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Trojan vs BonkBot vs Maestro

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Trojan vs BonkBot vs Maestro
Trojan vs BonkBot vs Maestro
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updatedAugust 2026
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Trojan and BonkBot both charge 1 percent falling to about 0.75 to 0.9 percent with cashback or a referral and remain the two highest volume Solana specific Telegram trading bots as of August 2026, while Maestro is the oldest of the three, now layers a roughly 200 dollar monthly Premium subscription on top of its 1 percent fee, and is the only one of the three with a fully disclosed security incident.

Contents
  1. 1 Fees compared
  2. 2 Features compared
  3. 3 Speed and execution claims
  4. 4 Incidents and reliability
  5. 5 Who each suits
  6. 6 Comparison table
  7. 7 References

Between Trojan, BonkBot and Maestro, the three longest running Telegram trading bots for Solana meme coins, Trojan and BonkBot are the closer comparison for a pure Solana trader: both charge 1 percent falling to roughly 0.75 to 0.9 percent with cashback or a referral, and both are consistently ranked among the highest volume bots in the category. Maestro predates both, charges the same 1 percent base rate but now adds a Premium subscription around 200 dollars a month for its deeper features, covers far more chains than either rival, and carries the only publicly disclosed security incident of the three. All three sit in the trenches alongside newer entrants such as Bloom and Nova, and against web terminals like Axiom and Photon for the traders who prefer a browser tab to a chat window.

Fees compared

Trojan's base fee is 1 percent, reduced to 0.9 percent with a referral code, and an April 2026 comparison review also credits it with an Arena cashback system returning up to 45 percent of fees at its highest tier (Crypto Reporter, April 11, 2026). BonkBot starts at the same 1 percent and falls to 0.75 percent at its top Platinum III cashback tier per the same review, with no subscription cost either way; its defining economic quirk is that all collected platform fees buy BONK, with a portion burned and a further 10 percent of fees routed to the BONK DAO. Maestro charges a flat 1 percent on successful trades like the other two, but the April 2026 review found it now layers a Premium subscription of roughly 200 dollars per month on top for advanced copy trading and analytics, with cashback running up to 30 percent for subscribers, a materially different cost structure from Trojan or BonkBot's no subscription models.

Features compared

Trojan supports fast buys and sells, sniper entries, copy trading, limit orders, dollar cost averaging, multi wallet support, and MEV protected transaction routing, and in 2026 the team added a companion web terminal alongside the original Telegram bot, following the broader shift from chat bots to browser interfaces like GMGN. BonkBot deliberately targets simplicity over feature depth, making it a common recommendation for beginners entering the trenches through Telegram rather than a web terminal; it became part of the wider Bonk Inc. group alongside the LetsBonk.fun launchpad. Maestro's flagship bot supports buying and selling from chat, sniper entries, copy trading, wallet monitoring, and call channel integration, alongside companion bots for whale watching and token analytics that overlap with what Kolscan and KOL Explorer do as dedicated Solana leaderboards, and it now covers 14 chains in total per the April 2026 review, more than any other bot on this page, spanning Solana alongside Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base; Trojan and BonkBot, by contrast, are Solana specific tools built for the pace of pump.fun launches specifically.

Speed and execution claims

Trojan's own materials describe its BOLT execution as targeting sub two second fills on Solana, a claim repeated in the April 2026 comparison review rather than independently benchmarked against BonkBot or Maestro in that piece. Neither BonkBot nor Maestro publishes a comparable headline latency figure; BonkBot's pitch has always been reliability and simplicity for a fast buy on a pasted contract address rather than a stated millisecond target, while Maestro's multichain design means its execution characteristics vary by chain rather than reducing to one Solana specific number. All three route trades through a bot generated wallet rather than requiring an external wallet signature per transaction, which is the real source of their speed advantage over a manual DexScreener or Solscan lookup followed by a wallet app swap, more than any specific claimed millisecond figure.

Incidents and reliability

Maestro is the only one of the three with a fully documented security incident. In October 2023 its Router 2 contract on Ethereum was exploited, with The Block reporting roughly 280 ETH, about 485 thousand dollars at the time, drained through a vulnerability involving missing permission and parameter checks on token approvals (The Block, October 2023). The team identified the exploit within about 30 minutes, disabled the affected component, and on October 25, 2023 announced it had refunded users 610 ETH, worth over a million dollars, across 106 affected addresses, with some refunds boosted 20 percent (Cointelegraph, October 25, 2023). Full restitution was rare enough in the Telegram bot category that the episode remains a reference point in bot security discussions. Trojan's history includes an origin story rather than an exploit: the bot began as Unibot on Solana, and its developers split from the Ethereum core team in early 2024 amid disputes reported to involve revenue sharing and KYC requirements before rebranding as Trojan. BonkBot has no comparable publicly reported security incident on record as of August 2026.

Who each suits

BonkBot suits a beginner or a trader who wants the fastest path from a pasted contract address to a filled buy with no subscription and a simple cashback ladder, and who is comfortable with all activity happening inside the BONK ecosystem's fee loop. Trojan suits a trader who wants a comparable Solana native experience with a deeper feature set, MEV protected routing, and now a companion web terminal, at a similar fee to BonkBot. Maestro suits a trader who needs to work across multiple chains from one bot, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base and Solana among them, and who is willing to pay a monthly subscription for the deeper copy trading and analytics that come with that range, while also being the one of the three with a track record of how the team behaves when something goes wrong. None of the three screens a token for safety; running a new contract address through RugCheck or Bubblemaps before buying through any of them is a separate step, covered in how to spot a rug pull.

Comparison table

Trojan BonkBot Maestro
Launched 2023 (as Unibot on Solana), rebrand 2024 2023 July 2022
Chains Solana Solana Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, and more (14 total)
Base fee 1 percent 1 percent 1 percent
Lowest fee 0.9 percent (referral), Arena cashback up to 45 percent 0.75 percent (Platinum III tier) Cashback up to 30 percent
Subscription None reported None Premium, about 200 dollars monthly
Standout feature BOLT execution, companion web terminal BONK fee loop, beginner simplicity 14 chain coverage, whale watching bots
Major incident None on record None on record October 2023 router exploit, fully refunded within days
Status, August 2026 Active, one of the leading Solana bots Active, leading Solana bot by volume Active, largest multichain footprint of the three

References

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Last updated 2026-08-19