Freqtrade vs Hummingbot Freqtrade leads by 23 points.
Freqtrade scores 23 points above Hummingbot, led by custody, true cost, and capability. Freqtrade ranks #1 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.
Freqtrade84
vs
HUHummingbot61
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #5 of 9
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+23.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8461+23.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
FreqtradeScore 84Open-source Python bot that ships tooling to invalidate its own backtestsStrength: Python-literate self-hostersWatch-out: No company behind it — no support desk, no SLA, nobody to reimburse a strategy bugHummingbotScore 61Open-source market-making framework with the widest connector surfaceStrength: Market making and liquidity provisionWatch-out: Community-maintained connectors can silently rot on thinner venues — broken cancellation is worse than broken placement
Quick facts
At a glance
1 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactFreqtradeHummingbot
PricingSnapshotFree and open source under GPL-3.0: no subscription, commission or licence key, and the FAQ states Freqtrade has no crypto token. Real total cost: a machine running 24/7 (the docs recommend a Linux cloud instance with at least 2GB RAM, 1GB disk and 2 vCPU), exchange trading fees, and the Python competence to build and maintain a strategy. 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 coverageEditorialSpot and futures algorithmic trading via your own exchange accountsMarket-making and algorithmic strategies across CEXs, perp DEXs and onchain markets
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
Freqtrade
84#1 of 9
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Freqtrade if custody matters most — it scores 10/10 to Hummingbot's 9/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Python-literate self-hosters
Tradeoff
No company behind it — no support desk, no SLA, nobody to reimburse a strategy bug
HU
Hummingbot
61#5 of 9
Pick it when
Hummingbot leads Freqtrade on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
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?
FreqtradeLeads
Choose Freqtrade if custody matters most
Custody: 10/10 against 9/10 for Hummingbot (weight 30)
True cost: 10/10 against 9/10 for Hummingbot (weight 26)
Capability: 10/10 against 8/10 for Hummingbot (weight 24)
FreqtradeScore 84Open-source Python bot that ships tooling to invalidate its own backtestsStrength: Python-literate self-hostersWatch-out: No company behind it — no support desk, no SLA, nobody to reimburse a strategy bug
HUHummingbot
Hummingbot leads Freqtrade on no published criterion
Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
HummingbotScore 61Open-source market-making framework with the widest connector surfaceStrength: Market making and liquidity provisionWatch-out: Community-maintained connectors can silently rot on thinner venues — broken cancellation is worse than broken placement
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 1 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Freqtrade leads
Freqtrade10/10 out of 10
Hummingbot9/10 out of 10
True cost
by 1 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Freqtrade leads
Freqtrade10/10 out of 10
Hummingbot9/10 out of 10
Capability
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Freqtrade leads
Freqtrade10/10 out of 10
Hummingbot8/10 out of 10
Reliability
by 1 of 10weight 4.8 of 86Freqtrade leads
Freqtrade6/10 out of 10
Hummingbot5/10 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
Freqtrade20/20Hummingbot14/20
Freqtrade leads
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Freqtrade22.1/30Hummingbot19.1/30
Freqtrade leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86
Freqtrade0.7/10Hummingbot0.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Freqtrade3.2/8Hummingbot3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Freqtrade8.3/18Hummingbot8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Freqtrade unless the term Hummingbot leads on is the one you are buying.
Hummingbot leads Freqtrade on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .
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Liveness failure: the operator stops, censors you or loses data.
Scored by Operational reliability · 20% (Freqtrade 6/10, Hummingbot 5/10)
Custody failure: whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: True cost of operation (26%), Strategy capability (24%).
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Freqtrade scores 23 points above Hummingbot, led by custody, true cost, and capability. Published scores, out of 100: Freqtrade 84 (rank 1 of 9 trading bots), Hummingbot 61 (rank 5 of 9).
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