# What to use instead of Trality

Trality shut down its bot platform on 31 July 2023. Where its browser Python bots and drag-and-drop rule bots go, and why the code has to be rewritten.

*https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/trality*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | Trality |
| Status | retired |
| Stopped serving | 2023-07-31 |
| Website | https://www.trality.com |
| Category | Crypto Trading Bots |

A hosted bot platform with a browser Python editor and a drag-and-drop rule builder, free backtests, and plans from free to 59.99 euros a month.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how much of the original’s job each one covers, closest first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [QuantConnect Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/quantconnect-cloud.md) — The same shape, Python written in a browser, backtested and run live on the vendor's servers, with Binance, Kraken and Coinbase among its venues.
2. [Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade.md) — Python strategies backtested and run live as one class, on Binance and Kraken among others. Free, but it runs on a machine you keep on.
3. [Jesse](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/jesse.md) — A Python backtesting framework with its own research loop. Backtests are free; paper and live trading are a paid plugin from 899 dollars, once.
4. [Coinrule](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinrule.md) — Trality's own pick for the Rule Builder. Indicator rules assembled without code, hosted, with Binance, Coinbase and Kraken among its venues.
5. [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper.md) — Also on Trality's list for rule bots. Indicator strategies built in forms and run hosted on eleven live exchanges, one trading bot per subscription.

## The product

Trality was a hosted bot platform with two ways to build a bot. The Code Editor, which Trality
called the world's first browser-based Python bot editor, ran your Python on its servers. A bot
was a set of handler functions under a `@schedule` decorator, with an interval and a symbol, and
Trality called each one on that tick with a `state` and a `data` object. The Rule Builder
assembled technical indicators into boolean rules by drag and drop, for people who did not code.
Backtests were unlimited and free on every plan. A marketplace let creators rent their bots to
other users.

Plans were priced by what a bot could do rather than by the bot. The 2022 pricing page ran from
Pawn, free, to Queen at 59.99 euros a month. The tiers set a cap on monthly trading volume (5,000
euros on the free plan, unlimited on Queen), the smallest tick interval (60 minutes free, one
minute on Queen) and the number of live bots. The homepage showed Binance, Binance.US, Bitpanda,
Coinbase and Kraken as exchanges, plus margin trading on Binance accounts.

**The vendor announced the end itself, on its blog, on 6 July 2023:**

> Today, we are announcing a very significant change: Trality will be winding down its
> consumer-facing product suite on July 31, 2023.

The post blamed "the current market environment" and said Trality was talking to partners about a
new home for the product. From 31 July the site carried a one-line banner saying Trality "has been
discontinued as of 31.7.2023".

## What to use instead

Trality sold two products under one login, and they go to different places.

**If you wrote Python in the Code Editor,** [QuantConnect Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/quantconnect-cloud) is
the nearest in shape. You write Python in a browser IDE, backtest on the vendor's hosted crypto
data and deploy live on its servers, to six venues that include Binance, Kraken and Coinbase.
The free plan backtests without limit but cannot trade live or paper-trade, so live trading means
a paid seat. If you would rather own the machine, [Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade) is free and runs
one Python class as the backtest, the dry run and the live bot, with Binance and Kraken on its
supported list. [Jesse](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/jesse) is the other Python framework here; backtesting is free and
live trading is a closed plugin bought once. The trade-off between those two is on
[Freqtrade vs Jesse](https://cryptomarkets.tools/compare/freqtrade-vs-jesse). [OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot), one of Trality's own
suggestions, is a self-hosted Python bot whose strategies you mostly configure in a web
interface.

**If you built bots in the Rule Builder,** Trality's own list pointed at
[Coinrule](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/coinrule) and [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper), both hosted and both built
around indicator conditions you assemble without code. Coinrule sells rules by the plan, with a
free paper plan. Cryptohopper sells one trading bot per subscription. The third name on
Trality's list, [3Commas](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/3commas), is carded too, but read
[what changed at 3Commas](https://cryptomarkets.tools/alternatives/3commas) before you move there.

The hosted platforms are compared 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

**Python in a browser, hosted, for ten euros a month.** Trality ran your own code on its own
servers at consumer prices. QuantConnect Cloud does the same job for a different buyer. Its
Researcher tier shows 84 dollars a month for a recommended configuration rather than a fixed list
price. Freqtrade and Jesse cost nothing to download, and you pay in a server
and your own uptime.

**Bitpanda.** Trality connected to Bitpanda accounts. None of the picks lists Bitpanda as a
supported exchange.

**One place for both kinds of bot.** A team where one person coded and another dragged rules
together worked in one account. Every pick here is one or the other.

**The marketplace, by design.** Renting a bot somebody else wrote is buying a trading decision,
which this catalogue does not list. Nothing on this page replaces that half, and it is not meant
to.

## Migration notes

**The logic carries over; the code does not.** A Trality bot was handlers under `@schedule`,
reading indicator values from Trality's `data` object and placing orders through Trality's own
functions. Freqtrade wants a strategy class over a pandas dataframe, and QuantConnect wants an
algorithm class on LEAN. Rewrite the scaffolding, keep the rules, and test the indicators first:
a library that warms up an RSI or a moving average differently will move every signal.

**Re-run the backtest instead of trusting the old one.** Trality's numbers came from Trality's
engine, with its own fee and fill assumptions. A result that does not reproduce on the new
platform does not tell you which one is wrong.
[What a crypto backtest assumes](https://cryptomarkets.tools/guides/what-a-crypto-backtest-assumes) lists what to check, and
[how to backtest with fees and funding](https://cryptomarkets.tools/how-to/backtest-with-fees-and-funding) covers the two
costs most often left out.

**Mind the interval your plan bought.** A strategy tuned on one-minute ticks on Queen will not
behave the same on a platform whose cheap plan polls every five or ten minutes. Cryptohopper's
cheapest paid plan, for example, runs a strategy every ten minutes.

**Revoke the old exchange keys.** Trality held API keys to your exchange accounts. Delete them at
each exchange and issue new trade-only keys per platform, with withdrawals off.
[What your API key lets a bot do](https://cryptomarkets.tools/guides/what-your-api-key-lets-a-bot-do) covers the
permissions, and [how to export exchange trade history](https://cryptomarkets.tools/how-to/export-exchange-trade-history)
recovers the fills Trality's dashboard used to show.

## FAQ

### When exactly did Trality shut down?

On 31 July 2023. Moritz Putzhammer announced on the Trality blog on 6 July 2023, in a post titled Trality Winding Down Consumer-Facing Product Suite, that the company would wind down its consumer-facing product suite on that date. After it, a banner on the site read "Trality has been discontinued as of 31.7.2023."

### Did Trality's product move to a new home?

The notice said Trality was in talks with potential partners about taking the product to a new home, and that it was too early for specifics. We found no later Trality announcement naming one. Treat the product as gone.

### Can I run my Trality Python bot somewhere else?

Not as it stands. Trality bots were written against Trality's own API, with handler functions under a schedule decorator that its servers called on each tick interval. No other platform runs that API, so the trading logic carries over and the code around it is a rewrite.

### What did Trality itself recommend?

For the Code Editor, Quadency, OctoBot and Zignaly. For the Rule Builder, Cryptohopper, 3Commas and Coinrule. Quadency has since been renamed Quad Terminal, and Zignaly sells copy trading, which this catalogue does not list. OctoBot, Cryptohopper, 3Commas and Coinrule have cards here.