Plans and how you get charged

Here is the simple idea: you pay for the paid work Atlas does, not for every click. Two limits matter.

1. Your monthly requests

Every account gets a set number of paid requests each month. This is the number you watch go down in your Profile.

The alert number is how many alerts can be on at the same time. A paused or deleted alert does not count. Your Profile always shows your own numbers.

Check yours anytime:

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What uses one request

The simple rule: you pay for each thing Atlas does for you, not for each time it looks. A run that looks at the market and decides to do nothing is always free. You use one request each time Atlas:

• Fetches something for you. A quote, a chart, an options chain, a gamma exposure map, company numbers, a web search, a look at your broker account: each is one request. A few of them in the same message still count as one, not three.
• Opens a trade or sends a note. When a workflow acts, by placing a trade, sending you a buy or sell note, or sending an analysis note, that is one request.
• Changes a live trade. While a trade is running, Atlas can step back in and change it, like moving your take profit targets up or closing the rest early. Each real change is one request. If it looks and leaves the trade alone, it costs nothing.
• Sends you an alert. An alert uses one request the first time it goes off each day. Going off again the same day is free.
• Takes a play nobody is paying for. Taking a play from the community board, or from a public group, is one request, and only if the order reaches your broker. See Signals.
• Talks with you. Voice uses one request for each ten minutes of speaking in a day.

So one trade is not always one request. A trade that Atlas opens and later adjusts twice uses three requests: one to open it, and one for each change. You pay for the work, whether it is a brand new trade or an update to one you already have.

What is free

Working on your own setups never touches your count: making, changing, reading, sharing and deleting workflows, strategies, folders, plays and alerts, looking at your triggers, previewing an order before you place it, your results and your activity, your memory, and this guide.

Anything that fetches market data is not free. Quotes, price history, every chart, the options chain, company numbers, estimates and calendars each use a request, from a chat app, the Web API and the command line alike. So does reading your broker account, a web search, placing an order and setting up a trigger. The tool tables mark each tool Free or Premium; a Premium tool is one that uses a request.

2. Trades per day

On top of your monthly requests, each workflow has a max trades per day limit. This one is about pacing your account, not cost.

• It counts new trades opened. A run that opens no trade does not use a slot, and changing a trade you already have does not either.
• When it hits the limit, the workflow pauses until the next trading day.
• Running it by hand does not count. The limit is only for automatic runs.
• Each copy has its own limit. Your copy runs on its own count, not the author's.

Putting it together

So an alert driven trading workflow that opens a trade uses one request and one of your daily trades. If Atlas later moves the take profit on that same trade, that is one more request (but not another daily trade). A run that looks and decides to do nothing uses neither.

Manage your plan from the Profile tab.