Pionex alternative: TradeCorgi vs Pionex bots

The short version

Both automate crypto trading. Pionex 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 Pionex

Pionex is an exchange first. Its trading bots, including grid and DCA bots, are built into the exchange and free to use: you pay Pionex's trading fees, which its own pages put at 0.05% per side on spot. The trade-off is that your funds must sit on Pionex for the bots to trade them.

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 trader keeps their main account on Coinbase but runs a grid bot on Pionex, so their funds are split across two exchanges. On TradeCorgi they describe a guarded range rule for BTC on Coinbase: two entries inside a range, a +2.5% exit on each, and a stop below the range. The backtest uses Coinbase's fee for their tier, and the agent trades on the Coinbase account they already have. This is an illustrative example, not a real result.

Questions to ask before you switch

• Where do you want your funds to live? TradeCorgi keeps them on the exchange you already trust.
• Do you want ready-made bot types or your own rules? TradeCorgi runs the rules you describe, tested with fees.
• What limits protect you on a bad day? Every TradeCorgi agent has a budget, a stop-loss and a daily loss limit, checked before every 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.
• Pionex suits traders who are happy to hold funds on Pionex and want free, ready-made bot types such as grids.