By Felix – founder of unCoded. I'll tell you upfront: I built one of these products. Read accordingly.

Let me be direct before anything else.

I'm the founder of unCoded. I have every reason to make unCoded look good in this comparison. You should factor that in.

What I'm going to do instead is tell you exactly what 3Commas does well, exactly where it falls short, and exactly what kind of trader should choose which product. If unCoded is wrong for you, I'd rather tell you that than have you sign up, get frustrated, and leave.

That said – I built unCoded because I traded seriously and existing platforms including 3Commas didn't do what I needed them to do. That's a real perspective, not a marketing line. Here's the full breakdown.

Quick verdict

Choose 3Commas if: you need multi-exchange coverage, you want a hosted platform with no server setup, or you're a complete beginner who wants the simplest possible onboarding.

Choose unCoded if: you trade Binance Spot seriously, you want strategy depth that actually matches how professional traders think, you care about custody and data sovereignty, and you want a fee model that only charges you when you make money.

The detailed case for each below.

Full comparison

3Commas

Pricing model: Subscription $37–$91/month
Starting cost: $20/month minimum
Exchanges: 14+ (Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX and more)
Custody: Cloud-hosted API keys
Bot types: DCA, Grid, Signal
Trailing Stop Loss: Yes
Stop Loss: Yes
TradingView integration: Yes, via Signal Bot
Backtesting: Basic, candle-close evaluation
Signal Editor: No
Multi-symbol: Yes
Mobile app: Yes
Setup: Sign up, connect API, configure
Company: Miami, USA

unCoded

Pricing model: Profit sharing 30%, reducing to 20% at $2,000 invested
Starting cost: $25 starting credit, first $100 profit free
Exchanges: Binance Spot (more in development)
Custody: Self-hosted, API keys never leave your server
Bot types: Micro-Trading, Buy Splits, Sell Time Curves, DCA – fully configurable
Trailing Stop Loss: Yes, per-split
Stop Loss: Yes, configurable per mode
TradingView integration: Yes, via webhook with full risk management layer
Backtesting: 1-second base candle engine, full metrics
Signal Editor: Yes – 152 indicators, full boolean logic
Multi-symbol: Yes, fully isolated state per symbol
Mobile app: Telegram monitoring
Setup: VPS + CapRover one-click deployment
Company: ArrowTrade AG, Switzerland

Pricing: the structural difference

3Commas charges $37/month on the Starter plan, $59/month on Pro, $91/month on Expert. Annual billing reduces these by roughly 25%.

You pay this whether the bot makes you money or not.

In a good month, that fee is irrelevant. In a drawdown month, you're paying $37–$91 for a bot that lost you money. The platform's revenue is completely disconnected from your trading performance.

unCoded is profit sharing at 30%, reducing to 20% at $2,000 invested. No monthly fee. No charge during drawdowns. The bot reports cumulative profit to the license server every few hours, and you top up your license balance at uncoded.ch via Stripe when needed. First $100 in profit is covered by the starting credit.

The math: if your bot generates $200/month in profit, you pay $60 in profit share (30%) vs $37–$91 in subscription regardless of performance. At low profit levels, subscription is sometimes cheaper. At higher performance levels, profit sharing wins. But the more important point is the incentive structure: unCoded only generates revenue when you generate profit. That changes what the platform optimizes for.

Custody and security: where 2022 changed the conversation

In November 2022, 3Commas acknowledged that user API keys had been compromised. Unauthorized trades were placed on users' accounts. The company confirmed the breach affected a number of users before the issue was contained.

This is not an attack on 3Commas specifically. It's an illustration of the structural risk in any cloud-hosted platform that stores your API keys on their servers. Their security is your security. Their uptime is your bot's uptime. A breach at the platform level means a breach at your trading account level.

unCoded is self-hosted. Your API keys are stored in your own VPS environment. They never pass through unCoded's servers. The Binance API key is configured with trade-only permissions – it can place and cancel orders, it cannot withdraw. Even a complete compromise of unCoded's infrastructure touches nothing on your Binance account.

