Sniping bots
Latency-optimized bots that grab mispriced orders the instant they appear.
PolyCop
Telegram copy-trading bot with a public smart-money radar behind it. In the bot, Copy Trade mirrors any target wallet's buys and sells under your sizing, price and amount filters, with a sub-wallet per target if you want each leader trading from isolated funds; Sniper Mode rests limit orders at your price; AFK Auto Trade scans markets every five minutes and fires when your trigger conditions line up, with templates to start from; an AI wallet check grades any address you paste. PolyCop.fun, the web side, ranks wallets by copyable P&L, win rate, slippage and recent-20 record, and its Copy Backtest replays a wallet's history against your capital, copy percentage, slippage and filters, with a time-machine view of the equity curve. Fees are a flat 0.5% per transaction with gas covered, including auto-redeem of settled markets. Polymarket's own builders Data API puts PolyCop at $360M attributed all-time across 12,661 users, $19.4M in August and $6.0M in the first half of September, rank 12 for the month when we checked.
PolyGun
Telegram bot for trading Polymarket without a browser: browse markets, buy and sell instantly, set limit orders, copy wallets and track the portfolio from one chat. On /start the bot generates a Polygon wallet for you, and deposits auto-bridge from Polygon, Solana, Ethereum and BNB. Copy trading follows any wallet and mirrors its entries and exits under your own settings, a Smart Wallets tab lists the most-copied addresses, and shareable P&L cards are built in. PolyGun charges a flat 1% on every buy and sell, sponsors gas, and pays referrers a share of fees. It sits on one of the larger Telegram communities in the space — the Prediction Desk group behind it had 25,635 members when we checked — and Polymarket's own builders Data API attributes $117.6M to it all-time across 9,905 users, though the monthly run rate has fallen from $18.3M in April to $2.6M in August and $0.8M in the first half of September.
Poly Sniper
Four self-hosted bots for Polymarket's 15-minute crypto windows — BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP — sold per coin and capped at fifty seats each. You rent a small Linux VPS outside the US, unpack a package of compiled Python 3.14 modules built for your CPU, and enter per-coin licence keys plus your Polymarket wallet credentials in a dashboard that runs on localhost; the credentials stay in a local .env and the bot connects outbound to Polymarket, a Polygon RPC, the vendor's signal server and its licence server. Every coin starts in demo mode with real data and virtual positions, and you flip it to live yourself. Basic runs the strategy; Premium adds one-second order-book updates, 2x and 3x signal multipliers, entry-price filters and a daily digest. The results page shows 138 days, 3,455 closed trades, a 54.6% win rate and +$3,501 on $2,000 — self-reported, with the caveats below.
Sonist
Mention-market trading software that listens to a live broadcast and buys the contract the moment a tracked word is said. Sonist pulls the mention markets from Kalshi and Polymarket onto one board — 53 approved events the day we checked it, 36 on Kalshi and 17 on Polymarket — each contract already carrying its keywords, its aliases and the count that settles it. Point a session at a stream URL, your microphone or your device audio and Sonist transcribes word by word; when a keyword clears its threshold it fires an immediate-or-cancel order on your own exchange account, under a contract cap and a maximum price in cents that you set before the session starts. The board re-marks over a websocket as the book moves, every detection and every skipped signal is logged with its reason, and one control flattens the position. Pro adds local speaker diarization, so a mention only counts when the voice that matters says it — the Fed governor rather than the anchor quoting him.
PolyWin
Telegram bot that puts the whole Polymarket workflow in one chat: copy trading, two snipers, backtests and AI trader discovery. Copy Trade mirrors — or counter-trades — any wallet you pick, sized as a fixed USD amount, a percentage of the leader’s stake, or portfolio-weighted so your allocation matches theirs with a 0.01–10× multiplier, under category, price-range, market-volume and daily-spend limits with take-profit and stop-loss on every copied fill. Final Snipe fires a market order the second your entry conditions pass; Reversal Snipe ladders limit orders into an overreaction and cancels unfilled rungs about five seconds before resolution — both across BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, DOGE and HYPE on 5m, 15m, 1h and 4h. Every snipe strategy can be backtested against a pre-computed pool of parameter combinations first, returning Most Profitable, Fast and Safest variants. AI Picks re-scores Polymarket traders every six hours, discarding wallets that show wash trading or leaderboard farming. Non-custodial: a Polygon wallet is deployed on first start, keys are encrypted per wallet and exportable, and TOTP 2FA gates withdrawals and key exports. No KYC, and deposits from ten chains auto-bridge to USDC.
PolySnipe
Automated, self-hosted sniper bot for Polymarket's BTC 5- and 15-minute up/down markets. Scans in real time and enters in milliseconds the moment multiple independent signals align. Ships 8 configurable strategies, a setup wizard, backtesting and a full trade journal — full source code, one-time $49.
