The one-sentence version
Coinrule is rules as the strategy: your conditions decide when to buy, when to sell, and how much. CopyFi is rules around a strategy: a person decides when, and your conditions decide what they are allowed to do with your account.
| CopyFi | Coinrule | |
|---|---|---|
| What opens a trade | A trader you chose, filtered by your rules | A market condition you wrote |
| Where your money sits | Your own exchange account — Phemex today, more venues planned | Your own exchange account, across 20+ venues, plus on-chain |
| Coding required | None — visual blocks | None — visual editor |
| Your risk controls | Size per trade, leverage ceiling, direction and per-asset filters, kill switches on P&L or drawdown | Max open positions, per-trade size, allocation caps, max leverage on perps, funding-rate filters, drawdown-triggered sizing, post-loss pauses |
| Reacts to news | Yes — the trader you copy reacts | Only if you wrote a condition for it |
| Trying it before real money | A testnet account, paper money against live prices | Replaying your rules on historical candles |
| What you have to be good at | Judging traders, and knowing your own limits | Turning a thesis into conditions |
| Main failure mode | The trader changes behaviour | The market stops matching your conditions |
What Coinrule does well
More than we do, on most counts, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Their risk toolkit is deeper than ours: max open positions, per-trade size, portfolio allocation caps, a leverage ceiling on perpetuals, funding-rate filters, sizing that shrinks after a drawdown, and pauses that stop new entries after a loss. That last pair is genuinely clever and we do not have an equivalent.
They connect to more than twenty exchanges plus on-chain venues, which means the product fits the account you already have rather than asking you to move. They let you replay a rule set on historical candles before it touches money. And they have been at it for years, which shows.
So what is actually different
One thing, and everything else follows from it: what supplies the judgment.
In Coinrule, your rules are the whole strategy. They are the trigger and the guardrail at once. Nothing happens that you did not describe in advance, which is exactly the point, and also the limit — a rule set is deaf to anything you did not anticipate. When the regime changes, your conditions keep firing against a market they were not written for.
In CopyFi, a human opens the trade. They read the news, they notice the funding is strange, they sit out a week that looks wrong. Your rules never decide to enter anything; they decide what that person is permitted to do once they have. Two different jobs, and which one you want depends on something specific about you.
The question that settles it
Can you write down your edge as conditions? Not vaguely, actually: this indicator crosses that level, size this much, exit here. If you can, Coinrule will execute it forever without flinching, and you do not need us.
Most people cannot, and that is not a failing. They can recognise a trader who is good when they see the record, but they cannot express what that trader knows as a set of thresholds. That gap is the whole reason copy trading exists, and it is what CopyFi is for — with the part that can be written down, the risk limits, written down.
What CopyFi changes
You pick which traders you accept, how much size a single trade may use, a leverage ceiling the copied trader cannot push you past, direction and per-asset filters, and kill switches that end a session on a P&L or drawdown limit. Those are enforced on every copied order before it reaches the exchange. You assemble them from visual blocks on the strategy builder.
On custody the two of us agree entirely, and it is worth saying so plainly: neither holds your money. Funds stay in your own exchange account, reached by an API key with trade permission and never withdrawal. See what non-custodial actually buys you.
Where CopyFi is behind
Venues, above all. Coinrule reaches more than twenty exchanges; we execute on Phemex today, with others planned. If your capital is somewhere we do not reach, no argument about signals changes that. Their risk primitives are also more numerous than ours, and they are older, with the accumulated edge-case handling that only time buys.
What we offer instead of historical replay is a testnet account: paper money against live market prices, so you watch your rules meet a real order book before any real funds are involved.
Choose Coinrule if
- You have a thesis you can state as conditions, and you want it executed without emotion.
- Your capital is on an exchange we do not reach yet.
- You want to replay a rule set against history before committing to it.
- You would rather not depend on any other person’s behaviour at all.
Choose CopyFi if
- You can judge a trader but cannot write down what they know.
- You want a signal that reacts to a world your conditions never described, bounded by limits that do not move.
- You want the whole thing proven on paper money first, and the funds to stay somewhere you can pull them from — see how to choose a trader to copy.
Both tools sit next to each other on our map of copy trading models. Neither guarantees a profit. Trading involves risk, past performance does not guarantee future results, and CopyFi makes no investment recommendations.