Arbitrex vs Cryptohopper
Cryptohopper built a marketplace: templates, rented strategies, signal providers and copy trading, so that someone else's idea can run on your account. Arbitrex made the opposite bet — the edge is in the data, not in the strategy. Cross-exchange spreads are visible, measurable and expire on their own; what matters is seeing them early and filling both legs.
A measurable edge instead of a rented one
A spread is a number you can verify against two order books right now. A marketplace strategy is a backtest and a track record you cannot audit. Both can make money; only one of them tells you in advance what the trade is worth.
Market-neutral by construction
Every route in Arbitrex is two opposing legs, so the position has no net direction. Most marketplace bots are directional at heart — they win when the trend cooperates. That difference shows up hardest in a flat or falling market.
Coverage decides the opportunity count
Arbitrex scans every listed market on every connected venue with no whitelist, and treats funding and spot-futures basis as their own strategies. The number of routes you can take is a function of coverage, not of how many templates are in a catalogue.
Where Cryptohopper is the better answer
If you want to follow someone else's directional strategy, browse templates or copy a trader, that is what a marketplace is for and Arbitrex has nothing like it. Arbitrex assumes you want to run one thing yourself and understand exactly why each trade exists.
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Does Cryptohopper do cross-exchange arbitrage?
It has carried arbitrage-style bots in its catalogue; the current lineup is best checked on their site. The structural point is that a marketplace distributes strategies, while an arbitrage scanner has to own the market data end to end — the two require different infrastructure.
Is arbitrage still profitable, or is it all taken?
On BTC between two top venues, essentially yes — it is taken in milliseconds. The routes that still pay are thin and freshly listed coins and funding divergences, which is exactly why a no-whitelist scan matters more than a faster bot on a crowded pair.
Can I automate on Arbitrex without writing code?
Yes. A trigger is a route plus a spread threshold and a size; when the threshold is crossed both legs are opened, and closed on convergence or on your take-profit. No scripting, and no strategy to rent.