Binance Trading Bot Guide 2026: Spot Grid, Futures Grid, DCA and Fees

Binance trading bots charge no subscription. Every bot order pays the normal spot or futures trading fee: 0.1% on spot at VIP 0, and 0.02% maker / 0.05% taker on USDⓈ-M futures, with 25% off for spot bots and 10% off for futures bots when you pay fees in BNB. The strategies Binance lists today are Spot Grid, Futures Grid, Spot DCA, Futures DCA, the Rebalancing Bot, the Funding Rate Arbitrage bot and the TWAP / VP algo orders (checked 2026-10-22).

Sign up with the code FEEOTTER for a 40% rebate (20% automatic exchange rebate + 20% Fee Otter extra rebate). Binance's referral terms do not say anything specific about bot orders. The one bot page that does is the arbitrage bot: referral rebates apply to its spot leg, not its futures leg. Bots trade often, so fees pile up faster than with manual trading; register with FEEOTTER before you start a bot, because 40% is twice the common 20% code, and check your rebate records for what actually comes back.

Which trading bots does Binance offer?

Sources: Binance Trading Bots Terms (updated 2026-01-04), Trading Bots landing page guide, Spot Grid, Futures Grid, Spot DCA, Rebalancing Bot, Funding Rate Arbitrage bot, Futures TWAP, checked 2026-10-22. The category menu also lists Position Snowball, the Bots Marketplace and Auto-Invest, which this guide does not cover.

Before you start: bots run from a separate Trading Bots Account

Under the Trading Bots Account rules (updated 2026-01-08), Spot Grid, Futures Grid, the Rebalancing Bot and Spot DCA all run from this account, kept apart from your Spot and Futures accounts:

• No manual transfers: the funds a bot needs move in automatically when it starts and stay locked while it runs; they return to your Spot (or Futures) account about 30 seconds after it ends.
• The BNB discount still works: 25% off for spot bots and 10% off for USDⓈ-M futures bots. The fee is first charged to the bot account and the discount is refunded afterwards, shown under Fees Return History; you need enough BNB for it to apply.
• Same fee schedule as regular trading: Spot Grid follows spot rates, Futures Grid follows futures rates plus funding.

Spot Grid: setting one up, the parameters and leaving the range

1. 1

   Open the page

   on the web, Trade → Trading Bots → Spot Grid; in the app, Trade → Bots → Spot Grid.
2. 2

   Pick a setup mode

   "AI" generates parameters from technical analysis of the period you choose, and you can copy them into manual mode to edit; "Popular" uses recommended settings; "Manual" lets you choose arithmetic or geometric yourself.
3. 3

   Set the range and grid count

   enter the lower price, upper price and number of grids (2 minimum, 500 maximum). More grids need more funds.
4. 4

   Enter the investment

   quote coin only, or both coins; the amount actually needed may differ slightly from what you type.
5. 5

   Advanced settings (optional)

   trigger price, stop loss (below the lower price), take profit (above the upper price), and "Sell All Base Coins on Stop", which is on by default for new strategies.

• Leaving the range: orders stop executing once price falls below the lower price or rises above the upper price; in Binance's example the strategy is suspended and resumes when price comes back.
• More than 170 grids: the Dynamic Order Mechanism switches on and keeps at most 170 orders near the market price; Trailing Up is unavailable in this mode.
• Cancelling an order ends the grid: cancelling one of the grid's orders on the spot trading page terminates the whole strategy; delisting or a hit take-profit or stop-loss also ends it.
• On stop: open orders are cancelled and profits settle at market price; with "Sell All" off, base coins stay in your Spot account. If holdings are large or liquidity is poor, the system may not sell.

Each grid's profit has to pay two fees, one buy and one sell, before any of it is yours: at VIP 0 spot that is 0.1% each time, so a 0.3% profit per grid leaves about 0.1% after 0.2% in fees; with BNB it is 0.075% each time, leaving about 0.15%. Binance's "grid profit" is already net of fees, while "float profit" is the unrealized gain or loss on the base coin you hold; total profit is the two added together.

Futures Grid: direction, grid count and what ends a grid

• Direction: long and short can open an initial position at creation; neutral opens none and lets the first fill set the direction.
• Leverage: Binance gives no fixed range; the cap follows the symbol's leverage bracket. If the position's notional value exceeds the maximum for its leverage bracket, the grid expires, whether it is in profit or not; if Binance lowers a symbol's maximum leverage, grids above the new limit expire once new orders are placed.
• Margin mode: USDⓈ-M grids can be cross or isolated, with up to 99 strategies per account (50 cross, 49 isolated) and only one active cross grid per symbol; COIN-M grids do not support isolated margin for now.
• Bots Risk Ratio (BRR): margin balance divided by occupied margin; below 1.0 the grid expires. Insufficient margin, liquidation, delisting or delivery also end a grid. Since 2026-06-04 the estimated liquidation price for USDⓈ-M grids assumes every unfilled order on the risky side gets filled.
• Positions on stop: with "Close All Positions on Stop" on, positions close at market; with it off, you close them yourself. Open orders are always cancelled.
• Fee warning: if profit per grid is below the maker fee, the system warns that fees may not be covered.

Binance's total profit formula is net realized profit + unrealized PnL + funding fees. For leverage limits and account rules on Binance futures itself, see the Binance futures guide.

Spot DCA and the Rebalancing Bot

• Spot DCA: "Buy" mode adds as price falls and sells at the take-profit; "Sell" mode works the other way round. Settings include price deviation, base order, DCA order, max DCA count and two multipliers: with a 1,000 USDT DCA order and a size multiplier of 2, three entries are 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 USDT. A running bot cannot be edited or paused, only ended; on end, base coins from open orders are sold at market, and a manual cancel lets you keep them. Binance warns that dust left after fees can turn a round's profit negative.
• Rebalancing Bot: 2 to 10 coins, triggered by coin ratio change (preset steps from 0.5% to 50%) or by time (30 minutes to 28 days). Orders go in as limit IOC, with market orders only when closing; orders under 10 USDT will not execute. Normal spot fees apply, with 25% off in BNB.

