Cryptohopper
Best for documentation-led evaluation
How it rates
- Service reachable without an account
- Documentation or FAQ published
- Terms not found at a conventional public address
- Corporate entity not established from public sources
Each indicator scores 2, 1 or 0. A pillar is the points earned over the points available; the overall score is the weighted sum. Every source below is public — check any of them yourself.
- MetService reachable at a public address
Reachable without an account at this check.
www.cryptohopper.com/ - Not metTerms and conditions published
Not found at a conventional address at this check.
- Met
- PartialOperator identifiable from published material
Service published under its own domain; corporate entity not established at this check.
www.cryptohopper.com/ - PartialNo custody of user funds claimed in this assessment
Custody arrangements are not verifiable from the desk and are not scored.
www.cryptohopper.com/
- Met
- Met
- PartialRates displayed publicly
Page reachable; specific rates not captured at this check.
www.cryptohopper.com/pricing - Not metTerms describe charges
Not found at this check.
- Met
- Met
- Met
- Not metTerms published
Not found.
- Met
- Not metOperator entity disclosed
Not established from public sources at this check.
- Met
- Not metTerms documentation published
Not found.
- Met
- Not metCorporate entity identifiable
Not established from public sources at this check.
- Not metRegulatory status published
Not established from public sources at this check.
- Met
- Met
- Not metTerms reachable
Not found.
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- Met
A cloud-based automated trading platform with a marketplace of third-party strategies and signals, connecting to exchange accounts through API keys.
Our assessment
Cryptohopper runs bots in the cloud rather than on your machine, with a marketplace where third parties sell strategies, signals and templates. The platform question and the marketplace question are separate, and the second is where most users lose money.
A marketplace of strategies is a marketplace of claims
Anyone can publish a strategy with an attractive backtest. Backtests are trivially overfitted, past performance on a trending market says nothing about a ranging one, and the seller earns a subscription whether or not you profit. Treat every published return figure as marketing until you have run it forward on a small allocation.
The API key exposure
Cloud bots require exchange API keys held by the operator, which is the same structural exposure that produced large losses elsewhere in this category. Withhold withdrawal permission, use a subaccount, restrict by IP where possible. A cloud bot cannot run without the key, so the mitigation is limiting what the key can do.
Cost is more than the subscription
Subscription tiers are the visible cost. The real cost is trading fees on a strategy that may trade many times a day, plus slippage, plus any marketplace subscription. A bot that trades frequently can lose to fees while showing a positive gross return, and that arithmetic should be done before deployment rather than after.
Who it suits
Cryptohopper fits traders who want cloud-hosted automation and will evaluate marketplace strategies sceptically on a small allocation first. Traders unwilling to hand API keys to a hosted service should look at self-hosted alternatives.
Frequently asked
Does this score mean Cryptohopper is trustworthy?
No. It measures what is published and reachable before use: the service, its terms and its documentation. Custody, routing and corporate structure are not tested by us.
Why do all providers score zero on corporate entity?
Because this class of service rarely publishes it. The indicator is identical for every provider in the category, so the comparison stays fair.
Are rates or spreads compared here?
No. Verifying quoted rates requires live transactions, which we do not perform. The rubric covers disclosure, not execution.