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3Commas vs Hummingbot Hummingbot leads by 3 points.

Hummingbot scores 3 points above 3Commas, led by custody, true cost, and capability. 3Commas ranks #6 and Hummingbot #5 of 9 published trading bots. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

3Commas58
Hummingbot61
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #6 and #5 of 9
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-3COMMAS-VS-HUMMINGBOT-b22eeabe
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Hummingbot leads by 3 points

Hummingbot scores 3 points above 3Commas, led by custody, true cost, and capability.

3Commas #6 of 958
Hummingbot #5 of 961
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termHummingbot leads on 4 of 4 published criteria; 3Commas on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermHummingbot3CommasWeightPoints
Custody9/102/107.2+13.1for Hummingbot+6.7 of 32
True cost9/105/106.2+6.5for Hummingbot+3.3 of 32
Capability8/105/105.8+4.5for Hummingbot+2.3 of 32
Reliability5/102/104.8+3.7for Hummingbot+1.9 of 32
AvailabilityScore dimension142020−15.6for 3Commas
Trust recordScore dimension3.26.48−8.3for 3Commas
FrictionScore dimension0.72.710−5.2for 3Commas
Measured dataScore dimension8.36.918+3.6for Hummingbot
Net of the terms+2.4
Reproduced gap+2.3
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below6158+3.0

Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.

Quick facts

At a glance

Fact3CommasHummingbot
PricingSnapshotStarter $20/mo, Pro $50/mo, Expert $140/mo at monthly billing; annual billing $15 / $38 / $105 a month. Plan caps bind before price: Starter allows 1 active exchange API key, 5 DCA, 2 signal and 2 grid bots. EEA: 3Commas.eu closed on 1 July 2026 with no automatic migration of accounts, bots, orders, subscriptions or settings. New EEA registrations are closed, EEA country selection is blocked at sign-up, and Estonia remains a restricted location. In the company’s own incident FAQ, the December 2022 breach exposed ‘at least 100k Binance and Kucoin API keys and secrets’; 3Commas has never published a loss figure. Re-read 14 September 2026.Free and open source under Apache 2.0 — no subscription, licence or token purchase. The economics to understand: the Foundation is funded partly by exchange fee-share on order flow routed through its connectors (disclosed in its FAQ), so your trading indirectly funds the maintainer. Direct costs are your infrastructure and exchange fees. Re-read 2026-09-09: the FAQ still states "Hummingbot is a free software, so you can download, install, and run it for free", under Apache 2.0.
Asset coverageEditorialAny pair tradable on connected exchanges; bot logic asset-agnosticMarket-making and algorithmic strategies across CEXs, perp DEXs and onchain markets
Region fitSnapshotus, globalglobal
From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

3Commas

58#6 of 9
Pick it when
3Commas leads on no published criterion; its edge is availability (20 vs 14 points). Pick it if that term is what you are buying.
Strength
Multi-exchange portfolio rebalancing
Tradeoff
2022 API-key disclosure incident (at least 100k Binance and KuCoin API keys exposed, per 3Commas’ own incident FAQ) — verify current 2FA + IP-allowlist hygiene before connecting size

Hummingbot

61#5 of 9
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Hummingbot if custody matters most — it scores 9/10 to 3Commas's 2/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Market making and liquidity provision
Tradeoff
Community-maintained connectors can silently rot on thinner venues — broken cancellation is worse than broken placement
Self-identify in 10 seconds

Which one is actually for you?

3Commas

3Commas leads Hummingbot on no published criterion

  • Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
HummingbotLeads

Choose Hummingbot if custody matters most

  • Custody: 9/10 against 2/10 for 3Commas (weight 30)
  • True cost: 9/10 against 5/10 for 3Commas (weight 26)
  • Capability: 8/10 against 5/10 for 3Commas (weight 24)
Criterion by criterion

Scorecard

Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology

Custody

by 7 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Hummingbot leads
3Commas2 out of 10
Hummingbot9 out of 10

True cost

by 4 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Hummingbot leads
3Commas5 out of 10
Hummingbot9 out of 10

Capability

by 3 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Hummingbot leads
3Commas5 out of 10
Hummingbot8 out of 10

Reliability

by 3 of 10weight 4.8 of 86Hummingbot leads
3Commas2 out of 10
Hummingbot5 out of 10

Score dimensions

weights sum to 86

The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30.

Availabilityweight 20 of 86
3Commas20/20Hummingbot14/20
3Commas leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
3Commas8.4/30Hummingbot19.1/30
Hummingbot leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86
3Commas2.7/10Hummingbot0.7/10
3Commas leads
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
3Commas6.4/8Hummingbot3.2/8
3Commas leads
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
3Commas6.9/18Hummingbot8.3/18
Hummingbot leads
Decision rulePublished order

Choose Hummingbot unless the term 3Commas leads on is the one you are buying.

3Commas leads on no published criterion; its edge is availability (20 vs 14 points). Pick it if that term is what you are buying.

The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .

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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Liveness failure: the operator stops, censors you or loses data.
    Scored by Operational reliability · 20% (3Commas 2/10, Hummingbot 5/10)
  • Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
    Scored by Key custody posture · 30% (3Commas 2/10, Hummingbot 9/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: True cost of operation (26%), Strategy capability (24%).
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Hummingbot scores 3 points above 3Commas, led by custody, true cost, and capability. Published scores, out of 100: 3Commas 58 (rank 6 of 9 trading bots), Hummingbot 61 (rank 5 of 9).

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