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Prediction market platforms, honestly compared: straight answers on the venues, bots, and tools traders keep asking about, with the numbers behind each call.

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API Guide

Use the Kalshi API for market data and order execution. See how to get access, find the official docs, understand fees and handle rate limits.

API Guide

The Polymarket API covers market data, order execution, and real-time streams. Here is what it takes to build against it, and when to use a terminal instead.

Analytics Guide

Compare 4 Polymarket analytics tools for trader data, PnL, dashboards, and execution: Kairos, Dune, Polymarket Analytics, and Hashdive.

API Guide

A prediction market API can stream prices, order books, trades, and account data. Compare native and unified access before you build.

Venues guide

Kalshi ran $37.7 billion in July 2026, roughly 74 percent of the category. Polymarket has the widest menu. The full ranking, by liquidity and cost, not promos.

Comparison

Kalshi vs FanDuel comes down to trading contracts or placing sportsbook bets. Compare pricing, markets, execution, and the right fit for you.

Trust check

Yes. Novig's Ludlow Exchange won CFTC designation June 16, 2026 and launched August 4 in 47 states. Real dollars, federal clearing, four contested states.

Review

Novig review, August 2026: a CFTC-regulated sports exchange with tiny taker fees, $148.4 million traded in week one, and books still thinner than Kalshi's.

Review

ProphetX review, updated August 2026: a CFTC-regulated sports exchange charging 2 percent of net winnings, zero on parlays, with liquidity as the open question.

Review

Kalshi review 2026: a CFTC-regulated prediction market. Real fees, real markets, real execution, and how serious traders trade Kalshi through Kairos.

Comparison

Robinhood's prediction markets run on Kalshi's exchange. Robinhood charges a flat 2 cents and hides the order book. Kalshi direct opens it. Kairos arms it.

Alternatives Guide

Novig alternatives in 2026: Novig is a real CFTC exchange now, but it is one sports-only book. Kalshi and Polymarket run deeper. Kairos trades both.

Alternatives Guide

ProphetX alternatives in 2026: ProphetX is CFTC-regulated now, but sports-only and peer-to-peer. Kalshi and Polymarket carry the depth. Kairos trades both.

Alternatives Guide

Kalshi alternatives in 2026: Polymarket leads on volume, Hyperliquid is growing fast. Serious traders run both alongside Kairos, the terminal for all of them.

Alternatives Guide

Polymarket alternatives in 2026: Kalshi is CFTC-regulated and US-legal. Hyperliquid crossed $80M daily in weeks. Serious traders run all three on Kairos.

Alternatives Guide

PredictIt alternatives in 2026: PredictIt lives, but the $3,500 cap and politics-only list remain. Kalshi and Polymarket trade real size. Kairos trades both.

Alternatives Guide

Manifold Markets alternatives in 2026: Manifold is play money by design. Kalshi and Polymarket settle in real dollars, and Kairos is the terminal for both.

Comparison

Polymarket leads in volume. Kalshi is CFTC-regulated, legal in all 50 states. The answer is not one or the other. It is both.

Fee Guide

Polymarket taker fees run $0 to $1.75 per 100 shares. Only geopolitics is free. No fees on winnings. Fee formula, full August 2026 table, and Kalshi comparison.

Trust check

Polymarket is real. The original platform is not CFTC-regulated; the US exchange earned CFTC approval in December 2025. Documented insider trading in 2026.

Review

Polymarket cleared $10.6 billion notional in March 2026 and now runs a CFTC-regulated US exchange. Real venue, real depth, new taker fees. The trader's review.

Review

ForecastEx is Interactive Brokers' CFTC-regulated prediction market. One cent per contract, 3.80% interest on positions, thin books. The trader's review.

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Polysights, reviewed: 30+ custom Polymarket metrics, AI market summaries, an insider finder, and the two things it does not do. What the tool is, who it fits, and where the trade actually gets executed.

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Betmoar, reviewed: the zero-fee web terminal and official Polymarket Discord bot, its UMA dispute dashboard and news feed, what the volume claims actually say, and the one venue it cannot see.

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Hashdive was acquired by Unusual Whales and became Unusual Predictions. What happened, what the smart-money screener does now, what its Smart Scores measured, and where the tracking-to-trading gap still sits.

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River Markets raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures to build execution and risk infrastructure for prediction market trading firms. What is live today, who it is for, and how it compares to a trading terminal anyone can use.

Alternatives

Fireplace is shutting down. Trading ends 15 August 2026 and the app goes offline after 30 September. You do not have to sell: here is how to migrate your positions and cash intact, and where its traders go next.

Fee Guide

Kalshi fees peak at $1.75 per 100 contracts at 50 cents. The formula, fee schedule, maker costs, deposit fees, and how Kalshi compares to Polymarket.

Toolkit

The best tools for Polymarket in 2026, compared: the Kairos terminal, free whale tracker and leaderboard, analytics, copy trading, and APIs.

Roundup

The best prediction market apps in 2026, compared on real fees, liquidity and API access instead of signup bonuses. Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and 5 more, plus what pro traders use on desktop.

Bot Guide

Polymarket bots use the CLOB API to trade 24/7. Learn the top strategies, tools, and what serious traders use to get the same execution edge.

Terminals guide

One venue or all of them? Your answer picks your trading terminal. Kalshi Pro for single-venue. Kairos for Kalshi, Polymarket, and Predict.fun in one book.

Trust check

Yes. Kalshi is legit: a CFTC-regulated U.S. prediction market, legal in all 50 states. Survived a 2024 federal court challenge. How serious traders use it.

Bot Guide

A Kalshi bot automates prediction market trades via the official Kalshi REST API. Here is how they work, who builds them, and what most traders use instead.