Veles

What it is

A hosted bot platform. You connect an exchange account with an API key, build a bot in a web editor or in the iOS and Android apps, and it runs on Veles's servers. The bot is a DCA one: a single order or a grid of averaging orders, long or short, with entries and exits on more than forty built-in indicators, price and volume filters, a schedule or TradingView alerts, and take-profit, stop-loss and reinvest settings. A multi-pair bot watches several coins and enters whichever signals first. Locks on each API binding limit how many bots can hold a deal at once. Grid bots and an "AI Strategy Generator" are both marked "Soon" on the homepage on 24 October 2026.

The backtester is the other half. It runs a bot over one-minute exchange candles, or over tick data on Bybit Futures on the Pro and Quant tariffs, and reports gross and net results, maximum adverse excursion, stop-loss frequency and comparisons with buy-and-hold. Market Scan runs one strategy across many pairs at once and builds a multi-pair bot from the pairs you tick. The homepage's "Find the optimal strategy parameters with AI" is parameter optimisation inside that backtester, on Pro and Quant. It tunes a strategy you wrote and picks nothing to trade, which is why ai_features is assistive.

Ready-made bots are "pre-configured trading strategies prepared by Veles experts", in For Beginners, Crypto and TradFi groups, plus a Community group built by users. Copying one gives you an ordinary bot to edit, backtest and run on your own key. It costs nothing extra, and the profit share below is charged on it as on anything else. The homepage prints a one-year return beside each preset. This card does not repeat those figures, and the help centre itself says a backtest is required "for any strategy: purchased, taken from the training bot showcase, or your own".

The operator is VELES MIDDLE EAST - FZCO in the IFZA Business Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, by the site footer and the user agreement, and the about page dates the platform to 2021.

Two things Veles sells are outside this card. Veles Broker, an optional way to trade without an exchange account of your own, is described under Limitations. Subscription Signals are entry and exit filters bought in the Marketplace; the help centre says they are "not an internal product of Veles, but are provided by professional traders", sold by the calendar month from the platform balance, and "a separate product". That is somebody else's trading decision sold as a subscription, and this catalogue does not list those signals or judge them.

Pricing

Read on 24 October 2026 from the pricing article in the help centre, the service-cost page, the user agreement and the backtest tariff article. There is no platform subscription — "no subscription fees", by the service-cost page.

The fee is charged on the gross profit of each winning deal. 20% of "gross profit (before exchange fees)", taken from your internal Veles balance automatically after each profitable trade. The help centre adds that "only the 'Profit' value in your statistics is counted — losses from stop-losses are not deducted", so the fee follows winning deals, not the month's result. A bot you configured and a copied preset pay the same rate. None of the pages read prices a preset separately.

The monthly cap is described three ways. The homepage says "No more than $50 per month for one trading type"; the help centre says 50 USDT a month "for each type of trading (Spot and Futures USDT-M)"; the user agreement (§3.4) sets 50 USD for spot, adds 50 for USDS-M futures and another 50 for COIN-M futures, which would make the ceiling 150, not 100. It also says (§3.5) that a fee is never split, so one large deal near the cap is charged in full and can take the month past it. On Hyperliquid there is no cap at all: you approve a builder fee when you connect, charged on the volume of the bot's filled orders; the help centre says the 50 USDT limit "no longer applies", and none of the pages read states the rate.

The balance is prepaid and non-refundable. It is kept in USDT, which is why the tiers above say USD. You top it up with a crypto transfer — the help centre names Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Smart Chain, Tron, Polygon and Ethereum, the agreement lists BNB, USDC, OP, ARB, BTC, ETH, TRX and POL, and the service-cost page names only BEP20 — and the deposit is converted to USDT. The agreement calls the balance "Veles Credits", "not electronic money, a deposit or a prepayment", refundable only after a mistaken deposit. When the balance goes negative, bots stop opening new deals; the help centre adds that active trades are closed, while the service-cost page says they run to their own exits. New accounts get up to 5 USDT of bonus credit for completing onboarding challenges.

Backtest tariffs price the backtester, not the bots, which run without one; that is why they are described here rather than listed as tiers. They are metered in "analysis years": a test uses its length in years times the number of pairs, the allowance accrues daily up to a ceiling, and buying a paid tariff fills it to that ceiling. Free is 5 years a day up to 15, one test at a time. Starter, 15 dollars a month, is 500 a day up to 1,500, one test. Pro, 29, is 5,000 up to 25,000, five concurrent tests, and adds Market Scan, parameter optimisation and tick-data tests on Bybit Futures. Quant, 69 beside an old price of 99 on the backtests page, is 50,000 up to 250,000, fifty concurrent tests. None renews automatically, and you cannot upgrade between paid tariffs before the current one ends. The marketing backtests page prints "test volume" of 150, 15,000, 150,000 and 1,500,000 years, which is thirty days of the daily accrual. The help centre's ceilings are 15, 1,500, 25,000 and 250,000. The help centre describes the platform balance as paying "fees and subscriptions"; the tariff article does not say how a tariff is paid.

