Broker-agnostic trading automation for Indian markets.
Connect your broker, build or adopt a strategy, prove it on real history and on live data, then deploy it under limits you set. Every number net of what it actually costs. The AI explains what happened and flags what you are about to do — it does not predict prices.
What it does
- Broker connectivity — 7 Indian brokers
- Zerodha Kite, Fyers, Upstox v2, 5Paisa, Groww, Angel One and Dhan. Arthora is not owned by a broker and is not locked to one.
- Strategy Studio
- Build a strategy without writing code, or start from one of 328 strategy templates and change what you need.
- Screener Studio
- Build, save and re-run market screens across NSE and BSE data.
- Backtesting on real history
- Test against real market history on a purpose-built engine. Results are net of STT, brokerage and slippage, and are shown with drawdown history rather than a chosen window.
- Paper trading
- Run the strategy on live market data with nothing at risk. Deployment to live money is a separate, deliberate step.
- Live deployment
- Deploy to your own broker account under limits you set. Every algorithmic order carries its exchange-issued Algo-ID and full audit metadata.
- Marketplace
- 35 AI agents and 56 skills and plugins alongside the strategy templates. Adopt what someone else built, or publish your own.
- AI agents
- Agents run in a WebAssembly sandbox with enforced memory and CPU limits, and place orders only through the same compliant path as everything else.
- Guardian — free, permanently
- Morning brief, Guardian interventions, discipline score and decision journal. Never billed, never paywalled.
How it fits together
The order of operations is deliberate, and each step is a gate rather than a suggestion. You build or adopt a strategy in the Studio. You backtest it against real history, where the result you see is already net of STT, brokerage and slippage. You paper-trade it on live market data, with nothing at risk, for long enough to know how it behaves. Only then can it be deployed to your own broker account, and only inside limits you have set.
Friction at the deployment step is intentional. Most retail algo losses are not caused by a bad strategy — they are caused by a strategy that was never proven, deployed at a size that was never sized, by someone who had not seen its worst week.
Who it is for
- Serious retail traders, roughly ₹2–50 lakh deployed, who want structure and an honest view of cost.
- Authorised persons and sub-brokers running a client practice.
- Boutique institutional desks formalising under the current rules.
Who it is not for
Stating this plainly saves everyone time, and it is the part most platforms leave out.
- Latency-sensitive HFT and prop desks. Arthora is not a co-location or low-latency execution product and does not compete on order latency.
- Pure buy-and-hold investors. There is genuinely nothing here you need.
- Anyone looking for tips or signals. Arthora does not produce them, by design and by regulation. If that is what you want, this is the wrong product.
What Arthora is not
- Not a broker. Client funds are never held, routed or pooled by Arthora — your money stays in your own broker account.
- Not a signal service, tipster or price predictor.
- Not a gross-return backtest vendor. Every displayed figure is net of costs.
- Not a flat monthly subscription — see pricing.
- Not locked to a single broker.
Compliance posture
The retail algorithmic trading framework has been fully in force since 1 April 2026, and it changed what a platform in this category has to do. Every algorithmic order carries its exchange-issued Algo-ID. A material change to strategy logic is a new registration, and deployment is blocked until that is recorded. Broker API access runs from whitelisted static IPs with 2FA, and the audit trail is append-only and retained for five years.
What the framework requires of any platform placing algorithmic orders →
Pricing, briefly
The Guardian tier — morning brief, interventions, discipline score and decision journal — is free permanently. Below ₹5,00,000 of connected capital the platform runs on prepaid credits that never expire. At ₹5,00,000 and above it is a rate on connected capital that steps down as your trading discipline holds.
Questions
What is Arthora?
Arthora is a broker-agnostic trading automation platform for Indian markets (NSE/BSE). You connect an Indian broker, build or adopt a strategy, backtest it on real history, paper-trade it, and then deploy it live under risk limits you set. Every number is shown net of real costs.
Which brokers does Arthora work with?
Seven Indian brokers: Zerodha Kite, Fyers, Upstox v2, 5Paisa, Groww, Angel One and Dhan.
Is Arthora a broker?
No. Arthora is a technology platform that sits above your broker. It never holds, routes or pools client funds — your money stays in your own broker account.
Does Arthora give buy or sell recommendations?
No. The AI explains your positions, analyses portfolio risk, describes strategies factually and flags your behaviour against your own stated plan. It does not forecast prices, rank instruments, or tell anyone what to buy or sell.
Does Arthora support backtesting?
Yes. Strategies can be backtested against real market history on a purpose-built engine, with results shown net of STT, brokerage and slippage, alongside drawdown history.
Does Arthora have a marketplace?
Yes. The marketplace carries 35 AI agents and 56 skills and plugins alongside 328 strategy templates. You can adopt what someone else has built or publish your own.
What does Arthora cost?
The Guardian tier is free permanently. Below ₹5,00,000 of connected capital, Arthora runs on prepaid credits topped up at ₹199, ₹499 or ₹999, which never expire. At ₹5,00,000 and above it is 0.40% per annum on connected capital, floored at ₹299 and capped at ₹2,499 a month, stepping down to 0.34% and then 0.30% with sustained discipline.
Who is Arthora not for?
Latency-sensitive HFT and prop desks — Arthora is not a co-location product and does not compete on order latency. Pure buy-and-hold investors, who need nothing here. And anyone looking for tips, signals or price predictions, which Arthora does not produce.
Arthora is a technology platform. It is not a broker, does not hold client funds, and does not provide investment advice or buy/sell recommendations. Trading in securities carries risk, including loss of capital. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All performance figures shown in the product are net of costs including STT, brokerage and slippage. The platform is in beta.