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BasedBot vs Photon
BasedBot and Photon side by side — fees, cashback, chains and who holds your keys, plus what a trade actually costs on each.
The two, side by side
| BasedBot | Photon | |
|---|---|---|
| Each buy/sell | 1 % | 1 % |
| Sign-up | none | none |
| Cashback | 25 % | none |
| Keys | Bot | You |
| Chains | Solana, Base, BSC, ETH +15 more | Solana |
What one trade costs (buy + sell)
| Your trade | BasedBot | Photon |
|---|---|---|
| $100.00 trade | $1.90 | $2.00 |
| $500.00 trade | $9.50 | $10.00 |
| $2,000.00 trade | $38.00 | $40.00 |
Platform fee only, entry cashback tier. Run your own numbers on the cost board.
Which one should you pick?
On a $5,000 trade, BasedBot is the cheaper of the two. Beyond cost it comes down to which fits how you trade — here's each in short.
BasedBot — Best inside Telegram
BasedBot lives inside Telegram, with a matching web terminal and Chrome extension on the same account: sniper, migration sniper, copy trading, DCA, take-profit and stop-loss, plus a built-in bridge that moves funds between 19 chains in seconds. It manages your trading wallet for you, so keep only what you are actively trading in it.
Photon — The simple one
Photon has been around since 2023 and keeps things simple. It is stable, well documented and easy to learn, but it offers neither a referral discount nor cashback, so you pay the full 1 % on every trade, and it has fallen behind the others on features in 2026.