Based vs Polyfactual
Based and Polyfactual are both filed under Platforms & Tools and Sports Trading and 2 more. Both are trading platforms, and both are priced on its own site. Below: the facts side by side, where the two actually differ, and when each one is the better pick.
Crypto trading and spending platform — 'trade everything, spend everywhere.' Bundles a web/desktop/mobile trading terminal, a dedicated prediction-market section and a crypto-to-fiat Visa card accepted at 90M+ merchants, with agentic 'Based AI' trading coming…
Compared with Polyfactual
AI research and trading suite for prediction markets, and a Polymarket grant recipient.
Compared with BasedAt a glance
| Fact | Based | Polyfactual |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Trading platform | Trading platform |
| Category | Platforms & Tools | Platforms & Tools |
| Also listed in | Sports Trading, Politics & Elections, Crypto Markets | Sports Trading, Politics & Elections, Crypto Markets, Sentiment / News |
| Pricing | Pricing on site | Pricing on site |
| Price | see site | see site |
| Risk rating | Medium risk | Medium risk |
| Markets | Prediction markets, Crypto, Politics and 1 more | Politics, Crypto, Sports and 1 more |
| Source | Source not published | Source not published |
| Runs in Telegram | No | No |
| Listed since | Jul 3, 2026 | Jul 3, 2026 |
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Key differences
- Both list Crypto and Politics and 1 more; Based adds Prediction markets; Polyfactual adds Geopolitics.
- Only Polyfactual is filed under Sentiment / News.
Choose Based if…
- you trade Prediction markets
Choose Polyfactual if…
- you trade Geopolitics
- your focus is Sentiment / News
What Based does
Crypto trading and spending platform — 'trade everything, spend everywhere.' Bundles a web/desktop/mobile trading terminal, a dedicated prediction-market section and a crypto-to-fiat Visa card accepted at 90M+ merchants, with agentic 'Based AI' trading coming soon. Backed by Pantera and Coinbase Ventures.
Features- Trading terminal on web, desktop and mobile
- Dedicated prediction-market platform
- Crypto-to-fiat Visa card at 90M+ merchants
- Based AI agentic trading (coming soon)
- Backed by Pantera and Coinbase Ventures
- Combines crypto trading, prediction markets and spending in one app.
- Lets you load crypto and spend it anywhere via a Visa card.
- Adds a dedicated prediction-market section alongside spot trading.
What Polyfactual does
AI research and trading suite for prediction markets, and a Polymarket grant recipient. Bundles deep AI research with sentiment, risk and confidence scoring, a wallet-free trading terminal (Facts.trade), an intelligence terminal (FactsBase) and a Chrome extension that adds buy/hold/avoid calls on Polymarket.
Features- Deep AI research with sentiment, risk & confidence scoring
- Facts.trade terminal — trade via email, no wallet extension
- FactsBase intelligence terminal aggregating 30+ data sources
- Chrome extension with buy/hold/avoid calls on Polymarket
- Facts Pro developer API (700K+ requests)
- Runs AI research on each market with sentiment, risk and confidence scores.
- Aggregates 30+ intelligence sources into a single research terminal.
- Surfaces buy/hold/avoid recommendations directly on Polymarket pages.
More head-to-heads
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