kappi vs Trademetria: What Does a Free Journal Tier Actually Cost?

	kappi	Trademetria
Price	$15/month ($12.75 via a referral link)	$19.95/mo
Free tier	None, deliberately	Yes — capped at 30 orders/month
Top tier	$15/month is the only tier	Pro at $29.95/month
What the record proves	You called it in advance	What you entered about your trades
Cost to mint a fake record	$15/month, and it still cannot be backdated	$0 on the free tier
Feature tiers	One tier, everything included	Free / paid / Pro

What does Trademetria's free tier give you?

Thirty orders a month, which is about 1.4 orders per trading day across a 21-day month. For a swing trader placing a handful of positions that is a genuinely usable product at $0, and the paid plan at $19.95/mo^[1] sits below kappi's own price band. Their Pro tier is $29.95.

A capped free tier is a sensible way to sell a journal, because a journal's value scales with how much of your own history is in it. The cap is the upsell and it is honest about being one.

Why does kappi refuse to do the same?

Because the two products are sold to different readers. A journal is read by its author, so a free tier costs the vendor some storage. A record is read by a sceptic, and what a sceptic is actually measuring — whether they can articulate it or not — is how much it would cost to fake the thing they are looking at.

Make the account free and the answer is nothing. A thousand accounts, a thousand strategies, a handful that survive by chance, and the survivors get shown to you. Charging $15 a month does not make a trader honest, but it does make a farm of disposable identities cost real money, and it means the person on the other end of the record has something to lose.

The other half is who arrives. Free tiers fill with people testing whether the thing works. Committing a trade in advance, in public, where you cannot revise it, is an uncomfortable act, and the population willing to pay to do it is not the population looking for a free scoreboard.

Does paying make a record true?

No, and it would be a bad argument if that were the claim. Price raises the cost of manufacturing a record; it is the seal that makes the record mean something. A commit is sealed before the fact and released on a time-capsuled delay.

Every sealed commit is hashed into a Merkle tree and anchored to Hedera, so the log is append-only and independently checkable.

Both matter. Without the seal, a paid record is just an expensive journal. Without the price, a sealed record is cheap to mass-produce until one of the copies looks like a genius.

When should you pick Trademetria?

When you want a journal and you want to try it before paying. Thirty orders a month is enough to find out whether the workflow suits you, and $19.95/mo is below what kappi's nearest rivals charge. If proof is not the requirement, a free evaluation is strictly better than no evaluation.

When should you pick kappi?

When the record is going to be shown to someone who has been lied to before. $15 a month, $12.75 through a referral link, and no free tier. Of the 17 track-record and journal services surveyed on 2026-08-15, none combined all three: capture that works with any brokerage or your own journal, a seal whose opening time you choose, and a proof anchored in public so it can be checked without the platform's cooperation.