Kraken demo account: how to test your alerts before you trade Kraken live
You want to see an alert behave before it touches a funded Kraken account. The usual answer used to be Kraken Futures Demo, a separate demo site at demo-futures.kraken.com. That site no longer works as a demo. Kraken's own support article on its API testing environment says the demo there will be decommissioned. When we checked on October 1, 2026, the address redirected to Kraken's futures product page instead of a sign-up screen.
Autoview's exchange integrations no longer include a Kraken Futures Demo connection for the same reason. You can still test safely. Work through the steps below in order and stop at whichever one answers your question.
Had a Kraken Futures Demo key? Kraken's docs describe the demo as completely separate from production, so a demo key never worked on a live account. For live Kraken Futures, create a new key on futures.kraken.com and add it to Autoview as a Kraken Futures connection.
Step 1: dry-run the command with d=1
Add d=1 to the command and send it to your Kraken connection. Autoview reads the command, builds the order it would place, and writes that order to your log. It stops there. Nothing is sent to Kraken's order endpoint.
The dry run isn't blind, though. Autoview still looks the symbol up on Kraken, so a symbol Kraken doesn't recognize comes back as an error you can fix before it costs anything. It works the same on a Kraken spot connection and a Kraken Futures connection. A Kraken Futures perpetual looks like PI_XBTUSD:
s=PI_XBTUSD b=buy t=market q=1 d=1The testing and debugging guide shows how to read what the log says.
Step 2: rehearse on another exchange's demo
A dry run proves the command. It can't show you a fill. If you want to watch orders fill on demo funds, connect a free demo account on another exchange Autoview supports and point the same alert at it:
Symbols differ by exchange, so swap the symbol back when the alert moves to Kraken. The signal side carries over unchanged. TradingView or any other tool that can send a webhook drives the demo connection exactly as it will drive Kraken.
Step 3: send one small live order on Kraken
Once the dry run reads right, remove d=1 and send one order at the smallest size you'd be fine losing to a mistake. Check the order on Kraken. Then scale up.
Give Autoview a key that can trade but can't withdraw; are my API keys safe? explains why withdrawal is never needed. For spot, follow the Kraken guide. Kraken Futures is its own connection on Autoview. It takes a Public Key and a Private Key created on Kraken's futures site, which are different from your Kraken spot key. The Kraken command reference covers stops and order edits once you're live.