Binance Trading Bots: The 8 Types, What Each Does and Who It Suits
Binance's Trading Bots page listed eight entries as of October 2026: Spot Grid, Futures Grid, Arbitrage Bot, Rebalancing Bot, Spot DCA, Spot TWAP, Futures TWAP and Futures VP. Recurring buys are not on that page; they live under Convert. Copy trading has its own separate entry.
Which 8 bots are on Binance's Trading Bots page now
The "Binance's one-liner" column is quoted from the Trading Bots page. The definitions of each type are in the Help Center article How to Use the Binance Trading Bots Landing Page?
| Name on the page | Binance's one-liner | The action it repeats | Can it be liquidated? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spot Grid | Buy low and sell high. 24/7 availability | Places buy and sell orders grid by grid inside a price range | No |
| Futures Grid | Automate your longs and shorts | The same grid orders, run on a leveraged futures position | Yes |
| Arbitrage Bot | Delta neutral strategy to earn Funding Fee effortlessly | Holds opposite spot and perpetual positions and collects funding fees | Yes (the futures leg) |
| Rebalancing Bot | Smart strategy for a multi-coin portfolio | Brings several coins back to their set proportions | No |
| Spot DCA | Lower average entry cost, profit from reversals | Adds an order each time price deviates by a set step, sells at the take-profit percentage | No |
| Spot TWAP | Enhance execution of large orders in smaller blocks. | Splits one large order into small ones over time | No |
| Futures TWAP | Reduce execution costs by splitting orders | The same, for a futures order | Depends on your futures position |
| Futures VP | Split large order among specific urgency levels | Trades at a set share of the market's volume | Depends on your futures position |
Names change between versions and languages. If you cannot find a feature, read the description and do not rely on the name alone.
What a trading bot is and which step it does for you
A trading bot is not an AI brain that "thinks about the market." Every bot on that Binance page is essentially a program that places orders automatically by preset rules: you set "buy at what price, sell at what price, how much, how often to buy," and the program watches the order book 24 hours a day, placing and filling orders for you the moment a condition is met. Its strength is that it doesn't sleep, doesn't get emotional, and executes without deviation; its weakness is just as clear — the rules are yours, and when the market doesn't move the way you set the rules, it mechanically executes anyway and loses every cent it's due to lose.
So judging whether a bot is worth using isn't about how smart its name sounds, it's about whether the rule behind it holds up in the current market. The rule of grid-type bots is to buy low and sell high for the spread, and the premise is that price swings back and forth inside a range; the rule of Spot DCA is to add an order each time price falls by a set step and sell once the rebound reaches the take-profit percentage, and the premise is that a rebound follows the fall. When the rule matches the market the bot saves you the screen time; when it runs against the market it executes all the same, and the losses add up all the same.
Spot Grid and Futures Grid: what market they suit
Spot Grid. By Binance's definition it is a bot that automates buying and selling on spot. You set a price range and a number of grids, the bot places buy and sell orders on each grid line, and every time price crosses a grid and comes back it completes one buy-low, sell-high pair. It suits a market moving back and forth inside a band. It has no leverage and cannot be liquidated. The trouble starts when price leaves the range in one direction: below the lower price you hold coins bought all the way down, at a loss at the current price; above the upper price the coins are sold and the rest of the rally passes the grid by. What you fill in at creation, how the grid lines are calculated and how a stop is settled are in Binance Grid Trading: Spot Grid Rules, Settings, a Worked Example and Why Grids Lose. The Trailing Up option, which moves the range up with price, is in Turned On Trailing Up in a Binance Spot Grid? Why the Order Size per Grid Changes.
Futures Grid. It applies the grid strategy to contracts on Binance Futures. It can run long, short or neutral, with leverage. The orders work the same way as in a spot grid; what is added is margin and liquidation. If price moves far enough against the position, the position is liquidated and the grid ends with it, with no waiting for price to come back. It suits someone who has already run a spot grid and can work out their own liquidation price. Margin modes, where the liquidation price is shown and what the bot does after a liquidation are in Can a Binance Futures Grid Get Liquidated? Run the Futures Liquidation Price Calculator before opening one. A futures position also pays or receives funding; the Funding Rate Cost Calculator shows the sum.
Arbitrage Bot: what it actually collects
Binance describes the Funding Rate Arbitrage Bot as one that "allows users to earn funding fees": it holds opposite positions in the spot market and the perpetual futures market, long spot and short futures in a positive arbitrage, the reverse in a reverse arbitrage. The two legs cancel out price moves and what remains is the funding fee settled each period. It suits someone who wants the funding fee without taking a view on direction.
Three things go wrong with it. The sign of the funding rate changes, and in the periods when it turns against your side you are the one paying. The funding total on screen is gross; the fees for opening and closing both legs and the price gap on entry and exit come out of it. And the futures leg carries margin, so a hedged position can still be liquidated.
