Live market data and watchlists
Streaming quotes across NSE and BSE segments where your market-data licenses permit, with customizable watchlists and price alerts.
AI-Built Zerodha Clone
Zerodha Clone App Development
An AI-first build of every discount-broker mechanic: order execution engineered for reliability, risk tooling that protects accounts before margins blow up, and compliance workflows built around SEBI-aligned processes. Every panel ships white-label with 100% source code, owned by you from day one. The almost-ready AI build goes live in 6 working days; a custom build takes 3 to 4 weeks.
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$15,999
- Live in 6 working days
- 60 days support
- Complete source codes
- Complete rebranding
- White-labeling
- 1 year free updates
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Almost-ready AI launch
Custom build
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overview
What is a Zerodha-style trading platform?
A Zerodha-style platform is a discount-broker application: live market data across equities and derivatives, low-cost order placement, portfolio and holdings views, and the margin and risk tooling that keeps leveraged trading survivable for retail users.
Its purpose is low-cost market access at scale. The discount-broker model earns on flat fees and value-added services rather than commissions that scale with churn, and the operator's engineering job is reliability at market open, accurate ledger-keeping, and risk controls that satisfy the regulator.
At a high level the platform includes the trader app with watchlists, orders, and portfolio views, partner and advisor tooling, and an admin panel over KYC, risk, margin configuration, and exchange-facing settlement workflows.
Market context, hedged: India's retail participation in markets has grown substantially over the past decade, and commentary from regulators including SEBI has repeatedly emphasized risk disclosure and suitability, particularly in derivatives. We make no claims about any specific market's size, and this build is framed compliance-first throughout: broking licenses, exchange memberships, and regulatory registrations are yours to hold, and the software supports those processes rather than substituting for them.
Main features of our trading platform
The headline capabilities, at product level.
Order management across segments
Market, limit, stop-loss, and bracket orders across equity delivery, intraday, and F&O where your exchange permissions allow, with a deterministic order state machine.
Portfolio and holdings views
Holdings, positions, P&L, and corporate-action updates in one ledger-correct view, reconciled daily against depository and exchange data.
Margin and risk tooling
Real-time margin calculation, exposure monitoring, and automated square-off rules aligned to your exchange's peak-margin requirements.
Digital KYC onboarding
Aadhaar-linked eKYC flows, document capture, and risk profiling wired to your KYC vendor, so activation takes minutes without compliance gaps.
Funds and ledger discipline
Deposits, withdrawals, and settlement obligations posted to a client-level ledger that reconciles to the paisa, the discipline SEBI's client-funds rules expect.
AI market insights and education
Explainers, screeners, and pattern summaries that inform without giving advice, positioned as education with suitability language built in.
Reports and Tax-ready statements
Contract notes, P&L statements, and tax reports generated per SEBI-format requirements, downloadable and auditable.
Who should launch a Zerodha-style platform?
What these buyers share: a brokerage or broking-adjacent position and the desire to own the trading experience. Registrations and exchange memberships are yours to hold; the software supports them.
Licensed brokers
Replacing aging terminals with a modern retail app under their existing SEBI registration and exchange membership.
Wealth firms adding broking
Extending advisory relationships into self-directed trading where their registrations permit, on one brand.
Regional financial groups
Building the retail broker for their market, with compliance workflows shaped to their regulator's requirements.
Fintech product teams
Adding a trading arm to an existing KYC-verified user base, reusing onboarding and wallet rails.
Agencies and resellers
Deploying the white-label build for licensed clients under separate brands, every deployment a standalone business on 100% source code.
Feature panels of your trading platform
Four products operating as one system. Every panel ships in every build.
Trader app
Where retail trading happens, reliably.
- ✓Streaming quotes and watchlists
- ✓Order placement across permitted segments
- ✓Positions, holdings, and P&L views
- ✓Margin calculator
- ✓Price and movement alerts
- ✓Funds transfer and withdrawal
- ✓Order and trade history
- ✓Tax-ready statements
- ✓Two-factor authentication
- ✓GTT-style conditional orders
Partner and advisor tools
For sub-brokers and authorized partners.
