Mirrored vs Polycool

TL;DR

• Copy-trading fees: Mirrored charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits. Polycool publishes a flat "1% per trade" structure. On losing copy trades, Mirrored is free; Polycool is not.
• Curated lineups: Mirrored ships five hand-picked Auto Pilot lineups with sizing and risk settings tuned. Polycool requires you to research and pick wallets yourself.
• Per-trader risk controls: Mirrored gives every mirrored trader its own size mode, slippage tolerance, price band, and per-trade and per-market caps. Polycool's site mentions two copy-size modes and says nothing about per-trader caps.
• Surfaces: Both run on Telegram. Mirrored also ships a full web trading terminal and a browser extension that surfaces sharps on Polymarket's own pages.
• Where Polycool wins: advanced order types (take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop), deeper multi-chain funding via deBridge, and smart-money / news feeds. If those matter to you, Polycool is the stronger standalone toolkit.
• Wallets: both Mirrored and Polycool use Privy for embedded wallets. Mirrored hands you the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase to export; Polycool hands you a private key.

At a glance

Polycool features and fees are based on public materials at polycoolapp.com and third-party reviews as of June 2026.

1. The fee gap — biggest on losing copy trades

Polycool's pricing is "one percent per trade. No subscription, no signup cost, no lockup on withdrawals." Mirrored only takes its 1% when a copy-trade exit is profitable. Lose on a copy trade or break even, and you pay nothing.

Here's why that matters: copy trading isn't one bet, it's a grind. Most mirrorers run dozens or hundreds of trades a month, and even a strong leader misses 30–40% of the time. Mirrored only takes a cut of the trades that actually worked.

Worked example: 100 copy trades, 55% win rate

Read Polycool's "1% per trade" as charitably as you can — once per completed trade, not per leg — and it still charges on all 100 trades. Mirrored charges on the 55 winners and nothing else. Same outcomes, roughly 45% fewer fees on Mirrored. And the gap only widens if Polycool's fee actually lands per leg (once on the buy, once on the sell), which is how most other Polymarket bots do it.

See the full fee policy in our copy-trading docs and manual trading docs.

2. Curated Auto Pilot vs picking wallets yourself

Polycool hands you a Smart Feed of top traders and an Address Tracker for vetting wallets. That's genuinely useful, but it's still homework — you decide who to copy, what size, and what guardrails. As one independent review put it, Polycool has "a steeper learning curve than basic paste-to-trade bots."

Mirrored gives you that same manual flow and a shortcut on top: five Auto Pilot lineups — All Categories, Aggressive, Sweaty, Relaxed, and Super Aggressive. Each one bundles 10 hand-picked Polymarket traders with the size mode, slippage, price band, and per-trade caps already dialed in for that style. Tap ✅ Use this lineup and you're live. See the Auto Pilot docs.

Want full control instead? You can still mirror specific wallets by hand. Auto Pilot is the fast path, not the only one.

3. Per-trader risk controls

Polycool gives you two copy-trade sizing modes: proportional (scale with the leader) and fixed amount (a set dollar amount per trade). Mirrored matches both and adds a third — portfolio mode, which puts a multiplier on relative position weight scaled to your portfolio size. Reach for it when you want your exposure to weigh like the leader's does instead of matching their raw dollars.

The bigger difference is the per-trader risk caps Mirrored adds and Polycool doesn't mention:

• Slippage tolerance, set per trader in percent. Tighten it and you skip more trades when the book moves; loosen it and you catch more.
• Price band. Something like 30¢–70¢ screens out late entries on near-resolved markets and lottery tickets on long shots.
• Per-trade cap, a hard dollar ceiling on any single copy.
• Per-market cap, a ceiling on your total exposure across every trader in one market.

Full breakdown is in the copy-trading docs.

4. Surfaces — both multi-screen now

Polycool runs as a Telegram mini-app with a terminal-style UI. That used to be a real edge over a plain bot. Not anymore — Mirrored spreads across three surfaces that share one account and one wallet.

• Web trading terminal. A full dashboard at mirrored.trade with room to breathe: market pages, manual trading, Auto Pilot, per-trader settings, portfolio, and the Sharps leaderboard on a desk-sized screen.
• Telegram bot. The anchor-message UX for fast trades and fill alerts on mobile, linked to the same web account.
• Browser extension. A Chrome and Firefox extension that shows which sharps hold any Polymarket market right there on the page, and lets you mirror them in one click. Polycool keeps whale activity inside its own app; Mirrored puts it inside Polymarket itself. See the extension doc.

