Cryptohopper

What it is

A hosted spot bot platform, trading since 2017 and run by Cryptohopper BV in the Netherlands. You connect exchanges by API key or OAuth, build a strategy by assembling indicators in a visual designer rather than writing code, and the bot runs on the vendor's infrastructure.

The Strategy Designer is the real product: more than 130 indicators and candlestick patterns, combined into buy and sell conditions with no programming. Around it sit position sync, reserve positions, trailing stops, DCA, config pools and a live trading terminal, all available on every paid tier.

How it differs from 3Commas, the nearest competitor in shape. 3Commas sells bot types — DCA, grid and signal — and meters how many of each you may run. Cryptohopper sells one bot and meters how hard it may work: how many markets it scans, how many positions it holds, how often it re-checks. Neither is better; they answer different questions, and the second one catches people out.

Pricing

The pricing page opens on the annual tab. Month-to-month the tiers are 29, 69 and 129 dollars; the 24.16, 57.50 and 107.50 in large type are the annual per-month rate at the vendor's stated 17 percent discount. Prices exclude VAT where it applies. A three-day Explorer trial starts with every sign-up, and paid subscriptions carry a two-week refund window.

One trading bot per subscription, on every tier. Explorer, Adventurer and Hero all read 1 in the comparison table's "Number of bots" row, and the vendor's note is explicit that a second bot type means a second subscription; the help centre's subscriptions page says each subscription covers one real-funds bot and one paper-trading bot. What the extra money buys is capacity — 15 markets scanned rises to 50 then 75, 80 open positions to 200 then 500, a ten-minute strategy interval falls to five then two minutes, event-based triggers go from 2 to 5 to 10 — and at Hero, three bot types that exist nowhere below it: market making, exchange arbitrage and triangular arbitrage. Backtests are counted in two rows, 5, 10 and 25 strategy backtests and 1, 5 and 10 bot-and-template backtests, with no period printed beside either.

Each plan card also lists 10, 25 or 65 "Portfolio/Manual bots", a line that appears nowhere in the comparison table beneath it. The vendor does not define the term: the table has a free Manual Bot row and a portfolio-management row but no count for either, the Portfolio Bot feature page describes automatic rebalancing without naming a plan or a limit, and none of the 284 URLs in the documentation sitemap is about a portfolio or manual bot (all read 9 October 2026). What one of those bots may do, and whether it draws on the subscription's one trading bot, is unconfirmed.

Open positions are worded two ways. The plan cards print "80 open positions / exchange", and 200 and 500 above it. The comparison table's row gives the same figures as positions open "at any moment in time", and the subscriptions help page as "the maximum number of concurrent trades the bot can track". Neither page says what "per exchange" adds to a subscription that covers one bot.

The free tier is called Pioneer, is not rendered on the pricing page, and does not automate anything. It exists so you can connect exchanges, trade by hand and read market data.

Data & coverage

Twelve exchanges in the pricing table — Binance, Binance.US, BingX, BitMart, Bitvavo, Bybit, Coinbase Advanced, Crypto.com, HTX, Kraken, KuCoin and OKX — of which the exchanges page renders eleven with per-venue market counts and thirty-day uptime figures, nine of them carrying an "Official Partner" badge. Kraken and Binance.US do not carry it.

One of the twelve no longer trades. BitMart stopped trading on 26 August 2026, and it was still in the pricing table and on the exchanges page on 25 October 2026. A BitMart connection has no market behind it, so count eleven venues a hopper can actually trade on.

Spot only, and the vendor says so rather than leaving it to be discovered. Its MCP documentation states there are no perpetuals, futures or options and no near-term plan for them, and annotates Bybit and OKX as spot-only for the same reason. Nothing in 284 documentation pages covers futures, leverage or margin. For a category where most of the money and most of the risk sit in perpetuals, that is the boundary of the product.

Integrations

A first-party MCP server, verified live. An unauthenticated call to the vendor's MCP endpoint returns HTTP 401 with an OAuth resource-metadata header and a message asking for an API key — a real gated server, not a documentation endpoint. It exposes four read tools: ticker, order book, candles from one minute to one day, and a market list. It does not drive bots or place orders. Weekly call budgets run from 6,000 on the free tier to 1,250,000 on Hero, with historical queries costing five or twenty times a baseline call below Hero, resetting every Friday.

TradingView alerts are supported on all tiers. A REST API exists but is a Hero-only line item, and its reference sits behind a login.

Limitations

The vendor leads with social trading, and this catalogue does not list that half. Marketplace is a top-level navigation item; Copy Bot and Social Trading are the first two entries in the features menu; the homepage runs a "Social Trading Platform" section inviting you to subscribe to signals; and a copy-trading block sits on the pricing page quoting nine to a hundred dollars a month. The vendor's own documentation is candid about what a signal is — a third-party analyst "takes over your trading decisions" and tells your bot what to buy. That is somebody else's judgement sold as a subscription, it is a separate purchase from the plan prices above, and nothing on this card evaluates it. The card exists because what the subscription itself buys is automation you configure. The vendor's site-wide disclaimer covers the rest, and includes the sentence that profits shown on the marketplace do not indicate future results.

The "Shorting" row does not mean shorting. Its own tooltip reads: automatically buy back the same position after the price drops by a set percentage. That is re-entry, not a short. On a spot-only platform there is nothing to short, and the row is the clearest example on the site of a word doing more work in a comparison table than it does in the product.

The backtester's availability is unsettled and its scope is narrow. Beyond the contradiction between the vendor's own pages, what is documented is limited: a maximum test period of one month, one run at a time with the next unlocking 24 hours after the previous one started, triggers and TradingView alerts excluded, and a maker/taker fee you type in yourself rather than one taken from the venue. The vendor also warns that results will not match live behaviour because the live bot checks sell conditions more often than the backtester's one-minute cadence.

"Your AI" is a strategy picker, not a strategy writer. Algorithm Intelligence takes strategies you already imported and chooses among them per pair and per market condition. It is Hero-only, and it does not produce a strategy.

Cryptohopper is not a regulated entity, which the site states itself on every page.

Alternatives

3Commas is the direct competitor and meters bots rather than capacity; it also trades futures, which this does not. Its v1 was switched off on 11 September 2026, and v2 runs on the engine it shares with WunderTrading. Bitsgap meters a third way — counts of active bots per type — and trades futures too, at the cost of having no API or webhooks whatsoever. OctoBot Cloud is cheaper and hosts an engine you could otherwise run yourself. If you would rather own the deployment, OctoBot and Freqtrade cost nothing but a server, Gunbot is the paid closed-source one you install yourself, and Jesse and NautilusTrader are where you go to write the strategy in code instead of assembling it in a form.