BONKbot vs T7 Pilot: fees, features, referrals compared

BONKbot vs T7 Pilot side by side. Effective fee with cashback, referral payout, features, and which one fits a sub-5 SOL trader.

You're picking a Solana Telegram trading bot. BONKbot has the brand and the user base. T7 Pilot is cheaper per trade once cashback is counted, and pays its referrals on a different curve. This post puts them side by side on the four things that actually matter: effective fee per trade, referral payout, feature parity, and who each one fits.

The headline numbers

Per CoinGecko's overview of Solana Telegram bots, BONKbot charges 1% per swap [coingecko-bots]. T7 Pilot charges a 0.75% base fee per swap, then credits 10% of every fee paid back to the user's trading wallet on a periodic cron, landing at a net effective 0.675% with no opt-in [t7-pilot-page]. On a 1 SOL trade, BONKbot takes 0.01 SOL. T7 Pilot takes 0.0075 SOL upfront and refunds 0.00075 SOL on the next payout, for a net 0.00675 SOL. That gap looks small per trade and large over a year of trading.

If you make 200 swaps in a year at an average size of 1 SOL, BONKbot extracts 2 SOL in fees [coingecko-bots]. T7 Pilot extracts 1.35 SOL net after cashback at the 0.675% effective rate [t7-pilot-page]. The 0.65 SOL difference is roughly 33% of your annual fee bill against BONKbot [coingecko-bots], and at SOL prices in the 100 to 200 dollar range that's a meaningful coffee budget.

T7 Pilot charges the base fee as a separate post-swap transfer from the user's trading wallet to the bot wallet, never folded into the swap amount [t7-pilot-page]. Two on-chain signatures per trade, both verifiable on Solscan: the swap, then the fee. The cashback arrives later as a third transfer back into the user's wallet on the payout cron, also visible on-chain [t7-pilot-page]. BONKbot does not document its fee mechanism at the same level publicly, so we can't claim parity on that point either way [bonkbot-site].

Referees on T7 Pilot get a further 0.9x multiplier on the base fee for a permanent 0.6075% effective rate after cashback [t7-pilot-page]. The discount is automatic on signup through someone's referral link and applies for the life of the account.

Referrals: how the curves diverge

Referral programs are where the two bots show how they think about creator partnerships.

BONKbot's referral payout per CoinGecko is 30% in the first month a referred user trades, 20% in the second month, then 10% ongoing [coingecko-bots]. The headline 30% is the number you see in promotion threads. The 10% is the number that actually applies to a referred user's lifetime trading.

T7 Pilot pays a flat 30% of every fee, forever, with no decay schedule and no multi-level structure [t7-pilot-page]. A user who joins through your link and trades for three years pays you 30% of their fees in year three the same as in week one. The referee also pays 10% less on the base for that same lifetime, which makes the link land for the person clicking it, not just the person sharing it [t7-pilot-page].

For a creator considering which bot to promote, the math depends on user retention. If your referrals churn within 60 days, BONKbot's curve is fine because you've collected the front-loaded portion. If your referrals stick, the flat lifetime model pays out roughly three times more after the second month.

Neither program is gated by minimum payouts on T7 Pilot's side [t7-pilot-page]. The bot accrues your rebates and pays them out on the same cron as the cashback, no claim button required.

Feature parity

Both bots cover the standard Solana retail trading workflow.

Paste any contract address into the chat and both bots return a token card with price and basic safety. Tap a buy preset and both route through Jupiter and reply with a confirmation. Both support take-profit and stop-loss. BONKbot promotes a trailing stop-loss as an exclusive feature on its homepage [bonkbot-site], and T7 Pilot ships a /trailing command with the same behaviour [t7-pilot-page].

BONKbot ships a feature called Auto-strat that lets users encode a trading playbook into a single click [bonkbot-site]. T7 Pilot does not have an equivalent click-once automation layer, but it ships two adjacent capabilities. First, per-copy-trade filters via /copyfilter, so each copied wallet can carry its own minimum-liquidity, market-cap, max-buy, renounced-only, and blacklist rules; you can run tight guardrails on a memecoin scalper and loose rules on a DeFi rotator without one bleeding into the other [t7-pilot-page]. Second, two event-triggered order types BONKbot does not currently surface: Dev Sell, which exits a position the moment the token's deployer wallet sells any of its own bag, and Migration, which fires at the moment a token graduates off pump.fun's bonding curve to Raydium or Meteora [t7-pilot-page]. Both are event-driven not price-driven, so the user does not have to guess a price.

