Safety score: what a tool can do with your money

A 0-100 score for every listed tool, calculated only from the sourced facts in its listing. Higher means fewer ways for an AI or bot to lose or move your money without you.

The formula

1. Can it place live orders unattended? (25 points). No real-money orders possible: 25. Live orders need a human confirmation every time: 20. An approval or preview step exists but is optional: 10. Can place live orders with no documented approval step: 0.
2. Order approval or confirmation options (15 points). Per-order confirmation, preview or manual-approval mode documented: 15. Only limits or read-only modes (scopes, loss limits, capital caps): 8. Nothing documented: 0.
3. Paper, demo or testnet mode (15 points). Paper, demo, sandbox, testnet or dry-run available: 15. Live only: 0. Not stated in our listing: missing.
4. Withdrawal permission needed or allowed (15 points). Withdrawal not needed or impossible (trade-only keys, agent wallets that can't withdraw, you sign every transaction): 15. Custodial wallet or the tool can transfer funds: 0. Not stated: missing.
5. Scoped keys, permission scopes or IP whitelisting (10 points). Scoped OAuth permissions, read-only modes, dedicated or sub-accounts, or IP whitelisting documented: 10. Not stated: missing.
6. Open source or audited (10 points). Public source code (repository or open-source license in our listing): 10. Otherwise: 0.
7. Sourced and verified facts (10 points). Facts from the vendor's official docs: 10. Community or third-party project: 6. Minus 4 if some prices come only from third-party sites (marked unverified).

Tools that cannot place real-money orders (data feeds, signal tools, frameworks, guardrails, paper accounts, hosting) get full points on inputs 1-5, because there is nothing for them to do with your money. Partial score: if inputs 3, 4 or 5 are missing from our listing, we don't guess. We show the points earned out of the points we could check (for example 45/70) and label it partial.

What the badges mean

Safety 80%+ strong safeguards or no access to real money · Safety 50-79% some safeguards · Safety under 50% can trade or move money with few documented safeguards · Safety 64% (partial) some inputs missing from our listing, so we show the percentage of the points we could check (raw points in the tooltip and on each tool page).

Current distribution

48 tools score 80 or more, 14 score 50-79, 1 score under 50, and 50 have a partial score. Full methodology: how we verify.