3Commas Alternatives for Crypto Trading Bots

3Commas is a cloud platform that runs DCA, grid and signal bots on your exchange accounts through API keys. It still works. Its pricing page lists Starter at $15 a month, Pro at $38 and Expert at $105 on yearly billing ($20, $50 and $140 billed monthly), with nine exchanges, a demo account and a free trial on every plan.

Many people looking for a replacement remember December 2022. An anonymous account published files of 3Commas API keys, and on December 29, 2022 the company confirmed the keys were valid and told users to reissue them on every linked exchange, as BleepingComputer reported. Earlier that month 3Commas had said it could find no evidence of a compromise. Any tool on this list also holds your keys, so the lesson carries over: create keys with trading rights only, never withdrawal rights, and limit them to known IP addresses where the exchange allows it.

One more thing before the picks. A bot follows rules; it does not know where prices go next, and every tool below can lose money in a falling or choppy market. The US CFTC put it plainly in a January 2024 advisory: AI "can't predict the future or sudden market changes", and promises of guaranteed returns are a fraud signal. Nothing here is investment advice.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Cryptohopper

Cryptohopper is the nearest like-for-like swap for a 3Commas user who runs a handful of DCA bots and wants more ways to build strategies. Every plan includes paper trading, backtesting, trading signals and a visual Strategy Designer. The top Hero tier adds AI strategies, market making and arbitrage.

Plans are sized by how many coins a bot trades and how often it checks the market. Explorer trades up to 15 coins on a 10-minute interval; Hero trades up to 75 coins every 2 minutes. A separate copy-bot marketplace sells other users' setups, sold as a separate product with a separate monthly fee.

Best for: Traders who want to design and backtest their own rules in a visual editor before going live.

Pricing:

• Explorer: $29 per month, or $24.16 per month billed yearly
• Adventurer: $69 per month, or $57.50 per month billed yearly
• Hero: $129 per month, or $107.50 per month billed yearly
• Copy bots: $9.99 to $99.99 per month, sold separately; prices exclude VAT

Watch out for:

• No free plan. The pricing page offers a 3-day trial of Explorer, which is short for testing a strategy across a real market swing.
• A copy bot's past results come from someone else's settings in a past market; they say nothing certain about next month.

Official site: Cryptohopper.

Bitsgap

Grid bots are the main reason people pick Bitsgap. It places a ladder of buy and sell orders inside a price range and trades the swings, and it also runs DCA and COMBO bots. All plans connect to the same list of exchanges, which the page counts as 17.

The free tier is useful for learning, not for live grid trading. You get 20 active bots in demo mode, unlimited manual trading and 3 COMBO bots on the Evedex exchange. Basic adds 3 live grid bots and 10 DCA bots; futures bots start at Advanced.

Best for: People who mostly run grid bots in sideways markets and want to rehearse them in demo first.

Pricing:

• Free: $0, demo bots and manual trading, no live Grid or DCA bots
• Basic: $29 per month, or $23 per month on a 12-month plan, saving $72 (3 Grid, 10 DCA bots, 30 days of backtesting)
• Advanced: $69 per month, or $55 on a 12-month plan, saving $168 (10 Grid, 50 DCA, futures bots)
• Pro: $149 per month, or $119 on a 12-month plan, saving $360 (50 Grid, 250 DCA bots)
• 7-day Pro trial, no card required

Watch out for:

• A grid bot keeps buying as price falls through its range, so a sharp drop can leave you holding the coin at a loss.

Official site: Bitsgap.

Pionex

Unlike 3Commas, Pionex is an exchange, and the bots live inside it. You do not create API keys for a third party at all, which removes the exact risk behind the 2022 leak. In exchange, your coins have to sit on Pionex itself.

There is no bot subscription. Grid, DCA, Rebalancing and most other bots are free, but Futures Moon and the grid bots that trade with borrowed funds, Margin Grid among them, take 20% of profits, per Pionex's fee overview. Spot trades cost 0.05% for makers and takers, with lower VIP rates at higher volume. US users go through Pionex.us, which Coin Bureau's August 2025 review says is registered with FinCEN as a money services business.

Best for: Beginners who want grid or DCA bots without paying a monthly fee or handing API keys to another company.

