Cryptohopper alternative: TradeCorgi vs Cryptohopper

The short version

Both automate crypto trading. Cryptohopper 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

We list only facts we could source from public pages, each with the date we checked it, and link to the source in the table.

About Cryptohopper

Cryptohopper is one of the longest-running crypto bot platforms. You connect an exchange, then configure a bot or build a strategy in its designer, with backtesting and paper trading available. Its plans run from Explorer at $29 to Hero at $129 a month, and Hero adds AI strategies. In 2026 its free Pioneer plan was folded into Explorer.

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 Cryptohopper user runs a strategy that buys BTC after a sharp dip and sells on a set gain. On TradeCorgi they type: "Buy $50 of BTC when it drops 5% in a day. Sell at +4%, stop at -6%." Their Corgi asks for a daily loss limit, they choose $25, and confirm the card. The 90-day backtest on Binance includes the 0.1% fee on every order and sits next to holding BTC. They run it on paper beside their existing bot for two weeks, comparing each decision in the log. This is an illustrative example, not a real result.

Questions to ask before you switch

• Do you build strategies visually or in words? If you can state your strategy in a sentence, describing it is faster than designing it.
• How many strategies do you really run? Autopilot runs up to 5 live agents and Pro up to 20, each with its own limits.
• What stops your bot on a bad day? On TradeCorgi, a daily loss limit checked before every order pauses the agent and tells you why.

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.
• Cryptohopper suits traders who want to build strategies visually, run many coins at once and use its marketplace and AI strategies.