Buyer's guide · checked 30 September 2026

Where poker bots are sold, and what to check at each place

Search shows two kinds of seller: vendors who wrote the software, and resellers who front a build they did not write. Telegram sits behind both of them as the place where you talk to a human and, usually, pay. On 30 September 2026 we read the first ten organic results for "poker bots for sale". Six were vendor sites, one was a reseller storefront and three were guides that point at vendors. No marketplace showed up at all.

Each kind of seller fails in its own way. What the listed price covers depends on the seller.

Updated 30 September 2026. Prices are quoted as the vendors showed them on that day and change without notice.

What the first ten results were

We typed the query into DuckDuckGo with an automated browser, because Google put a captcha in front of it. Paid ads were left out. The ten organic URLs sit on six domains: four domains took two slots each, with a front page and a product, shop or guide page.

Eight of the ten pages named Telegram as a contact or delivery channel in one form or another. We did not open every one to confirm it, so treat that as a rough count. We fetched the pages ourselves to confirm the vendor comparison below.

Anyone hoping for a marketplace with buyer protection, escrow or a dispute button will not find one on the first page. Payment goes straight to the seller, and whatever protection exists is whatever the seller decides to offer.

Three vendors, three ways to charge

We opened three vendor sites from the results. They sell the same product category, but each uses a different pricing unit.

These three pricing models cannot be compared directly. Convert them to the same unit using the volume you play.

Per-hand pricing over a month

The per-hand vendor publishes a cost table by stakes group. Taking four of its figures and assuming 30,000 hands a month (a few tables for a few hours a day), the arithmetic runs as follows. The last column compares it with the one-time $750 Starter tier on our own price list.

At the lowest group, per-hand billing is cheap for months. From C50 upward at that volume it has passed a $750 license by the end of the first month. Write down your hand count before you compare sellers. The figures come from the vendor's own page and are approximate ("~") there too, so ask for the current table before you rely on any of them.

A one-time license carries the whole cost up front. The trial limits your loss.

How we read the pages

Our first pass used an automated agent to read all ten pages, and its summary listed a demo vendor's "prices" as $10, $25, $640, $910 and $2,400. We opened the page. Those were tournament prize amounts and a referral credit. The same summary also gave one vendor fixed license prices of $500 and $1,000 where the page actually charges per hand. Only the figures we checked by hand are in the tables above.

Scrapers and AI summaries make the same mistakes. Dollar signs on a poker-software page mean stakes, prizes, referral credits and prices, often within a single screen.

Check by seller type

Vendor sites

The company that writes the software is the only party that can fix it. Check how long the site has existed, if a changelog has dates, and if a demo runs before payment. A vendor with a decade of update posts is a different bet from a site registered this year. One vendor in our sample shows a copyright line starting in 2006, and you can check that against its dated update posts.

Reseller storefronts

A storefront shows a clean price grid and a buy button, and the software behind it belongs to someone else. Ask who supplies the build, handles updates, and provides support if the license key stops working. Vague answers mean the reseller is just a payment page.

Telegram sellers

Telegram is where the deal usually closes. The chat is where terms are set, leaving no record you control. Look at when the channel was created, if older posts show real buyers, and if the person answering matches the site. Screenshot the terms before you pay. Avoid sellers who refuse to put the price and refund conditions in writing.

Guides and catalogs

Three of the ten results were pages that sell nothing themselves. A catalog that lists "compare pricing" without prices is telling you the comparison happens somewhere you cannot see, so treat those pages as a way to find vendor names and nothing more. We sell licenses too, and we list our tiers on the home page so you can put them next to any other seller's terms.

Five questions to send before paying anyone

1. Can I run the exact build for a day or 200 hands before paying? "Exact" matters. A trial on a stripped version proves nothing about the paid one.
2. What is the unit of the price? Per license, per seat, per profile, per hand or per month. Get the unit in writing, then convert it to your monthly volume as in the table above.
3. What happens when the poker client updates? Ask how long the last two breakages took to fix, with dates.
4. Do I get an order ID or a receipt? Crypto payment is normal in this niche. A payment with no order reference is a one-way transfer.
5. Who do I write to after the sale, and where? One named channel, not "whoever is online". If it is a Telegram account, check its age.

The longer version of this list is in the buying guide on the home page.