# What to use instead of 3Commas

3Commas switched v1 off on 11 September 2026 and carried nothing over to v2. Where DCA, grid and signal bots go, ordered by how much rebuilding each takes.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/3commas*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | 3Commas |
| Status | restricted |
| Website | https://3commas.io |
| Category | Crypto Trading Bots |

The hosted DCA, grid and signal-bot platform most crypto bot users started on. Its v1 was switched off on 11 September 2026; v2 is a new account, built with WunderTrading.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how little work the switch takes, least first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [WunderTrading](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/wundertrading.md) — The engine v2 is built on, under its own name. The rebuild is the one v2 asks for, on sixteen exchanges instead of nine, with a free plan that trades live.
2. [OctoBot Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot-cloud.md) — Hosted DCA, grid and TradingView bots set up in forms, from free to 29.99 a month. Alerts and futures need Pro, and nothing can be backtested first.
3. [HaasOnline TradeServer](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/haasonline.md) — Publishes a bot-by-bot mapping from 3Commas, dated 1 September 2026. Order sizes and cooldowns change units, and signal-started DCA means editing a script.
4. [Bitsgap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitsgap.md) — Grid and DCA bots, futures included, rebuilt in forms on seventeen venues. Signal bots cannot come with you, because it accepts no webhooks at all.
5. [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper.md) — Hosted, with phone apps and TradingView alerts on every tier, but spot only and one bot per subscription. Each bot you had becomes a plan of its own.
6. [OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot.md) — Free and self-hosted, with DCA, grid and TradingView modes set up in a web interface. You need a machine kept running, and the current line is a 3.0 beta.
7. [Gunbot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gunbot.md) — Runs on your own machine, with a large grid and DCA library. New buyers get one plan, Gunbot Unlimited at 29 euros a month; lifetime licences are upgrades only.
8. [Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade.md) — Nothing to fill in, because every strategy is a Python class you write. The most work on this list, and the strategy ends up in a file you keep.

## The product

We list 3Commas: [our own card](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/3commas) carries its v2 pricing, its nine exchanges and its
limitations, verified on 4 October 2026, and every figure on this page about the product comes from
it or from the vendor's help centre. This page is for a narrower reader: somebody who built bots
on v1 and woke up to find them stopped.

3Commas sold hosted crypto bots from 2017. You connected exchange accounts by API key, built DCA,
grid and signal bots in forms, and they ran on 3Commas' servers. **The help centre says v1 was
deactivated on 11 September 2026.** Bots and deals ran normally until that day. Then every API
connection to v1 was deactivated, and orders already on the exchange "remain live but are no longer
managed by 3Commas". The v1 iOS and Android apps were withdrawn.

**Nothing migrated.** v2 is a new account, opened with a promo code from an email. Exchange keys are
connected again from scratch, and "your strategies do not transfer to v2 automatically". Every bot
is rebuilt by hand. The vendor's advice, in the same article, was to note your key settings down
before the date. Its v1-to-v2 mapping, dated 11 August 2026, moves indicator-started DCA bots under
DCA Bot, TradingView- and API-started DCA bots under Signal Bot, Strategy Gallery to DCA presets,
and SmartTrade to a new Terminal.

**v2 is, in the vendor's words, "built in partnership with WunderTrading".** The card records what
that looks like from outside. On 4 October 2026 v2's MCP server answered an `initialize` request as
`wundertrading-tools` 1.1.0, the same name and version WunderTrading's own server reports. The v2
REST documentation is WunderTrading's text with the brand swapped, down to the same ten-key cap and
three-month key expiry.

So the status here is "terms changed" rather than "shut down". 3Commas runs, but not the product
you built on, and staying costs the same rebuild as leaving. That is why this page exists.

## What to use instead

**Whatever you choose, expect to rebuild every bot by hand.** No product in this catalogue imports a
3Commas configuration, and v2 does not either. The order of the picks above is the order of least
rebuilding. Hosted comes before self-hosted, and self-hosted before code. Within each group, a
product ranks higher when more of v1's three bot types arrive without translating them into
something else.

**If you want the shortest path, the choice is between v2 and WunderTrading, and they are one
engine.** [WunderTrading](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/wundertrading) runs the same signal, DCA and grid bots that v2
does. The bot you rebuild there is the one you would rebuild on v2. The differences are commercial
and in the venue list. WunderTrading supports sixteen exchanges to v2's nine, and its Free plan can
trade live with one bot of each type. Its month-to-month prices are 19, 49 and 99 dollars against
v2's 20, 50 and 140. Live API and MCP access start at its 49-dollar Pro, while v2's pricing page
shows a writable developer API on Expert alone. Know what you are choosing, though. Moving to
WunderTrading changes the brand on the invoice, not the software. If the reason you are leaving is
that one company's decision switched your bots off, the engine underneath both is now the same.

