Cryptohopper vs Botsfolio: Can You Check a Marketplace Profit?

Jay Sharma · Founder, Botsfolio

Published November 14, 2026

On November 13, 2026 we opened the copy bot shelf of Cryptohopper's marketplace. It listed 13 bots. Each card carried a name and a monthly price, from $9.99 to $49.99. Each also carried one number, labelled Profit.

Three of those numbers were positive. Ten were negative. The best read 74.12% and the worst read -92.99%. Not one card said over what period.

That shelf is the whole problem of this corner of the market in a single screen. The pitch of a marketplace is that you don't need to know how to trade, because you can rent the work of someone who does. The catch is that you now need a different skill. You have to judge a stranger's number. This page is about how to do that, what Cryptohopper itself says about those numbers and how Botsfolio handles the same question. We make Botsfolio, so weigh that. Every source is linked.

What Cryptohopper is

Cryptohopper is two things under one subscription. The first is a trading bot that you set up yourself, with tools to design and backtest a strategy. The second is the marketplace, where third parties sell strategies, templates, trade alerts (Cryptohopper calls them signals) and whole bots you can copy.

Cryptohopper is clear that the marketplace is not its own work. The page carries this notice: "The products provided on this page are not provided by Cryptohopper, but by external advisors and trading professionals." And this one: "Cryptohopper will not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage due to the use of these templates and strategies."

A third line on the same page deserves more attention than its small print gets: "The profits shown in product screenshots are for illustrative purposes and may be exaggerated."

Can you check a seller's number?

Take the numbers one kind at a time.

The profit on a card. A copy bot card shows a single percentage. It gives no start date, no worst drop and no comparison with holding the same cryptos. Is the 74.12% a month or three years? Did it sit 60% underwater on the way? The card does not say.

The performance of an alert seller. Here Cryptohopper publishes the formula, on each seller's page: "Performance is being calculated by adding the signal's highest and lowest results together and then dividing them by the total number of trades made during the last 3 months." Read it twice. That is a measure of how far prices moved after an alert. It is not what a subscriber who acted on the alerts ended up with.

The backtest. Cryptohopper's backtester has stated limits. The first on its list is this: "Maximum backtest period is limited to 1 month". A month of crypto is one mood. A strategy that looks brilliant in a rising month has told you nothing about a falling one.

The fees. From Cryptohopper's help center: "Cryptohopper displays profits and losses exclusive of transaction costs due to varying fee percentages among users." A strategy that trades often can show a profit before fees and a loss after them. We measured how much fees move a result in the return at every fee level.

None of this means the sellers are dishonest. It means the listing does not hand you what you need to tell a good one from a lucky one.

Who gets paid and when

Follow the money and the picture sharpens. Cryptohopper's seller terms say it "will pay the Marketplace Seller the direct revenues from the Subscriptions, minus a commission of 30 % over such revenues."

So a seller earns when you subscribe. The platform earns when you subscribe. Neither payment waits to see what you earn. That is our reading of the terms. Nothing in them says otherwise.

And if a product disappoints? The refund page says: "Marketplace items and credits are not eligible for refunds."

What happens when people pick from the top of a board

Is there evidence on how that kind of picking turns out? Not for Cryptohopper's marketplace. We searched for any study of how its items perform after purchase and found none.

There is evidence from the closest relative, copy trading, where follower results are public.

We tracked every copy trading vault ever opened on Hyperliquid, 9,470 of them, closed ones included. The finding that matters here: the top 10 vaults by 30-day return, rebuilt every month, lost a median 49.3% over the following year. None was still in the top 10. Of 6,078 current followers, 31% were in profit. The full study is in does copy trading work. A live version runs every day in our copy trading battle.

Academic work points the same way. A peer-reviewed study of social trading platforms by Dorfleitner and colleagues, published in 2018, found that "simply investing in those traders with the highest accumulated returns leads to high losses".

An industry study by YieldFund, covering copy trading on three exchanges over 90 days, reported that 97.04% of lead traders were in profit on their own accounts while 43.61% produced a profit for their followers. It is not peer reviewed, but the gap it describes is the one to remember. A leader's number and a follower's result are two different things.

Is Cryptohopper profitable?

Cryptohopper's help center takes the question head on and answers honestly: "The profitability of trading bots depends on various factors". It gives no figure.

It is equally plain about its averaging feature. The help page on DCA says: "While DCA can mitigate losses, it can also amplify them in a prolonged downtrend if the asset's price doesn't recover." For what that looks like in practice, see the DCA section of 3Commas vs Botsfolio.

So the company does not promise profit. To its credit it does not pretend to. The marketplace cards are where the promise creeps back in.

