Pricing models for third-party gateways
MetaQuotes estimates that popular liquidity aggregation systems typically charge around $1,500–$7,000 per month for the gateway alone, with additional volume-based fees that may apply on top.
From a pricing perspective, there is no fundamental difference between a third-party MT5 gateway and an MT5 bridge. However, costs vary significantly between solution providers.
Both systems may be priced based on:
- number of LP connections
- number of trading servers
- aggregation and routing functionality
- trading volume
- customization
- hosting
- support
A simple solution to connect MT5 to liquidity provider will usually cost less than a full liquidity-management stack with aggregation, execution controls, monitoring, failover, and risk management.
This article looks at the main pricing components brokers should expect and uses specific public pricing examples where they are available.
Monthly License Fees
A recurring monthly license or minimum fee is one of the most common ways solution providers charge for liquidity technology.
For example, PrimeXM publishes a fixed $2,000 monthly instance fee for each XCore. However, its billing model does not simply add all pricing components together. The monthly XCore fee is calculated as the maximum of its instance, connectivity, volume, and transaction fee groups.
B2BROKER provides another public pricing example. Its B2CONNECT liquidity and connectivity hub is listed at $1,500 per month in the company’s current pricing example, although B2BROKER also offers liquidity bundles where software subscription costs can be offset by A-book commissions.
These examples show why the base monthly price should be viewed as only one part of the overall commercial model.
Liquidity Provider Connection Fees
The number of connected liquidity providers can directly affect gateway pricing. Some vendors include LP connectivity within the core license, while others charge separately for each connection. In practice, the FIX protocol in forex trading is one of the most common standards used for these liquidity connections.
In PrimeXM terminology, a Maker connection is the liquidity-provider side of the setup: it connects an LP to XCore so that pricing can be received and orders can be sent for execution. A FIX Maker connection costs $600 per month and includes one pricing and one trading connection.
PrimeXM also lists a minimum fee of $100 per month for a FIX Taker connection, $100 for a Binary Taker, and $400 for each FIX give-up connection. These are different types of interfaces and should not be confused with a full MetaTrader server connection.
By comparison, Takeprofit Tech does not charge separately for LP connections: an unlimited number of liquidity source connections is included in the solution price.
This means that brokers planning to connect several liquidity sources should check whether the quoted gateway price already includes those connections or whether each additional LP creates a separate recurring fee.
Trading Platform Connection Fees
Pricing may also depend on how many trading-platform servers need to be connected to the liquidity hub.
This is a different type of connection. While the Maker side connects liquidity providers to the hub, the Taker side connects the broker’s trading platform or another downstream system to it.
For example, PrimeXM charges $1,200 per month for each MT4/MT5 Taker connection. This package connects a MetaTrader server to XCore and includes one pricing connection, one trading connection, one bridge, and one feeder.
This is therefore different from the $100 minimum FIX Taker fee, which refers to a direct FIX-based taker interface rather than a complete MT4/MT5 connection package.
By comparison, Takeprofit Tech includes an unlimited number of MT4/MT5 and other trading-platform connections in the solution price, with no separate per-connection fee.
For brokers comparing vendors, it is important to check whether pricing is quoted per LP connection, per FIX interface, per MT4/MT5 server, or for the complete deployment.
Volume-Based Pricing
Trading volume is another common pricing factor, where providers apply a fee based on the broker’s executed notional volume.
This approach links technology costs more closely to trading activity and the value that bridge solutions brings to the broker.
As of August 2026, around $1 per $1 million traded is a common market level for volume-based fees. However, vendors may offer discounts to startup brokers or companies purchasing several products. Volume-based fees can also decrease as trading volume grows. So the final volume fee might be reduced to approximately $0.70–$0.90 per $1 million traded.
The important point for brokers is to model pricing using realistic monthly turnover rather than comparing only the minimum license fee.
Transaction Fees
Volume is not the only activity-based pricing metric. Some providers can also charge based on the number of transactions processed by the system.
