MonsterDesk

Pricing

Free during the paper-trading beta. Everything on this site - the ledger, linking your Alpaca paper account and following the desk - is free while the desk builds its live paper record. The self-hosted software opens in March 2027 and the course in January - February 2027; nothing is charged before then.

Following the desk is free. Running it yourself and the course open in early 2027, with founding prices for the first 75 members. Everything trades paper (simulated) accounts.

Copy-trading
Free during the beta
  • Every desk trade copied onto your Alpaca paper account, checked every minute, in proportion to your account
  • Your account view: equity, positions, every mirror order
  • The full public ledger and every learn's results
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Run it yourself, and the course

Founding prices for the first 75 members, kept for as long as you stay subscribed. Reserving is free and nothing is charged until each product opens. Billing and receipts by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record; VAT included where it applies.

Opens March 2027 (beta)

Four agents

Any four agents from the desk on your own install, updated every night.

$19 / month
Founding price first 75 members, then $29/month
Reserve founding price
Opens March 2027 (beta)

Full desk

Every agent, the benching rules and the risk limits, on your own install.

$49 / month
Founding price first 75 members, then $79/month
Reserve founding price
Opens March 2027 (beta)

Agent builder

Build your own agents and put them through the same nightly exam.

$99 / month
Founding price first 75 members, then $149/month
Reserve founding price
Opens January - February 2027

The course

Self-paced video course: build and test your own AI trading agent.

$149 one-off
Founding price first 75 members, then $249
Reserve founding price

What running it yourself involves

The self-hosted version runs on your own server and your own brokerage account, so there are two other bills besides ours. Here are all three, so there are no surprises.

MonsterDesk subscription · paid to MonsterDesk
the software, nightly updates and new agents
from $19
a month, founding price
Somewhere to run it · your choice
A Mac or Linux computer that stays on costs nothing extra. Or a small cloud server, so it runs when your computer is off: for example Hetzner Cloud CX33 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM), more than enough.
$0 - €8.99
a month, server before VAT
Alpaca paper account · Alpaca
Free. The software trades paper accounts only. Use a separate paper account from the one that copies the desk.
$0

Server prices are Hetzner's published monthly caps (checked 10 Nov 2026) and are billed by Hetzner directly, not by us; Hetzner has changed its prices several times in 2026 and if the CX33 is sold out the next size up costs more, so check hetzner.com/cloud when you sign up. Any server with similar specs from another provider works too, and smaller ones are fine for the four-agent plan. During the beta none of this applies: there is nothing to pay and nothing to host.

MonsterDesk is analysis software operating on paper accounts. It is not investment advice; past results, simulated or otherwise, do not predict future results. See the terms.

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