# /blog/trading/thrive-vs-edgewonk

Edgewonk is a desktop trading journal sold as a one-time license. Thrive is a cloud workstation for crypto perpetuals. Thrive is a research workstation for CEX perpetuals traders. Exchange connections are read-only. The product is paper practice, a trade journal, and AI review of your own trades. Thrive does not route live orders. Pro is free for 7 days, then $99/month or $999/year.

https://thrive.fi/blog/trading/thrive-vs-edgewonk