month, one account | Stock traders |
| Tradervue | 30 trades a month, according to its help center | A few trades a week |
| Google Sheets template | All of it, but you type every trade | Anyone who'd rather keep a spreadsheet |
More in free TradeZella alternatives, and every plan and feature in TradeZella pricing.
Actal is the one I built, so weigh that. It has no replay, backtesting or AI. It checks every trade against your own rules, grades it on how well you followed your plan and puts a dollar cost on each mistake. If that's what you wanted TradeZella for, try it before paying $35 a month.
Who wrote this
I'm Joakim. I trade index futures full time and coach traders at Jusell Trading Academy. Students ask me which journal to pay for, and my answer is usually to start free and pay once you know what you're missing. I built Actal, so keep that in mind, but every TradeZella fact here comes from TradeZella's own pages on 2 November 2026.
Questions people ask
Drop in one export. In a minute Actal grades the trades it can, prices the mistakes you tagged, and tells you the first thing to fix. Free during beta, no card.
Full-time index futures trader. Coaches traders one-on-one at Jusell Trading Academy, five students at a time, since 2020. No platform was built for developing traders, so he had his own coaching software built; old students loved it and kept coming back, and Actal is that software turned into a proper journal for what matters.