Ways to follow Polymarket wallets
Four approaches, honestly described. Three of them are free, and for some jobs they are the right answer.
We are not going to pretend the alternatives are useless — for a one-off look at a single address, several of them are faster than signing up for anything. What follows is what each approach is structurally good at, so you can tell whether you need this one.
| Official leaderboard | Free trackers | SQL dashboards | PMWallets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking window | Fixed periods set by the venue | Usually all-time or unstated | Whatever you write | A stated block window, shown on the page |
| Do past figures move? | Recomputed each period | Typically recomputed | Re-runs on every load | No — runs are never rewritten |
| Multiple addresses per trader | Account-level | Usually per address | Only if you build it | Clustered into entities |
| Sample-size honesty | Rank only | Usually a bare percentage | Up to you | Win rate with a confidence interval |
| Getting told about a fill | No | Polling, if at all | No — dashboards are pull | WebSocket + webhooks, sub-second |
| Cost | Free | Free | Free tier, then credits | Prepaid, billed per hour |
The official leaderboard
Authoritative about the venue’s own accounting and free. It ranks for a period the venue chooses, and it is not designed to tell you what someone is doing right now or to be queried as data. If you want to know who won last month, start here.
Free wallet trackers
Fast for a single address, and often good at rendering one wallet’s history. The recurring limitation is that they rank addresses rather than traders, and frequently show a figure without saying what window it covers or whether it will look different tomorrow. That is fine for browsing and awkward for deciding.
SQL dashboards
The most flexible option by a distance: if you can express it in SQL against on-chain tables, you can compute it, and you are not taking anyone’s word for the method. The costs are real though — you own the correctness of your own fee handling, resolution logic and proxy clustering, the query re-runs from scratch every time someone loads the page, and nothing will ever push you a notification. Several of the hardest bugs we hit building this were in exactly those three places.
What PMWallets adds
- A window you can quote. Every figure belongs to a stated block range.
- Numbers that stop moving. A published run is never rewritten, so a track record accumulates instead of being re-derived.
- Traders, not addresses. Signer and proxy are scored as one entity.
- Uncertainty shown. A win rate arrives with the interval that says how much to trust it.
- Push, not poll. Fills go out over WebSocket within about a second of the block, with the measured distribution published.
When you should not pay for this
If you want to check one address once, use a free tracker. If you already run your own on-chain analysis and trust your own fee and resolution handling, a dashboard will serve you better and cost less. This is worth money when you want a stable ranking of traders rather than addresses, and want to know within a second when one of them moves.
If you need the market, not the traders
PMWallets is about who is trading. If what you need is the market itself — order books, Polymarket trade prints and the Chainlink settlement feeds behind crypto Up/Down markets, tick by tick, to backtest against — that is a different dataset, and we sell it separately at OutcomeTick.
Method in detail: how we measure. Common questions: FAQ.