AI Trading Bot & Forex Robot Pricing Plans for South Africa

Every time you generate, debug, or refine a Pine Script trading bot on PineGen AI, it draws from your monthly credit balance. The exact number depends on the complexity of the request, whether it's a simple indicator tweak or a full multi-condition forex strategy. Your balance refreshes automatically at the start of each billing cycle based on your plan, so you always know exactly what you have available before starting a new strategy or debugging session.

Yes. The Basic plan gives you 5 credits and 1 chat thread per month at absolutely no cost, and you don't need to enter a credit card to get started. It's designed as a genuine, no-risk way for South African traders to experience AI-powered Pine Script and trading bot generation firsthand. Build a simple strategy, test how the tool works with TradingView, and decide for yourself whether it's worth upgrading before spending a cent.

Moving from Basic to Pro is a significant step up in both capacity and capability. Your monthly credits jump from 5 to 50, and your available chat threads increase from 1 to 5, giving you far more room to build and test multiple algo trading strategies side by side. Pro also unlocks AI-powered code explanation and debugging, priority support access, and the ability to buy extra credits whenever you need them. All of this makes it the natural upgrade for traders who are generating and refining trading bot strategies on a regular basis rather than just experimenting occasionally.

Business is built for scale. You get 200 credits and 20 chat threads every month, along with premium, top-priority support. This setup is designed specifically for trading professionals, teams, and firms who are running several forex robots or algorithmic trading strategies simultaneously and need the workspace and credit capacity to match. If you're managing multiple live strategies at once rather than working on one at a time, Business gives you the headroom Pro doesn't.

You have two options. You can simply wait for your credit balance to refresh automatically at the start of your next billing cycle, at no extra cost. Alternatively, if you're on the Pro or Business plan, you can purchase additional credits at any point during the month, so a busy stretch of strategy building or debugging never has to bring your workflow to a halt.

Your account dashboard includes a dedicated "Credit History" section that breaks down exactly how many credits you've spent, and on which specific trading bot or Pine Script strategy. This lets you keep track of where your usage is going, spot which strategies are costing you the most credits to refine, and plan your usage more effectively across the month.

The Prompt Builder is a guided, step-by-step tool that walks you through structuring your trading strategy properly before you submit it, covering entry rules, exit rules, and risk parameters in a clear, organised way. Because PineGen AI receives a well-structured, complete prompt from the outset, it's far more likely to generate accurate Pine Script code for your trading bot on the very first try, saving you rounds of back-and-forth refinement. Best of all, no coding experience is required to use it.

Yes, that's exactly what it's built for. PineGen AI is purpose-built as a TradingView Pine Script AI generator, not a general-purpose coding assistant adapted for the job. Simply describe your forex or algo trading strategy in plain English, including your indicators, entry and exit logic, and risk settings, and PineGen AI converts that description directly into ready-to-use Pine Script code you can paste straight into TradingView's Pine Editor.

Yes. On the Pro and Business plans, PineGen AI's AI-powered code explanation and debugging feature lets you paste in existing Pine Script, whether it's your own or code from elsewhere, and have PineGen AI review it, explain in plain language what each part of the logic does, and automatically identify and fix errors, so you're not stuck manually tracing syntax issues line by line.

Yes, PineGen AI goes well beyond single indicators. On the Pro and Business plans, it supports full trading bot and strategy generation, including multi-indicator logic that combines several signals together, multi-timeframe rules that let your strategy reference more than one chart interval, and proper risk management parameters. That gives you a complete, tradeable strategy rather than just a standalone indicator you'd still need to build logic around.

No, and that's really the whole point of the platform. PineGen AI is specifically designed so that South African traders, regardless of technical background, can build full algorithmic trading strategies and trading bots simply by describing what they want in natural, everyday language. You don't need Python, you don't need to already know Pine Script's syntax, and you don't need any prior coding background at all to get a working strategy out the other end.

The core difference comes down to ownership and flexibility. Pre-built bot marketplaces such as 3Commas or Pionex sell you ready-made bots running fixed, pre-set logic that you can only adjust within their limits. PineGen AI takes a fundamentally different approach: it generates custom Pine Script code for your own TradingView strategy, based on your own ideas, which means you actually own the underlying logic and can keep refining it with unlimited AI chat on paid plans, rather than being boxed into someone else's template.

PineGen AI's output is Pine Script written for TradingView, so it doesn't generate MT4/5 EA code directly. That said, a good number of South African traders still find real value in using it this way. They use PineGen AI to design, describe, and backtest the core entry, exit, and risk logic behind their Deriv bot or EA idea on TradingView first, proving out whether the strategy actually works, before manually adapting that proven logic to MT4/5 or their platform of choice.

In many ways, yes, particularly if you want control over your own logic. A pre-built forex robot typically applies the same fixed, one-size-fits-all strategy to every user who buys it, with little room to adjust the underlying rules. PineGen AI flips that model: you describe your own strategy idea in plain English, and it generates custom Pine Script code that's entirely yours to control, adjust, and refine. Instead of trusting someone else's locked trading logic, you're building and owning your own.

Yes, cancellation is straightforward and entirely in your hands. You can cancel directly from your account settings in just a few clicks, with no need to contact support or go through a lengthy process. Your plan and its full features stay active until the end of your current billing period, so you don't lose access early, and if you change your mind later, you're free to resubscribe at any time.

Yes. All PineGen AI plans are billed in USD across every region, including South Africa. There's no separate ZAR pricing tier. When you subscribe, your card issuer or payment provider handles the currency conversion automatically at checkout, converting the USD charge into ZAR at their prevailing exchange rate, the same way most international subscription services work for South African customers.