The best Telegram trading bots in 2026, compared

For most traders in 2026 the choice comes down to three live bots: Trojan for Solana memecoins, Maestro if you trade on many chains, and Banana Gun for sniping Ethereum launches. All three charge 0.5–1% per trade. BullX, long the fourth name on these lists, switched off trading on June 1, 2026 and hasn’t come back, so it’s a withdraw-your-funds case rather than a recommendation.

All fees and chain lists below were checked against each bot’s own docs and website in September 2026. They change often, so check again before you fund a wallet.

Telegram trading bots compared

Bot	Trading fee	Chains	Referral discount for you	Key feature	Best for
Trojan	1% per buy and sell, 0.9% with a referral	Solana (web terminal adds Hyperliquid perps)	10% off fees via a Trojan referral link	SOL cashback up to 45% on the web terminal	Solana memecoin traders
Maestro	1% per buy and sell	12 chains incl. Solana, Ethereum, BSC, Base, TON, Tron	None documented; 15–30% fee cashback for everyone	Widest chain coverage, copytrade on every chain	Multi-chain and TON/Tron traders
Banana Gun	0.5% manual trades, 1% snipes	Ethereum, Solana, BSC, Base, HyperEVM, MegaETH, Robinhood, Stable	None documented	Auto-sniping new launches with anti-rug	Ethereum launch snipers
BullX	Was 1% per buy and sell	Solana and several EVM chains (trading disabled)	Not applicable while paused	Web terminal with Telegram login	Nobody right now: withdraw

“Referral discount for you” means what the person signing up gets. Every bot also pays referrers a cut, which is a separate thing and explains why so many “best bot” lists exist.

What do Telegram trading bots actually cost?

The headline fee is charged on both sides of a trade. Buy $500 of a token and sell it later for $600, and a 1% bot takes $5 on the way in and $6 on the way out: $11 for one round trip.

That’s before three other costs every bot passes through:

• Network fees and tips. On Solana you pay a priority fee plus, with MEV protection on, a tip to Jito. BullX’s old docs defaulted both to 0.01 SOL, which is not trivial on small trades.
• DEX pool fees. The pool you trade against charges its own fee, which ranges from a fraction of a percent on established pools to several percent on some launchpads.
• Slippage. On thin memecoin pools this is often the biggest cost of all, and no bot can remove it.

A month of trading, worked through

Say you do $10,000 of volume in a month (buys and sells added together):

Bot	Base fee	After discounts	Notes
Maestro	$100	$85	Bronze cashback returns 15% of fees
Trojan (Telegram bot, referral)	$90	$90	Referral cuts 1% to 0.9%
Trojan (web terminal, lowest rank)	$90	about $81	Degen rank pays 10% cashback in SOL
Banana Gun, Ethereum manual trades	$50	$50	Snipes cost 1%
Banana Gun, Solana	$100	$100	Banana Gun’s own blog puts Solana at 1%

The differences look small per trade but compound fast for active traders. At $100,000 a month, the gap between 1% and 0.85% is $150.

Trojan: best for Solana memecoins

Trojan started as a Solana Telegram bot and has grown into a web terminal at trojan.com, while the bot (@solana_trojanbot) still runs. According to Trojan’s FAQ, it charges 1% per successful trade. The official Trojan on Solana site advertises 10% off fees for users who join through a referral, which brings that to 0.9%.

The web terminal adds an “Arena” rank system that pays cashback in SOL, starting at 10% at the lowest rank and rising to 35% at Titan, with quests pushing it up to 45% according to the ranks page. It also has copy trading, limit and DCA orders, a wallet tracker, and Hyperliquid-powered perps.

Watch out for: it’s Solana only for spot trading. The Arena’s Gold points and jackpot mechanics are gamified in a way that nudges you to trade more, which is good for Trojan and not necessarily for you.

Our Trojan review goes through the settings and referral tiers in detail.

Maestro: best for trading across many chains

Maestro is the widest bot here. Its supported chains page lists twelve: Solana, BNB Smart Chain, Base, Ethereum, Monad, Sonic, Avalanche, Arbitrum, HyperEVM, Robinhood, Tron and TON. If you trade on TON or Tron, it’s the only bot in this group that covers them.

