Gunbot

What it is

A trading bot you download and run yourself, on Windows, macOS, Linux or a Raspberry Pi, driving your exchange accounts from a local interface. It is closed source and self-hosted — a combination almost nothing else in this category offers, and the reason this card exists alongside the hosted platforms and the open-source engines.

New buyers get a subscription, not a lifetime licence. On 8 and 24 October 2026 the plans page sold one product, Gunbot Unlimited at 29 euros a month. Three weeks earlier the same page sold lifetime licences, and the people who bought one still own it: the vendor now sells them upgrades rather than selling a lifetime licence to anyone new.

The strategy library is the product. A grid family — stepgrid, stepgridhybrid, stepgridscalp, sgsfutures, spotgrid, spotgridadvanced, futuresgrid and stepgridhedge — sits alongside a builder layer whose buy and sell methods can be mixed freely: ADX, ATR trailing stops, Bollinger variants, EMA spread, Ichimoku, MACD, support and resistance, TSSL and a dozen more. Above that sits AutoConfig, which rewrites your settings and adds or removes pairs on rules you define, and above that plain JavaScript, with module imports and filesystem access, for strategies the presets cannot express.

The legal entity behind the brand is Gunthar de Niro S.L.R.; the product is sold and supported as Gunbot.

Liveness, in dates. The current build is 31.3.0, and the Linux and macOS packages on the vendor's download host were last modified on 13 September 2026 — 288 MB and 301 MB respectively. The newest post on the vendor's blog is dated 18 March 2026.

Pricing

One subscription for new buyers, and lifetime upgrades for people who already hold a licence. The plans page and the two pricing articles in the support FAQ were re-read on 24 October 2026; the upgrade page was last read on 8 October.

Gunbot Unlimited is the only thing on the plans page. It is priced at "€ 29 /month", with "Monthly or prepaid billing" and no lifetime option beside it. The page says it includes spot, futures, DeFi and arbitrage, every supported exchange with unlimited API keys, the full strategy library and the backtesting toolkit, and that the trading core runs on your own computer or server. The interface that drives it is either the vendor's hosted workspace, Gunbot Live, or a copy you host yourself. There is no free tier and no trial.

Prepaid terms cost exactly the monthly rate. Six months is 174 dollars and twelve months 348, which is 29 times six and 29 times twelve, so committing buys no discount. The two prepaid links are labelled "Crypto payment · No automatic renewal". The vendor sends a reminder five days before a prepaid term expires, and a new payment extends it from the old expiry date.

The currency is not settled by the vendor's own pages. The plans page prints euros for the monthly plan. Its own embedded product data gives the same plan as 29 USD, its prepaid links quote USD, and the support FAQ's articles on pricing and on additional costs both quote "$29 USD/month" and "$29/month". This card records the euro figure because the plans page is where a monthly order starts. We did not go through checkout, so which currency PayPal actually charges is unverified. Ask before paying if the difference matters to you.

Lifetime licences are no longer sold to new buyers. On 21 September 2026 the plans page sold three — Standard, Pro and DeFi at 199, 299 and 499 euros list, discounted that day to 44.25, 111.75 and 186.75 under a "Summer deals" banner, with 500, 750 and 2,500 GUNTHY tokens included — and Unlimited was the new line beside them. On 8 October none of the three was on the page, and on 24 October there was still none. On 8 October the support FAQ said "lifetime purchase options may also be available" and sent readers to the plans page, which listed none. On 24 October its pricing article says only that existing lifetime licences "remain valid for its entitled features", and that their bots can be connected to the Gunbot Live workspace under an active Unlimited subscription.

Existing holders could still pay once on 8 October. The upgrade page sold lifetime upgrades to DeFi: 160 euros from Standard, 70 from Pro, 70 from the five-slot Ultimate, each shown against a struck-through figure of 900, 600 and 150. It promised "no recurring costs" and said software updates are free for existing users, "including major new versions". The page also had a tab for upgrades to Pro whose contents were not in the markup it served, so those prices are not recorded here. On 24 October the upgrade page was not in the vendor's sitemap and /plans/upgrade/ redirected to the plans page, so whether these upgrades are still sold is unverified.

The support article that contradicted the plans page now agrees with it, in another currency. On 21 September the article titled "Are there any additional costs involved in using Gunbot?" answered that Gunbot offers lifetime licences with no recurring costs. On 8 October it called Unlimited "the primary product at $29/month". On 24 October it says Unlimited costs "$29/month" and does not mention lifetime licences.

What Unlimited asks of your wallet is not stated. Its quickstart asks for the order number and a Gunthy wallet address sent in the order email, and the FAQ on running several instances says all of them share "the same license wallet". None of the plans page, the two pricing articles, the Unlimited quickstart or the page on connecting an installation, read on 8 October, says whether a token balance must be held on that wallet. On 8 October the plans page listed "What are Gunthy tokens?" as a question without its answer in the markup. On 24 October the question was gone, and neither the plans page nor the two pricing articles mention tokens at all. The token rules in Limitations below are written for lifetime licences; whether they apply to Unlimited is a question for support.

On 21 September the shop took Bitcoin, altcoins, stablecoins and PayPal. On 8 October the plans page said only "Secure payments". On 24 October it names two rails: the monthly plan renews through PayPal and is cancelled in PayPal's recurring-payments settings, and the prepaid terms are paid in crypto.

