Compute time

Does a higher plan compute faster?

Up to a point, and it is about waiting rather than about what a strategy may do. Compute power is how much of one simulation Fincanva computes at the same time, and your plan sets it.

Set by your plan: 4 on Free and Starter, 8 on Advanced and 16 on Ultimate and Professional. See what each plan includes.

A larger share runs more of the same work at once: it buys no extra data, no further allocation method and no longer history, so nothing about the strategy or the period behind the result changes with your plan. It is not a promise about how long a run takes, either: the strategy, the period covered, and how busy the service is decide that — and a setup that has already been computed comes back from shared compute in a fraction of a second whatever your plan.

Defaults in Fincanva

• The Compute column shows the time for the last run, or a dash (—) when a strategy has not been run yet.
• The value is dimmed when the run's status reads Needs re-run — a dimmed compute time means the shown figure is from a superseded run.
• A result is reused only while it is still current, so a strategy that was instant yesterday may compute in full today, once new market data has advanced the data frontier.

Worked example

You duplicate a strategy without changing anything and run the copy. Because its configuration is identical to the original — which has already been computed — Fincanva serves that existing result rather than recomputing it, and the Compute column shows a near-instant time. Change a single setting on the copy, such as its rebalance frequency, and it no longer matches any existing result: the next run computes fresh, and its compute time reflects the full work.