Pricing:

• Grid, DCA and Rebalancing bots: free, no subscription
• Futures Moon and borrowed-funds grid bots such as Margin Grid: 20% of profits
• Spot trading: 0.05% maker and taker
• Futures: 0.02% maker, 0.05% taker
• VIP discounts for higher trading volume

Watch out for:

• Funds are custodial. Coin Bureau notes a 2.3 out of 5 Trustpilot score with withdrawal complaints among the 1-star reviews, and few fiat deposit options.

Official site: Pionex.

Coinrule

Coinrule suits people who think in rules rather than bot types. You set conditions such as "if this coin drops 5% in an hour, buy", and the platform watches the market and acts. Its plans page, updated October 16, 2026, now calls live rules AI agents and meters usage in credits.

Limits are tight at the bottom. Investor runs 3 live rules on one exchange with 1,000 credits a month; Trader allows 10 rules on 5 exchanges. Credits beyond your allowance cost $0.02 each, billed at the end of the period.

Best for: Non-coders who want a few clear conditional rules running on one or two exchanges.

Pricing:

• Free: credits to build strategies; paper trading only, and launching needs a paid plan or trial
• Investor: $29.99 per month or $265.99 per year
• Trader: $59.99 per month or $532.99 per year
• Pro: $675 per month or $5,994 per year; Enterprise is custom
• Extra credits: $0.02 each

Watch out for:

• The jump from Trader ($59.99) to Pro ($675) is steep if you outgrow 10 rules or 5 exchanges.
• Credit metering makes the final bill harder to predict than a flat 3Commas plan.

Official site: Coinrule.

WunderTrading

For TradingView users, WunderTrading turns chart alerts into orders. Signal bots read webhook alerts from your scripts, and DCA and grid bots sit alongside them. The pricing page lists more than 18 exchange integrations on every plan.

Its free plan has no time limit and allows one Signal, one DCA and one Grid bot, 10 API keys per exchange and 50 open positions. Premium adds Multi-Pair Grid and Market Neutral bots, and Market Neutral can be tried in demo on any plan.

Best for: Traders who already write TradingView alerts and want them executed without paying first.

Pricing:

• Free: $0, no time limit, 1 Signal, 1 DCA and 1 Grid bot
• Basic, Pro and Premium: paid tiers with up to 25% off yearly

Watch out for:

• Paid prices are loaded by script on the pricing page, so check the live page before you commit.

Official site: WunderTrading.

HaasOnline

HaasOnline is for people who outgrew preset bots and want to script their own. Cloud plans run from 3 bots on Starter to 20 on Pro, and backtesting history grows from 1 month to 12. The TradeServer licence can run on your own machine, which keeps API keys off a shared cloud.

That self-hosted option is the clearest difference from 3Commas. TradeServer allows 100 or more bots, unlimited Smart Trades and 36 months of backtesting, with one active instance per licence.

Best for: Advanced traders who want scripted strategies and the option to host the bot themselves.

Pricing:

• Starter: $11.99 per month (3 bots); Standard: $29.99 (8 bots); Pro: $59.99 (20 bots)
• TradeServer: $149.99 per month, self-hosted or managed
• Yearly in crypto: $143.93, $359.93, $719.93 and $1,799.93
• 7-day Standard trial, no card required

Watch out for:

• The 40% yearly saving applies to one crypto payment; the pricing page says card payers get a lower discount but does not list it.

Official site: HaasOnline.

Freqtrade

Freqtrade costs nothing and runs on your own computer or server. It is open source under GPL-3.0, written in Python 3.12 or later, and the GitHub README lists spot support for Binance, Bybit, Kraken, OKX, Gate, Bitget, HTX, BingX and Hyperliquid.

You write strategies as Python code, backtest them, then run them in dry-run mode with fake funds before going live. A web UI and Telegram commands control a running bot, and FreqAI adds machine-learning models for those who want them.

Best for: Developers who want their keys on their own hardware and every rule in code they can read.

Pricing:

• Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
• Your costs are a server or always-on computer, plus exchange fees

Watch out for:

• You need Python skills and must keep the bot running and updated yourself; no support desk fixes a crashed bot at 3 a.m.
• The README says the software is for educational purposes only: "Do not risk money which you are afraid to lose."

Official site: Freqtrade.

How to choose

When to stay with 3Commas

If your bots already run on 3Commas and your keys were reissued after 2022 with withdrawals disabled, moving platforms will not remove API risk; every cloud bot on this list needs the same keys. Stay if you rely on its multi-account futures setup on Pro ($38 a month billed yearly) or its read and write Developers API on Expert ($105 a month billed yearly). Leave if you want a free tier, a self-hosted option or bots inside an exchange.

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