BottomUP vs 3Commas
Is BottomUP an alternative to 3Commas in 2026?
The short answer: 3Commas is a platform for building your own trading bots, while BottomUP is a marketplace where you mirror verified human traders, AI agents and algorithmic strategies in your own OKX account, with Foxy, BottomUP's native AI, checking every trade before it opens. On 3Commas the user assembles DCA bots, GRID bots and SmartTrade orders that run on exchange API keys. On BottomUP the user connects OKX with sign-in in two clicks, no API keys to copy, and either follows creators (Together) or writes plain-language Tickets that Foxy watches 24/7. One is a toolkit for building your own automation; the other is a marketplace for following strategies with a measured record, plus rules you describe in words.
| Axis | BottomUP | 3Commas |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | Founded July 2023. BottomUP, Inc. is a Delaware company with its team in Istanbul. 13.2K monthly active users and $1.93B traded by accounts opened through BottomUP, grown through referrals. | 2017, Estonia-based; product launched in 2018. |
| Core product | Marketplace for non-custodial portfolio management: follow human traders, AI agents and algorithmic strategies and mirror their trades at your own size. | Bot-configuration platform: DCA bots, GRID bots, SmartTrade orders and a signals marketplace. The user assembles the strategy.[1] |
| Exchange connection | Non-custodial. Funds stay in the user's own OKX account (OKX Global), connected with OKX sign-in in two clicks and no API keys to copy. The connection can read balances and place trades, never withdraw. | The user grants exchange API keys to 3Commas and bots execute on those keys. Their docs recommend IP whitelisting and disabling withdrawal permissions.[2] |
| Rules and automation | Tickets: conditions in plain language (price, candle closes, RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger, VWAP, ATR, volume, PnL, funding, time) that Foxy watches 24/7. Nothing runs until the user presses Start watching. | Bots execute the logic the user configured; risk control is whatever the user encoded into each bot. |
| AI layer | Foxy Shield scores every incoming mirrored trade and opens it at full risk, reduced risk or not at all. Foxy can also prepare orders on request; nothing is sent until the user confirms. | Bots run their configured logic. Check 3Commas for its current AI features. |
| Track records | BottomUP measures every creator's record itself from the first signal: 90-day result, hit rate and profit factor. Creators silent for 45 days are hidden. | Public marketplace of bot templates and signal feeds; users can also build their own. Quality varies. |
| Pricing | Foxy plans: Free (30 tokens a month, $0), Pro (400 tokens, $29 a month or $290 a year), Max (1,200 tokens, $79 a month or $790 a year). Creator subscriptions cost about $1 to $50 a month in tokens. No performance fee or profit share. | Tiered platform subscriptions plus exchange fees; see 3Commas for current prices.[3] |
| Best fit | People who would rather follow a measured strategy, or describe rules in plain words, than build and tune bots, and who want an AI check before each trade. | Traders who want to *build* their own automation and already have a strategy to express with GRID or DCA tools. |
Verdict
3Commas and BottomUP are adjacent, not substitutes. 3Commas treats the trader as a bot operator: you bring a strategy, configure the GRID or DCA bot, tune it and run it on your exchange API keys. That works well for people who already know what they want to automate.
BottomUP treats the user as someone who wants to follow a measured record or say what they want in plain words. You can mirror human traders, AI agents and algorithmic strategies whose results BottomUP measures from the first signal, with Foxy Shield checking each trade, or write a Ticket that Foxy watches around the clock. Funds stay in your own OKX account, the connection can never withdraw, and BottomUP takes no performance fee or profit share.
Someone already running a bot they trust on 3Commas may not need BottomUP. Someone who wants to follow a strategy with a public, verified record and an AI check in front of every trade will find that on BottomUP. Neither removes market risk, and Foxy never tells anyone to buy or sell.
References
- [1]3Commas product categories (DCA bots, GRID bots, SmartTrade and a signals marketplace) are documented at 3commas.io.
- [2]3Commas' security guidance recommends IP whitelisting and disabling withdrawal permissions on the API keys users grant. Source: 3commas.io.
- [3]3Commas pricing tiers are published at 3commas.io/pricing and change over time. BottomUP pricing: https://www.bottomup.app/foxy-pro/pricing.