Data & coverage

Twenty-three spot venues and nine futures venues, connected one API slot at a time. Spot covers Binance and Binance US, Bitfinex, Bitget, BitMEX, BingX, Bybit, CEX, Coinbase Advanced Trade, Crypto.com, Gate.io, HitBTC, Huobi Global, Kraken, KuCoin, MEXC, OKX and Poloniex, plus four decentralised platforms — PancakeSwap, dYdX v3 and v4, HyperLiquid and Aster — which are DeFi-tier only. Futures runs on Binance Futures, BitMEX and its testnet, Bitget, Bybit, BYDFi, dYdX, Kraken Futures and OKX.

BitMEX is on both lists and no longer trades. The exchange ceased trading on 23 September 2026; Gunbot's exchanges page still listed it on 4 October 2026, for futures. Take it and its testnet out and the venues an order can actually reach are twenty-two spot and seven futures.

One entry in that list is not a crypto venue at all: Alpaca, added for US stocks and ETFs. It is a genuine capability and it is outside what this catalogue covers, so nothing here evaluates it. The same goes for the MetaTrader 4 and 5 and NinjaTrader 8 integrations that the plans page lists under Unlimited on 24 October 2026: they run Gunbot strategies through a broker account on those platforms, and the page says the broker, the platform and the market data are paid for separately.

Like every engine in this category, Gunbot ships no market data. Prices, candles and books come from whichever venue you connected, on that venue's terms and subject to that venue's outage.

Integrations

A documented REST API, covering authentication, balances, assets and pairs, config files, market data, PnL and system status, with first-party JavaScript and Python SDKs published by the vendor. TradingView alerts arrive either by passphrase-protected webhook or through an IMAP listener that reads alert emails — the second is unusual and is the fallback when outbound webhooks are not an option. Telegram delivers trade notifications.

No MCP server. Zero mentions across 599 URLs in the vendor's sitemap. The two "Helpful GPTs" in the site footer are custom GPTs hosted at OpenAI that answer questions about Gunbot; they are not an interface the product speaks, and they do not make this flag true.

Limitations

A lifetime licence is a token balance you must keep, and the two documentation sites disagreed about how much. Setup creates an ERC-20 wallet — Gunbot can generate one and write the credentials to a text file — and the licence is registered against that address together with your API keys and a number of GUNTHY. The vendor's wiki is explicit about what that number does: it is part of the licence key, you should "hold these tokens at all times to be sure your Gunbot can run", 1,500 tokens buys three API slots and 2,500 buys five, and a rank derived from the balance unlocks bitRage at rank 20 and Market Maker at rank 10 — modules the vendor says are not for sale separately. Access persists only while the balance does not fall.

The amounts on the two sites were not the same amounts. On 21 September 2026 the shop sold Standard, Pro and DeFi with 500, 750 and 2,500 tokens included; the wiki, re-read on 8 October, lists requirements for Starter 400, Standard 1,000, Pro 1,500 and Ultimate 2,500, adding that discounted licences have reduced requirements. Those are different tier names and different numbers for the same product, and nothing on either site reconciles them. The shop no longer sells any of the three, and the wiki page still does not mention Unlimited at all — so if you hold a licence, the count that matters is what was airdropped to your address, and if you are buying now, the token question is one for support. What neither site states is the grace period: how far the balance may fall, and for how long, before the bot stops.

The archive of previous builds is decorative. The downloads page lists every release back to 31.0.3, and the links return 1,188 bytes of HTML — the download app's own page — rather than a zip. Three versions checked, three identical shells. If a release breaks your setup, the vendor's own archive will not put the previous one back.

Closed source, self-hosted. You own the machine, the uptime and the key file, and you still cannot read what is executing your strategy. That is why this card appears in self-hosted and not in open source, and it is the only paid application on that list rather than a library.

Most of what you will read about Gunbot was written by someone who earns on the sale. Seventeen authorised resellers are listed by the vendor, each on its own subdomain, and the site's own content-security policy frames reseller-hosted demo instances on half a dozen third-party hosts and non-standard ports. The reseller programme pays up to 100 dollars per licence with 30-day attribution; a separate referral programme pays users. None of that is hidden and none of it is unusual — it is the reason to read the vendor's documentation rather than the reviews.

Copy trading is announced, from somebody else. On 24 October 2026 the features page listed copy trading as "Coming soon" to Unlimited, through a marketplace it calls CopyTrade Hub where strategy providers publish signals and subscribers copy them, and copytrading.gunbot.com did not answer. The licence on this card buys an engine you configure; a marketplace of that kind sells somebody else's decisions, and nothing here evaluates it.

The leaderboard is self-selected user data. Bots appear only if their owner opts in, with a minimum of fifteen days of history and one entry per licence, refreshed every five minutes, and each entry offers its strategy settings for download. It is more honest than a backtest gallery — these are live accounts — and it is still a ranking of people who chose to be ranked.

Alternatives

If the attraction is running it yourself, Freqtrade, OctoBot and Hummingbot cost nothing, ship their source, and ask for the same server. The trade is the strategy library and the support address that come with a paid licence.

If the attraction is not touching a server, Bitsgap, 3Commas and Cryptohopper rent you the same kind of grid and DCA automation monthly, with your keys on their infrastructure — and OctoBot Cloud does it with an engine whose code you can still read.

And if you would rather write the strategy than configure it, Jesse and NautilusTrader start from code instead of ending at it.