Coinrule alternative: TradeCorgi vs Coinrule

The short version

Both automate crypto trading. Coinrule gives you its own way of setting up bots; TradeCorgi starts from a strategy in your own words and puts testing, limits and explanations first.

How we compared

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About Coinrule

Coinrule popularised rule-based crypto automation for non-programmers: you build a rule from blocks, such as a condition on price or an indicator followed by an action, or start from a template. It offers a free starter plan with a small number of rules, and has added AI agents to its marketing in 2026.

What TradeCorgi adds

• Rules you can read. The strategy card is the agent; editing it creates a new version that starts on paper again.
• Backtests that include costs: the exchange's fee for your tier and slippage on every simulated order, the worst drop shown at the same size as the result, next to holding the coin.
• Limits enforced in code: no agent runs without a budget, a stop-loss, a daily loss limit and a cap on open positions, all checked before every order. Spot only, no leverage, no averaging down beyond 2 entries.
• A reason for every trade, and for every time the agent stayed out, in your language.
• No AI on the order path: the language model drafts and explains; a rules engine places orders.
• Your own exchange account on Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase or Kraken, through a trade-only key.

A worked example

A Coinrule user has a rule that buys ETH when RSI drops below 30 and sells at a set gain. On TradeCorgi they type: "Buy $40 of ETH when RSI on the 1-hour chart falls below 30. Sell at +5%, stop at -7%." Their Corgi asks for a daily loss limit and confirms the card, then backtests it on Kraken's ETH history with fees next to holding ETH. This is an illustrative example, not a real result.

Questions to ask before you switch

• Would you rather type a sentence than assemble blocks? Describing a rule is often faster, and your Corgi asks for anything you missed.
• Do your backtests include fees and slippage? Every TradeCorgi backtest does, with the worst drop shown as large as the result.
• Do you want limits that cannot be skipped? Every agent has a budget, stop-loss and daily loss limit, checked before each order.

How to move to TradeCorgi

1. Write your current bot's rules in one or two sentences. For example: "Buy $50 of BTC when it falls 5% within 24 hours, sell at 4% above the buy, stop at 6% below, at most 2 buys open."
2. Describe it to your Corgi. It asks for anything missing, such as a daily loss limit.
3. Confirm the strategy card and read the backtest over a period you know, with your exchange's fees included.
4. Run it on paper alongside your existing setup and compare the decisions.
5. Create a new trade-only key for TradeCorgi, with withdrawals off and IP whitelisting on, and keep budgets separate.
6. Go live small, then switch off the old bot once you are satisfied.

Who each suits

• TradeCorgi suits traders who think in rules rather than settings, and want limits that cannot be skipped and a written reason for every trade.
• Coinrule suits traders who like assembling rules from blocks and templates and want a free starter plan to try them.