# BotSpot vs Interactive Brokers

BotSpot supplies a conversational research, trading, and strategy workflow. Interactive Brokers supplies brokerage accounts, trading platforms, and APIs. The current BotSpot broker source does not list Interactive Brokers as an available connection.

By [BotSpot editorial team](https://botspot.trade/about#editorial-policy)

## The practical difference

BotSpot focuses on the work around a trade or strategy: research, user-approved actions, code, simulated backtests, revisions, and operations. Interactive Brokers focuses on the brokerage account, execution, trading interfaces, and developer APIs.

A simulated BotSpot backtest is not an IBKR live track record. If you compare numbers, include drawdown and the simulation date range, and treat the result as hypothetical.

## Connection status matters

The current BotSpot public broker manifest does not list Interactive Brokers as an available standard connection. This page compares product roles and does not imply an integration. Check the broker list before assuming a BotSpot bot can place IBKR orders.

## Who should use which

Use BotSpot if you want an AI workspace for research, approved one-time trades, and automated Lumibot strategies through a currently supported broker.

Use Interactive Brokers if you need IBKR account features, TWS or Client Portal, or you are building directly on IBKR APIs.

Use both only if you later connect through a supported path. Today this comparison does not claim that BotSpot can drive an IBKR account.

## Related resources

- [View supported BotSpot brokers](https://botspot.trade/brokers)
- [MCP for Agents](https://botspot.trade/agents)