- ✓Client book management
- ✓Order placement on behalf where authorized
- ✓Commission statements
- ✓Client onboarding pipelines
- ✓Reporting dashboards
Compliance console
Where the regulator's questions get answers.
- ✓KYC review queue
- ✓Risk and exposure monitoring
- ✓Client-funds reconciliation views
- ✓Peak-margin compliance checks
- ✓Audit trails on every order and intervention
- ✓Dispute and grievance tracking
Admin panel
Run the brokerage from one console.
- ✓Margin and product configuration
- ✓Order-risk rule management
- ✓Settlement and obligation dashboards
- ✓Corporate action processing
- ✓Revenue reporting
- ✓Regional settings
- ✓CSV exports
The admin control plane: running the brokerage as an operator
Four consoles, one view of orders, clients, and compliance.
Orders console
Order-risk rule management with margin and product configuration, gateway latency monitoring, and market-open readiness dashboards.
Clients console
Client ledger oversight with settlement and obligation dashboards, corporate action processing, and client-fund segregation monitoring.
Compliance console
KYC workflow administration, surveillance support with anomaly review queues, and standardized reporting wired to your regulator's formats.
Money console
Revenue reporting across brokerage and subscriptions, fee and margin configuration per market, and CSV exports for finance and audit.
How a trade runs: login to contract note
The journey every trader repeats, engineered end to end.
- 01
Onboard with digital KYC
The client completes Aadhaar-based eKYC, risk profiling, and document capture, and the account activates under your compliance workflow.
✓ step 01 complete - 02
Fund the account
Deposits land in the client ledger through configured payment rails, visible instantly with settlement discipline behind them.
✓ step 02 complete - 03
Research and watch
Streaming quotes, watchlists, and educational insights inform the decision; screeners surface what fits the client's profile.
✓ step 03 complete - 04
Place the order
The order enters a deterministic state machine through exchange gateways where your memberships permit, with margin checked in real time.
✓ step 04 complete - 05
Manage risk continuously
Exposure monitoring, automated square-off, and peak-margin checks run throughout the session, protecting client and broker alike.
✓ step 05 complete - 06
Settle and report
Funds and securities settle per exchange cycle, the ledger reconciles, and contract notes and tax statements generate on schedule.
✓ step 06 complete
AI inside the platform
Five model-driven systems working the same market stream. Each ships pre-tuned for trading operations and sharpens as your data compounds.
Margin and risk intelligence
Monitors client exposure patterns and predicts margin shortfalls before square-offs, protecting accounts and compliance posture.
Reads
Positions, margin utilization, volatility windows
Changes
Risk caught before blowups, not in the post-mortem
Anomaly and surveillance support
Flags irregular trading patterns for your surveillance workflow, supporting the exchange-reporting obligations you carry.
Reads
Order flow, account linkage, pattern signals
Changes
Surveillance that scales with the client book
Personalized education
Surfaces explainers and risk disclosures matched to each client's segment and experience, supporting suitability expectations.
Reads
Trading history, segment, product usage
Changes
Better-informed clients and healthier product mix
Queue and latency intelligence
Watches order-gateway latency and exchange feed health, rerouting and alerting before market-open congestion bites.
Reads
Gateway telemetry, feed lag, order book depth
Changes
Reliability at the moments that define the platform
Support assist
Answers order, settlement, and statement questions from ledger context, with humans handling exceptions.
Reads
Ledger entries, order history, policy documents
Changes
Faster answers and lower support load
platform concepts
Concepts that run a discount broker
The first concept is the client ledger. Every rupee of client funds, every obligation, and every settlement posts to a client-level ledger that reconciles against exchange and depository data. SEBI's client-funds and segregation rules make this non-negotiable, and the build treats it as the system's spine.
