3Commas is an industry veteran (2017, nine years), connecting 15+ exchanges with four bot types, and scores 60/100 under our methodology. Like CoinTech2u it is non-custodial — funds stay in your own exchange account either way. The real differences are how you pay, how much tuning you have to do, platform-level risk control, and whether performance can be independently checked. Here is the same yardstick applied to both.
If you have quant experience, want to tune parameters yourself, need Coinbase/Kraken and other exchanges, and are comfortable in English → 3Commas is the mature choice. If you are running $1k–$10k, do not want to study dozens of parameters, and want cost to occur only when you actually make money, CoinTech2u fits better: point card + profit share (nothing in losing months), a zero-config default strategy, platform-level circuit breaking, and /live-proof reading official data hourly so anyone can check it.
| Dimension | CoinTech2u | 3Commas |
|---|---|---|
| Product category | Non-custodial adaptive multi-strategy AI | Non-custodial third-party bot platform |
| Where funds sit | Your own exchange account | Your own exchange account |
| API permissions | Trade only, no withdrawal | Trade only, no withdrawal |
| Exchange support | 4 (Binance/OKX/Bybit/Bitget) | 15+ |
| Pricing model | Point card + profit share (charged only on profit) | Subscription $15-140/mo (up to 25% off annually) |
| Small-account friendliness | No fixed fee in losing months | Starter $15/mo ≈ 0.5%/mo on a 3,000 USDT account |
| Interface languages | Multilingual | Multilingual (7 languages) |
| Support language | Multilingual live chat | English only; priority support limited to Expert tier |
| Learning curve | Default strategy usable with zero tuning | Steep: four bot types, dozens of parameters each |
| Strategy customisation depth | Platform-managed, limited manual control | Parameter-level control + TradingView signals |
| Platform-level live data | ✓ /live-proof, hourly straight from the API | No platform-level aggregate dashboard |
| Platform-level circuit breaker | ✓ Asset Guard profit protection | Per-bot stop-loss only |
| Feature gating by tier | No tiers: features are not split by plan | Futures needs Pro+, multiple API keys need Expert |
| Security incident history | No major public incident | 2022 API-key theft incident (1,000+ users reported losses) |
| Years operating | 2020 (5 years) | 2017 (9 years) |
| Methodology score | Live data published (baseline) | 60/100 |
The interface is — 3Commas ships a 7-language UI. But support is English-only, and priority support is restricted to the $110-140/mo Expert tier. Day-to-day clicking is fine; the moment you need to discuss strategy, billing or a malfunction, it happens in English.
It depends on your capital and your return. 3Commas is a subscription (Starter $15-20/mo, Pro $40-50/mo, Expert $110-140/mo) charged whether you win or lose; CoinTech2u uses a point card plus profit share, deducted only when a position closes in profit, with nothing owed in losing months. On small accounts or in poor market conditions CoinTech2u costs less; on a large account with steady profits a flat subscription is proportionally cheaper. See the pricing analysis in our 3Commas review.
3Commas is non-custodial (funds stay at your exchange, the API has trade permission only and cannot withdraw) and largely passes our Auto-Fail checks, scoring 60/100 under our methodology. You should know, however, that a large-scale API-key theft occurred in 2022, with 1,000+ users reporting losses. 3Commas denied a platform breach and attributed it to phishing links; responsibility is still disputed. Details in the full 3Commas review.
Both are non-custodial and your funds already sit in your own exchange account, so no transfer is involved. Steps: (1) stop your running bots in 3Commas and let open positions close; (2) delete the API key you issued to 3Commas in your exchange settings — do not skip this, a stale key is live exposure; (3) register with CoinTech2u and issue a fresh trade-only API key.
Yes. Run both through the 11 questions in our bot safety checklist and get your own pass/warning result instead of taking our word for it.
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