What Is 3Commas? Crypto Trading Bots, Pricing and How It Works

3Commas sits between you and an exchange. The exchange still holds your balance, matches your orders and charges its own trading fees. 3Commas supplies the logic for when to buy and sell and sends the orders through the exchange's API. The company describes itself as providing "software only," with any trading, transfer or wallet services supplied by third parties ⁴.

That split matters in two ways. If 3Commas goes offline, your funds remain on the exchange, but running bots stop managing positions. And the exchange's rules — KYC, regional restrictions, fees, leverage limits — apply exactly as they would if you traded by hand. See how crypto trading bots work for the general mechanics.

The current pricing page sets limits for three bot types and positions, which shows what the product is built around ³:

• DCA bot. Opens a position, then adds to it in steps if the price moves against you, aiming to close the whole position at a target profit on a smaller rebound. It applies a dollar-cost averaging idea to short-term trading. The trade-off: each safety order increases the amount committed to a falling asset.
• Grid bot. Places a ladder of buy and sell orders inside a price range you set and profits from oscillation within it. If price leaves the range, the bot stops capturing moves and you can be left holding the asset or cash.
• Signal bot. Executes trades from external signals, for example webhook alerts. Webhook execution is included on every plan ³.
• SmartTrade terminal. A manual order screen that lets you attach take-profit, stop-loss and trailing conditions to one trade (see order types).
• Demo account. Paper trading on all plans, so you can run a bot without real money ³.
• Developer API. Read-and-write API access for programmatic control is listed on the Expert plan ³.

None of these tools guarantees a profit. Bot settings, fees and market conditions decide the result, and backtests or demo runs do not account for every live-market cost.

To connect an exchange, you create an API key in your exchange account and add it to 3Commas. The company says the access it needs is limited to starting and closing deals, with "zero access to withdraw or transfer" funds, and that keys are stored in an isolated system it calls Sign Center ⁵.

Practical steps that limit exposure, based on 3Commas's own guidance ⁵:

1. Create a dedicated API key for 3Commas and leave withdrawal permission off.
2. Restrict the key to 3Commas's official IP addresses where your exchange supports IP whitelisting.
3. Turn on two-factor authentication both on the exchange and in 3Commas; if you sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook, secure that account too.
4. Delete the key on the exchange when you stop using the service.

A key without withdrawal rights can still place trades. The 2022 incident below showed that a leaked trade-only key can be used to buy illiquid coins at manipulated prices, draining value without a withdrawal.

As of October 2026, 3Commas sells three plans. The pricing page shows two prices for each, plus an annual saving; the lower figure matches the annual rate ³:

Starter, Pro and Expert also cap open positions at 500, 1,000 and 5,000. Each plan offers a free trial, and the FAQ says a plan bought during the trial begins when the trial ends; the page does not state the trial length ³.

The subscription is not your only cost. Every order a bot places pays the connected exchange's maker or taker fee, and futures positions add funding and liquidation risk. A DCA or grid bot that trades frequently can generate more exchange fees than the subscription itself (see crypto trading fees).

As of October 2026, 3Commas's pricing and exchanges pages list nine exchanges: Binance, Hyperliquid, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Gate, Kraken, KuCoin and Coinbase ³⁴. Older pages and the site's own metadata cite a larger number, and some exchange names appear only in menus, so check the live exchanges table before signing up. Availability also depends on whether the exchange serves your country; for example, a Binance account must be on the Binance entity that accepts you. Profiles: Binance, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, Coinbase, Hyperliquid.

3Commas Technologies OÜ was entered in the Estonian Business Register in October 2016 ¹; the product launched in Tallinn in 2017 ². In 2022 it raised a $37 million Series B led by Target Global, with Alameda Research and Jump Capital among participants ². Yuriy Sorokin was CEO when the 2022 key leak was confirmed ⁶.