generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://upstox.com/trading-api/
name: Upstox API plans and pricing
description: >-
  Upstox does not meter or charge for API access. The Trading API page states plainly that all trading
  and market-data APIs are free to use, and the FAQ on the same page repeats it ("Are all APIs free?
  Yes! All trading + data APIs are free of cost."). What the developer pays is brokerage per executed
  order, the same fee schedule as any other Upstox customer, with a promotional flat rate running until
  30 September 2026. A separate paid subscription, Upstox Plus, gates a small set of premium API
  capabilities — expired-instrument history and the enhanced WebSocket tier.
docs: https://upstox.com/brokerage-charges/
plans:
- name: Developer API access
  price: 0
  currency: INR
  billing_period: none
  included: >-
    Free access to the full trading and market-data API surface — orders (V2 and V3), portfolio, funds
    and margin, market quotes, historical and intraday candles, option chains, fundamentals, mutual
    funds, IPO, payments, news, market-information analytics and the WebSocket feeds.
  overage: none
  limits: >-
    Per-user, per-API rate limits apply (see rate-limits/upstox-rate-limits.yml) — 10 or 50 order
    requests/second depending on SEBI algo registration, 50/second for standard APIs.
  requires: An active, non-dormant Upstox trading account and a developer app created at account.upstox.com/developer/apps.
  source: https://upstox.com/trading-api/
- name: API order brokerage (promotional)
  price: 10
  currency: INR
  billing_period: per executed order
  included: >-
    "Build & execute setups at Rs.10/order" — the promotional per-order brokerage for API trading,
    stated on the Trading API page as valid till 30 September 2026 and not applicable to GTT orders.
  overage: n/a
  limits: Excludes GTT orders.
  expires: '2026-09-30'
  source: https://upstox.com/trading-api/
- name: Upstox Plus
  price: null
  currency: INR
  billing_period: subscription
  included: >-
    Premium API capabilities gated behind the Upstox Plus subscription — the Expired Instruments API
    suite (Get Expiries, Get Expired Option Contracts, Get Expired Future Contracts, Get Expired
    Historical Candle Data) and WebSocket Plus (up to 5 concurrent connections per user, full D30
    subscription mode supporting up to 50 instruments per connection).
  overage: n/a
  limits: null
  note: >-
    The Plus plan page (https://upstox.com/plus/) is a retail subscription landing page; the API-specific
    entitlements are announced in the developer announcements rather than priced on a developer pricing
    table, and no per-tier API price is published. Recorded as price null rather than guessed.
  source: https://upstox.com/developer/api-documentation/announcements/websocket-plus
plan_count: 3
notes:
  - >-
    There is no API-specific pricing page, no usage metering, no request quota purchase and no enterprise
    API tier. Businesses wanting to integrate are directed to email api@upstox.com from the Trading API
    page — that is a partnership channel, not a paid plan.
  - >-
    Zero-brokerage API trading was discontinued on 31 August 2024; new Upstox API users from 1 September
    2024 got 90 days of zero brokerage instead
    (https://upstox.com/developer/api-documentation/announcements/update-zero-brokerage).