Crypto trading can be challenging, especially if you’re navigating the market without prior knowledge or experience.
With over 2.4 million cryptos in the ever-expanding crypto market, identifying profitable trading opportunities is no small feat — even for experienced traders. And once you spot a good opportunity, timing the trade perfectly adds to the difficulty.
But don’t worry — crypto trading bots can simplify this process by automating your trades.
A crypto trading bot is a program that executes buy or sell orders for you when specific conditions, like price targets, are met. These bots eliminate the need for constant price monitoring and help you act quickly on profitable opportunities.
Here’s a list of the top free crypto trading bots that you can use to kickstart your automated trading journey. Note that most platforms offer limited free plans, after which paid subscriptions apply.
1. Cryptohopper
Cryptohopper is an easy-to-use, feature-rich trading bot platform.
I liked their arbitrage trading tool, which allows you to take advantage of price differences between exchanges or pairs. You can do exchange arbitrage between exchanges without sending funds from one exchange to the other.
Apart from this, you can customize your technical analysis strategy using their technical indicator. Plus, you can make use of both algorithmic and social trading to maximize profit.
You can also do paper trading using Cryptohopper to learn crypto trading.
For security, your account is protected with industry-leading protocol; on top of that, you can set up 2FA.
You can use Cryptohopper for free up to 20 positions with limited features after they charge $24.15 to $107.05 per month.
Currently, Cryptohopper supports the below exchanges.
iOS and Android apps are available.
2. Trade Santa
Trade Santa is a cloud-based crypto trading software that seeks to simplify crypto trading using customizable bots.
Trade Santa is for both beginner and experienced traders, where you can customize your own bots according to experience and skills.
Also, you can place large volume orders without any slippages and enjoy automated trading strategies for long & short positions.
To launch your bot, Trade Santa provides you with a pre-set template, technical indicators, profit targets, and real-time tracking. If you’re an advanced trader, you can use their Grind and DCA bots.
Initially, you can use Trade Santa free for three days. Then, you have to pay $18 to $45 per month, depending upon which plan you choose.
You can set up 2FA on your account for safety.
Below are the exchanges Trade Santa supports.
Android and iOS apps are available.
3. 3Commas
3Commas is a well-known crypto trading platform offering trading bots, smart trading terminals, and social trading.
With 3Commas, you don’t need to customize your trading bot to maximize profit. Instead, you can copy a bot that provides maximum profit for other traders.
Apart from copying the bot, you can also create a variety of bots such as DCA bot, Grid bot, and Options bot. Using these bots, you effectively make your trading strategies and use features like trailing stop-loss & trailing take-profit to get the maximum out of the trade.
3Commas supports 18 exchanges offering four plans, including a free plan, which has every feature of premium plans but with limitations; premium plans start at $29 and $47 per month with an annual payment option available.
For security, you can set up 2FA and login alerts.
4. Pionex
Pionex is a crypto exchange offering auto trade with 16 built-in bots.
That includes Grid Trading Bot, Spot Futures Arbitrage Bot, Dual-coin Rebalancing, Leveraged Grid Bot, Margin Grid Bot, Reverse Grid Bot, Leveraged Reverse Grid Bot, Infinity Grids, Smart Trade, Trailing Sell, Trailing Buy, Dollar-cost Averaging, TWAP and more.
These bots are enough for your trading requirements; however, you can’t customize the bot according to your trading strategies.
Pionex became one of the fastest-growing crypto trading platforms globally, aggregating the liquidity from Binance and Huobi near the ticker price. Pionex is one of the biggest brokers of Binance and one of the biggest market makers of Huobi in the world.
They also received a licence from FinCEN as a Money Services Business and Singapore MAS.
Pionex does not charge you for using a bot, but there is a flat trading fee of 0.05% per trade, both as a maker and taker fee.
An Android app is available.
5. Coinrule
Coinrule is a beginner-friendly platform for automated crypto trading.
You don’t need to have any technical expertise to automate trading on Coinrule. Just connect the exchange you want to trade and deploy the rule, which works via If/Then prompts, including trading strategies such as stop-loss, take profit, buy the dip/breakout, maximization, and accumulation methods.
Don’t get confused, because rules are just like a bot that deploys your instructions, and the interesting part is you can use the Coinrule for free to some extent, then the platform offers you three plans of $29.99/mo and $59.99/mo or $749/mo, with an annual payment option available.
For security, Coinrule stores all the exchange’s API keys using 256bit AES encryption, and each user’s private key is stored on detached data storage, which is encrypted with AES-256.
List of supported exchanges.