Post-FTX, post-Celsius, post-3Commas breach – treating "cloud-hosted API keys" as a neutral architecture choice is something serious traders should reconsider. The counterparty risk is not theoretical. It has materialized multiple times.

Strategy depth: where the real gap is

This is where I'm going to be most direct, because it's the core of why I built unCoded in the first place.

3Commas gives you DCA bots and Grid bots. These are legitimate tools for specific market conditions. The DCA implementation is solid. The Grid bot works. The SmartTrade terminal for manual trading is well-built. TradingView signal routing via the Signal Bot functions reliably.

But the strategy ceiling is low. DCA gives you one entry logic and one exit logic. Grid gives you a fixed range with a fixed spacing. The logic you can express in either is limited. You can configure parameters, but you can't build real multi-factor strategies.

unCoded was built around a different premise: the bot should be fully configurable across the entire spectrum of trading styles – from high-frequency Micro-Trading executing hundreds of trades per day, to slow deliberate position trading with wide targets and long holding times, to everything in between. You define the behavior. The bot executes it.

This means you can run pure Micro-Trading on BTC/USDT. You can run slow DCA-style accumulation on ETH/USDT. You can combine both simultaneously on different pairs. You can trigger entries from TradingView signals and apply Micro-Trading exit logic on top. You can run signal-driven HFT. The configuration is yours. There's no fixed mode you're locked into.

Specifically, the features that express this depth:

Buy Splits divide every position into up to 7 independent parts, each with its own sell target. You're not trying to time one perfect exit – you're scaling out at multiple levels automatically. This is how experienced traders actually think about position management. 3Commas doesn't do this.

Sell Time Curves change the profit target based on how long a position has been open. Hold for more upside early in a trade. Relax the threshold as hours pass. A position flat for 48 hours gets treated differently than one moving after 2 hours. No other retail bot has this feature.

Per-split Trailing Stop Loss – each buy split can trail independently with its own percentage. Not one TSL for the whole position.

Micro-Trading – the bot executes a high frequency of small trades, each designed to hit a tight profit target before closing. Open positions are held until they reach their target – but this is not bag holding. Every position runs with a configured stop loss that triggers if price moves against it beyond your defined threshold. The mechanic is: only close profitable trades at the target, but always cut losses hard at a pre-defined level. Tight profit targets, hard stop losses. Closed trades are predominantly winners. Losses are capped and never left to compound. This is the discipline that separates Micro-Trading from simply sitting in losing positions indefinitely.

The Signal Editor: strategy construction that doesn't exist elsewhere

3Commas has no equivalent to this.

The Signal Editor is a separate application that lets you build, validate, and backtest strategies without writing code. 152 fully parameterized technical indicators from the pandas-ta library. A condition engine with 40+ condition types: crossovers, comparisons, rising/falling for N bars, highest/lowest lookbacks, statistical deviation, percentage change, time-based conditions, signal persistence windows. Automated divergence detection – bullish and bearish, evaluated algorithmically against any indicator you specify. Full boolean logic gates: AND, OR, NOT, XOR, NAND, NOR.

Then backtest it properly. The engine is built on 1-second base candle data. Intracandle events – stop losses hit by wicks, take profits touched mid-candle – are caught accurately. Standard engines that evaluate at candle close miss these entirely and report phantom profits. Sharpe ratio is annualized correctly per timeframe. Full output: Sharpe, max drawdown, profit factor, win rate, complete trade log.

3Commas offers a basic backtester. It evaluates at candle close. Sharpe annualization isn't documented. The output is minimal. For traders who care about validating strategies before deploying real capital, the difference between these two backtesting implementations is substantial.

Where 3Commas genuinely wins

I said I'd be honest. Here it is.