Polymarket Bot Skill
Claude Code skill that turns an AI coding agent into a Polymarket bot builder. Ships modular Python scripts for the Gamma and CLOB APIs — market research, price monitoring, arbitrage detection and trade execution — with built-in auth, key derivation and rate-limit handling. Installs into Claude Code, Cowork, Codex and other agents.
PolymarketAlpha
Autonomous AI agents that scan, analyze and execute on Polymarket across sports, crypto (5m, 15m, 1h) and weather markets — no manual intervention. Backed by a custom-built desk that also ships professional on-chain Solana bots (MEV, arbitrage, sniping and market making).
Whalesight
Real-time whale-tracking intelligence for Polymarket. Alerts you the moment large bets ($5k+) hit, ranks top traders on a profit/volume/win-rate leaderboard and breaks down each wallet's historical P&L, category performance and open positions across 2,000+ markets.
Polycool
Mobile-first Polymarket app for copy trading and market discovery. A Smart Feed shows what winning traders are buying right now, an Insider Feed flags suspicious high-conviction bets, and you can copy up to 4 traders with slippage guards across 30,000+ markets — funding by card, Apple Pay or USDC.
PolySpy
Telegram bot for instant alerts on brand-new Polymarket markets. Fires notifications the moment markets are created — filtered by category (politics, sports, crypto, finance, tech, culture, geopolitics) with subcategory and ignore-tag controls — so you can take a first-mover position before the crowd.
Rainmaker
AI-agent terminal that unifies arbitrage, copy-trading and analytics across Polymarket, Kalshi and Novig. Its Cloud9 agents snipe arbitrage between venues, score and replicate winning traders, and mine analytics — with a focus on sports markets (NFL, NBA, NCAA).
PolyAlertHub
Real-time intelligence and alerting for Polymarket — no wallet connection needed. Tracks where profitable smart-money traders position, fires whale alerts on trades over $10K, flags fresh-wallet risk, and includes a trading terminal and $10K paper-trading mode across 15,000+ markets.
How sniping bots work on Polymarket
Sniping bots don't hold opinions — they harvest mistakes. A fat-fingered limit order, a quote left stale after news, a near-decided market still trading below $1: the sniper watches the order book over WebSockets and takes the mispriced order the instant it appears.
The popular subgenre is resolution sniping in the recurring crypto windows: buying the almost-certain winning side in the final seconds, collecting a small but high-probability payoff over and over. Across all variants the formula is the same — sub-second execution plus strict filters that define what 'mispriced' actually means.
What to look for in a sniping bot
Speed claims are testable, so ask for measured reaction times rather than adjectives. Then interrogate the filters: a sniper that buys every dip is donating money to informed flow, because sometimes the 'mistake' is someone who knows something. For resolution-snipe strategies, check the rules for the final seconds — spreads collapse and reversals do happen, and sizing discipline is what makes the strategy survivable.
Frequently asked questions
- What exactly does a sniper bot buy?
- Orders priced away from fair value: stale quotes after news breaks, the remainder of an oversized market order, obvious fat-finger limits, or a near-resolved winner still offered below $1. The edge is being first to an order that shouldn't exist.
- Is sniping still profitable as more bots compete?
- The easy captures get fought over, and the spoils concentrate with the fastest and best-filtered bots. The niche survives because mistakes never stop happening — but a slow sniper is just liquidity for a faster one.
- Is last-second resolution sniping safe?
- The payoff is asymmetric — small gain, rare but total loss — and reversals in the final seconds of crypto windows genuinely happen. Bots that survive treat it as a statistics game with hard caps per window, never as free money.
Guides to sniping
All guidesPolymarket's 5- and 15-minute Bitcoin markets: how the bots trade them, and the fee that decides everything
The 'BTC up or down in the next five minutes' markets repeat hundreds of times a day, which is why they are the most bot-traded books on Polymarket. How the momentum, spot-lead and maker bots work, why the 1.75% taker fee at 50 cents is the whole story, what the published records actually show, and what to check in a minute-market bot.
4 minAug 21, 2026Sniping on Polymarket: the four things snipers actually do, the latency stack, and where the exchange has closed the door
What 'sniping' means on a prediction market — being first into a brand-new market, first to a dislocated price, first to a known outcome, first behind a whale — the latency stack from feed to acknowledged order, the fee curve that makes resolution sniping cheap and mid-price sniping expensive, and the matching delay that ends the race on some books.
4 minAug 21, 2026Running a Polymarket bot 24/7: hosting, reconnects, rate limits, kill switches and the boring things that decide everything
The operations layer most bot tutorials skip: where to host, how to survive restarts without orphaned orders, WebSocket reconnects and stale-data guards, the two-layer rate limits and how to budget them, monitoring and alerts, kill switches that ship on, secrets, and how to not get broken by the next API change.
5 minAug 21, 2026