The fee is a flat 1% on every buy and sell. On Solana it’s taken inside the same transaction; on other chains Maestro tracks what you owe and sweeps it from your highest-balance wallet once it passes a minimum, which confuses people who spot unexplained transfers. The fees page lists the fee addresses so you can check.

Everyone gets automatic cashback on the fee: 15% at Bronze, 20% Silver, 25% Gold and 30% Diamond, based on volume. There is also a Premium plan at $200 a month with a faster bot, more wallets per chain (10 vs 8) and more copytrade slots (12 vs 5). Only worth it if you trade enough that speed and slot limits actually bind.

Watch out for: no documented discount for referred users, so the referral link only benefits the referrer. On Ethereum, Anti-MEV routing through a private relay is always on, which protects you from sandwiches but can’t be switched off for speed.

If Maestro fits, start the Maestro bot and switch on only the chains you trade under /chains. More in our Maestro bot review.

Banana Gun: best for Ethereum launch sniping

Banana Gun built its name on auto-sniping Ethereum token launches: you tell it what to buy and how much, and it tries to land in the first block. Its “First Bundle or Fail” mode pools users’ snipes into one bundle that either lands first or doesn’t execute at all.

According to the Banana Gun homepage, manual trades cost 0.5% and snipes 1%, with support for Ethereum, Solana, BSC, Base, Robinhood, Stable, HyperEVM and MegaETH across both the Telegram bot and its Banana Pro web app. Banana Gun’s own blog describes Solana as 1%, so the 0.5% rate is realistically an Ethereum manual-trade rate.

To try it, open Banana Gun and register through its registration bot first. Built-in protections include honeypot detection, anti-rug protection, private transactions and reorg protection on Ethereum.

Watch out for: you can’t export a private key after the fact. Banana Gun’s FAQ says the key is shown once when you generate a wallet and can’t be retrieved later. The bot also had a serious exploit in September 2024; the team refunded affected users, and our Banana Gun review covers what changed afterwards.

BullX: what happened, and what to do if you still have funds there

BullX, and its newer version BullX Neo, was a hybrid: you logged in through a Telegram bot and traded in a web terminal across Solana and several EVM chains, paying 1% per trade according to its fees page.

The team disabled trading at 00:00 UTC on June 1, 2026, saying it wanted to focus on the next version of the app, as reported by crypto.news. Wallet and withdrawal functions stayed on. As of late September 2026 there’s no public relaunch date.

If you have balances in BullX wallets, move them out now to a wallet you control. BullX’s docs always told users to save the private key at wallet creation and import it into Phantom, Solflare or Rabby, and that key still works regardless of what happens to the app. Our BullX review has the full history.

Web terminals: the alternative most Solana traders now use

A Telegram bot is a chat window. For quick buys from a phone that’s fine, but for reading charts, holder distribution and new-pair feeds side by side, browser-based terminals like Axiom, GMGN and Fomo have taken a lot of the Solana volume. Trojan and Banana Gun both launched web apps for the same reason.

Fees sit in the same range as the bots, and everything is on one screen. The trade-off is the same custody model: they also generate wallets and sign for you. Our Axiom vs GMGN vs Fomo comparison covers fees and features if you want that route instead.

How to choose a Telegram trading bot

1. Start with the chain. Solana only: Trojan. Ethereum launches: Banana Gun. TON, Tron or a mix of EVM chains: Maestro.
2. Match the fee to your style. Frequent manual Ethereum traders save half the fee with Banana Gun. High-volume Solana traders get the most back from Trojan’s cashback ranks or Maestro’s upper cashback tiers.
3. Decide if you need automation. Copy trading exists on all three live bots. Launch sniping is Banana Gun’s core; Maestro and Trojan have snipers but that’s not their main pitch.
4. Check how you get your keys out. Maestro and Banana Gun show your private key only once, at wallet creation. Trojan’s terminal lets you export keys later from the wallet menu. Plan for this before you deposit.
5. Use the official handle, from the official site. Fake clones of every bot here exist. Maestro links to t.me/maestro from its docs; Trojan to @solana_trojanbot; Banana Gun to @BananaGunSniper_bot.

Whichever you pick, treat the bot wallet as a hot wallet with only what you’re trading this week. Our guide to whether Telegram trading bots are safe walks through the key-custody model and the real exploits these bots have had.