**If you want hosted bots in forms from somebody else,** [OctoBot Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot-cloud) is the
nearest in shape. It hosts DCA and grid bots and a TradingView bot, and its prices run from free to
29.99 dollars. The TradingView bot, futures and manual orders are all Pro only. It has no backtester
on any plan, and its eight spot venues leave out Bybit, Bitget, Gate, Kraken and Hyperliquid, all of
which v2 has. [Bitsgap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitsgap) takes grid and DCA bots, futures included, on seventeen
venues, and it is the only option on this list with neither a webhook nor an API. A signal bot has
nowhere to go there. [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper) takes TradingView alerts on every tier and
ships phone apps. It is spot only, and every tier buys one bot, so three v1 bots of three kinds
become three subscriptions. [Coinrule](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinrule) is the other hosted route. Its rule builder
accepts a strategy typed as text, and each strategy gets its own webhook URL and secret. Its footer
says the service is not for residents of the EU or EEA.

**If you want a written migration path,** [HaasOnline](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/haasonline) published "moving from
3Commas to HaasOnline" on 1 September 2026, ten days before the shutdown. It maps the DCA bot to its
Dollar Cost Average Bot and the grid bot to Spot or Futures Grid. It is honest about the gaps: its
own Signal Bot "is a signal executor, not a DCA ladder", so a DCA bot started by TradingView means
editing the DCA script to read the signal. It has no free plan. The cloud starts at 19.99 dollars,
and API access starts at Standard, 49.99. The self-hosted TradeServer at 249.99 is the version where
the keys stay on your machine.

**If what you want is that nobody can switch your bots off again,** run them yourself.
[OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot) is free under GPL-3.0, with DCA, grid and TradingView modes set up in a web
interface. The current release line is a 3.0 beta that boots into a node mode. [Gunbot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gunbot)
is closed source, with a large grid and DCA library. On 8 October 2026 its plans page sold new
buyers one plan, Gunbot Unlimited at 29 euros a month with every feature included. The lifetime
licence, checked against a token balance you have to keep, is now sold only as an upgrade to people
who already hold one.
[Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade) is the far end: no forms at all, a Python class per strategy, and a
backtester that reads real exchange fees. All three need a machine that stays on, and all three put
the exchange keys in a file you own. That ownership is the point after a vendor-side shutdown.

The three hosted platforms are compared against each other on
[3Commas vs Cryptohopper vs Bitsgap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/compare/hosted-crypto-trading-bots). The whole field is on
[trading bots](https://cryptomarkets.tools/categories/trading-bots).

## What you give up

**Three bot types in one subscription, with futures.** v1 metered DCA, grid and signal bots as
separate allowances on one plan, and v2 still does. Away from the WunderTrading engine, something
falls off almost everywhere. Cryptohopper runs one bot per subscription and no futures. Bitsgap has
no signal bot, because it has no webhook. OctoBot Cloud puts the TradingView bot and futures on Pro,
with futures on two venues. HaasOnline's own guide lists what does not carry over at all. There is
no multi-pair DCA ("run separate single-market bots instead"), no trailing take-profit on DCA, no
trailing stop-loss in the standard DCA bot, and no grid "trailing up / trailing down / expansion".

**SmartTrade.** Manual entries with automated exits were v1's other half. v2 replaced SmartTrade
with Terminal, which adds orders placed across several accounts, exchanges and pairs at once.
WunderTrading has a manual terminal of its own, and Bitsgap's has scaled, TWAP and stop-limit
orders with several take-profits. On HaasOnline the guide's answer is its Order Bot or a HaasScript
you write. On OctoBot Cloud, manual orders and the terminal are Pro only. The self-hosted options
have nothing equivalent, because they are bots, not terminals.

**The marketplace.** v1 had a signal marketplace, where providers sold subscriptions to their calls.
The v2 migration guide does not carry it over, and WunderTrading closed its own copy-trading
marketplace at the end of 2024. Cryptohopper and Gunbot sell one as a separate purchase. Somebody
else's trade calls are outside what this catalogue lists, so nothing on this page replaces the
marketplace. That is deliberate.

**The phone app.** The v1 iOS and Android apps are gone. v2 promises apps "later", and WunderTrading
is web only. HaasOnline's guide says plainly that it has no app-store application. Cryptohopper,
Bitsgap and Coinrule ship apps on both stores. OctoBot Cloud does too, but its iOS listing had gone
seventeen months without an update when we checked.

**Nine venues behind one login, Hyperliquid among them.** v2 connects Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget,
Gate, Kraken, KuCoin, Coinbase and Hyperliquid. Among the hosted picks, only WunderTrading covers all
nine. Bitsgap, HaasOnline, Cryptohopper and OctoBot Cloud connect no Hyperliquid at all. The
3Commas footer still names Bitstamp, Bitfinex and HTX, which v2 does not support. If you came here
for one of those, Bitsgap, HaasOnline and Gunbot list Bitfinex and HTX (Gunbot as Huobi Global).
WunderTrading lists Bitfinex for its signal bot only.

