CrossTrade vs Tradeus
Two platforms against our six, and one of theirs is NinjaTrader 8, which we do not reach. Their NinjaTrader path needs it running; our futures paths do not.
The only product on this list that reaches NinjaTrader 8, and the only one that hands you a REST API that places orders and an MCP server for an LLM. Neither exists here — our API only reads your accounts. What it does NOT reach is every platform beyond NinjaTrader 8 and Tradovate — two against our six — and on its NinjaTrader side the orders go through an add-on inside a copy of NinjaTrader you keep running. The comparison is almost entirely about which of those two facts describes your setup.
Side by side
Every row is what their own page says.
No row below is our opinion of CrossTrade. Each one links the page on their site it was read from, so you can check it rather than take it — and any row we could not source that way is not on this page at all.
| CrossTrade | ||
|---|---|---|
| Where the software runs | Both, depending on the platform. For Tradovate: “Link your account with a secure OAuth login. Nothing to install”, and “Orders go straight to Tradovate’s API. Nothing to install, nothing to keep open, no VPS.” For NinjaTrader 8: “Install the NT8 Add-On and connect your data feed”, and “Orders route through the CrossTrade NT8 Add-On inside your NinjaTrader install.”Source: CrossTrade's own page | Hosted for five of the six platforms we connect to, with nothing to install and nothing to keep running; on MetaTrader 5 our program runs in your own terminal, which has to stay open. On their Tradovate path this is a draw in plain terms; on their NinjaTrader path it is the difference between a machine that has to stay on and one that does not. |
| What can start a trade | Four ways. TradingView webhooks — “TradingView alerts become live orders on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate in about 30 milliseconds” — a trade copier, manual trading from TradingView, and two things with no counterpart here: a REST API, “when your own application should read account state and submit requests”, and an MCP server to “Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM”.Source: CrossTrade's own page | Two of the four: TradingView webhooks and a copier. Tradeus has a read-only account API — balances, status, fills — but nothing that places an order and nothing an LLM can drive, so if you intend to write code against your automation rather than configure it, they are the product that lets you and we are not. |
| Accounts, and what they cost | Uncounted, on every tier: “Unlimited alerts and accounts — trade how you want”, and “Connect unlimited accounts on every plan. Scaling up never raises your bill.”Source: CrossTrade's own page | The same, on every plan, and for the same stated reason. A draw — and the only other entry on this page that can say it. |
| Platforms it connects to | Two, and their own line names both: “One suite for NinjaTrader 8 desktop and Tradovate cloud accounts: TradingView webhooks, trade copying, account risk management, a trading journal, REST API access and AI trading tools.” Their documentation adds that orders reach those two and no others.Source: CrossTrade's own page | Six — Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com, MetaTrader 5 and Alpaca — so we are broader by count, and narrower where it matters most to a NinjaTrader user: NinjaTrader 8 is not on our list and is not planned. If your accounts are there, this row ends the comparison. |
| Limits that stop an account being breached | Advertised but not specified where we could read it. Their suite line includes “account risk management”, and the pricing table lists an “Account Manager” with “Unlimited Monitors” from the Pro tier up. What it measures, and what happens when a limit is crossed, is not stated on the pages linked here — so this row records what we could and could not source, not a finding.Source: CrossTrade's own page | A daily loss limit, a daily profit target, a cap on trades per session, and a drawdown limit that resets each session — not your firm’s drawdown, which nothing here tracks — plus one kill switch that halts every endpoint and copier and closes what is open across every connected account, where the broker allows it. Whether that is more or less than their Account Manager we cannot say from their pages, and would rather say so than guess. |
| Trial and price | Three tiers at “$29 … / month”, “$49 … / month” and “$99 … / month”, each shown beside a lower struck-through figure at the time of checking, with yearly billing at “$279 billed yearly”, “$469 billed yearly” and “$949 billed yearly”. “Every new account starts with a free 7-day trial”, and “You have the flexibility to cancel anytime. We do not provide refunds.”Source: CrossTrade's own page | Three plans, with a free trial on those that carry one. Current prices are on the pricing page — they live in the checkout, not in this repository, so that this page cannot quote a number the checkout would not charge. |
Where the software runs
CrossTrade
Both, depending on the platform. For Tradovate: “Link your account with a secure OAuth login. Nothing to install”, and “Orders go straight to Tradovate’s API. Nothing to install, nothing to keep open, no VPS.” For NinjaTrader 8: “Install the NT8 Add-On and connect your data feed”, and “Orders route through the CrossTrade NT8 Add-On inside your NinjaTrader install.”
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
Hosted for five of the six platforms we connect to, with nothing to install and nothing to keep running; on MetaTrader 5 our program runs in your own terminal, which has to stay open. On their Tradovate path this is a draw in plain terms; on their NinjaTrader path it is the difference between a machine that has to stay on and one that does not.
