What we do differently than everyone else

Trust as a verifiable artifact, not a marketing claim

Everyone else writes "secure" on the pricing page. We publish the Ed25519 public key at quantorsaas.app/.well-known/quantor-pubkey and sign every prod deploy with an offline private key that physically lives on a a single offline machine. Every service has an identity endpoint that returns the build manifest + signature. Anyone with openssl can verify.

This isn't marketing — it's arithmetic. If someone swaps the bytes or pushes a malicious image, the signature stops matching, the Pulse probe obs.build-signed goes red, and we get a Telegram alert. We cannot "accidentally" ship a modified build without that being publicly obvious.

Risk policy as a 14-node graph, not a single stop-loss

A typical bot SaaS lets you configure a stop-loss % and declares defence handled. We run 14 gates before a LIVE order can reach the exchange: kill switch, user allowlist, regime gate, Telegram-link validation, live exchange-key verification, per-plan max-notional ladder, per-plan daily-loss ladder, strategy whitelist per execution mode, and so on. These aren't extra steps — each closes a specific failure mode, each has a unit test.

Specifically regime guard deserves its own line. In markets with high realised volatility or a deep drawdown from peak we refuse to start LIVE bots at all. This reduces our own revenue during volatile periods (fewer trades, fewer fees). And we're fine with that. We optimise for "don't lose the user's money on a bad day" — not volume.

Self-custody by construction

Pionex is a custodial exchange + bot — they hold your money. 3Commas and Cryptohopper run on API keys, but in 2022 the 3Commas API keys were compromised for a large number of users — and it hurt. With us:

• You create the exchange API key yourself.
• Recommended permissions: spot trading, withdraw disabled at the exchange.
• The key is encrypted with an AES-GCM master key from GCP Secret Manager (a separate trust boundary from the database).
• Even if the database fully leaks — it can't be decrypted without the master key; and if decrypted, funds can't be withdrawn because the exchange forbids it.

This isn't "trust us, we're careful." It's a structural property of the system — withdrawal is blocked at the exchange itself when users create correctly scoped API keys.

Telegram — the primary interface, not a notification channel

For everyone else, Telegram is a notification channel ("your order closed"). Control is always the web dashboard. For us, Telegram is the control plane: commands /start, /pause, /resume, /stop, /status, /profiles, /start_profile, /billing, /keys all work live. Plus the Telegram Mini-App with visual controls right inside the chat.

That means any one of your bots can be stopped in 3 taps from a phone. No dashboard, no login, no browser. On a bad day that's the difference between "in time" and "too late".

Pricing — $19/mo, no yield promises

Quantor's entry plan is $19/month — about the same as the rest of the field (3Commas from ~$20, Cryptohopper ~$24, TradeSanta ~$25; Pionex is "free" but takes a spread). We're not the cheapest and we don't pitch on price. What sets the $19 apart is what stands behind it: a signed build, a 14-gate risk chain, and enforced self-custody — none of which the others ship at any tier. The price stays low only because the stack is narrow (GCP Cloud Run me-west1, single region, minimal dependencies) and because we run no custodial operations that would need to be licensed and insured separately.

More important than the price — our pricing contains no yield promises. Anywhere. No "X% returns", no "up to Y% yield", no backtest charts in the hero. Every plan explicitly says "no ROI or profit guarantees" in its conditions. That kills the most popular ad copy in the category — and it's exactly what our target user (the burned trader) is looking for. He's already heard the promises. He wants operational discipline.

Where we do NOT win (or don't yet)

Being honest — there are areas where competitors are currently ahead or level with us:

• Multi-exchange — 3Commas / Cryptohopper support 10+ exchanges. We currently support one venue (focus on integration quality, more coming as user demand directs us).
• Strategy marketplace — Cryptohopper has a large marketplace. We ship 4 production strategies (EMA, Breakout V1, TS Momentum V1, Adaptive Pro) plus 2 experimental profiles (Smart Bot, Custom) and Pine Script v1 import.
• Native mobile app — we're via Telegram Mini-App, no native app yet.
• Team accounts — the "Teams" plan is single-seat MVP. Multi-seat admin is on the roadmap.
• Brand recognition — we're new. Obvious. We'll be known for verifiable controls and published results, not profit promises.

If multi-exchange is critical for you right now — pick 3Commas, no hard feelings. If security, regime-aware risk policy, and self-custody matter more — pick us.