Veles also has a tie to the exchanges, calling itself an "official partner of the exchanges". Every exchange logo on the homepage links through a Veles referral code, and the Bybit section of the help centre walks existing users through moving their account under Veles's referral code. A referral programme pays users up to 30% of the platform commission their referrals generate.

Data & coverage

Nine venues in the help centre's bot overview: Binance (spot and futures), BingX (futures), Bitget (futures), BloFin (futures), Bybit (spot and futures), Gate (spot and futures), Hyperliquid, HTX (spot) and OKX (spot and futures). The pages disagree on Hyperliquid — spot and futures in the overview, futures only in the exchange-setup article and the connection guide — and the homepage FAQ names seven, without BingX and BloFin. Hyperliquid connects by signing with your own wallet or through an API wallet whose key lasts at most 180 days. The others take an exchange API key, with one-click connection on several.

The TradFi presets trade tokenised shares and metals listed on those crypto exchanges — AAPLX, NVIDIA, Tesla, gold, palladium — not a stock or forex broker, whatever the homepage's "Forex, Stocks, Commodities" tabs suggest. What a tokenized stock is covers what such a pair actually holds.

Backtest data is one-minute candles from the exchange you choose, with "the full history since the asset was listed" for most exchanges by the backtests page. The help centre warns that a venue connected to Veles recently may be missing candles, that trailing stops cannot be tested, and that a fee paid in a third currency such as BNB is not reflected. The backtest article mentions exchange fees, which you type in, and says nothing about funding payments, which a futures bot pays or receives live. What a crypto backtest assumes is the background.

Integrations

TradingView webhooks. A bot's entry or exit filter can be a TradingView alert or a TradingView strategy, each with its own webhook URL, combined with the built-in indicators. A paid TradingView plan is needed for webhooks, and backtests cannot run on a TradingView filter.

Notifications go to a Telegram bot, generated once a minute, and as push messages in the mobile apps.

The help centre's index has no page on an API or an MCP server of Veles's own, and the user agreement (§6.2) prohibits "the use of third-party software to interact with the veles.finance platform servers". Everything is done in the web cabinet or the apps. The iOS app is published by VELES MIDDLE EAST - FZCO, version 1.9.0 on 22 October 2026; an App Store lookup found it in the Armenian storefront the homepage links to and returned nothing for the US one.

Limitations

Veles Broker is custodial in practice and outside this card. It is the homepage's "trade without API keys" option. Veles creates a sub-account on Bybit that is "available exclusively through your Veles dashboard". Identity is checked through Sumsub, and the API key and its binding are created automatically; the binding "cannot be edited or deleted by the user". Only futures trade there, at 0.025% maker and 0.075% taker. Withdrawal to an external address is a manual request that opens a support ticket, processed within a day, and card funding goes through an external partner with its own KYC. You hold neither the key nor the right to move the money without asking Veles, which puts Broker on the far side of this catalogue's custody line. The card lists the API route, where funds stay on your own exchange account and the key you create carries trading permission with withdrawals switched off, as the homepage FAQ instructs. What your API key lets a bot do covers that key.

DCA only, for now. Grid bots and the AI strategy generator are both "Soon"; the backtester's optimiser is the only AI shipping.

The fee is on winners, not on the month. Ten profitable deals and one large stop-loss can still pay the full cap, and on Hyperliquid the builder fee has no cap and no published rate.

No paper trading. The help centre's index has no paper-trading or demo page. The backtester is the way to try a bot, and it needs a connected exchange key even though it places no orders.

Free backtests are public. The backtest article says a test is added to the public database unless you switch that off, which only a paid tariff allows.

The terminal is narrower than the homepage. The homepage says it manages "positions across multiple exchanges from a single interface"; the help centre says it works on Bybit Futures, with a limited list of pairs and hedge mode required.

The vendor's pages drift. Three definitions of the cap, three lists of top-up currencies, a mistaken-deposit refund window of 7 days in the agreement (§5.2) against 14 in the refund policy, seven or nine exchanges, and a platform-benefits page that says "no subscriptions — all features are available to every user" while Market Scan and optimisation sit behind the Pro and Quant tariffs.

Alternatives

Gainium is the closest in shape — hosted DCA and grid bots with a free tier and a Hyperliquid plan paid by a builder fee — and bills a subscription instead of a profit share. 3Commas, Cryptohopper and Bitsgap are the subscription-priced hosted platforms compared in hosted crypto trading bots, and WunderTrading is the one built around TradingView alerts; WunderTrading and 3Commas have the public API that Veles does not. OctoBot Cloud is the cheap hosted option, and Freqtrade is free and open source for anyone who would rather run the bot on their own machine. Who pays for your free trading bot is the background on how platforms without a subscription earn.