Short answer: there is no single price, because the software and the historical data are separate purchases. As displayed on the vendor's own store on 17 August 2026, the software with free Basic data is a one-time ₹5,599, and the data tier most people actually want costs up to ₹22,999 more.
| Package | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Software + Basic data | ₹5,599 one-time | 25 years, 18 symbols, medium quality, monthly updates |
| Software + Super Data (monthly) | ₹6,599 / month | 860 symbols, tick data, floating spread, daily updates |
| Software + Super Data (annual) | ₹12,649 / year | As above |
| Software + Super Data (lifetime) | ₹22,999 one-time | As above |
Search this question and you will find figures from $139 to $499, none of which agree. There are three reasons, and all of them are avoidable if you go to the store.
The practical advice: treat every price in every review — including this one — as a dated observation rather than a fact. This page states its date so you can judge how stale it has become.
The gap between Basic and Super is the whole decision, and it is worth more thought than the software price.
| Basic data (free with software) | Super Data (paid separately) | |
|---|---|---|
| Symbols | 18 | 860 |
| Quality | Medium | Tick level |
| Spread | Not modelled | Floating |
| Updates | Monthly | Daily |
| History | 25 years | 25 years |
You need Super Data if your strategy targets under about ten pips, where spread genuinely decides the outcome; if you trade equities, commodities or exotic pairs outside the 18 basic symbols; or if you are testing automated systems where execution precision compounds across thousands of trades.
Basic data is enough if you trade major pairs with stops wider than about twenty pips and you are practising discretionary decisions rather than validating a scalping edge.
How much does resolution actually matter? Measured across 1,911,141 EURUSD one-minute bars, a symmetric 40-pip bracket produced just 3 ambiguous bars in five years, against 16.45% of bars at a 5-pip bracket. The full study is here. If your stops are wide, paying for tick data buys you very little.
A specific warning, because the pricing structure punishes the obvious choice.
| Billing | Cost per year | vs lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly (₹6,599) | ₹79,188 | 3.4× the lifetime price every year |
| Annual (₹12,649) | ₹12,649 | Pays for itself vs lifetime in ~1.8 years |
| Lifetime (₹22,999) | — | One payment |
Monthly billing costs more in four months than the annual tier costs for twelve. If you have decided you need Super Data, buy lifetime, or annual if you want to stay flexible. The monthly option only makes sense for a single short project.
Separating the cost question from the value question, since they get conflated.
At ₹5,599 for the software with Basic data, Forex Tester is reasonably priced for what it is: a capable desktop backtester that does both manual and automated testing, which almost nothing else manages. It scores highest in our comparison largely for that reason.
At ₹28,598 with lifetime Super Data, it is a serious purchase that should follow a specific, identified need — tick-level accuracy, spread modelling, or symbol coverage — rather than a general sense that better software would help.
The pattern worth noticing: backtesting software is among the most commonly bought and least used tools in retail trading, and the reason is almost always that it was purchased before the habit it supports existed. FXAbsolute lets you establish that habit free first — 28,412,683 one-minute bars across 15 instruments, no account, no install, running on macOS and phones where Forex Tester does not.
Its honest limits are exactly the reasons to eventually buy Forex Tester: no spread modelling, no automation, five years of history rather than twenty-five, and 15 instruments rather than 860.
As displayed on forextester.com on 17 August 2026 in Indian pricing: the software with free Basic data is a one-time purchase of about Rs 5,599. Super Data is a separate purchase at roughly Rs 6,599 monthly, Rs 12,649 annually, or Rs 22,999 for lifetime access. There is no single price because software and data are sold separately.
The software is a one-time purchase and includes free Basic data covering 18 symbols. Super Data — 860 symbols with tick data and floating spread — can be bought as a lifetime licence for a one-time fee, or rented monthly or annually. So it can be entirely one-time, but only if you buy the lifetime data tier or stay on Basic.
Basic data comes free with the software and covers 18 symbols with 25 years of medium-quality history and monthly updates. Super Data covers 860 symbols with tick-level data, floating spread and daily updates. Tick data and spread modelling are the features that genuinely justify the extra cost, and they matter most for strategies with tight stops.
There is a time-limited trial, and the paid software includes free Basic data, but there is no permanently free full version. For a genuinely free alternative, FXAbsolute runs in a browser with no account and no payment, offering 28,412,683 one-minute bars across 15 instruments from 2021 to 2026.
Three reasons: they quote only the software while omitting that data is a separate purchase, they quote a sale price that was never updated, or they quote a different region since the store displays in local currency. Figures between $139 and $499 circulate widely and none of them describe a complete current setup.
Not monthly. At roughly Rs 6,599 per month, monthly billing costs about Rs 79,188 per year — more in four months than the annual tier costs in twelve, and over three times the lifetime price every year. Buy lifetime if you are committed, or annual if you want flexibility.
FXAbsolute gives unlimited practice on five years of real one-minute data — free, no account, no download, no card.
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