Every Trading Bot Compared, With the Date of Each Check

Last verified: October 17, 2026. Baseline check against official docs on August 11; every cell re-checked since carries its own date. Rows added since August: Pump.fun (October 17). The badges tell you the proof level: verified in-app means we counted it ourselves inside the app, per docs means official documentation is the source.

The custody fact nobody leads with: every Telegram trading bot creates a wallet that lives on the bot's servers.

That protects your personal wallet (there is no wallet-connect step; some bots let you import a wallet by pasting its private key, and if you do, import a dedicated trading wallet, never your main one), but everything you deposit depends on the bot's infrastructure.

Two major bots have been exploited and both refunded users in full, which is better than most of DeFi, but the rule stands: only deposit what you actively trade. Full breakdown on the safety page.

BotFee per tradeChains (Oct 2026)CashbackIncidentsFull review
Banana Gun0.5% manual on ETH, 1% snipes and other chains; 0% on NEAR "for now", no end date10: ETH, SOL, BSC, Base, MegaETH, Robinhood, Stable, Arc, HyperEVM, NEAR (Oct 1, 2026) team, Sept 17; official post, Oct 115% to 30% of fees by lifetime volume, paid in $BANANA; 30% for the first month official channel, Oct 42024 exploit, ~$3M, fully refunded sourceBanana Gun review
Maestro1%14 counted in the bot (Sept 5); its docs say 12 (homepage, Oct 17); Ink announced Sept 16, in neither count counted in-app15% to 30% by volume tier, read in the bot (Sept 5); its homepage publishes no rate2023 router exploit, fully refunded (610 ETH) sourceMaestro review · is Maestro Bot safe?
BasedBot1%19 verified in-app Aug 19, same 19 on basedbot.app, re-read Oct 115% to 25% by volume, 5 tiers verified in-appNone found; weekly rounds through Oct 17, 2026BasedBot review
BonkBot1% in the bot; bonkbot.io publishes no fee figure (re-read Oct 17)Solana onlyVia Telemetry terminal (up to 25%); Telemetry did $4.09M of volume in 30 days on DefiLlama, Oct 17, 2026None found; weekly rounds through Oct 17, 2026In BonkBot vs Trojan
Trojan1% (0.9% if referred), shown in the bot; its docs publish no feeSolana onlyReferral discount onlyNone found; docs re-read Oct 11, 2026In BonkBot vs Trojan
GMGN1%13: SOL, ETH, Base, BSC, Robinhood, Arbitrum, Stable, Arc, X Layer, HyperEVM, MegaETH, Monad, Tron verified in-app Aug 19; its app-store listing still says sixNone for the user; the "30% off referral" some sites cite is the referrer's commission, per official docs (checked August 16, 2026)Platform intact; phishing clones hit users in 2025 sourceGMGN review
Photon1%Solana only; ETH, Base and BNB closed April 21, 2026NoneNone found; official channel read weekly through Oct 17, 2026Photon review
Pump.fun0.45% platform fee since Oct 17, 2026 (0.40% with a referral code), on top of the token's own 1.25% to 0.30% that every app pays; 0.10% to 0.15% more on EVM chainsSolana, plus Ink (Sept 14) and Robinhood Chain in the app fees page, Oct 17None; referral bonus up to $50 on a first fiat deposit, paid over five trading daysNone found for the app; perps via Hyperliquid since Oct 17Pump.fun review · FOMO vs Pump.fun
Axiom1% base, down to 0.75% at volume, plus a fixed "priority" tip per trade on Robinhood Chain (0.001 ETH default, about 3.7% of a median $66 buy) that the chain ignores Bitquery, Sept 30Solana + Hyperliquid perps; also Robinhood Chain and other EVM chains per BitquerySOL cashback tiersFeb 2026 insider-data allegation, unresolved; no public answer on the tip as of Oct 17 sourceNot recommended: the tip is unexplained and unanswered; GMGN does the job at 1% flat. GMGN vs Axiom
BullXTrading suspendedSuspended since June 1, 2026n/aNo hack, but trading paused indefinitely, withdrawals open sourceAvoid until relaunch

Fee and chain lists change monthly in 2026. Baseline verified against official documentation on August 11, 2026; cells re-checked since carry their own dates, with the badges telling you the proof level: verified in-app means we counted it ourselves inside the app, per docs means the official documentation is the source. Reviews carry the details.

Fee per trade, the honest spread between tools FEE PER TRADE Verified August 2026, re-read October 17. Lower is not automatically better: read what each one gives you. Banana Gun manual ETH 0.5% Cielo copy trading 0.6% Axiom top volume tier 0.75% Trojan if referred 0.9% BasedBot every chain 1.0% BonkBot Solana 1.0% Maestro every chain 1.0% GMGN every chain 1.0% Cashback programs can pull the real cost lower. The comparison table has each one, dated.
Read this next to the incident column, not on its own. The lowest bar is Banana Gun's manual Ethereum rate; the lowest flat rate at volume belongs to Axiom, a web terminal with an unresolved allegation against it. Not on the chart: Axiom's fixed tip on Robinhood Chain, which is why we no longer recommend it despite its bar here, and Pump.fun's 0.45%, which sits on top of a token fee every app pays.
How we're paid on this page: Maestro, Banana Gun, BasedBot, Photon, BonkBot, Trojan and GMGN pay us a referral share through marked links. Pump.fun pays us a referral share too, through the link on its review page, at a rate it does not publish. Axiom and BullX pay us nothing. Both groups get the same rows, from the same sources, with the same incident column.
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