What can start a trade
CrossTrade
Four ways. TradingView webhooks — “TradingView alerts become live orders on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate in about 30 milliseconds” — a trade copier, manual trading from TradingView, and two things with no counterpart here: a REST API, “when your own application should read account state and submit requests”, and an MCP server to “Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM”.
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
Two of the four: TradingView webhooks and a copier. Tradeus has a read-only account API — balances, status, fills — but nothing that places an order and nothing an LLM can drive, so if you intend to write code against your automation rather than configure it, they are the product that lets you and we are not.
Accounts, and what they cost
CrossTrade
Uncounted, on every tier: “Unlimited alerts and accounts — trade how you want”, and “Connect unlimited accounts on every plan. Scaling up never raises your bill.”
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
The same, on every plan, and for the same stated reason. A draw — and the only other entry on this page that can say it.
Platforms it connects to
CrossTrade
Two, and their own line names both: “One suite for NinjaTrader 8 desktop and Tradovate cloud accounts: TradingView webhooks, trade copying, account risk management, a trading journal, REST API access and AI trading tools.” Their documentation adds that orders reach those two and no others.
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
Six — Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com, MetaTrader 5 and Alpaca — so we are broader by count, and narrower where it matters most to a NinjaTrader user: NinjaTrader 8 is not on our list and is not planned. If your accounts are there, this row ends the comparison.
Limits that stop an account being breached
CrossTrade
Advertised but not specified where we could read it. Their suite line includes “account risk management”, and the pricing table lists an “Account Manager” with “Unlimited Monitors” from the Pro tier up. What it measures, and what happens when a limit is crossed, is not stated on the pages linked here — so this row records what we could and could not source, not a finding.
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
A daily loss limit, a daily profit target, a cap on trades per session, and a drawdown limit that resets each session — not your firm’s drawdown, which nothing here tracks — plus one kill switch that halts every endpoint and copier and closes what is open across every connected account, where the broker allows it. Whether that is more or less than their Account Manager we cannot say from their pages, and would rather say so than guess.
Trial and price
CrossTrade
Three tiers at “$29 … / month”, “$49 … / month” and “$99 … / month”, each shown beside a lower struck-through figure at the time of checking, with yearly billing at “$279 billed yearly”, “$469 billed yearly” and “$949 billed yearly”. “Every new account starts with a free 7-day trial”, and “You have the flexibility to cancel anytime. We do not provide refunds.”
Source: CrossTrade's own pageTradeus
Three plans, with a free trial on those that carry one. Current prices are on the pricing page — they live in the checkout, not in this repository, so that this page cannot quote a number the checkout would not charge.
Checked against CrossTrade's own pages on 12 October 2026. Pricing, supported platforms and feature lists change — if a link above no longer says what the row says, the row is wrong and we want to know: tell us. CrossTrade is a trademark of its owner; Tradeus is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by them. How these comparisons are written.
About CrossTrade
CrossTrade is a webhook, copying and account-management suite built around two platforms: NinjaTrader 8 through an add-on installed inside it, and Tradovate through a hosted OAuth connection. It sells three monthly tiers, publishes a REST API, and ships an MCP server so a language model can drive it.
Tradeus is a hosted layer between a signal and a funded account. A TradingView alert arrives at an endpoint, a trade on one account is mirrored to the others, and each account carries daily limits of its own: when one is hit, the account locks and we send it no new entry until the lock ends. It runs on our machines: on Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker and Capital.com there is nothing to install and nothing of yours has to be awake, and a MetaTrader 5 account needs its own terminal running. It connects to Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, Capital.com and MetaTrader 5, which is what the prop firms our users trade with issue credentials for, and to Alpaca for US shares and crypto.
Which one
There is a case for each, and this is it.
Choose CrossTrade if
Your accounts are on NinjaTrader 8, or you want to write code against your automation rather than configure it. Both are decided on their side before any other row is read: we do not reach NinjaTrader at all, and our API reads accounts and places nothing. Their Tradovate path is also hosted, so on that platform alone the architectures are the same.
Choose Tradeus if
Your accounts are spread across brokers rather than concentrated on NinjaTrader and Tradovate, and you would rather nothing ran on a machine of yours. Six platforms against two, hosted for every one except MetaTrader 5, and one kill switch that reaches every connected account at once.
Questions
What people ask about CrossTrade and Tradeus.
Why does this page concede three rows?
Because they are true. CrossTrade reaches NinjaTrader 8, publishes a REST API that trades and ships an MCP server, and none of those three exists here — ours reads accounts and places nothing; the last two were checked against this repository before the row was written, not assumed. A comparison that found us ahead on everything would tell you only that we wrote it.
Why is the risk row blank on their side?
Because we could not source it. They advertise account risk management and an Account Manager, but no page we could open says what it measures or what it does when a limit is crossed. Writing “no drawdown control” would have turned a gap in our reading into a finding against them, in the row where we stand to gain — which is exactly the direction a comparison page has to be most careful in.
Keep comparing
The other 6, on the same terms.
Or run it against the table.
Every row above links the page it was read from. The one claim neither page can make for you is how it behaves on your own accounts.