Funding Rate Arbitrage bot: the clearest rebate rule

Positive carry buys spot and shorts the same amount of the perpetual to collect positive funding; reverse carry goes long futures and sells spot. The APR shown is |3-day cumulative funding rate| ÷ 3 × 365, a backward-looking number. 10% of the investment is held as a buffer, so 1,000 USDT in a positive-carry strategy puts 900 USDT into spot.

Binance's page for this bot states: "Referral rebates apply to Spot trading but not arbitrage Futures trading." So the futures leg's fees generate no referral rebate, and anyone running arbitrage should leave those fees out of their rebate math. On risk, Binance says the position is liquidated when uniMMR falls below 105%; a gap between spot and futures prices, or funding turning negative, can wear down margin. For the full cost picture, see funding rate arbitrage: the real cost.

How bot fees are charged

Sources: Binance spot fee schedule, Binance futures fee FAQ (updated 2026-05-01) and the Trading Bots Account rules, checked 2026-10-22. The Spot DCA and Rebalancing pages both say there are "no additional fees". Binance does not say whether bots have a separate fee tier; for how VIP levels work, see Binance VIP fee tiers.

Do bot orders earn the rebate? What Binance's terms say

We read the Binance Affiliate Program guide (updated 2026-07-15) and the referral program FAQ (updated 2026-08-05), checked 2026-10-22:

• Where commission comes from: the trading fees paid by referred users on spot, margin and futures. Neither document mentions trading bots, grids or API orders.
• No fee, no commission: "no commission will be generated from your referrals' trading with no trading fee". A grid on a zero-fee pair earns no rebate.
• Net fees: commission is calculated on net fees after any market maker rebates.
• Arbitrage bot: as above, Binance says the futures leg is not eligible.

Under Binance's rules a bot order is an ordinary fill charged at spot or futures rates, but no official sentence says outright that Grid or DCA bot orders count toward referral commission, so we will not answer for Binance. Once your bot is running, go by your Fee Otter rebate records and check that the fees from those days have matching rebate entries. Binance says its futures TWAP was launched for API users; API order rules are covered in Binance API trading setup.

Sign up with the code FEEOTTER for a 40% rebate (20% automatic exchange rebate + 20% Fee Otter extra rebate), twice the common 20% code. The extra rebate is paid in on-chain USDT on BEP20, from 1 USDT, with the 0.015 USDT network fee paid by the user. The sign-up link is in Binance referral code; for an existing account, see the Binance rebind guide.

The example below is our own; the fill counts are assumptions, not a forecast, and it assumes bot orders are counted for the rebate:

In the futures example the fees come to 1% of the capital; in a sharp move some orders may fill as taker at 0.05%, which costs more. Funding is not a trading fee and is not rebated. For the cheapest way to combine the BNB discount and the rebate, see the Binance fee calculator: BNB discount plus rebate.

Where bots are available

We could not read the restricted-locations clause of Binance's Terms of Use on this check (2026-10-22). Binance's Rebalancing Bot page says a strategy is terminated when the product is unavailable in the user's region; whether bots work for you is whatever the Trading Bots page shows after you log in. Licences and registrations by country are in crypto exchange licences by country.

Risks

A bot follows its settings and does not read the market. Binance says bots keep executing at the set intervals even during a sharp collapse or surge; a spot grid below its range ends up holding a falling coin, DCA can leave you in a position that "permanently remains loss-making", and futures grids and the arbitrage bot can be liquidated or ended by the system. AI parameters come from past prices and past performance does not predict future results; Binance's terms also say the risk of a grid strategy rests with the user.

FAQ

Do Binance trading bots cost money?

There is no subscription, only trading fees: spot bots pay spot rates (0.1% at VIP 0), Futures Grid pays futures rates (0.02% maker, 0.05% taker), and futures also carry funding.

Can bots use the BNB fee discount?

Yes. Spot Grid, Rebalancing and Spot DCA get 25% off; USDⓈ-M Futures Grid and Futures DCA get 10% off. You need enough BNB in the account.

How many grids can a Binance grid bot have?

Spot Grid allows 2 to 500 (170 with Trailing Up); USDⓈ-M Futures Grid up to 1,000 and COIN-M up to 169.

What happens when price leaves the grid range?

A spot grid stops executing and resumes when price returns; a futures grid opens no new positions, but the open position, funding and liquidation risk remain.

Do grid bot orders earn the referral rebate?

Binance pays commission on fees paid for spot, margin and futures trading and does not mention Grid or DCA bots specifically, so check your rebate records. The only explicit rule is for the arbitrage bot: referral rebates apply to its spot part, not its futures part.

How much is the rebate with code FEEOTTER?

40%: 20% returned automatically by Binance and 20% extra from Fee Otter (BEP20 USDT, from 1 USDT).

Further reading

• Binance fee rebate guide
• OKX trading bot guide
• Rebates for grid and arbitrage traders
• Binance copy trading guide

Compiled from Binance's Trading Bots Terms, the help pages for each bot, the Trading Bots Account rules, the fee schedule and the affiliate and referral program documents, checked 2026-10-22. For information only, not investment advice. Bots can lose money, and futures can lose all their margin in a short time; strategies, parameter ranges, leverage and fees are set by Binance and may change, so go by what the official pages show. Rebate rates are set by the exchange and may change; see the Fee Otter rebate rates page.

Data verified: 2026-10-22