QuantPilot (by 3Commas) and Tessen make the same promise on the surface: describe a trading strategy in plain English, get it built, backtested, and deployed. The difference is everything that happens between the backtest and your money — and it's a difference you can verify, not a marketing claim.
"When your agents finish optimizing my strategy, what stops an overfit backtest from trading my real money?" On Tessen the answer is five hard gates — positive out-of-sample expectancy, a fee hurdle, cross-asset robustness, survivable drawdown, and an overfitting check — enforced server-side, with every grade publicly verifiable. We graded our own live strategy first and published the result. If a platform's answer is a backtest chart, that chart is the sales brochure, not the evidence.
Our own strategy's public grade (it got a D — we published it anyway) →| Tessen | QuantPilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Validation methodology | Published and mandatory: 6 years of data, train/out-of-sample split, fees modeled, five hard gates, and a public tamper-proof verify link for every grade. The methodology is documented in our docs. | Not disclosed in its public launch materials as of July 2026 — no published out-of-sample policy, fee model, or overfitting protection. Strategies are backtested, but how results are validated is not stated. |
| What “AI optimization” means | Retune proposals must pass all five gates AND beat the deployed baseline out-of-sample by a real margin. Each generation is counted, and “no better variant found” is reported honestly. | “User-directed or autonomous optimization cycles” that iterate on strategy performance. Iterating on the same history until the backtest improves is, structurally, how overfitting happens — unless a hard out-of-sample gate stops it, and none is documented. |
| What gates real-money deployment | An agent that fails any gate cannot be deployed live at any price — enforced server-side, not in the UI. Drift detection then compares live results to the grade's promise, forever. | “Export and deploy” live-ready strategies to Hyperliquid. No published validation requirement stands between an optimized backtest and live capital. |
| Community competitions | Every public grade is ranked by what survives: gates passed and forward performance. Most strategies fail, and we publish that. | QuantPilot Arena ranks competitors by backtest results — a leaderboard that structurally rewards whoever fits history hardest, which is the opposite of an edge. |
| Pricing | Building, grading, and paper trading are free. Live deployment via a prepaid pass from $49 — no card on file, no auto-renew. | Free early-access waitlist; a $5,000 lifetime VIP badge for immediate access. Full pricing “being finalized” as of July 2026. |
| Exchange keys & custody | Non-custodial by construction: the key vault rejects any API key with withdrawal permission. Keys are encrypted at rest and scoped trade-only. | Also non-custodial via exchange APIs. Worth knowing the history: parent company 3Commas suffered a widely reported API-key data breach in 2022. Evaluate key hygiene accordingly on any platform, including ours. |
| Research & data breadth | Lumen market intelligence built on our own cross-venue data engine (funding, open interest, crowd divergence, order-book imbalance across 7 exchanges) — collected raw by us, not resold. | Genuinely broad: research agents over CoinMarketCap, DefiLlama, CryptoQuant and news APIs. More third-party data sources than Tessen today — credit where due. |
| Maturity & backing | Independent, closed beta, young — and honest about it. Six exchanges supported for live trading. | Built by 3Commas, an established bot platform with a large existing user base. Full launch June 2026. |
An honest comparison cuts both ways. QuantPilot has more third-party research integrations than we do today, a polished Hyperliquid execution terminal, and the distribution of an established company behind it. If what you want is a broad AI research workbench with a manual trading desk attached, it may fit. If what you want is to know — before real money moves — whether a strategy actually holds up out-of-sample, that question needs published methodology and verifiable results, and that is the product we build.
And a prediction we're happy to be held to: when backtest-ranked competition results are published anywhere, we'll grade the winners out-of-sample with public verify links — whatever the outcome. That's the standard we apply to our own strategies too.
Describe any strategy in plain English and get the honest grade in about a minute — free, no signup, with a public verify link you can show anyone.
Grade a strategy free →QuantPilot and 3Commas are trademarks of their respective owners; Tessen is not affiliated with either. Statements about QuantPilot are based on its public launch materials and press coverage as of July 2026 and may change as the product evolves — verify current features against their own documentation. This page is a comparison of published methodologies, not financial advice.