Rebalancing Bot: for people holding several coins
Binance's definition: "The Rebalancing Bot automatically adjusts your portfolio position in the token combination of your choice." It rebalances at a preset time interval or at a threshold so that each asset stays at its set share: part of whatever has grown beyond its share is sold and moved into whatever has fallen below. It suits someone who has already decided to hold a few coins for the long run and wants the proportions kept in line. It does not pick coins. When everything in the basket falls together, the proportions can be perfectly maintained while the total value still shrinks.
The setting to think through is the trigger. Rebalancing by time means the calendar decides how many trades happen; rebalancing by deviation means the market decides. The two do not cost the same in fees.
Spot DCA and recurring buys are two products
The two names get used interchangeably, but the rules are entirely different. Spot DCA sits on the Trading Bots page and is triggered by price: it places a base order, adds another order each time price moves against you by a set percentage, and when the take-profit percentage (measured from the average price) is reached it sells and starts a new round. Recurring buys sit under Convert and are triggered by time: a fixed amount hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, buying only and never selling.
Spot DCA suits someone who wants to build a position in stages through a pullback and close it on a bounce. Its problem is a one-way fall: once the DCA orders are used up, it holds coins bought above the current price and can only wait. Recurring buys suit someone who does not want to time the market and plans to accumulate one coin over a long period. Their problem is a coin that keeps falling: the average cost comes down but stays above the price. The settings and rules of each are set out separately in Binance Recurring Buys vs the Spot DCA Bot; to estimate an average cost, use the DCA Return Calculator.
TWAP and VP: for splitting large orders, not for strategy profit
These three entries (Spot TWAP, Futures TWAP, Futures VP) are a different kind of thing from the ones above. They have no buy-low, sell-high rule; what they do is execution. Per the Help Center, the TWAP algorithm spreads a large order into smaller quantities executed at regular intervals to keep price impact down, and the Volume Participation algorithm executes large orders at a set urgency level, trading at a pace that tracks a set share of real-time market volume.
They suit someone whose order is big enough to move the order book if it went in at once. A small order has no use for them. Keep in mind that the market does not wait while the order is being worked: the longer the slicing runs, the further the average fill can end up from the price you saw at the start. The settings for Futures TWAP, how margin is checked and what ends the strategy early are in How to Use Binance Futures TWAP: Splitting a Large Order, Checking Margin, and What Ends the Strategy.
Is copy trading a bot?
No. It is not on the Trading Bots page; the entry is [Trade] – [Copy Trading]. The bots above execute rules you set yourself. Copy trading executes another person's trades: the lead trader opens and closes positions, and the system follows in your copy trading account by a fixed amount or a fixed ratio that you choose, with a share of the profit going to the lead trader at the percentage set for that portfolio. It suits someone who does not intend to judge the market personally and accepts handing that judgment to a stranger. That is also where it goes wrong: when the lead trader adds to a position, holds a loser or gets liquidated, your position goes with it. Copy modes, how profit share is settled and how to stop copying are in How Binance Copy Trading Works.
Can Binance trading bots make money?
Each type of bot earns the money that one particular kind of market hands out. A grid earns the spread from price moving back and forth inside a range. Recurring buys and Spot DCA earn from price recovering after the buys. The arbitrage bot earns funding fees. The rebalancing bot relies on the discipline of fixed proportions. When the market fits the rule, the bot carries it out without deviation, and when the market runs the other way it carries on in exactly the same manner. Which kind of market you are in is the part that is hardest to know in advance.
These strategy templates are public. Anyone can open the same bot from the same settings page, so the template itself holds no advantage that others lack. What it saves you is watching the screen and placing orders by hand. Reading the market and deciding when to get out stay with you.
A screenshot of someone else's return leaves out three things: how long it ran and on how much capital, how deep the largest drawdown was, and whether there are still open positions sitting at a loss. A shot of the realized-profit field alone does not show the part that is stuck. And the people posting screenshots are only the ones who chose to post.
Work out your own result net. Beyond the gross figure there are three deductions:
- Trading fees. A grid pays two fees for every completed pair, and the tighter the grids and the thinner the spread, the larger the share that goes to fees. The Grid Profit Simulator shows the result with and without fees side by side.
- Funding. Futures bots pay or receive funding while they hold a position, and when the rate is against you it is pure cost.
- Slippage and opportunity cost. The gap between the fill and the price you expected, and whatever the money missed elsewhere while it was locked in the bot.
Bots sold outside Binance under labels like "stable profit", "capital guaranteed" or "daily yield" tend to share the same moves: only winning screenshots are shown, a return is promised, you are asked to hand over an API key or even deposit funds on their platform, and a strategy fee or profit cut is charged on top. No strategy in crypto can guarantee a return, and a promise of guaranteed capital is reason enough to stop reading.
When a third-party bot asks for your API key
Binance's own bots run inside your account and need no key from you. A tool outside Binance can only place orders for you with your API key, and Binance's API FAQ states plainly that entering your API key or Secret Key on any third-party platform carries a security risk.
If you go ahead, settle three things first: no withdrawal permission, an IP restriction, and only the one trading permission the tool actually uses. A key with trading permission alone can still be used to wash-trade against your account. That point, Binance's rule for keys without an IP restriction, and isolating a bot in a sub-account are covered in How to Set Up a Binance API Key Safely.