Gainium

What it is

A hosted platform for the three bot shapes most crypto automation is built from — DCA, grid and combo — plus smart trades (a single order with take-profit and stop-loss logic), running on exchange accounts you connect with trade-only API keys. Gainium never holds funds; by its own FAQ the keys are stored encrypted, carry no withdrawal permission and can be IP-whitelisted where the exchange allows it. Strategies are configured in forms, not code; TradingView alerts can drive a bot through webhooks; a browser-side backtester and paper trading sit beside the live bots.

The company is Gainium LLC, of Sheridan, Wyoming.

The AI assistant walks up to this catalogue's line, and the card flags it. Max Gain AI reads your bots, deals and balances, debugs a stalled bot, drafts a bot you describe and queries the screener — all acting on your own account, with every action confirmed by you. But the vendor also sells it as help "with trading decisions", and its own illustrative conversation has the assistant offering three named coins from the screener and asking whether to create bots for them. That is an opinion on what to trade, and it is why ai_features reads recommendations here. The rest of the product executes your decisions.

One vendor page is not a review. The site's "bot database" ranks eleven trading bots and puts Gainium first, scored 9 out of 10 by Gainium.

Pricing

In US dollars, from the pricing page read on 23 October 2026. The page opens on monthly billing; annual is 20% less.

The unit is a bot credit. A running bot locks credits and releases them when it stops, so a plan buys capacity rather than trades. The page's own calculator prices a grid bot at 250 credits, a single-pair DCA bot at 50 (plus 0.5 per extra coin, 1 per deal beyond ten and 1 per indicator per coin), a combo bot at 200 plus 200 per extra coin, and a smart trade at 10. Consumable credits are a second balance, spent and not returned, on server-side backtests and AI queries.

Free: 250 bot credits and no consumable credits — one grid bot or five single-pair DCA bots — on Bybit, Bitget, KuCoin and Hyperliquid only, single-pair bots only, with paper trading.

Unlimited Trading: unlimited multi-pair bots on Hyperliquid alone, at no subscription, paid for through a builder fee you approve on Hyperliquid: 0.07% on the sell side of spot trades and 0.045% on both sides of futures trades, when the fee is paid in USDC. That is a percentage of every trade instead of a monthly price, and on active bots it can cost more than a paid plan would.

Paid plans add every exchange, multi-pair bots, webhooks, the API, portfolio tracking and consumable credits:

• Mini 15 a month (12 annually) — 1,000 bot credits, 50 consumable;
• Edge 22 (17.60) — 2,000 and 100;
• Prime 33 (26.40) — 4,000 and 200;
• Elite 49 (39.20) — 8,000 and 400;
• Master 73 (58.40) — 16,000 and 800;
• Legend 109 (87.20) — 32,000 and 1,600.

Four VIP tiers sit behind a toggle on the same page, annual only: the page's own figures put them at 104.64, 125.57, 150.68 and 180.82 dollars a month for 64,000, 128,000, 256,000 and 512,000 bot credits, each with 1,600 consumable credits.

Every paid plan has a 14-day trial with no card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Cards and PayPal are accepted, and cryptocurrency for annual plans. A downgrade keeps existing bots running but blocks new ones until the credits fit.

Data & coverage

Nine exchanges in the site's exchange list: Binance, Binance US, Bybit, OKX, KuCoin, Coinbase, Bitget, Hyperliquid and Kraken. The free plan reaches four of them. Spot and perpetual futures both run bots; Hyperliquid is the one decentralised venue.

Gainium supplies no market data of its own. Prices and fills come from the connected exchange. The screener — also offered as a free page and a Chrome extension, no account needed — refreshes hourly by the vendor's description, so it picks coins for a bot rather than timing one.

Integrations

MCP server, first-party. The hosted endpoint at mcp.gainium.io answered an unauthenticated initialize request with 401 on 23 October 2026, while a fabricated path beside it returned 404; it is the OAuth endpoint the vendor's README says serves the Claude connector directory. The same server ships as the gainium-mcp npm package (3.3.0, MIT, its repository field pointing at the vendor's GitHub organisation) for local use with an API key pair. It manages bots, deals and balances; backtests run through it spend consumable credits. A ChatGPT app and n8n nodes are listed beside it.

Webhooks in, on paid plans: each bot has a URL that accepts actions from TradingView or any HTTP source — open a deal, add funds, close all deals, stop the bot — singly or as an array.

API on every paid plan, with key pairs issued in the app.

Self-hosting. The Community Edition runs the whole platform with Docker Compose from the docker-sh repository — backend, dashboard, exchange and WebSocket connectors, paper trading, backtester, MongoDB, Redis and RabbitMQ — with unlimited bot credits. The compose file pulls prebuilt images from the vendor's own registry, docker.gainium.io, rather than building them from the published source. The repositories were live on 23 October 2026: the main backend's last commit is dated that day and the deployment repository's 18 October.

Limitations

"Open source" on the pricing page, source-available in the licence. The deployment repository, the backtester, the indicators library and the exchange connectors are MIT. The main backend (main-app-sh) and the dashboard (main-dash-sh) are under FCL-1.0-Apache-2.0: free for personal, research and internal use, with a Competing Use clause that names commercial trading-bot services to third parties, and an Apache 2.0 licence that arrives for each version two years after it was first released. Running it for yourself is allowed; running it as a service for others is not.

A self-hosted install has to set its own encryption key. The deployment README says that without ENCRYPT_KEY the stored exchange credentials are encrypted with a key compiled into the image — the same in every installation and readable in the public source — so a copy of the database alone would decrypt them. The setup script generates one; if it is lost, the stored credentials cannot be recovered and every user has to enter their keys again.

The free plan does not include the things that make it a platform. No live TradingView webhooks (the pricing page lists the integration among paid-plan features, though the paper-trading page says paper bots take them), no multi-pair bots, four exchanges, and no consumable credits, so no server-side backtests and no AI queries. The in-app backtester, which runs in your browser, is unlimited on every plan.

Credits make the bill a function of the bot list. One grid bot uses the whole free allowance; a combo bot over five coins needs 1,000 credits, Mini's entire allowance.

Alternatives

3Commas, Bitsgap and Cryptohopper are the hosted DCA and grid platforms Gainium is priced against — compared in 3Commas vs Cryptohopper vs Bitsgap. Coinrule builds rules rather than bot types and also ships an MCP server. OctoBot and Freqtrade are open source under OSI licences, for a reader who wants to self-host without a competing-use clause.