Polymarket Fees Paid Leaderboard

Q: What are Polymarket trading fees?

Polymarket charges a taker fee on aggressive fills — fee = shares × rate × price × (1 − price), where the rate is category-dependent (Crypto 7%, Politics/Finance/Tech 4%, Sports 3%, most others 5%; Geopolitics is fee-free). Makers pay nothing; only takers pay. Fees are applied at match time. See our fee calculator.

Q: How is "fees paid" computed here?

Directly from on-chain OrderFilled events on Polygon. Two eras: V2 (Apr 2026 →) charges fees in native USDC, taken as-is; V1 (Jan–May 2026) charged buy-fees in outcome-token shares, so we value them and scale per-day to the actual USDC collected (matching Dune's aggregate). Summed per wallet. Polymarket exposes no per-user fee figure — this is reconstructed on-chain.

Q: Why don't these fees show up in my Polymarket PnL?

Because Polymarket's realized PnL does not deduct taker fees — verified on-chain: sell fees are recorded as gross proceeds. So your true net result is your PnL minus the fees on this page. Our main leaderboard and profile pages subtract fees from PnL to show the real net.

Q: Fees vs rebates — what's the difference?

Fees are what you pay as a taker. Taker rebates and maker rebates are what you earn back — the rebate offsets part of the fee. This page shows gross fees paid; the reward leaderboards show the offsetting income.

About Polymarket fees

Polymarket charges takers a fee on every aggressive fill (makers pay none). This ranks every wallet by lifetime taker fees paid — a cost, unlike the reward leaderboards. Reconstructed directly from on-chain OrderFilled events (V1 share-fees scaled to collected USDC + V2 native USDC); Polymarket exposes no per-user fee figure.

Note: Polymarket's realized PnL does not subtract these fees, so your true net = PnL − fees. Our main leaderboard already nets them out.

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Frequently asked

What are Polymarket trading fees?

Polymarket charges a taker fee on aggressive fills — fee = shares × rate × price × (1 − price), where the rate is category-dependent (Crypto 7%, Politics/Finance/Tech 4%, Sports 3%, most others 5%; Geopolitics is fee-free). Makers pay nothing; only takers pay. Fees are applied at match time. See our fee calculator.

How is "fees paid" computed here?

Directly from on-chain OrderFilled events on Polygon. Two eras: V2 (Apr 2026 →) charges fees in native USDC, taken as-is; V1 (Jan–May 2026) charged buy-fees in outcome-token shares, so we value them and scale per-day to the actual USDC collected (matching Dune's aggregate). Summed per wallet. Polymarket exposes no per-user fee figure — this is reconstructed on-chain.

Why don't these fees show up in my Polymarket PnL?

Because Polymarket's realized PnL does not deduct taker fees — verified on-chain: sell fees are recorded as gross proceeds. So your true net result is your PnL minus the fees on this page. Our main leaderboard and profile pages subtract fees from PnL to show the real net.

Is this all-time only?

Yes. Unlike the reward leaderboards (which have 7-day / 30-day windows), the fees leaderboard is lifetime cumulative only — fee data is aggregated per wallet without a rolling-window view.

Fees vs rebates — what's the difference?

Fees are what you pay as a taker. Taker rebates and maker rebates are what you earn back — the rebate offsets part of the fee. This page shows gross fees paid; the reward leaderboards show the offsetting income.

How fresh is the data?

V2 fees update as new trades are indexed; V1 is historical (the exchange is retired). The materialized view refreshes daily at 02:00 UTC, same pass as the other leaderboards.