Mirrored vs Polygun
Mirrored and Polygun both let you trade and copy-trade Polymarket from Telegram, and on the surface they look like the same thing. But once you add up what you actually pay, how much you can dial in each copy trade, and where you can place trades from, they pull apart fast — and almost every time it favours Mirrored.
TL;DR
- Fees: Mirrored charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits. Polygun charges 1% on every buy and every sell — so a round-trip copy trade pays Polygun twice and Mirrored at most once.
- Curated lineups: Mirrored ships five hand-picked Auto Pilot lineups with trade size and risk settings already tuned. Polygun is DIY — you pick wallets yourself or it's on you.
- Risk controls: Mirrored gives every trader you mirror its own size mode, slippage tolerance, price band, and per-trade and per-market caps. Polygun's public site does not describe equivalent controls.
- Trading surfaces: Mirrored runs on a full web trading terminal, the Telegram bot, and a browser extension — one account across all three. Polygun is Telegram-only.
- Custody: Both are non-custodial. Mirrored wallets are secured by Privy's TEE-backed infrastructure with a real 24-word BIP-39 seed exportable from the app or Telegram.
At a glance
| Mirrored | Polygun | |
|---|---|---|
| Copy trading fee | 1% on winning copy exits only | 1% on every buy and every sell |
| Manual trading fee | 1% per leg | 1% per leg |
| Subscription | None | None |
| Curated lineups | 5 Auto Pilot lineups, settings tuned | — |
| Per-trader risk controls | Size mode · slippage · price band · caps | Not documented |
| Trading surfaces | Web terminal · Telegram bot · browser extension | Telegram bot |
| Order types | Market and limit orders | Market and limit orders |
| Wallet | Privy TEE · 24-word BIP-39 export | Self-custody, exportable |
| Funding | pUSD on Polygon · bridge USDC, USDT, ETH, SOL, BTC | Polygon, Solana, Ethereum, BNB (auto-bridge) |
| Gas paid by user | No — Polymarket relayer covers gas | Not documented |
| Public methodology for trader ranking | Yes — 30-day PnL, win rate, consistency | Not documented |
| Learn library | Beginner guide, strategies, odds converter, profit calculator | — |
| Referrals | Yes — share of platform fee | Yes — share of trading fees |
Polygun fees and feature claims are based on what is published at polygun.xyz as of June 2026.
1. The fee gap is real money
Polygun's pricing page spells it out: "1% fee on each transaction, both buys and sells." Mirrored only takes its 1% when a copy-trade exit is profitable — lose on a copy or break even and you pay nothing. Manual trades you place yourself cost 1% per leg on either bot, so that part's a wash.
Here's why that matters: nobody wins every trade. Across a normal month of hits and misses, paying on both legs of every trade quietly stacks up.
Worked example: 100 copy trades, $50 each, 55% win rate
| Scenario | Polygun fees | Mirrored fees |
|---|---|---|
| 100 entries × 1% | $50.00 | $0.00 |
| 55 winning exits × 1% | $27.50 | $27.50 |
| 45 losing exits × 1% | $22.50 | $0.00 |
| Total fees | $100.00 | $27.50 |
Same trades, same outcomes, and Mirrored leaves $72.50 more in your wallet. Trade bigger or more often and that gap only widens. The full fee policy lives in our copy-trading docs and manual trading docs.
2. Auto Pilot vs picking wallets blind
Polygun lets you copy any wallet — that's table stakes. What it doesn't do is curate the wallets or pre-tune the risk settings. You sift through "Smart Wallets" lists yourself and hope you picked good ones.
Mirrored ships five Auto Pilot lineups — All Categories, Aggressive, Sweaty, Relaxed, and Super Aggressive. Each is 10 hand-picked Polymarket traders with size mode, slippage, price band, and per-trade caps already tuned for the lineup's style. Tap ✅ Use this lineup and you're live. See the Auto Pilot docs.
You can still manual-copy individual wallets if you want full control — Auto Pilot is the fast path, not the only path.
3. Per-trader risk controls Polygun doesn't document
When you mirror a trader on Mirrored, you're not just turning on a switch. Each trader gets its own settings:
- Size mode — fixed dollar amount, percentage of leader, or portfolio-weighted multiplier.
- Slippage tolerance — how much price drift between leader fill and yours you'll accept. Tighter means more skipped trades; looser means more catches.
- Price band — e.g.
30¢–70¢filters out late entries on near-resolved markets and lottery-ticket entries on long shots. - Per-trade cap — hard dollar maximum per individual copy, so a leader going huge on one trade can't blow up your position.
- Per-market cap — total exposure ceiling across every trader for any single market, so you can't accidentally over-stack the same outcome.