The second is the order state machine. Orders move through placed, validated, exchange-accepted, executed, and settled states, with margin checks and risk rules as governed transitions. Determinism here is what makes the platform defensible when a trade disputes its outcome.
The third is compliance as product. KYC workflows, peak-margin checks, surveillance support, and standardized reporting are engineering systems, not documents. The registrations, exchange memberships, and licenses are yours to hold per market; the software's job is to make the processes executable and auditable.
How your trading platform earns
Flat brokerage fees per order or per segment, the model the category standardized, configured per your fee structure.
Value-added subscriptions: advanced charting, research packs, and API access for algorithmic traders where permitted.
Margin and interest income where your registrations and market allow.
Every rate is admin-configurable, so you can price for your market and regulatory position without a code release.
Feature groups that decide whether trades settle clean
Four groups, each mapped to the part of the brokerage promise it protects.
The client ledger
Every rupee of client funds, obligation, and settlement posting to a client-level ledger reconciling against exchange and depository data, treated as the system's spine because segregation rules make it non-negotiable.
The order state machine
Orders moving through placed, validated, exchange-accepted, executed, and settled states with margin checks and risk rules as governed transitions, deterministic enough to defend when a trade disputes its outcome.
Compliance as product
KYC workflows, peak-margin checks, surveillance support, and standardized reporting as engineering systems, making your registrations and memberships executable and auditable rather than documentary.
The discount economics
Flat per-order brokerage, value-added subscriptions for charting and API access, and margin income where your registrations allow, priced per market and regulatory position.
insight
The market numbers behind the discount brokerage opportunity
Retail trading participation keeps expanding across markets, with discount brokers winning share on flat-fee economics and self-directed tools, and commentary consistently attributing category leadership to platform reliability during market-open spikes rather than marketing.
The engineering wedge is ledger discipline and deterministic order states: reconciliation to the paisa and orders that behave identically under load are what regulators examine and traders stay for. The revenue table below quantifies the lines.
Revenue lines, typical ranges, and what sets each ceiling
Six monetization lines across the platform, quantified against published industry benchmarks. Every rate is admin-configurable; the figures here are modelling inputs, not projections of your platform's earnings.
| Criteria | Revenue line | How it is charged | Typical range | What sets the ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat brokerage | Per order or per segment | Fees commonly $0.50 to $5+ per order | Active participation. Fees earn while reliability keeps traders trading | |
| Value-added subscriptions | Charting, research, API access | Subs commonly $5 to $100+ per month | Pro depth. Subs earn while the tools stay sharp | |
| Margin income | Interest on funded positions where permitted | Rates commonly 10% to 18% per year | Risk discipline. Margin earns while risk rules protect accounts | |
| Interest on client funds | Float where regulation permits | Yields commonly 3% to 6% on idle balances | Regulatory scope. Float earns only where the rules allow | |
| Data and tooling sales | Market data and premium tools | Add-ons commonly $5 to $50+ per month | Segment demand. Add-ons sell while traders professionalize | |
| White-label deployments | Branded platforms for regional brokers | Deployments commonly $50,000 to $500,000+ | Broker demand. Deals close while the ledger stays auditable |
Every build ships with
Standard inclusions on every engagement, almost-ready or custom. Nine things you never have to ask for.
100% source code, full IP
The complete unencrypted codebase transfers to you, with documentation and deployment scripts.
White-label branding
Your logo, colors, and store accounts across all four panels, plus branded client communications.
Store submission and launch
App store and Play Console submissions handled end to end, with production monitoring switched on.
Payment integrations
UPI, netbanking, and gateway integrations configured for client funding, with reconciliation views for finance.
AI models Pre-tuned
Risk intelligence, surveillance support, and education arrive configured for trading operations, not as raw APIs.
Multi-language support
Languages and regional settings configured for your markets during the launch window, including Indian-language interfaces.
Scalable cloud infrastructure
Containerized services with exchange-grade telemetry and autoscaling for market-open spikes.
