# 3Commas Hosted DCA, grid and signal bots over nine exchanges, with your keys on their servers. *https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/3commas · Crypto Trading Bots & Execution SDKs* ## Facts ### At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | 3Commas | | Category | Crypto Trading Bots & Execution SDKs | | Job | automation | | Website | https://3commas.io | | Pricing model | subscription | | Free tier | true | | Open source | false | | Licence | none | | Self-hosted | false | | KYC required | false | | Tested hands-on | false | | Last updated | 2026-09-21 | ### Pricing | Tier | USD | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | 0 USD | month | | Starter | 20 USD | month | | Pro | 50 USD | month | | Expert | 140 USD | month | | Custom | on request | — | ### Coverage | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Asset classes | spot, perpetuals, futures | | Chains | none | | Venues | cex, derivatives | | Data latency | realtime | | Platforms | web, ios, android | | AI features | assistive | ### Interfaces | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | API | true | | Webhooks | true | | Scripting | Pine Script | | MCP server | false | | Export | csv | ### Capabilities Yes: charting, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, exchange_import, alerts No: screening, tax_reporting, news, onchain_data, wallet_tracking, derivatives_analytics *Verified: pricing 2026-09-20; capabilities 2026-09-20; coverage 2026-09-20.* ## What it is A hosted bot platform, and the largest of them by age — trading since 2017. You connect exchange accounts by API key, configure bots in a web interface, and they run on 3Commas' infrastructure whether or not your machine is on. Four bot types do the work. **DCA bots** average into a position on a schedule or a trigger. **Grid bots** work a range. **Signal bots** fire on an external trigger, including a TradingView alert carrying Pine Script logic. **SmartTrades** are manual entries with automated exits — take profit ladders, trailing stops — which is the terminal half of the product rather than the bot half. **How it differs from the open-source half of this category.** [Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade), [Hummingbot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/hummingbot) and [OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot) hand you a framework and a machine to run it on; here the strategy is configured in forms and the machine is theirs. That is the entire trade — you give up the ability to write arbitrary logic and to hold your own keys, and you get something that works in an afternoon and keeps working while you sleep. [OctoBot Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot-cloud) is the nearest comparison in shape, and it is a hosted build of an engine you could also run yourself. This one has no self-hosted build at all. ## Pricing **The pricing page opens on the annual tab, and the large figures are not the monthly rate.** Month-to-month it is **20, 50 and 140 dollars** for Starter, Pro and Expert; the 15, 38 and 105 on the cards are the annual-equivalent, and the vendor's own saving strings make the discount explicit — an annual subscription is nine months' price. The month-to-month figures are confirmed independently by the help centre's plan table. The free plan is real but is not a trading plan, and it is not shown on the pricing page at all. A seven-day trial of any paid tier exists and requires a valid payment method up front; skip it and the account lands on Free. **What separates the tiers is counts, not kinds** — bots, trades, backtests, connected accounts — with two exceptions that are kinds. Futures trading starts at Pro. A *writable* developer API starts at Expert; below it the API reads and cannot act. Billing is in euros including VAT for EU residents and dollars for most others, through Paddle. Paying in crypto is unavailable in the EEA, the UK, the United States, Canada and the UAE. ## Data & coverage **Nine exchanges**, and the vendor says nine on the pricing page: Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Gate, Kraken, KuCoin, Coinbase and Hyperliquid. The footer and several older pages still name Bitstamp, Bitfinex, HTX and BitMEX, and the security article's key table still lists Binance TR, Binance US, Bitfinex and Bitstamp — so the historical list is wider than the current one and the site has not finished catching up. **The backtester works on one-minute candles.** A triggered condition waits for its candle to close and fills at the close of the next one. Up to ten pairs per run, across what the vendor describes as 10-plus spot and futures venues and more than 10,000 pairs, with PnL, win rate, fees, maximum drawdown, standard deviation, Sharpe and Sortino in the output, and export. ## Integrations Signal bots accept TradingView webhooks, and Pine Script execution is on every paid plan — which is the practical reason many people are here rather than writing Python. The developer API is read-only below Expert. There is a first-party JavaScript SDK for the v2 trading API, MIT-licensed and pushed to in September 2026. **No MCP server, as far as anything published shows.** The pricing page's own translation file carries a row label for one, but the row does not render, the help centre's API section does not list it, and unauthenticated probes of six plausible endpoints returned 404, 403, redirects and no resolution — never the 401 a live gated server gives. The only 3Commas MCP server findable in public is third-party. Searched: the pricing page and its embedded data, the plans and API help articles, and those six hosts; `developers.3commas.io` sits behind a challenge and would settle it. ## Limitations **The 2022 key disclosure is the fact to weigh first.