5. Where Polycool is the stronger product

We're not going to pretend Polycool isn't doing a lot right. If any of these is core to how you trade, Polycool is the better fit — at least for now:

• Advanced manual order types. Polycool supports take-profit, stop-loss, and trailing-stop orders on manual trades. Mirrored does market and limit orders today, and that's it. See our manual trading docs for the current scope.
• Multi-chain funding depth. Polycool routes deposits through deBridge from Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and other deBridge networks. Mirrored bridges in from USDC, USDT, ETH, SOL, or BTC — so if your money's sitting in Bitcoin, you're covered. Where Polycool wins is the EVM L2 list.
• Smart-money feeds. Polycool ships a Smart Feed, Insiders Feed, Alerts Feed, and News Feed for whale activity and market news. Mirrored surfaces its curated sharps — in the app, on the Sharps board, and through the extension — but doesn't have a full alerts and news product yet.

The honest summary: want a sophisticated standalone trading terminal with alerts, advanced order types, and broad chain reach? Polycool packs in more. Want copy trading that costs less when you're losing, comes with curated lineups out of the box, and surfaces sharps inside Polymarket through an extension? That's Mirrored.

6. Wallet and seed export

Both bots are non-custodial and both use Privy for embedded wallets. Your keys live in Privy's TEE-backed infrastructure, the bot signs as a delegated signer, and neither platform ever holds your funds.

The difference is what you can take with you. Mirrored gives you the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase from the web app (Settings → Security) or Telegram — shown once, then the message is cleared. A BIP-39 phrase drops straight into MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, hardware wallets, and anything else that speaks BIP-39. Polycool gives you an exportable private key, which works fine but won't derive multiple accounts from one backup the way a seed phrase will.

Read more in our security doc.

7. Transparent ranking

Mirrored's Sharps leaderboard ranks Polymarket wallets by 30-day realized PnL, win rate, and risk-adjusted consistency. The methodology is public and the data sits on-chain, so anyone can check the math.

Polycool surfaces a Smart Feed of top traders and tracks high-PnL wallets, but keeps the ranking methodology behind it private. If you care about knowing exactly why a trader landed in front of you, Mirrored is the more transparent option.

8. Education library

Polycool keeps its focus on the product and doesn't ship dedicated learning material. Mirrored does:

• Polymarket beginner guide
• How Polymarket works
• How to copy trade
• Trading strategies
• Profit calculator
• Odds converter

If you're new to prediction markets, Mirrored gets you up to speed a lot faster.

So which should you use?

Pick Polycool if you want advanced manual order types (take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop), the widest range of deposit chains, and smart-money alert feeds — and you don't mind doing the research to pick the wallets you copy.

Pick Mirrored if you mostly copy trade, you want the bot to charge a fee only when you actually win, you like curated Auto Pilot lineups with the risk settings already tuned, and you want to trade from a web terminal, Telegram, or a browser extension. It's the simpler, cheaper-for-copy choice.

These two aren't really opposites — they overlap plenty, and nothing stops you running both. Pick by what you'll actually reach for most.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mirrored or Polycool cheaper for copy trading?

Mirrored is cheaper for copy trading. It charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits, and losing copy trades cost nothing. Polycool's published fee is a flat 1% per trade, so over a lot of trades the gap compounds — see the worked example above.

Do both Mirrored and Polycool use Privy?

Yes. Both bots are non-custodial and run on Privy's TEE-backed wallet infrastructure, and neither one holds your funds. The difference at export time: Mirrored gives you the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase, Polycool gives you the private key.

Does Mirrored support stop-loss and trailing-stop orders?

Not yet. Manual trading on Mirrored covers market and limit orders today. See the manual trading docs for the current scope. If those order types are central to your strategy, Polycool is the stronger choice.

Does Mirrored have a web app or just a bot?

Both. Mirrored ships a full web trading terminal at mirrored.trade alongside the Telegram bot and a Chrome/Firefox extension, all sharing one account and one wallet. Polycool runs as a Telegram mini-app.

Which has more chains for funding?

Polycool covers more EVM L2s via deBridge (Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, and so on). Mirrored covers fewer EVM chains, but it also bridges Bitcoin on top of USDC, USDT, ETH, and SOL.