Cryptohopper and 3Commas are excellent automation platforms. But automation isn't edge — so we took the community-standard strategy templates their own guides teach, and ran each one through the Tessen grading engine: 6 years of BTC/ETH/SOL data, out-of-sample split, real fees. Every result below links to a public verify page.
That's the most popular bot recipe on the internet — buy the RSI dip, take profit at +1.5%, let the averaging-down handle losers — across 2,247 out-of-sample trades. It wins three times out of four and still loses almost everything, because the average loss is 3.4× the average win. A win rate is not an edge. This is exactly the trap the Grade exists to catch.
See the full verified grade →These are the standard configurations documented in the platforms' own guides and community tutorials — not anyone's proprietary strategy. We graded the trading logic itself. Click any verify link to see the full report, including the gate checks and per-asset breakdown.
Buy when RSI(7) dips under 30 on 15m, take profit +1.5%, no stop loss — the martingale “handles” losers. Graded with only a wide catastrophic stop.
The stop loss the guides recommend when you don’t martingale: TP +1.5%, SL −2%.
Buy when RSI(14) < 30 and price is under the lower Bollinger band on 1h; TP +2%, SL −3%.
Long while the MACD histogram is positive, short while negative, on 1h; 24-bar time exit.
Buy stochastic < 20, short > 80, on 1h; TP +2%, SL −2%.
What we deliberately didn't grade: martingale safety-orders and grid mechanics. They aren't a directional edge — they reshape whenyou feel losses (many small wins, then one deep drawdown that holds the bag). Grading the underlying signal is the honest test: if the signal has no edge, averaging into it more deeply doesn't create one.
This isn't a feature-count table — on feature count, the incumbents win today and we say so. The difference is what each platform puts between you and a losing strategy.
| Tessen | Typical bot platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens before your strategy trades | A mandatory honest grade: 6 years of data, out-of-sample split, fees modeled, public verify link. | You can backtest if you choose to. Nothing stops an ungraded strategy from going live. |
| How results are reported | Net expectancy after fees, R:R, and drawdown — win rate is shown but never sold. | Win rate and total profit are the headline numbers in marketplaces and social sharing. |
| Overfitting protection | Train/out-of-sample split is built into every grade; only OOS results count toward the gate. | Backtests typically run on the full window you pick — optimizing on the same data you evaluate on. |
| Marketplace model | NEXA lists only gate-passing agents. Copying is free; owners earn a fee on your real profit only. | Paid signal/strategy subscriptions — you pay monthly whether or not the signals make money. |
| Pricing | Building, grading, and paper trading are free. One prepaid pass unlocks live — no card on file, no auto-renew. | Monthly subscription tiers; features like backtesting and more bots unlock at higher tiers. |
| AI “optimization” | Retune proposals must pass all 5 gates AND beat the baseline out-of-sample — and each generation is counted, because re-mining the same history erodes validity. Honest negatives are reported. | “Autonomous optimization cycles” iterate until the backtest looks better — optimizing and evaluating on the same history, with a deploy button at the end and no hard out-of-sample gate. |
| Maturity & breadth | Closed beta. 6 exchanges live. Young and honest about it. | Mature platforms, years in production, more exchanges and bot types. Genuinely more featureful today. |
Cryptohopper and 3Commas are trademarks of their respective owners; neither is affiliated with Tessen. Descriptions reflect each platform's publicly documented model as of July 2026 — if something is out of date, tell usand we'll fix it. Grades apply to the strategy configurations shown, run on our data and engine — not to the platforms themselves, which execute whatever strategy you give them.
Evaluating the newer AI strategy platforms? Tessen vs QuantPilot — validation vs optimization →
Deciding between the two incumbents? Cryptohopper vs 3Commas — the honest head-to-head →
Describe it in plain English and get the honest grade in about a minute — free, no account needed. If it fails, you just saved real money. If it passes, you've got something worth trading.