Selection methodology and scope
The current product must document a supported self-hosted deployment—not merely a local companion application.
Placement reflects category fit and evidence, never affiliate relationships. The Expert Score remains a product-wide calculation.
Category risks
Local hosting reduces shared infrastructure but can introduce exposed dashboards, weak TLS, malware, unpatched dependencies and unsafe backups.
3 products meet this scope
Advanced TradeServer automation offered through cloud plans and a self-hosted edition, with HaasScript, backtesting and broad exchange coverage.
Open-source crypto automation available for self-hosting or through OctoBot Cloud, with DCA, baskets, TradingView and paper trading.
Locally run trading automation with lifetime licenses, Grid bots, custom JavaScript, backtesting and an authenticated REST API.
Editorial conclusion
HaasOnline, Gunbot and OctoBot represent different proprietary, open-source and managed-hybrid tradeoffs; self-hosting is not automatically safer.
Permission boundariesReviewed using product-specific evidence and the same published scoring framework.
Strategy controlsReviewed using product-specific evidence and the same published scoring framework.
Evidence limitationsReviewed using product-specific evidence and the same published scoring framework.
Pricing transparencyReviewed using product-specific evidence and the same published scoring framework.