T7 Pilot ships a public dashboard at t7systems.net with a paste-CA rug check, trending pairs, fresh launches, and curated copy wallets you can mirror with one tap [t7-pilot-page]. BONKbot's site does not currently host an equivalent open dashboard.

Copy trading is supported on both. The mechanics are similar: you provide a wallet address and a per-trade size, and the bot mirrors entries and exits. T7 Pilot layers per-wallet filters and an optional SAP second-factor password on withdrawals and key export for users who want a second lock [t7-pilot-page].

What's missing on each

Launch racing is not part of the T7 Pilot product today. New-pool entries on Raydium and Pump.fun are explicitly out of scope, and the bot does not market itself as a launch trading tool. If chasing fresh launches is your primary use case, you'll want a different bot. T7 Pilot's Dev Sell and Migration triggers are about exiting launches safely, not entering them at speed.

BONKbot's homepage does not publish exact fee tiers or claim subscription pricing, so the 1% figure is the one cited externally rather than self-reported on the marketing site [bonkbot-site] [coingecko-bots]. If you want a public, dated fee schedule, the T7 blog publishes its 0.675% effective rate explicitly with the cashback math worked through [t7-fees].

Neither bot is custodial in the traditional sense. Both create a dedicated trading wallet for the user that the user can withdraw from. The T7 security page documents key storage with AES-256-GCM encryption of private keys at rest, plus an optional SAP password as a second factor on sensitive actions [t7-pilot-page]. BONKbot's homepage references its custody model less prominently.

Pricing model

T7 Pilot has one pricing model for everyone: 0.75% base on each successful trade, minus 10% cashback on every fee paid, landing at 0.675% effective without any opt-in [t7-pilot-page] [t7-fees]. Referees pay a further 0.9x on the base for a permanent 0.6075% effective [t7-pilot-page]. No subscription, no premium upgrade, no trade-size or wallet-count caps. Failed trades are not charged.

BONKbot's standard fee is 1% per trade [coingecko-bots]; tiered or premium pricing isn't publicly documented on the marketing site [bonkbot-site].

Which one fits which trader

Pick BONKbot if:

• You're already deep in the BONKbot ecosystem and your referrer is collecting rebates from your trading
• You want Auto-strat-style scripted trading
• You don't mind the 1% fee [coingecko-bots] in exchange for entrenched UX

Pick T7 Pilot if:

• You're starting fresh and want the cheaper effective per-trade fee from day one at 0.675% [t7-pilot-page]
• You plan to refer friends or build a small audience and want a flat lifetime referral curve
• You want event-driven exits (Dev Sell, Migration) and per-wallet copy filters out of the box
• You like the public dashboard with paste-CA rug check and curated wallets

For a sub-5 SOL portfolio doing 100 to 300 trades a year, the fee gap alone (0.325% per trade effective) [t7-fees] saves you roughly the cost of a Solana NFT mint over twelve months. For a creator with even a small audience, the lifetime referral structure is the bigger lever; sticky users compound, and a flat curve compounds with them.

What hasn't been compared

Latency. Neither bot publishes a credible time-to-confirmation benchmark, and both depend on the underlying Jupiter routing and Solana network state. Public benchmarks of Solana trading bots tend to be self-reported and rarely reproducible. We don't claim T7 Pilot is faster than BONKbot, and we treat any bot's "fastest on Solana" tagline with the skepticism it deserves.

User base. BONKbot has a larger active user count by any reasonable measure. That cuts both ways: more eyes on the same wallets you're copying, more shared slippage on the same memecoin entries, but also more product investment and more battle-testing. T7 Pilot is smaller and earlier and prices itself accordingly.

Telegram channel features. Some bots include in-channel call detection and one-tap entries from third-party signal channels. Both BONKbot and T7 Pilot can handle a pasted CA from any source; deeper channel integrations are a feature axis to evaluate against your specific workflow.

Bottom line

BONKbot is the established option with brand recognition, an Auto-strat layer, and decaying-curve referrals. T7 Pilot is the cheaper, simpler, fee-honest option with a flat lifetime referral structure, event-triggered exit orders, per-wallet copy filters, and a public dashboard you don't need to log in to use.

If your trading style is paste-CA buys with TP and SL exits, both bots cover you. The decision turns on whether you'd rather pay 33% less per trade [t7-fees] (or roughly 39% less if you join through a referral link) or have the broader feature surface. For most retail traders running under 50 SOL, the cheaper bot wins on math.

Try T7 Pilot at t.me/T7PilotBot. 0.675% effective fee after the swap confirms and cashback settles [t7-pilot-page], no subscription, 30% lifetime referral on every fee a friend ever pays.