One licence. Updates optional.
Backcast Labs is in early access and not on sale yet. This is the pricing we plan to launch with: one perpetual licence, three devices, every feature, and an optional update contract. Keep paying and you get every release; stop and you keep the version you have. Planned pricing can change before launch.
Backcast Labs
Perpetual licence
Three devices · 12 months of updates included
- Event-driven engine, unlimited bars & symbols
- Monte Carlo (1,000+ paths), walk-forward, deflated Sharpe
- The quant reviewer on your own data: all six plans, all four standing mandates
- Its research log kept across sessions and exported as CSV — the clear checks included
- Portfolio tests with shared capital & per-asset caps
- Your own exchange & broker API keys
- Strategy import: any Python strategy becomes a notebook, with a repainting audit
- Signed export to your execution platform
- Update contract after year 1 not included
Backcast Labs + updates
Perpetual licence with an update contract
Cancel anytime — you keep the last version you received
- Everything in Backcast Labs
- Every release: new validation methods, fill models, importers — and new reviewer plans and mandates as they ship
- Priority data-pack refreshes — new months within 48 hours
- Report reproducibility across engine versions
- Stop anytime and keep the version you have, forever
- Resume later and jump straight to the current release
Data packs
Optional history, bought once
Per market and period · no subscription exists
- Survivorship-bias-free: delisted symbols kept
- Gives the reviewer's cost re-price a real order book instead of a 20 bps model
- Corporate actions applied and documented
- Timestamps normalized to UTC with session metadata
- Signed SHA-256 manifest per pack
- Monthly refreshes, free while an update contract is active
- Not needed if your own keys cover your market
What the agent does, and where it sits
The reviewer is not an upsell. Every plan it runs, every standing mandate and every honest refusal is in the free guest notebook already — go and make it say no to you. What the planned licence adds is the same reviewer pointed at your own history, on your own machine, with its record kept between sessions.
| Capability | Free guest notebook | €299 licence | + €99 / yr updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| The same ✦ key in every cell rail, scoped to that cell | ✓ sample markets | ✓ your data | ✓ |
| Six analyst plans — real edge, luck, costs, which parameter, where it breaks, robustness | ✓ all six | ✓ all six | ✓ + new plans |
| Four standing mandates, working unasked on the clock | ✓ all four | ✓ all four | ✓ + new mandates |
| Its configurations counted on your multiple-testing bar | ✓ cell [7] | ✓ | ✓ |
| Research log with the clear checks kept, exported as CSV | ✓ this session | ✓ across sessions | ✓ |
| Refuses leverage and return promises out loud | ✓ always | ✓ always | ✓ always |
| Cost re-price against a real order book rather than a 20 bps model | ✗ marked Lab tier in the notebook | Tick data pack, from €149 | Refreshes included |
| Signed export & webhook, typeset PDF report | ✗ marked Desk tier in the notebook | ✓ included | ✓ included |
What “lifetime + optional updates” actually means
The licence is yours. The update contract only decides which versions you receive.
Buy
€299 planned. A perpetual licence for three devices and the current engine. Twelve months of updates are included.
Updates active
Every release lands in your account: v1.8.x fixes, v1.9 features, new data-pack refreshes. Nothing to do.
You stop paying
No renewal? Your licence stays valid. You keep the last version you received — say v1.9.4 — forever, on all three devices.
Resume, optional
Pay €99 for a new year and jump straight to the current release. No penalty, no back-payments.
This is a perpetual-fallback licence: the version you have keeps working. Planned pricing can change before launch.
What three years actually cost
Software plus one crypto tick data pack, on planned pricing, next to the shape of a typical subscription platform. We do not quote other companies' prices here.
| Cost line | Backcast Labs (lifetime + updates) | Backcast Labs (lifetime only) | Typical subscription platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | €299 (updates incl.) | €299 | Monthly or yearly fee |
| Year 2 | €99 | €0 | The same fee again |
| Year 3 | €99 | €0 | The same fee again |
| Data (one crypto tick pack) | €149 once | €149 once + refreshes | Often bundled, and only usable inside the platform |
| 3-year total | ≈ €646 | ≈ €486 (€299 + €149 + two €19 refreshes) | Grows every year you stay |
| Own it after 3 years? | ✓ yes, latest version | ✓ yes — the last release of your first 12 months | ✗ access ends when the fee stops |
| Strategies stored | Your disk | Your disk | Usually the vendor's cloud |
One-time, per market and period
Backcast Labs is planned without a data subscription. History is sold once, per market and period: survivorship-bias-free, corporate actions applied, timestamps normalized, SHA-256 checksummed. Refreshes are free while an update contract is active, otherwise €19 per refresh.