**Your history.** The deal history, statistics and bot settings lived on v1. The help centre's only
route to them is a Data Subject Access Request filed from the v1 account settings page. It names no
deadline and does not say whether that page still works after the closure. What you can rebuild
from is each exchange's own trade history.

## Migration notes

**Revoke the v1 keys at every exchange.** The vendor itself recommends it after the closure. v1 is
also the platform on which some users' API keys, secrets and passphrases were disclosed by a third party,
by 3Commas' own notice of 29 December 2022. Issue new keys per platform, with withdrawals off, and
whitelist the platform's IP addresses where the exchange allows it. On WunderTrading and on v2, the
platform's own API keys expire after three months unless they are locked to an IP. That matters
for anything you script against them.

**Look for orphaned orders before starting anything new.** Orders a v1 deal had already placed,
such as averaging orders and take-profits, were left live on the exchange with nothing managing
them. A new bot started on the same pair will trade alongside them without knowing they are there.
Cancel them, or close the positions by hand, on each exchange first.

**Every TradingView alert has to be made again, and the message format changes.** The v1 webhook
URL is dead. TradingView also keeps a saved copy of the script and its inputs in each alert, so
deleting the alert and creating a new one is the clean route. The v1 JSON template carried a
`secret` and a `max_lag`, the largest delay it would accept between the alert's timestamp and
execution, 300 seconds by default. A late signal past that was refused. v2's JSON guide documents
neither field, and its `code` is the only credential. Elsewhere the check is shaped differently.
OctoBot's `TOKEN` check ships switched off. Gunbot's passphrase goes at the start of a single line,
and the bot must listen on 443. Coinrule issues a secret per strategy and accepts at most 30 signals
per 60 seconds. HaasOnline emails you webhook URLs, which a script reads with `GetRemoteSignal()`.
Bitsgap takes nothing at all. The trade-offs are set out in
[how to send a chart alert to a bot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/how-to/send-a-chart-alert-to-a-bot). We have not compared
WunderTrading's signal message with v2's line by line; check it before reusing an alert template.

**Convert units on every number you copy.** HaasOnline's guide gives the two quiet breaks. 3Commas
sizes orders in the quote currency where HaasOnline uses the base coin, or contracts on futures, so
you divide by price. Its cooldowns are in seconds where HaasOnline's are in minutes. A setting typed
across unchanged is off by a factor of the price or of sixty. Check the unit of every field on any
platform you move to.

**Write the settings down outside the platform this time.** No platform here exports a bot in a
format another one reads. The vendor's own pre-shutdown advice was to note settings by hand. A file
of every bot's parameters, kept where you keep other records, makes the next rebuild an afternoon.
For the trades themselves, [export each exchange's history](https://cryptomarkets.tools/how-to/export-exchange-trade-history)
rather than relying on any bot's dashboard.

**Check what the bot earns its vendor.** WunderTrading's Premium plan is free on Hyperliquid in
return for a 0.035% builder fee per trade, and 3Commas sends exchange sign-ups through referral
links. That does not make either one worse. It is the reason a vendor's own list of recommended
venues is not neutral. [Who pays for your free trading bot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/guides/who-pays-for-your-free-trading-bot)
covers the general pattern.

## FAQ

### Did 3Commas shut down?

No. What closed is v1. The help centre says 3Commas v1 was deactivated on 11 September 2026, that every API connection to it was deactivated the same day, and that orders already on the exchange stayed live but were no longer managed. 3Commas still sells a v2 platform, which needs a new account.

### Can I move my v1 bots or deal history to v2?

The bots, no. The vendor's words are "Your strategies do not transfer to v2 automatically", and its advice was to note settings down before the closure. For data, the help centre's only route is a Data Subject Access Request filed from the v1 account settings page; it gives no deadline and does not say whether that page still answers after 11 September.

### Is WunderTrading the same thing as 3Commas v2?

The same engine, sold separately. 3Commas calls v2 "built in partnership with WunderTrading"; on 4 October 2026 v2's MCP server identified itself as wundertrading-tools 1.1.0, the name and version WunderTrading's own server reports. Plans, prices and exchange lists differ, with sixteen venues on WunderTrading against nine on v2.

### Do my TradingView alerts still reach a bot?

Not the v1 ones. Every v1 webhook stopped with the platform, so each alert needs a new URL and a new message. If you rebuild on v2, its signal-bot JSON guide documents no secret and no max_lag, so a late signal is no longer refused unless something you put in front of the bot refuses it.

### Am I owed a refund?

Only on an annual or longer plan with time left after 11 September 2026; the help centre says the unused part goes back to the original payment method within two to three weeks of the request. Monthly plans were last billed on or before 11 August, ran to the shutdown, and get nothing back.