Polygun's public site doesn't mention per-trader risk controls like these. Every Mirrored setting is broken down in the copy-trading docs.
4. Trade from the web, Telegram, or the extension
Polygun lives inside Telegram. Mirrored started there too, but it's now three surfaces sharing one account and one wallet:
- Web trading terminal. A full dashboard at mirrored.trade — market pages, manual buys and sells, Auto Pilot, per-trader settings, portfolio, and the Sharps leaderboard, all on a desk-sized screen.
- Telegram bot. The original anchor-message UX, for firing trades and getting fill notifications on your phone.
- Browser extension. A Chrome and Firefox extension that runs on
polymarket.comand shows which sharps hold any market right on the page — then lets you mirror them in a click without leaving the tab. See the extension doc.
Web and Telegram are linked, so you can do your research at a desk and fire the trade from your phone, all against the same wallet. Polygun, as far as its public site goes, is just the Telegram bot.
5. Wallet and seed export
Both bots are non-custodial — neither holds your funds. The difference is what backs the wallet and how you get your keys out.
Mirrored wallets are created by Privy, the same wallet infrastructure used by many crypto consumer apps. Keys sit inside a TEE (trusted execution environment) and the bot is only a delegated signer. You can pull your 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase from the web app or Telegram at any time and import it into MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, a hardware wallet, or anything else that speaks BIP-39. Read the full custody model in our security doc.
Polygun's site says its wallets are self-custodial and exportable, but it doesn't name the provider or say how the keys are protected. If you like knowing exactly where your keys live before you fund a wallet, Mirrored is the more transparent of the two.
6. Funding and supported chains
Polymarket settles on Polygon in its own stablecoin, pUSD, and both bots take pUSD deposits straight up. Where they differ is what else you can fund with. Mirrored bridges in from USDC, USDT, ETH, SOL, or BTC on their home networks — so if your money's sitting in Bitcoin, you're covered, and that's a chain Polygun doesn't list. Polygun bridges from Polygon, Solana, Ethereum, and BNB, so it has the EVM side handled.
One more thing on Mirrored: there's no separate gas balance to top up. On-chain operations route through Polymarket's relayer, so the pUSD you deposit is the pUSD that trades. Details are in the wallet doc.
7. Transparent leaderboard, not a black box
Mirrored's Sharps leaderboard ranks Polymarket wallets by 30-day realized PnL, win rate, and risk-adjusted consistency. The method is public and the data is on-chain, so anyone can check the numbers. You can filter it by category and time window, and it's the same roster the browser extension surfaces on each market.
Polygun shows "Smart Wallets," which are the most copied wallets on its platform. But most copied isn't the same as most profitable, and there's nothing public explaining how a wallet lands on that list.
8. The learn library Polygun doesn't have
Mirrored comes with a proper library on prediction markets and copy trading:
- Polymarket beginner guide — wallet setup, funding, first trade.
- How Polymarket works — share prices, probabilities, resolution.
- How to copy trade — picking traders, sizing, slippage.
- Trading strategies — five repeatable patterns used by profitable wallets.
- Profit calculator — estimate net profit, ROI, and fees on any trade.
- Odds converter — share price, probability, decimal, American.
So which should you use?
If you trade Polymarket and you want to keep more of your winnings, get curated lineups instead of guessing at wallets, have granular control over how each trader is copied, and trade from a web terminal, Telegram, or a browser extension instead of one chat window, Mirrored is the stronger product.
Polygun's flat 1% per buy AND per sell adds up fast on losing trades — fees you pay regardless of outcome. Mirrored's fee model only kicks in on the trades that actually made you money.
Frequently asked questions
Is Mirrored or Polygun cheaper?
For copy trading, Mirrored is clearly cheaper. It charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits, so losing copies cost you nothing. Polygun charges 1% on every buy and every sell. Run that over enough trades and the gap adds up fast — see the worked example above.
Are both Mirrored and Polygun non-custodial?
Yes — neither bot holds your funds. Mirrored wallets are backed by Privy with a TEE-secured key model and 24-word BIP-39 seed you can export from the app or Telegram. Polygun states wallets are self-custodial and exportable, without specifying the provider.
Can I move my wallet off Mirrored?
Yes. The seed phrase is a standard 24-word BIP-39 phrase. Export it from Settings → Security in the web app or 💼 Wallet → 🔑 Export Private Key in the bot and import it into MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, or any other wallet. Read the security doc.
Does Mirrored support limit orders?
Yes. Both market and limit orders are supported for manual trading. See manual trading docs.
What's the minimum trade?
Mirrored's minimum trade is $1.10. Copy trades that would land under that floor are skipped.