Trading Bot Cost Calculator - Subscription vs. Per-Trade Fees
Subscriptions are flat cost; per-trade fees scale with volume. At your volume, which model wins - and what does "free" actually cost?
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How to read it
The calculator shows yearly cost for each model: subscription + volume fee at your turnover, per-trade fees at the same turnover, and the months until a lifetime license breaks even against the subscription. Fee-based platforms (DEX snipers at 0.5-1% per trade, volume-fee platforms like Coinrule's 0.02% of volume) only make sense at low turnover or high edge. Exchange-native bots (Pionex at 0.05% per side) are the honest baseline to beat - see the free lane →