What Hexgo actually costs to run for a month

Almost every automated trading product in this category is quoted at one number and paid for at another. The subscription is the headline; the platform licence, the market data and the server that has to stay awake are the parts you discover in week one. So the only cost question worth asking is the all-in one.

For Hexgo the answer is unusual enough to be the reason this article exists: the quoted number and the all-in number are the same.

The subscription

$49/mo, against a $97 list price. Longer commitments are cheaper: $87 for 3 months · $233 for a year. Divide those out and the annual is roughly $19.42 a month and the quarterly about $29 — that is our arithmetic on the published figures, not a price the vendor quotes in those words.

None of that is remarkable. Every subscription discounts the annual. What matters is the next three lines.

The three lines that usually appear and do not here

• The platform licence. NinjaTrader’s free tier does not run automated strategies, so a NinjaTrader-based system normally requires a lease or an outright licence before a single order can be placed automatically. Hexgo runs on the free tier. That line is $0.
• The server. A strategy running on your own desktop stops when your machine sleeps, your Wi-Fi drops or Windows decides to update, which is why a VPS is the standard second bill in this category. Hexgo executes on the vendor’s servers. That line is $0 too, and it is the reason nothing has to be left switched on at home.
• Market data. Bundled with the broker connection rather than billed separately by the product.

Which leaves $49/mo — no platform lease, no VPS. The whole point of the phrase “all-in” is that it survives contact with the first invoice.

What genuinely is extra

Broker commissions. Charged per contract, by your broker, on every futures system in existence. They are real money and they scale with how much the strategy trades.

We have deliberately not put a number on them. Commission schedules vary by broker, by account tier and by whether you are trading full-size or micro contracts, and an invented average would be exactly the kind of made-up figure this site exists to avoid. Get the number from your own broker’s schedule before you size the position, not after.

The capital. $500 is the vendor’s recommended starting point, and it is worth being clear that this is not a cost. It is capital: it stays in your account, it is yours, and you can withdraw it. It belongs in the month-one budget because you need it available, not because it is spent.

The refund window is not a cost, but it belongs here

7-day money-back guarantee. That changes what month one risks: if it does not install, does not connect to your broker, or does not do what the sales page says, the subscription is recoverable inside the window.

What seven days will not tell you is whether the strategy has an edge. A week of index futures is noise — a system can be up or down over that span for reasons that have nothing to do with whether it works. Use the window to test the checkable things, and read what to know before you buy for why that distinction matters more than it sounds.