6. CryptoHero
CryptoHero is an AI-powered trading bot provider supporting multiple exchanges.
There are 45 Bots available powered by AI technology and proprietary algorithms. So you don’t have to have technical know-how about trading.
You just set both entry and existing conditions for your position and can also use technical indicators like Bollinger Bands (BB), Exponential Moving Average (EMA), Relative Strength Index (RSI), Stochastic RSI (SRSI) to check price trends, market volatility, and asset value, then deploy the bot.
Even AI-powered bots run simulations so that you know which option is best, and you also have the option to run your bots through backtest strategies. The backtest shows how your trading strategy measures up against historical data.
The best thing about CryptoHero is you can use any one bot for absolutely free to test or learn trading skills (free plan discontinued on 1st Jan 2025). To move further, they have two plans, premium and professional, which cost $13.99 and $29.99 per month, with an annual payment option available to reduce the price.
You can enable 2FA to secure your account.
Supported exchanges list.
7. Quadency
Quadency crypto management platform where you can connect exchanges to manage a portfolio, make trading strategies, and many more.
The platform is both for beginners and experienced users.
Quadency has more than twenty trading bots in place to help you make more profit with crypto trading, or you can also code their custom trading strategies with Python programming.
Plus, you can use the backtesting feature for testing the configurations of trading strategies.
The best part of Quadency is you can use Quadency for free of cost, where you get twenty bots with backtesting and 24/7 support up to a certain trading limit, then you have to pay a subscription cost, which is $49 or $99 per month, using Quad for payment the plan will be $25 in QUAD and $50 QUAD.
For security, they apply different levels of encryption for your account and APIs. You can also enable 2FA.
8. Trality
Trality is a cloud-based web app that lets you create crypto trading bots.
You can create a trading bot easily by using their drag-and-drop interface, or if you know Python programming, you can use their code editor to create your own bot.
Another advantage of Traility is they offers paper trading and backtesting capabilities. So you can see how trading strategies and algorithms would have performed historically and then practice trading using virtual money before you commit any funds.
They launched a Traility marketplace for bots where you can rent out, follow, or list your bot in the marketplace.
Traility also offers end-to-end and in-browser encryptions, meaning every strategy you use can be set to hide from everyone, even from Trality.
To use Trality, they have four plans; the first one is a free called pawn, which can be used up to €5,000 with one bot. Other plans are knight, rook, and queen, which cost you €9.99, €39.99, and €59.99, respectively, with annual payment options available.
List of supported exchanges.
- Binance.
- Coinbase.
- Kraken.
- Bitpanda.
9. Bitsgap
Bitsgap is a crypto management platform offering many crypto services like portfolio management, trading, and many more.
Crypto trading, they have bot trading features offering predefined trading strategies based on successful backtest results, and you can also create your automated trading strategy with just a few clicks.
But mainly, there are two bot strategies available on Bitsgap. One is the ‘Classic’ bot that, at each level, buys and sells the same quantity of the base currency; another is the ‘SBOT’ strategy that buys and sells different amounts of the base currency at each grid level.
You can check bot performance and backtest your trading strategy to check its effectiveness in the actual market situation using TradingView charts.
For security, they encrypt all the APIs and use RSA 2048 encryption on all their services.
To use all the Bitsgap features, they offer three plans: Basic will cost you $29 per month, Advanced will cost you $69 per month, and Pro will cost you $149 per month, or you can take any plan for six months to save 17% plus there is a 7-day free trial available.
Supported exchanges.
10. Kryll.io
Kryll.io is a web3 platform allowing you to make trading bots and help you make trading strategies using their AI-powered tools.
Platform features like gem dictators analyze new emerging tokens, the smart folio is an advanced AI feature that gives you real-time insights and personalized financial guidance, and the X-ray feature explores on-chain metrics, social media trends, fundamental news, chart formations, and technical Indicators.
Not only these features, but there are also more like Harpoon, where you get smart money moves in real-time. Gain exclusive insights into top traders’ strategies; they have a reward system, and you’ll get the reward and access exclusive benefits by actively participating on the platform.
To access the platform, firstly, you have to buy their native token KRL, which is a native utility token of the Kryll³ ecosystem, designed to facilitate access to the platform’s suite of advanced crypto trading and analysis tools, foster community engagement, and drive the project’s growth and development.
Watch the video to know more about Kryll:
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Conclusion
These are all the platforms that allow you to trade cryptocurrencies automatically using a bot for free.
So which one are you going to use? Is it 3Comma, or Trade Santa, or Kryll?
Mention your choice in the comments.
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