What about Cryptohopper's AI?

AI made building a bot easy. It did not make the idea any better.

Cryptohopper has an AI feature of its own. It calls it Algorithm Intelligence. You feed it strategies, ones you built or ones from the marketplace. It backtests them all. Then, in the words of its feature page, it can "decide on its own which one it should use" and "pick the best for the current market".

Notice what that leaves unchanged. The candidates are the same marketplace strategies this page has been about. The judge is a backtest. An AI that picks the best recent performer from a shelf does faster what a buyer does by eye. The leaderboard studies above describe how that tends to end.

Cryptohopper has also built something we like, an AI Trading Arena. Its FAQ describes "a live competition where four frontier AI models trade cryptocurrency using real market data from Crypto.com". Each model starts with $10,000 next to a line for simply holding bitcoin. The page is honest about the money: "The arena runs in a paper trading environment using live Crypto.com price feeds."

One thing is missing from that ring. The four players are general AI models from other companies. The product a customer would pay Cryptohopper for is not one of them.

Our battles are built the other way. Botsfolio AI is one of the players, against Claude and GPT models, on the same paper money and the same prices, with every trade in the public log. Through the November 13 close, 36 days in, holding bitcoin and ether was down 19.93%. The two Claude models were down 7.55% and 7.58%. Botsfolio AI was down 3.46%. Nobody made money in that market. The point is that the product itself is in the ring.

Is Cryptohopper safe?

The design keeps your money on your exchange. On API keys, the help center says: "Cryptohopper does not need withdrawal permissions. Keep this setting disabled to protect your funds from unauthorized transfers."

Cryptohopper has disclosed two incidents on its own blog, which is to its credit.

• June 2022. An attack on the website exposed customer details including names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Cryptohopper's post said "API keys haven't been obtained" and asked customers to change passwords and keys anyway.
• January 18, 2024. From its update: "we discovered that an access token was compromised." The access was used to send customers phishing emails with a link for connecting a crypto wallet.

Both are a reminder that the account you log in with is part of the attack surface, not only the key. Our guide to connecting an exchange safely covers both.

What Cryptohopper costs

On November 13, 2026 the pricing page listed three plans at $29, $69 and $129 a month on monthly billing, with a three-day free trial and a 14-day refund window on bot subscriptions. Marketplace items are extra. A copy bot at $44.99 a month on top of a $29 plan is $888 a year before a single trade.

That is the part buyers miss. You can pay twice before you see any result. The second payment can't be refunded. How that weighs on a small account is worked out in what crypto trading bots cost.

What you have to do yourself

With Cryptohopper you either build the strategy or choose one to buy. Both are real work. The second only looks easier, because judging a seller is a research job of its own.

How Botsfolio is built

Botsfolio has no marketplace and no sellers. You pick the cryptos and the amount. You can stop at any time. Botsfolio AI does the research. It generates trade ideas, tests them on years of market data, finds what is working and uses that to trade the cryptos you picked. Most ideas fail its tests and are never used.

That removes the seller's number from the picture and replaces it with a record you can inspect.

Every number has a label. Results are published as three separate records: real money from real exchange fills after all fees, paper trading on live markets and a backtest. Each says which kind it is, gives its start date and sits next to holding the same cryptos.

Every trade is public. Each filled trade goes into a public log that is sealed every hour, signed by Botsfolio and anchored in Bitcoin. A seal shows who published a row, when it existed and that it has not changed since. A losing trade can't be quietly dropped later.

Nobody is paid for your subscription. There isn't one. Paper trading is free. With real money you pay a small fee only when a trade fills.

Here are the three records as of the last daily close:

Where Cryptohopper is the better choice

• You want to choose among many strategies. A marketplace gives you variety that a single AI does not. If comparing sellers is something you enjoy and do well, Cryptohopper gives you a lot to compare.
• You want to design and backtest your own strategy. Cryptohopper's plans include a strategy designer, a backtester and paper trading. Botsfolio does not let you build grid or DCA bots.
• You want a refund window on a subscription. Cryptohopper refunds bot subscriptions within 14 days. Botsfolio has no subscription, so there is no window to compare.
• You want an AI to choose among strategies you supply. That is what Algorithm Intelligence does.

If you do shop the marketplace, bring four questions to every listing. Over what period? What was the worst drop? How did holding the same cryptos do? Was the money real? Five checks for any trading record goes deeper.

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Botsfolio is software. It is not investment advice and it is not tailored to you. Botsfolio has no affiliation with Cryptohopper. Cryptohopper is a trademark of its owner, used here only to name the product. Paper trading results are simulated. Trading crypto can lose money. Past performance does not predict future results.