** 3Commas' own notice, still published, confirms that users' API keys, secrets and passphrases were disclosed by a third party, and that it asked the exchanges to revoke every key connected to the platform. The vendor has since built Sign Center — isolated key storage where its servers request a signature rather than holding the secret in the application — and supports IP whitelisting, but both are per-exchange and neither covers all nine venues. A hosted bot platform is a decision to let somebody else hold keys that can trade; this one has already been on the wrong end of that decision once, and says so. **The free plan cannot trade**, which makes it an evaluation mode rather than a tier. Demo trading is paid too, so there is no way to watch a configured bot behave before paying. **Two vendor surfaces disagree about what a plan includes.** The help centre says 1, 3 and 15 trading accounts; the pricing page says 1, 5 and 25. Both are current. Whichever is right, one of them is wrong on the page a buyer reads. **Funding is not mentioned anywhere in the backtesting documentation** — not in the DCA backtesting guide, not in the bot FAQ, not in the output metric list — while futures bots are sold from the Pro plan up. That is an absence in the documentation rather than a proven absence in the model, and it is the thing to establish before trusting a perpetuals backtest from it. **There is a signal marketplace, and it sells other people's calls.** Providers charge monthly for subscriptions to their signals, ranked by Sharpe into "Risky" and "Stable", and the vendor's page for it says in its own voice that a higher price generally means a better signal and that signals are "certainly worth your time and investment". That is advice, it is not what this catalogue lists, and the card is here because it is not what the product leads with — the marketplace is not in the primary navigation and the homepage sells automation. Use the bots; treat the marketplace as a different business sharing a login. **The AI assistant does one thing.** It is Gemini-backed, it creates and backtests DCA bot strategies through chat, and the vendor states plainly that it cannot touch SmartTrades, grid bots or signal bots and does not give financial advice. Token budgets run from 500,000 a month on Free to 10 million on Expert. ## Alternatives Against the open-source half of this category the choice is hosting and keys, not features: [OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot) and [Freqtrade](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/freqtrade) cost nothing and cost you a server. [OctoBot Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot-cloud) is the same bargain as this one at a lower price with fewer bot types. [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper) is the direct competitor on shape — hosted bots, forms rather than code, a marketplace attached. [Bitsgap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitsgap) is the third of that shape and the one to check against this card on a single axis: it has no public API, no webhooks and no TradingView alerts at all, so anything you want to drive from outside the platform is an argument for this one. If what you actually want is to write the strategy rather than configure it, [Jesse](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/jesse) and [NautilusTrader](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/nautilus-trader) are the other shelf entirely. ## FAQ ### Can I run a bot on the free plan? No. The free plan explicitly cannot trade. It connects up to two exchange accounts for portfolio tracking, runs DCA and grid backtests and gives an AI assistant a small token budget. Everything that places an order — signal bots, futures, the developer API, even demo trading — starts at a paid plan. ### Were 3Commas API keys ever leaked? Yes, and the vendor confirmed it in writing. A notice published on 29 December 2022 states that some users' API keys, secrets and passphrases were disclosed by a third party, and that 3Commas asked Binance, KuCoin and other exchanges to revoke every key connected to the platform. Earlier communications had attributed the losses to phishing. That history is the context for every key-custody decision on this card. ### What does the backtester actually simulate? One-minute candles and nothing finer. When a condition is met it waits for that candle to close and fills at the close of the next one, so there is no tick data and no intra-candle path. The documentation does not mention perpetual funding anywhere, which matters because two of the three paid plans sell futures bots. ### How does 3Commas make money besides the subscription? Exchange referrals, at scale. Every sign-up button on its supported-exchanges page routes through the vendor's own link shortener into affiliate URLs carrying its codes on Bybit, OKX, Kraken and Bitget. Its affiliate page offers partners up to 25 percent recurring commission plus a bonus tiered on referred trading volume, and advertises "5x higher exchange revenue" on top. The venue you sign up through is worth something to them. ## Also worth comparing - [Bitsgap](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/bitsgap.md) — Hosted grid, DCA and futures bots on seventeen venues, with no API and no webhooks. - [Cryptohopper](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/cryptohopper.md) — Hosted spot bots built in forms, one bot per subscription, with a marketplace attached. - [OctoBot Cloud](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot-cloud.md) — The OctoBot engine hosted by the vendor, from free to $29.99, with no backtester at all. - [GoCryptoTrader](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gocryptotrader.md) — A Go trading engine for 22 exchanges that has never cut a release or a tag. - [Gunbot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/gunbot.md) — A closed-source bot you install once, licensed against an ERC-20 wallet you control. - [OctoBot](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/octobot.md) — GPL-3.0 Python bot with a web interface for grid, DCA, basket and TradingView strategies.