The free-versus-paid question between GoldHunts and Tradezella is unusually clean because there is no overlap in tier structure. GoldHunts provides the gold trade journal, MetaTrader 5 synchronisation, session and setup analytics, the public gold signal ledger and the daily macro pulse at no cost, with no trade cap and no card required. Tradezella listed paid plans only, from $35 per month, on its public pricing page checked 22 August 2026.
What the free tier excludes is scope rather than features held behind a paywall: no equities, options, futures or crypto journaling, and no backtesting replay at any price. A trader whose risk is spread across asset classes gets a partial picture from GoldHunts, and a partial picture is worse than a complete one they paid for.
For a trader still establishing whether a gold edge exists, the cost framing matters. On a $5,000 account, ninety days of Essential is 05 or 2.1% of capital, Pro is 77 or 3.5%, and Ultra is $297 or 5.9% — capital withdrawn from the account that is supposed to be proving the strategy. Paying becomes the right call once the edge is verified, once more than roughly a quarter of risk sits outside gold, or once replay backtesting and multi-account reconciliation are genuinely needed.