Poly Sniper vs StepAhead
Poly Sniper and StepAhead are both filed under Crypto Markets. Both are automated bots, and both are paid. Below: the facts side by side, where the two actually differ, and when each one is the better pick.
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.
Compared with StepAhead
StepAhead
Editor's ChoiceSelf-hosted Python bot for Polymarket's 5- and 15-minute crypto Up or Down windows, sold as full source for $399 once, or for $899 with installation on your server and a private monitoring dashboard.
Compared with Poly SniperAt a glance
| Fact | Poly Sniper | StepAhead |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Automated bot | Automated bot |
| Category | Crypto Markets | Crypto Markets |
| Also listed in | Sniping | Scalping |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Price | $29–259/mo per bot · 14-day demo trial | one-time |
| Risk rating | High risk | Low risk |
| Markets | Polymarket 15-minute Up/Down windows — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, One bot per coin, one licence per bot, Runs on your own non-US VPS | BTC up/down · 5m, BTC up/down · 15m, ETH, SOL and XRP up/down · 5m and 15m (supported, not in the public record) |
| Source | Source not published | Source included with purchase |
| Runs in Telegram | No | No |
| Listed since | Sep 15, 2026 | Oct 24, 2026 |
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Key differences
- Both are paid, but on different terms: Poly Sniper is $29–259/mo per bot · 14-day demo trial, StepAhead is one-time.
- They cover different markets: Poly Sniper lists Polymarket 15-minute Up/Down windows — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and One bot per coin, one licence per bot and 1 more, StepAhead lists BTC up/down · 5m and BTC up/down · 15m and 1 more.
- Poly Sniper does not publish its source; StepAhead ships the full source with the purchase.
- Poly Sniper is rated high risk, StepAhead low risk.
- Only Poly Sniper is filed under Sniping, and only StepAhead is filed under Scalping.
- StepAhead carries the editor's choice mark in the catalog.
Choose Poly Sniper if…
- you trade Polymarket 15-minute Up/Down windows — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and One bot per coin, one licence per bot and 1 more
- your focus is Sniping
Choose StepAhead if…
- you want to read — and keep running — the code yourself
- you trade BTC up/down · 5m and BTC up/down · 15m and 1 more
- you prefer the lower-risk profile (low vs high)
- your focus is Scalping
What Poly Sniper does
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.
Features- Signal-driven entries into the 15-minute windows, pushed from the vendor's signal server; your server places the orders
- Per-coin licence keys — the package ships all four bots and the keys decide which run; 50 seats per coin, 200 in total
- Local dashboard on localhost for keys, wallet credentials, the demo/live switch, balances and signal logs; no inbound ports
- Demo mode first: real market data, virtual positions, then a per-coin switch to live
- Premium tier: order-book refresh every second, 2x/3x signal multipliers, entry-price filters, daily email digest
- The bots trade Polymarket's 15-minute Up/Down contracts on a signal computed by the vendor and pushed to your VPS; you never see the model, only its entries. At a 54.6% hit rate the economics live entirely in the entry price and Polymarket's taker fees, so the demo period is the only test you get before paying.
- The results page needs reading carefully. It says 138 days live and updated every 15 minutes, but every equity curve and trade log on it stops on Aug 18, 2026 — four weeks before we looked — while the day counter kept running from May 1. The P&L is stated with the Premium 2x/3x multipliers applied, and the totals do reconcile: BTC +$1,624, ETH +$1,176, SOL +$133, XRP +$567 on $500 each.
- Its “verify every trade yourself” link points at a Kalshi profile, kalshi.com/profiles/csniper — the sister product's exchange, not a Polymarket address — and the promised explanation of why is a label with no text behind it. The Discord invite in the site's markup did not resolve. No Polymarket wallet is published anywhere, so the Polymarket record rests on the vendor's own database.
What StepAhead does
Self-hosted Python bot for Polymarket's 5- and 15-minute crypto Up or Down windows, sold as full source for $399 once, or for $899 with installation on your server and a private monitoring dashboard. It runs the same rules on every window: when Up and Down together cost less than $1 it buys both and keeps the difference at settlement, and when the order book leans one way it backs that side and holds a small position on the other. It never sells; positions are held to settlement and redeemed. The seller runs it on a public Polymarket account, @stepahead, which today trades almost only Bitcoin's 5-minute windows. Practice mode on live markets, a daily loss cap, an exposure cap and Telegram reports are built in.
Features- Full Python source, run on your own VPS; orders are signed on that machine and the wallet key stays there
- Buys Up and Down together when the pair costs under $1, and otherwise backs the side the book leans to with a small position on the other
- Never sells: positions are held to settlement and redeemed automatically, up to 100 per run
- Practice mode with play money on live order books, with fills that wait in a realistic queue; going live is one setting
- Daily loss cap that cancels every order, stops trading and survives a restart, plus an exposure cap that pauses new buys
- The account is real, and the site's window holds. @stepahead is Polymarket wallet 0xe290…a33f. Polymarket's own P&L feed, which counts fees and the daily rebates, has it gaining $88,800 from Jul 1 to Oct 22, 2026, against $92,173 on the site; roughly $32,000 of that came from rebates rather than from trading. The month bars match too: +$43.2K in July, a pause from late July to Sep 20, +$8.7K in September.
- The window is chosen. The wallet's first fill was on Mar 28, 2026, not in July, and on Jul 1 it stood at about −$25,100 after a losing spring. Counted from the first trade it is up about $71,500, and Polymarket's all-time leaderboard, which counts fees but not rebates, credits it with $12,348 — so rebates are more than four-fifths of what the account has kept overall. The site's changelog lists versions back to Jan 22, 2026, two months before that first fill.
- The record covers less than the bot is sold for. The site names Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP on both window lengths; in samples we took on seven days between July and October the account traded only Bitcoin, the 15-minute windows made up about a fifth of its fills in July and none since September, and every fill was a buy. The other markets have no public record here.
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Every fact on this page is taken from the two listings as their authors publish them; POLBOTS verifies neither performance nor claims and has no stake in either tool. Nothing here is financial advice.