Tradoshi vs TradeZella

The comparison at a glance

Thirteen lines to decide fast. Everything is detailed below, with sources.

1. The customer offer, plan by plan

Both publishers' three plans, with what each one actually unlocks. Prices are the ones shown on both pricing pages on the day of the survey.

Every price on this page is in dollars, on both sides, and no exchange rate is applied. Their annual discount is 25%, ours charges ten months out of twelve.

The costliest line is not the headline price, it is the single account on TradeZella's entry plan. A trader following two accounts, or running a prop firm evaluation alongside a personal account, cannot stay at $35: they must move up to $59, which is $708 a year. With us, three accounts are included from $19.99.

2. The partner offer, in months of revenue

On its partners page, TradeZella's headline reads: “Earn up to 30% commission for a full year”. Its FAQ repeats it: “you'll earn 30% of the revenue for the first 12 months for every customer who signs up using your link”.

The grid published right below says something else. The starting tier, “Base”, has no commission cell at all: until you bring in a paying customer, you earn nothing. And the 30% only unlocks at ten paying customers. Below that it is 20% for six months, then nothing, permanently.

Comparing two percentages means nothing while the durations differ. The honest unit is months of the referred customer's revenue: it neutralises both the product price and the commission duration. Read it as: for a customer who stays N months, the partner has earned the equivalent of X months of that customer's revenue.

A note on the Gold tier: TradeZella's grid shows “30% for 12 months + 10% lifetime”, while its own FAQ describes that tier as “10% lifetime commission”. Both wordings sit on the same page. We used the reading most favourable to TradeZella, the one from the grid.

For a partner bringing in fewer than ten customers, which is the vast majority of creators and educators, TradeZella pays the equivalent of 1.20 months of that customer's revenue, then stops for good. Tradoshi pays 0.15 month every month, with no end: the two draw level in month 8 and Tradoshi is ahead from month 9, and the gap never closes again. After three years the same customer has produced 1.20 months with them and 5.40 with us.

Other terms recorded on their side: a 60-day cookie, payouts through PayPal or Wise, net 45 days after month end, and commissions that stop if the customer is refunded. On our side, the commission lands on every payment collected, for as long as the customer stays subscribed.

3. Mentoring, and who pays for whom

On TradeZella's grid, the “Mentor Mode” row reads Join on the entry plan and Invite & join from Pro upward. In plain terms: on the $35 plan you can join someone else's space, but you cannot invite your student. To be the mentor, you need the Pro plan at $59 per month. The $99 Ultra plan is the only one that says “unlimited”, which implies a cap on Pro, a cap published nowhere.

At Tradoshi the billing runs the other way: the mentor account is free. The student is the subscriber, from the Pro plan up, and they invite their mentor, who pays nothing to follow them.

This one detail decides an entire channel. An educator following thirty students pays $708 a year at TradeZella for the sole right to watch them trade, on top of what their students already pay. With us they pay zero. No training organisation charges its teachers for the right to mark papers, and that is exactly what they are asked to do elsewhere.

How mentoring works at Tradoshi · The offer for educators and schools

4. The full comparison, feature by feature

Every line comes from both public pricing pages, read on the same day. Nothing is pulled from a help centre on one side and a grid on the other: on unequal evidence, a comparison stops being honest. “Absent from the grid” means exactly that, not “does not exist”.

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5. What we concede to TradeZella

A comparison won on every single line is not a comparison, it is an advert. Here are the points where TradeZella is ahead, with nothing taken off.

The verdict

Both products journal, analyse and sync your broker equally well: on that foundation there is no winner, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something. The choice comes down to three questions. What are you trying to fix? If it is second-level execution, their replay is better. If it is discipline and risk, everything that acts before and during the trade sits here. How many accounts do you follow? Past one, their entry plan no longer covers you and the price gap doubles. Is someone coaching you? If you have a mentor or a school, the free mentor account changes the maths for them as much as for you.

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