Admin analytics and reports
Revenue dashboards, reconciliation views, and CSV exports so your operations team starts informed on day one.
Post-launch support and updates
Included support window plus product updates covering bug fixes, OS compatibility, and version upgrades.
Technology inside the platform
Ledger discipline and reliability are the product. We engineer them first.
Order and exchange gateways
Deterministic order state machines over exchange gateways where your memberships permit, with latency telemetry and failover engineered for market open.
Client ledger and settlement
Client-level ledgers reconciling to the paisa against exchange cycles and depository data, the discipline the regulator's rules expect.
KYC and compliance stack
Aadhaar-based eKYC, document capture, risk profiling, and audit trails wired to your KYC vendor and your compliance workflow.
Infrastructure
Containerized services with market-grade monitoring. See how this fits our wider fintech app development practice.
Integrations
Market-data vendors, payment rails, KYC providers, SMS and email, and reporting tools ship as configured integrations.
Security and compliance
Two-factor authentication, role-based access, encrypted traffic and secrets, and append-only audit logs come standard, because in this category they are regulatory expectations, not extras.
Your launch timeline: live in 6 working days
The almost-ready AI build, day by day. Exchange and regulatory onboarding runs on your licenses in parallel.
- 01
Days 1-2: scoping and branding
Segments, fee structure, and compliance workflow locked with a written scope, and your identity applied across all four panels.
✓ step 01 complete - 02
Days 3-4: configuration and integration
Market-data feeds, payment rails, KYC vendor, and margin rules configured and tested against your live accounts.
✓ step 02 complete - 03
Days 5-6: compliance pilot
Test accounts onboarded through full eKYC, test orders run through the state machine, and reconciliation, margin, and reporting flows verified.
✓ step 03 complete - 04
Days 7-9: store review and go live
App store submissions with review buffers accounted for, production monitoring on, and full launch with post-launch support and product updates included.
✓ step 04 complete
Almost-ready AI launch or custom build: the honest comparison
Both tracks ship the same trading core. The difference is time, price structure, and how much you want to change.
| Criteria | Almost-Ready AI Launch | Custom Build |
|---|---|---|
| Time to live | 6 working days from branding handoff | 3 to 4 weeks, scoped before work starts |
| Pricing | Fixed written quote after a short scoping call, no hourly meter | Estimated per module after the discovery call |
| Source code and IP | 100% ownership on delivery | 100% ownership on delivery |
| AI layer | Risk intelligence, surveillance support, and education pre-tuned | AI services designed around your compliance and data |
| Compliance tooling | KYC, margin, and reporting workflows included | Compliance designed around your registrations and regulator |
| Best for | Licensed operators who want to launch this quarter | Teams with bespoke workflows or a unique model |
$ moxace launch --nowWalk the platform before you commit.
Book a demo and we will show the order flow, ledger reconciliation, and compliance console on a live build, then send the written scope.
- 01
Share your idea
a quick call, no deck required
- 02
See the live demo
every screen, admin to user
- 03
Launch with source
full code, your brand, your servers
What moves your quote
No two launches price the same. These are the factors that shape the written quote you receive after scoping.
Scope of customization
The almost-ready AI build covers the proven feature set. Custom compliance workflows, algorithmic-trading APIs, or bespoke products add scoped estimate work.
Licenses and segments
Exchange memberships, market-data licenses, and segment permissions are yours to hold; the integration and configuration scope follows that position.
Integrations
Market-data vendors, KYC providers, and payment rails are wired during the build, and each integration is estimated individually.
AI tuning depth
Out of the box, risk and surveillance models are pre-tuned for trading operations. Tuning against your own book's data is an optional, separately scoped workstream.
Add-on modules that deepen the platform
Extend the Zerodha-style build once the core trading loop is running.
Mutual fund platform
Direct-plan fund investing with SIP automation, the long-term money that balances trading volatility.
