OctoBot
Cryptocurrency trading bot.
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Still maintained? Yes: 169 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 3.0.0-beta3 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
OctoBot quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 6,874
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.0.0-beta3, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "OctoBot is a free open-source crypto trading bot with a visual user interface. Explore guides, features, and cloud options on octobot.cloud."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
OctoBot scores 95/100, #11 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 169 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.0.0-beta3, 22 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 6,874 stars add 15.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
169 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
3.0.0-beta3 released 22 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.3 / 20
6.9k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 169
- Last 90 days
- 752
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Kill Bill (#10) and Bigcapital (#12) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python, Docker |
| Latest release | 3.0.0-beta3 · 22 days ago |
| Stars | 6,874 |
| Open issues | 157 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Drakkar-Software/OctoBot ↗ |
OctoBot vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with OctoBot (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Firefly III | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| OctoBot (this tool) | 95 | 6.9k | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| Mybucks.online | 53 | 21 | MIT | 13 days ago |
| SHKeeper | 51 | 635 | GPL-3.0 | 2 months ago |
OctoBot: common questions
Is OctoBot still maintained?
OctoBot had 169 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, 3.0.0-beta3, is from 22 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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