BasedBot vs Maestro in 2026: Cashback, Chains and Copy Trading
Last verified: September 24, 2026. Both cashback ladders read in the bots themselves (Maestro on September 5, BasedBot in August), chains counted in-app, copy trading run with our own money on BasedBot. Referral links marked below.
The one-rule answer: if you want money back on every trade from day one, take Maestro. It starts everyone at 15% cashback where BasedBot starts at 5%.
If you want the widest chain coverage and copy trading you can actually configure, take BasedBot. Nineteen chains against fifteen, and the only copy trading in this pair we run with real funds.
Both charge the same 1%. Neither has a subscription. Both are pseudonymous teams holding your deposit.
Already decided? Open BasedBot on Telegram (ref link, it pays us and costs you nothing) · Open Maestro (ref link)
Or keep reading: the two cashback ladders, the chain counts and the copy trading are below.
Side by side
| BasedBot | Maestro | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | 1% per transaction | 1% on every buy, sell and snipe |
| Cashback, entry | 5% (X1 Novice) | 15% (Bronze, from the first trade) |
| Cashback, top | 25% above $1M volume (X5 Legend) | 30% above $1M volume (Diamond) |
| Chains | 19, counted in the bridge screen in-app | 15, after Ink was added Sept 16, 2026 |
| Copy trading | Wallet and social (X, Zora, Warpcast), both configurable run by us | Listed, not tested by us to the same depth |
| Incidents | None on record, shorter history | One exploit in 2023, refunded within a day |
| Custody | Bot-held wallet, key shown once on import | Bot-held wallet |
| Full review | BasedBot review | Maestro review |
The cashback gap is the real difference
Both charge 1%. What changes is how much of it comes back.
Maestro starts you at 15% and you keep that from your first trade. The ladder goes Bronze 0 to $10K at 15%, Silver to $100K at 20%, Gold to $1M at 25%, Diamond above at 30%. We read it in the bot on September 5, 2026; Maestro's own documentation does not publish it.
BasedBot starts at 5% and climbs the same way: X1 Novice 5%, X2 Advanced 10% above $1K, X3 Pro 15% above $10K, X4 Elite 20% above $100K, X5 Legend 25% above $1M.
So a trader doing a few thousand dollars a month gets 15% back on Maestro and 10% on BasedBot. On $5,000 of volume at 1%, that is $50 in fees, $7.50 back against $5. Small, but it is free and it compounds.
The gap closes at volume and never reverses: Maestro's top tier pays 30%, BasedBot's pays 25%.
Where BasedBot pulls ahead
Chains. Nineteen against fifteen, and BasedBot's bridge moves between them inside the chat. We timed one: Robinhood Chain to Ink, 0% bridge fee, 0.025 ETH sent and 0.024967 arrived, a token bought on Ink one minute later.
Copy trading you can actually shape. This is the part we run with our own money. Two kinds: follow a wallet address, or follow an account on X, Zora or Warpcast that posts contract addresses.
The wallet side has the setting that matters: a minimum on the size of the trade your target makes. Set it at $40 and their $25 experiment is skipped while their $130 entry is copied. You can also cut exits entirely and keep the alerts, so the bot buys with you and never sells without you.
It is not friction-free. Every chain is off by default, four screens deep, and we had it fully configured before noticing nothing could fire. The full walkthrough is in the review, and the copy trading comparison puts both kinds against Cielo, FOMO and GMGN.
Where Maestro pulls ahead
The incident record, told honestly. Maestro was exploited in 2023 and refunded every affected user within about a day. That is the most useful thing on this page: things break in this category, and what separates the teams is whether they pay you back. BasedBot has no incident on record, which is good, but it is also a shorter history.
Cashback from the first trade, as above, with no volume to unlock first.
Reach on chains BasedBot does not have, TON and Tron among them, if that is where you trade.
The part both marketing pages skip
Neither bot's documentation matches its own product. Maestro's docs said twelve chains when we counted fourteen in the bot, and fifteen since Ink. BasedBot's docs list eight networks for copy trading and the bot offers Robinhood, which is not on that list.
Both undercount themselves, which is an unusual way to be wrong, and it means the same thing either way: read the bot, not the page. Everything on this comparison was read in the bots for that reason.
And the rule that applies to both, unchanged: a pseudonymous team holds your deposit. Only fund what you actively trade. The safety page explains the custody model and the full incident history.
Links
(ref links) Both buttons may pay us a share of the fees the bot collects from you, at no extra cost to you. We use BasedBot with our own funds. The verdict above was written from what we read in both bots.
FAQ
Which one pays back more?
Maestro, unless you trade a lot. Maestro starts everyone at 15% cashback and tops out at 30% above $1M of volume. BasedBot starts at 5% and reaches 25% above $1M.
Both ladders were read inside the bots, Maestro on September 5 and BasedBot in August 2026.
Which one has more chains?
BasedBot: 19 chains counted in its own bridge screen, against 15 for Maestro once Ink was added on September 16, 2026. Both bots undercount themselves in their documentation.
Can you copy trade on both?
Both list copy trading, but BasedBot is the one we run with real money: wallet copy trading with a filter on the size of the target's trade, and social copy trading that buys contract addresses posted on X, Zora or Warpcast.
Maestro's copy trading exists but we have not tested it to the same depth.
Which one is safer?
Maestro has the longer record and the better incident story: one exploit in 2023, refunded within a day. BasedBot has no incident on record but a shorter history.
Both are pseudonymous teams holding your deposit, so the same rule applies to each: only deposit what you actively trade.