3Commas gives you bots. anvas gives you the logic between them.
The most established bot platform in crypto, with the deepest preset library in the category. Its DCA, GRID and Signal bots are separate objects that cannot see each other — which is fine until your strategy has more than one mood.
Separate bot objects per strategy type — DCA, GRID, Signal — each with its own settings form and lifecycle.
One canvas. Entries, conditions, switches, orders and guards are nodes wired together.
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What 3Commas is
You connect exchange API keys, pick a bot type, and fill in a form. The DCA bot ladders into a position. The GRID bot works a range. The Signal bot fires on a TradingView alert. There is a large preset library, real copy trading, and an AI assistant that will build a starting configuration from a plain-English description.
For a single-behaviour strategy it is genuinely quick, and the presets mean you can be running something in a few minutes. That is a real advantage and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
Where it stops
Every one of those bots is a separate object. It has its own settings screen, its own budget, its own start and stop. It cannot see the others.
This matters as soon as your strategy has more than one mood. Take something completely ordinary:
Ladder into BTC on the way down. If it stops falling and starts ranging, stop laddering and work the range instead. If it breaks the range downward, stop everything.
On 3Commas that is a DCA bot, a GRID bot, and you — sitting there deciding which one should be running. There is no node between them because there is no canvas for a node to sit on. The switch lives in your head, and it fires when you happen to be looking. That exact strategy, drawn as one graph, is DCA in a downtrend, grid in a range.
The same gap shows up in smaller ways. You cannot put a condition on a single safety order. You cannot let a trend filter on the daily chart gate an entry on the 5-minute. You cannot have one drawdown limit that sees every bot at once, because no bot knows the others exist.
What anvas does differently
anvas has no bot types. A strategy is a graph: sources, indicators, conditions, switches, orders and risk guards, connected by edges that carry live values.
"Switch from laddering to range-working when the range holds" is a condition node with two branches. Not two products and a decision you have to be awake for. Because the switch is in the strategy, it fires whether or not you are watching — which was the entire point of automating it.
And because the values travel along visible edges, you can watch a signal move through your logic while it runs. When a trade fires you can see the node, the candle and the value that caused it, rather than reading backwards from a fill. That is the argument on glass box.
The actual question
Not "which has more features" — 3Commas has more features, and will for a while. The question is whether your strategy fits in one box.
If it does, a bot platform is the faster tool and you should use one. If you have ever found yourself running two bots and manually switching between them, that is the shape anvas was built for.