How Many Alerts Do You Actually Need?

The honest answer is far fewer than you are allowed, and this guide is going to spend most of its length arguing that the limits are irrelevant to you.

That is an odd thing for a product page to say. The tier structure exists, the higher tiers do carry higher caps, and there is a version of this article that pretends the free allowance is tight and nudges you upward. That version would be wrong, and you would find out it was wrong about six weeks in, which is a bad trade for everybody.

So here are the numbers, and then here is what people actually use.

What are the actual limits?

Three tiers, three caps.

The free tier allows 100 price alerts. Pro raises that to 150, and Pro+ to 200. These cover simple price alerts and percentage alerts, which are the two types available on the free tier and the two types the overwhelming majority of alerts anyone sets belong to.

The advanced types are the real tier difference, and they are worth naming clearly because they get confused with the count. Volume alerts, market cap alerts, pump alerts and wallet transaction alerts require Pro at $8.99 a month or Pro+ at $14.99 a month. Those are different instruments, not more of the same instrument. A volume alert fires on trading activity rather than price, and a market cap alert fires on total valuation, which behaves differently from price whenever supply is changing.

The count itself follows your account rather than your phone, so alerts survive a handset change and are shared across any device you sign in on.

That is the whole picture. Note what it means: if you want an advanced alert type, the tier matters. If you want more slots, the tier almost certainly does not.

What does a realistic working set look like?

Take a portfolio of ten positions, which is a fairly typical serious holder. Here is what a well-maintained alert list looks like for that person.

Two or three alerts on the largest position, because it dominates the portfolio's outcome and is worth watching in both directions. One alert each on the next two or three largest, usually a level below where they would want to look at the position properly. Nothing at all on the bottom four or five positions, because a 2% allocation moving 30% changes your total by 0.6% and is not worth a notification.

That is roughly six on the portfolio side.

Then the watchlist, which is where the better alerts live. Four to six names you have researched and would buy at a price, one alert each at the price you would actually pay. Alerts on a coin you don't own yet makes the case for why this half of the list tends to be more valuable than the half covering things you hold.

Then one or two market-wide tripwires. A wide percentage alert on Bitcoin catches most days where something significant is happening across the whole market, because correlation does the work for you.

Total: twelve to eighteen active alerts. Add a temporary cluster around a dated event and it might touch twenty-five for a fortnight before dropping back. Setting alerts around a known event covers that pattern, and it is one of the few legitimate reasons to spike the count.

Twelve to eighteen. Against a free allowance of a hundred.

When does anyone actually reach 100?

Two situations, and one of them is not a good one.

The legitimate case is a genuinely active trader running positions across dozens of assets who reviews the alert list daily and clears it constantly. That person might sit in the fifties or sixties, and every alert on the list has an action attached to it. They know exactly why each one exists. This is a real user, and there are not many of them.

The other case is accumulation. Someone sets alerts and never deletes them, for two years. Alerts on coins sold long ago. Alerts at levels chosen during a completely different market. Four alerts stacked on one asset from four separate sessions of thinking about it, three of which have fired and one of which is 60% away. The list reaches 100 and the person concludes they need more slots.

They need fewer alerts. That list stopped being an alert system a long time ago; it is now a graveyard with push notifications. Hitting the cap is the system telling you something useful, and the response is to prune, not to pay. The five-alert rule covers how to do that in a few minutes, and the number that survives usually shocks people.

If you actually run out of slots after an honest prune, you are the trader in the first paragraph and you know it.

Does the cap ever justify upgrading?

Rarely, and it would be dishonest to argue otherwise.

The upgrade case for Pro is the advanced alert types and the other things in the tier: advanced charting, ad-free use, and on Pro+ unlimited wallet and exchange connections. If you want to be told when volume on a mid-cap spikes, or when a wallet you track moves funds, those are things the free tier does not do at all, and no amount of pruning gets you there. That is a feature argument and it stands on its own.

The extra fifty slots are not an argument. Going from 100 to 150 solves a problem approximately nobody has, and if you find yourself considering an upgrade for that reason specifically, the honest recommendation is to spend fifteen minutes with the alert list instead and save the money. Free vs. paid crypto trackers works through where the paid tiers do and do not earn their price across the whole product, and what to check before choosing a tracker covers the same question from the outside.

There is one caveat worth stating. Alert count is a poor reason to upgrade; alert quality is a better one. A single well-chosen wallet transaction alert on an address you have reason to watch can be worth more than the other ninety-nine combined, and that one is genuinely gated. Judge the tier on that, not on the number.

The practical upshot: treat 100 as effectively unlimited, because for your purposes it is. Set the twelve to eighteen alerts that have decisions attached, label each one, and put a monthly reminder in your calendar to read the list and delete what has gone stale. If you do that from the beginning, you will finish your third year on the free tier still using about a fifth of it, which is roughly the right outcome and not the one most alert guides will tell you to expect.