Exchange coverage. 3Commas supports 14+ exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, and others beyond Binance. unCoded currently supports Binance Spot only. If you trade on Coinbase or Bybit or Kraken, unCoded doesn't work for you right now. More exchanges are in active development. Right now, 3Commas has the advantage here.

Setup friction. 3Commas requires creating an account, connecting an API key, and configuring a bot. Accessible to almost anyone. unCoded requires spinning up a VPS and deploying via CapRover. For people who've done this before it's 10-15 minutes. For people who haven't, there's a real learning curve. The documentation at uncoded.ch/docs walks through every step in plain language. If you get stuck, direct support is available through the account dashboard and there's an active community where setup questions get answered quickly. Nobody gets left alone with a broken deployment. But I won't pretend the VPS setup is zero friction – it isn't.

Futures trading. 3Commas supports futures and leverage trading across multiple instrument types. unCoded is Spot only. No futures, no leverage. If you want to trade perpetuals or use leverage, 3Commas is the option. I'd add: the futures trading context is also where most retail traders lose money fastest. But that's your call to make.

Copy trading. 3Commas allows you to follow signal providers and mirror strategies. If you don't want to design your own strategy and prefer to follow someone else's, that functionality exists in 3Commas. unCoded doesn't have copy trading – the product is built for traders who want to build and own their own strategies.

TradingView integration: both work, different implementation

Both platforms receive TradingView webhook alerts and execute trades based on them.

3Commas routes these through a Signal Bot that converts TradingView alerts into trade orders. It's a straightforward implementation that works reliably for traders who have Pine Script setups they want to automate.

unCoded receives TradingView webhooks directly and executes with the full risk management layer applied. Your stop loss, take profit, trailing stop, buy splits, and position sizing are all applied to every TradingView-triggered trade. The difference: unCoded doesn't just execute the signal, it wraps the execution in the complete position management logic. Your signal decides direction. The bot applies everything else.

You can also combine TradingView signals with Micro-Trading exit logic – signal-driven entry, high-frequency profit-taking on exit. This combination isn't possible in 3Commas.

Who should choose what

Choose 3Commas if:

You trade on Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, or exchanges outside Binance
You want futures trading with leverage
You're a complete beginner who wants the lowest-friction starting point
You want copy trading from signal providers
You specifically don't want to manage server infrastructure

Choose unCoded if:

You trade Binance Spot seriously and want real strategy depth
You want a fee model where the platform only makes money when you do
You care about custody – your API keys on your server, not theirs
You want to build and backtest multi-factor strategies with a real backtesting engine
You want full configurability – Micro-Trading, slow position trading, signal-driven HFT, or any combination
You're already on TradingView and want execution discipline applied to your existing setups
You want position management that no other retail bot offers – Buy Splits, Sell Time Curves, per-split TSL with hard stop losses

The honest summary

3Commas is a capable, well-built platform for what it does. Multi-exchange coverage, solid DCA and Grid implementations, functional TradingView integration, subscription pricing that's predictable if not aligned with your performance. If your primary need is a cloud-hosted bot that works across many exchanges without server setup, 3Commas is a legitimate choice.

unCoded is deeper, more opinionated, and asks more from you upfront. It rewards traders who take strategy seriously, who care about what happens to their API keys, and who want a platform that has no financial incentive to charge them during a drawdown. The setup requires a VPS – with documentation and direct support to get you through it. The strategy depth – fully configurable from Micro-Trading to slow position management, Buy Splits, Sell Time Curves, per-split TSL with hard stop losses, a real backtesting engine, the Signal Editor – is the main reason to clear that friction.

If you want to see what unCoded actually looks like before committing to the setup: the documentation at uncoded.ch/docs walks through everything in full detail. The $25 starting credit means there's no upfront cost to try it in live markets.

unCoded — uncoded.ch Documentation — uncoded.ch/docs ArrowTrade AG, Switzerland

Disclaimer: This comparison was written by the founder of unCoded. All claims about 3Commas features and pricing are based on publicly available information as of April 2026. Verify current pricing and features at 3commas.io before making any decisions.