This matters especially for brokers whose clients generate large numbers of small orders, because two firms with similar notional turnover may generate very different transaction counts.
PrimeXM charges $0.001 per order with a non-zero fill size. Its public pricing also states that this transaction fee does not apply when the client uses dedicated hosting for both XCore and the Trade Database.
Transaction pricing should therefore be considered separately from per-million volume fees when estimating total monthly cost.
Aggregation, Routing, and Risk-Management Functionality
The breadth of functionality is one of the main reasons gateway and liquidity-hub pricing differs so much between providers. What each solution can actually do is defined by the capabilities and limitations of the API it is built on, as well as the vendor’s own implementation on top of it.
oneZero and PrimeXM are among the more expensive third-party solutions because their products combine a broad range of capabilities, including multi-LP aggregation, advanced routing, A/B-book management, exposure controls, failover, reporting, monitoring, and multiple connectivity options.
Takeprofit Bridge offers a similarly broad scope of liquidity aggregation, execution, routing, and risk-management functionality, but at a lower price point. As a newer strong competitor in this segment, Takeprofit Tech has positioned its solution more competitively.
This is why headline gateway pricing should always be evaluated together with the functionality included in the product: a lower monthly fee does not necessarily mean a more limited solution.
Hosting and Infrastructure Costs
Software fees are only part of the total cost of running an MT5 liquidity setup. Depending on the provider and deployment model, brokers may also need separate infrastructure for hosting, redundancy, connectivity, and proximity to liquidity sources.
These expenses can become material in latency-sensitive or higher-volume environments.
PrimeXM publishes separate Enterprise Cloud pricing. For example, larger configurations currently range from $1,990 per month for 16 cores and 64 GB RAM to $3,530 per month for 30 cores and 120 GB RAM.
This means that a broker comparing gateway vendors should establish whether hosting is included in the quoted price or needs to be added separately.
Support and Maintenance
Support is another part of the commercial model that may not be obvious from the headline price.
Gateway and bridge infrastructure is part of the broker’s execution chain, so support requirements can include configuration help, incident handling, LP connectivity troubleshooting, software updates, and assistance with changes to the broker’s setup.
For example, Takeprofit Tech includes first-class 24/7 technical support in its monthly license fee, with no separate support charge.
When comparing providers, brokers should therefore confirm exactly what level of support is included and whether additional services are billed separately.
Customization and Additional Development
Standard gateway pricing usually covers standard functionality. Custom requirements can create an additional cost layer.
These requirements may include a new LP API, bespoke routing logic, unusual execution workflows, reporting integrations, or other broker-specific development.
For brokers that expect substantial customization, it is therefore useful to separate the standard license price from the potential cost of future development.
For brokers evaluating native MetaQuotes MT5 gateway vs third-party MT5 gateway options, it is worth noting that native MetaQuotes gateways are not customizable, while third-party solutions may support custom development.
What Can a Real Pricing Calculation Look Like?
A useful gateway-price comparison should model the broker’s actual setup. For this reason, a hypothetical cost calculation without specific inputs is unlikely to provide a meaningful comparison.
However, a broker might need to consider:
- software license monthly fee
- MT5 connections
- number of LP connections
- monthly trading volume
- transaction count
- hosting
- additional development
What Should Brokers Compare?
When comparing MT5 bridge vs MT5 gateway pricing and requesting quotes from different providers, brokers should make sure that each quote covers the same infrastructure and functionality.
The key questions include:
- What is the minimum monthly or instance fee?
- How many MT5 servers or platform connections are included?
- Is each LP connection charged separately?
- Is there a fee per $1 million traded?
- Are A-book and B-book volumes priced differently?
- Are there per-order charges?
- Is aggregation included?
- Are routing, failover, and risk controls included?
- What support is included in the standard fee?
- Is custom development billed separately?
- What might be the expenses for hosting?
The answers determine the actual cost much more accurately than the headline monthly price.
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