Great question. It's the quintessential platform tradeoff. You pay in the short term to utilize their free tools (backtesting, data sets etc). The potential opp

Great question. It's the quintessential platform tradeoff. You pay in the short term to utilize their free tools (backtesting, data sets etc). The potential opportunity cost could be pretty steep if you create the next Renaissance and they reap the majority of the gains from licensing your algo.