Best Telegram Trading Bots in 2026: Fees, Custody, and Who Each One Is Actually For

Let's get the obvious out of the way: we build Axxel. Of course we think you should use it. You'd be right to read anything below with that in mind.

But a comparison that says we win at everything is worthless to you and embarrassing to us, so this one is an honest unbiased breakdown written by a third party. If you finish this and pick something else because it fits you better, fine. We hope you'll come back when it doesn't!

What actually matters when picking a bot

Most comparisons rank by user count. That tells you what was popular in 2024, not what's good for you now. Four things actually decide whether a bot costs or makes you money:

Fees, on the trades you actually do. Bots advertise their lowest number. A "0.5%" bot that charges 1% on the chain you trade is a 1% bot to you. And remember every trade is a round trip — 1% each way is 2% before gas.

Who holds your keys. Some bots generate a wallet you don't fully control. Non-custodial means your keys are yours and the platform can't touch your funds. This is the difference between an outage being annoying and being catastrophic.

Chain coverage that matches where you trade. Fourteen chains is meaningless if you only trade Solana. Four chains is plenty if they're the four you use.

Whether it survives a bad day. Bots get exploited. Roughly $1.1M was lost in the Maestro and Unibot exploits in 2023. What matters is what happens next — Maestro refunded users in full within hours, which is genuinely the best incident response in the category.

Axxel

0.9% flat. Every chain, every order type, no subscription.

Our pitch is that we're boring about pricing. Most of the field charges 1% flat. We charge 0.9% on everything — market, limit, trailing, sniper, across Ethereum, Base, BSC and Solana. No premium tier, no volume games where you need $2M in monthly volume to reach the rate we give everyone on day one.

Non-custodial, built on Turnkey's infrastructure. We never hold your funds and we cannot access your private keys. That's not a marketing line, it's the architecture — we're a technology provider, not an exchange or a broker.

What's live: market buy and sell, limit buy and sell, trailing buy and sell, sniper on both EVM and Solana, multi-wallet, MEV protection, configurable slippage and tax limits, QuickBuy presets, position and order management, and performance analytics with a leaderboard.

Referrals pay 30–60% revenue share — the highest we're aware of in the category — plus cashback on your own trading fees.

Where we lose: We cover four chains, not fourteen. And we're new — we don't have Banana Gun's five years of volume behind us. If youtrade chains we don't support, one of the options below is a better fit right now. We'd rather tell you that than have you sign up and find out.

Banana Gun

The scale leader, and the strongest all-rounder here. Roughly $16 billion in cumulative volume and 1.3 million users (company-reported figures, not independently audited).

Fees are 0.5% on Ethereum manual buys and limit orders, 1% on the Ethereum sniper and all other chains, and 0% on stablecoin swaps across EVM chains. So it's the cheapest option in the category if you trade Ethereum manually and a standard 1% bot otherwise.

It's the only bot here with a real token: $BANANA distributes 40% of platform fees to holders every four hours, no staking required, minimum 50 tokens. Five chains run in a single Telegram session, it has a proper web terminal, MEV protection is on by default, and pre-trade simulation catches honeypots before your money moves.

Pick it if: you trade Ethereum manually and want the lowest fee on those trades, or you want a token that pays you back.

Maestro

The multi-chain workhorse. Flat 1% across more chains than anyone else — the breadth is the whole proposition, and nothing else comes close on chain count.

The catch is cost. Advanced copy trading (10 followed wallets instead of the free tier's three) needs a Premium subscription at roughly $200/month, layered on top of per-trade fees. There's also no web terminal — everything lives in Telegram.

Pick it if: you need a chain nobody else supports. That's a real reason, and it's the only one that justifies the pricing.

Trojan

Solana-only, roughly 1%, with volume-tiered cashback. Simple, fast, enormously popular with Solana traders who want one thing done well.

Pick it if: you trade Solana exclusively and want the most established Solana-native option.

BONKbot

Solana-only, 1% flat, no subscription, deliberately minimal — buy, sell, done. All platform fees buy BONK and 10% of that is burned, so the value accrues to BONK holders rather than being paid to you directly.

Pick it if: you want the simplest possible Solana interface with zero configuration.

So which one?

If you trade Ethereum manually, Banana Gun's 0.5% is the cheapest in the category and we won't pretend otherwise. If you need obscure chains, Maestro. If you're Solana-only and want the established option, Trojan or BONKbot.

If you want one flat fee that doesn't change based on chain, order type, or how much volume you push — and you want the best referral share in the category while you're at it — that's us. 0.9%, everything, no subscription, your keys stay yours.

You can try the bot in Telegram in about thirty seconds. No signup, no deposit required to look around.

Crypto trading carries risk. Nothing here is financial advice. Axxel is not available in all regions.