RivenTrust
Category research · Reviewed August 2026

Open-source crypto trading bots researched

Products with a current public repository and a disclosed open-source license covering meaningful bot or research functionality.

Selection methodology and scope

Public source and a verifiable license are required. Source availability does not imply an independent audit or include every commercial component.

Products qualify through documented category characteristics and are then ordered by overall Expert Score. This is not a separate category score, recommendation, or performance forecast.

Category risks

Public code can contain exploitable defects, unsafe defaults and vulnerable dependencies. Users must secure and update their deployments.

Qualifying products

4 products meet this scope

Review the complete rating methodology

Open Source · Self-Hosted

Freqtrade

A GPL-3.0 Python trading bot that users self-host for strategy development, backtesting, dry-run and live exchange execution.

Open Source · Self-hosted · Backtesting · AI · Futures

Expert
78/100
Trust
73/100
Risk
Moderate
Evidence
Moderate
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Open Source · Self-Hosted

Hummingbot

An Apache-2.0 open-source, self-hosted framework for market making and algorithmic trading across centralized and decentralized venues.

Open Source · Self-hosted · Market Making · Grid · DEX

Expert
77/100
Trust
77/100
Risk
Moderate
Evidence
High
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Hybrid · Hybrid

OctoBot

Open-source crypto automation available for self-hosting or through OctoBot Cloud, with DCA, baskets, TradingView and paper trading.

Open Source · Self-hosted · DCA · AI · Signals

Expert
74/100
Trust
69/100
Risk
Moderate
Evidence
Moderate
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Hybrid · Self-Hosted

Jesse

A self-hosted Python research and trading framework with an MIT-licensed core and a separately licensed live-trading plugin.

Open Source · Self-hosted · Backtesting · Futures · AI

Expert
72/100
Trust
70/100
Risk
Moderate
Evidence
Moderate
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Editorial conclusion

Hummingbot, Freqtrade, Jesse and OctoBot expose different code and commercial boundaries. Choose by strategy fit, license, maintenance capacity and live-execution architecture.

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