They: venue breadth
Bot platforms support many exchanges because that is their product. This one certifies venues one at a time and says which verb applies to each — an honest position, and a narrower one.
Comparison · checked September 2026
If you alreadyknow the rule,you want a bot
3Commas is a crypto bot platform — grids, DCA, copy trading, across many exchanges. It is built to run a strategy you have chosen. This platform is built for the step before that, and for the record afterwards.
What each is for
A bot platform is an execution product
You pick a bot type, set parameters, connect exchanges, and it runs. The value is reliability, breadth of venue support and convenience. Its price band was around $22–75 a month when checked, which is the going rate for that category.
An analyst is a decision product
The value here is what happens before an order and what is kept after it: a screener with a firing history, a backtester with fees and slippage, an assistant that reasons over your actual book, and a risk gate that refuses. If you want a grid running on eight exchanges by tonight, this is the wrong tool.
The overlap is smaller than it looks
Both can end in an order. But a bot asks "run this rule"; this asks "should you, at what size, and what does the record say about the last forty times it fired". Products that try to be both usually end up with a rules engine and an unexamined edge.
Where each is stronger
They: ready-made strategies
Grid and DCA out of the box, with a marketplace behind them. Nothing here ships a preset that trades.
Us: the evidence
Alert history, run history, walk-forward with real costs, and the decision behind every fill.
Us: refusals as a feature
A risk gate in a separate service that signs approvals, plus a paper mode that exercises the whole path. Automation without that is a faster way to be wrong.
Questions
Can I run automated strategies here?
Yes, but promotion to live is a human act with a scope, under a risk policy, after a backtest. It is deliberately not a one-click bot, and if that friction is the thing you are trying to avoid, a bot platform is the better answer.
How many exchanges do you support?
Fewer, and the pages say which for reading and which for placing. Certifying a venue for orders means the signature, the filters, the error taxonomy, the lost-response branch and the private stream — not a checkbox.
How current is this comparison?
Checked September 2026 at the category and price-band level. Specific features in this market change quarterly and this page deliberately does not claim any.
Test the decision half for free
Screen, backtest and paper trade without a card or an exchange key.