99market vs Poly Research & Robotics

99market and Poly Research & Robotics are both filed under Platforms & Tools and Market Making and 2 more. Both are trading platforms, and both are free. Below: the facts side by side, where the two actually differ, and when each one is the better pick.

99market preview

Free scanner for Polymarket outcomes priced between 98¢ and 99.5¢, ranked by annualized return.

Compared with Poly Research & Robotics
Poly Research & Robotics preview

Free community and toolset for people who write their own Polymarket bots, paid for by a store of historical market data.

Compared with 99market

At a glance

Fact99marketPoly Research & Robotics
TypeTrading platformTrading platform
CategoryPlatforms & ToolsPlatforms & Tools
Also listed inMarket Making, Sports Trading, Politics & Elections, Crypto Markets, Weather MarketsCrypto Markets, Weather Markets, Market Making
PricingFreeFree
Pricefreefree · paid data store
Risk ratingMedium riskMedium risk
MarketsPolymarket outcomes priced at 98–99.5¢: weather, sports, crypto, politics, economy and moreCrypto up/down · 5m, 15m and 1h — the bot, the monitor and most of the data, Weather markets — order-book data and a build guide, Tennis, CS2, Dota 2 and League of Legends matches — order-book data
SourceSource not publishedSource not published
Runs in TelegramNoNo
Listed sinceNov 7, 2026Oct 5, 2026

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Key differences

  • They cover different markets: 99market lists Polymarket outcomes priced at 98–99.5¢: weather, sports, crypto, politics, economy and more, Poly Research & Robotics lists Crypto up/down · 5m, 15m and 1h — the bot, the monitor and most of the data and Weather markets — order-book data and a build guide and 1 more.
  • Only 99market is filed under Sports Trading and Politics & Elections.

Choose 99market if…

  • you trade Polymarket outcomes priced at 98–99.5¢: weather, sports, crypto, politics, economy and more
  • your focus is Sports Trading and Politics & Elections

Choose Poly Research & Robotics if…

  • you trade Crypto up/down · 5m, 15m and 1h — the bot, the monitor and most of the data and Weather markets — order-book data and a build guide and 1 more

What 99market does

Free scanner for Polymarket outcomes priced between 98¢ and 99.5¢, ranked by annualized return. It reads Polymarket's public market data, keeps markets with at least $1,000 of volume, and shows the price, simple APR, time left, volume, liquidity and gross profit per $100. An automated score rates how clear each market's rules are. Around it sit an APR calculator, strategy guides, a directory of 231 Polymarket products and a jobs board. You trade by hand on Polymarket, and there are no accounts.

Features
  • Feed of outcomes at 98–99.5¢ with at least $1,000 of volume, ranked by APR and then end time
  • Views for Today, Ending Soon, 15-minute crypto, Weather, Sports and Crypto
  • Rule-quality score from 1 to 100: resolution clarity 45%, market realism 55%
  • Gross profit per $100 and reported liquidity on each row
  • APR calculator
How it trades
  • Buying at 98¢ makes about 2¢ if you are right and loses 98¢ if you are wrong, so one loss takes back some 49 wins and the strategy needs better than 98% just to break even. The scanner does not tell you whether a market clears that bar. It has no win-rate history for these prices; the methodology says the score does not use a complete database of past results and does not predict the winner. That number is the one a user of this strategy most needs, and they will have to work it out themselves.
  • The APR column looks better than it is. It divides a small gain by a short time, so on Nov 7, 2026 the top of the feed was same-day weather markets at >1000%, each worth about $2 per $100. Those rows showed liquidity of about $400 to $1,600, so the figure cannot be scaled up or repeated at will, and it leaves out fees, slippage and any delay in settlement. The site says all of this itself in its methodology, and that APR can pass 1,000% for exactly this reason, but it still sorts by that column and marks it with a flame.
  • The score is the more original part. It is a fixed text heuristic that looks for official sources and measurable thresholds and marks down subjective wording, and price or volume cannot raise it. That suits this strategy, where losses tend to come from disputed or badly worded rules. It is still a reading of text: a “Good” label is not evidence that the market will resolve as priced, and the site tells you to read the original rules.

What Poly Research & Robotics does

Free community and toolset for people who write their own Polymarket bots, paid for by a store of historical market data. Poly Research & Robotics, PR&R for short, runs a Discord of about 2,000 members and publishes build guides written to be worked through with an AI coding agent, 36 reports that take apart how individual high-volume accounts trade, a live monitor for the crypto Up or Down windows and a self-hosted bot for those windows that it describes as open source. Guides and reports are open to read and the monitor runs without an account; the bot and the dataset samples need a PR&R account with your Discord linked to it. The store sells one-second order-book history for crypto, weather, tennis and competitive-gaming markets in packs from $5 to $75.

Features
  • Discord of about 2,000 members, free to join, with channels for bot development, strategy and data and an in-server AI assistant the site calls PR&R Agent
  • 11 build guides with ready-made prompts for a coding agent: a first bot on the BTC 15-minute market, a CLOB V2 migration, a spread-capture bot, a weather-market bot
  • 36 trader reports, 30 of them linked to the Polymarket account they take apart
  • Crypto Market Monitor in the browser, no account needed: Binance spot and futures, Chainlink, the 60-second TWAP and both order books for the current 5- or 15-minute window, with up to ten wallets plotted on the chart; labelled early beta
  • PR&R Up/Down Crypto Bot, self-hosted with paper trading on by default: it buys the near-certain side at 94–99¢ in the last three minutes of a window and holds to payout, or buys inside a price band you set and sells at a fixed gain; a stop loss is included and off by default
How it trades
  • The research holds up where we could test it. We rebuilt the worked example in the SLIP-ME report from Polymarket's data API and got the same market, the same 16 fills and the same prices. The site says the 15-minute windows moved to a 60-second TWAP on Aug 7, 2026 and that the 5-minute ones ran a 30-second average first; the rule text on Polymarket's own markets shows that sequence, with the 5-minute change at midnight UTC on Aug 14, a day after the date the site gives. The monitor, run on Oct 5, 2026, showed Binance's price to the cent and the same best bid and ask as Polymarket's order-book API.
  • Read the profit figures in the older reports as before fees. The SLIP-ME report books its example market at +$132.66; the account redeemed $1,003.87, not $1,020, because Polymarket takes the taker fee out of the shares, so the market made $116.54. The report prices in gas, which Polymarket's relayer pays, and never mentions that fee. It credits the account with $111,822 in 23 days and says it “quietly prints money”; that figure follows Polymarket's profile chart, which is drawn before taker fees. Polymarket's all-time leaderboard has the same account at −$16,414, and the fee refunds it ever received come to $687. A second account, profiled in two reports as profitable, is about $33,300 down after fees and refunds. For others the gap is large without turning negative: Bonereaper shows $1.46 million on the chart and about $456,000 after fees and refunds. Twenty-seven of the 36 reports never mention fees; the four published since mid-August work them in.
  • Free here means an account and a linked Discord. The dataset samples and the bot download both need one, and the bot's own documentation says live trading needs it too, which is an odd requirement for a bot described as self-hosted and open source. We found no public repository for it. The site sets itself against “locked Discords”; its own downloads are locked to a Discord link. The same documentation lists an EU VPN or an AWS relay as required because “Polymarket blocks non-EU connections”. That is not Polymarket's list: new positions are refused from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy among about forty countries and regions, most of the world is open, and everyone who trades attests that they are not using a VPN to get round a restriction.

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