Algo trading bridge
API access with strategy sandboxing and rate limits, capturing the systematic-trader segment responsibly.
Trading academy
Structured education with segment-appropriate risk disclosures, the suitability layer that regulators appreciate.
Portfolio analytics pro
Holdings analysis, benchmark comparison, and tax reporting, the retention tool for serious investors.
FPO and commodity modules
Additional segments wired to the same ledger and risk engine, expanding the product set per your memberships.
White-label brokerage reseller
Deploy the platform for regional brokers under their own identity, with per-tenant segments, fees, and compliance configuration.
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Why brokers pick our Zerodha-style build
Trading reliability with SEBI-aware compliance engineering.
Ledger-first architecture
Client funds and settlements reconcile to the paisa, the discipline that keeps regulators and clients trusting the platform.
Compliance as product
KYC, margin, surveillance, and reporting workflows are engineered systems, supporting the registrations you hold.
Full ownership
One hundred percent of the source code transfers to you. No per-order royalties, no black-box dependencies.
Adjacent products
For the AI engineering behind risk and surveillance tooling, see our AI development services practice.
Proof from platforms we have shipped
Canonical deployments from our own portfolio. Metrics are reported from live platforms, not projections.
Etihad Airways
A high-traffic consumer platform our team ships and operates at national-carrier scale, the same bar every build is held to.
1M+
Monthly Users
40%
Engagement Lift
PragPlay
A consumer platform from the same engineering system, proving the real-time core holds under load with strict uptime demands.
500K+
Players
99.9%
Uptime
Marvel Studios
A high-volume consumer experience our team ships at global-release scale, the same discipline applied to every launch.
10M+
Streams
65%
Completion
Frequently asked questions
Security and integrity
Tap a card to see how the platform defends its ledger.
The Ledger Reconciles to the Paisa
Client-level ledgers reconcile against exchange cycles and depository data, the discipline segregation rules expect and the spine the whole system hangs from.
Orders Behave Under Load
Deterministic order state machines over exchange gateways with latency telemetry and failover engineered for market open, because category leadership is decided at the open.
Risk Is Governed, Not Improvised
Margin checks and risk rules are governed transitions in the order state machine, with peak-margin checks enforced before square-offs catch anyone out.
Compliance Is Executable
KYC workflows, surveillance support, and standardized reporting are engineering systems that make your registrations auditable rather than documentary.
Clients Learn Before They Risk
Personalized education surfaces explainers and risk disclosures matched to each client's segment, supporting suitability expectations and healthier product mix.
Every Rate Fits Your Position
Brokerage, subscriptions, and margin pricing configure per market and regulatory position from the admin panel, with no code release required.
Frequently asked questions
the process
What to expect when building your trading platform with us
The engagement starts with a discovery call covering your registrations, target segments, and fee model, then a written scope and quote before work begins. On the almost-ready AI path you hand over branding assets, we apply them across every panel, configure integrations and margin rules, and go live in 6 working days. Custom modules are quoted in writing first.
After launch, support and product updates are included. The first 90 days are compliance and reliability operations: reconciling settlements daily, watching surveillance queues, and proving the margin workflow under live market conditions. The platform makes the engineering dependable; the licenses and client trust are yours to build.
Live in action
See It Live Before You Talk to Us
Open the web app, sign in with the printed demo credentials, or install the Android build — no signup, no sales call. What you see is what you launch.
$ moxace launch --nowLaunch your trading platform this quarter.
Book a free consultation and get a written scope and price.
- 01
Share your idea
a quick call, no deck required
- 02
See the live demo
every screen, admin to user
- 03
Launch with source
full code, your brand, your servers
Independent Build
Moxace is an independent software development company. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Zerodha.
Why This Name
The phrase “Zerodha clone” is used descriptively. It is how the software industry refers to building a platform with similar functionality, and how buyers search for one.
Who Built This
The design and codebase are built entirely by our in-house team. Nothing is taken from the Zerodha website, applications, or brand assets.
Trademarks
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