# Convexly vs OrcaLayer vs Airavat vs Polysights vs Predicts.guru: who publishes the rule behind the label

Five readers of one public record. Two publish the exclusion rule, one publishes its own failed tests, and their market counts differ by a factor of thirteen.

*https://predictionmarkets.tools/compare/polymarket-wallet-analytics*

- https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/convexly.md
- https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/orcalayer.md
- https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/airavat.md
- https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polysights.md
- https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/predicts-guru.md

## Five readings of one public record

None of these five products has data another one cannot get. Polymarket's fills settle on Polygon,
the record is public, and all five read it — directly, in OrcaLayer's case, or through the venue's
own APIs. So a comparison of coverage is a comparison of nothing: it is the same chain, the same
venue, and on all five cards `cross_venue` is false.

What differs is what each one does on top of that record and how much of that it will tell you.
Four of the five rank or score other people's addresses, and one of those calls the output a
finding about information. That claim is the purchase, and the grid above cannot price it. What
follows is the three things that decide between them and appear on no single card.

## Their own counters disagree by a factor of thirteen, except the one that matters least

Four of these five print a corpus counter on the landing page, and read side by side they are a
useful accident.

The wallet populations agree. OrcaLayer puts 3.1 million addresses with at least one fill,
Predicts.guru about 3.2 million wallets, Polysights 3,210,363 unique traders — inside four percent
of each other. The fill counts are close enough to be the same object counted with different
cut-offs: 1.4 billion at Airavat, over 1.5 billion at OrcaLayer, 1.88 billion at Predicts.guru.

The market counts are not the same object at all. Polysights says 160,722 markets. OrcaLayer says
roughly 1.6 million. Airavat says over 2.2 million. That is a factor of thirteen between the
lowest and the highest, over one venue's history, and none of the three publishes what it is
counting — a question, a binary outcome pair, a leg of a multi-outcome set. Anything you compute
per market, including a win rate, is computed over a denominator these products do not define the
same way.

The sharp version of that: the one unit all four agree on is the address, and the address is
precisely the unit that does not correspond to a person.

## "Published methodology" means four different things here

All five would say they are transparent. Held to what a reader can actually do with what is
published, they fall into four grades, and the grades are not close.

**Rules you can apply yourself.** OrcaLayer states its exclusions as numbers: a farmer is an
address whose average buy price sits above 95 cents, a bot is one with more than 500,000 trades at
an average size under 20 dollars, and its Smart Money badge requires all three of a per-market win
rate at or above 55 percent, positive total profit and loss, and neither classification. Win rates
are NegRisk-corrected, profit and loss is FIFO. The code and the model weights are not published,
so this is checkable in outline rather than reproducible line by line — but a reader can say what
the badge means and can argue with the thresholds.

**Rules plus the results of testing them.** Convexly publishes the methods index — methodology
papers, registered forward tests, and, the part nobody else here has, published negative results.
One of those negatives is about its own instrument: a pre-registered forward test of its Market
Trust rating returned no separation, and the rating surfaces were frozen on 5 September 2026 rather
than quietly re-tuned. Its Edge Score is a composite of three named pillars scored against a frozen
8,656-wallet comparison set. The limit is stated on its own card and matters: the Polymarket
reference cohort behind the headline scores is not published, so the Polymarket results are
recomputable by Convexly and not by you. Only the Manifold half ships a reproducible bundle.

**Inputs named, composition not.** Airavat scores every trader 0 to 100 from realised profit and
loss, dollar-weighted win rate, Sharpe and Sortino, profit factor, maximum drawdown and Kelly. That
is an itemised list of ingredients with no recipe: nothing published says how seven metrics become
one number, what the number was fitted on, or what happens to it when a wallet has twelve resolved
positions instead of twelve hundred. It is also the only product of the five that emits a
directional view on a specific contract, which is a different kind of output from a record.

**Nothing.** Polysights publishes no methodology, no false-positive rate and no worked example for
the screen it calls Insider Finder, which is also the marketing centre of the product. It publishes
no terms of service and no privacy policy either — both links land on an "Under Construction" page
— which is unusual for any product and pointed for one whose own FAQ says it handles the wallet on
its side. Predicts.guru belongs in this grade too, but honestly: it publishes no scoring model
because it has none, and its own notes say no single metric tells the full story.

The inversion is the reason this page exists. **The strongest claim in the category is made by the
product that publishes the least about how it is computed, and the most cautious claim is made by
the product that publishes its own failures.**

## What each product computes, and what does not follow from it

Every one of these labels is a function over settled transfers. It observes that an address bought
an outcome token at a price, before or after some other transaction, and that the token was worth
something at resolution. It does not observe who holds the key, how many keys one person holds,
whether the address is a fund, a shared account, a bot or a router, or what anybody knew. A page
that says an account was informed has crossed from what the chain records to what a person knew,
and nothing in the data covers that step. The concepts are laid out in
[what wallet tracking shows](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/what-wallet-tracking-shows).

Two of the products have already demonstrated the gap, on themselves, in public.

[OrcaLayer](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/orcalayer) removed four Polymarket protocol router contracts from its rankings
platform-wide after one of them was surfaced as an apparent insider. A contract that routes other
people's orders satisfied the pattern, because the pattern is about transaction timing and a router
is where other people's transactions pass. Nothing in the label could tell the two apart; a human
noticing did.

[Convexly](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/convexly) published a July 2026 note that points its skill-versus-luck filter at
its own top-50 leaderboard and reports that zero of the 35 readable wallets clear its own bar. The
same company publishes both surfaces, and says in as many words that a historical diagnostic does
not establish future profit.

Read [Polysights](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polysights) against those two. Its own card records that the news coverage
it cites is about the phenomenon of tracking Polymarket wallets, not about whether this
implementation identifies anyone correctly. From outside there is no method, no error rate and no
example — only the screen and the word on it.

## What counts as one wallet

This is where the rankings actually diverge, and the five positions are genuinely different.

**One removes.** OrcaLayer's April 2026 audit of 470 million trades found that six of ten wallets
with apparently flawless records were airdrop farmers — accounts buying near-certain outcomes at
high volume to harvest a cent, which produces a near-perfect win rate with very little exposure.
That is the top of an unfiltered leaderboard being majority artefact, by the vendor's own count,
and it is the strongest single argument for paying anything at all in this category.

**One bounds.** Convexly does not de-duplicate people either, but it publishes the completeness of
every read instead of implying there is nothing missing: its board of 12 September 2026 had 31 of
its 42 wallets read in full, and every row says whether it came from a full on-chain read or from a
recent-trade window that omits already-redeemed positions. Its census is explicit that a further
100 full reads did not finish and are excluded. You get a denominator rather than an identity.

**Two disclose and do nothing.** Predicts.guru states it plainly — the ranking is by address, one
trader running three addresses appears three times, a shared account or a bot appears once.
Airavat's card says a trader who hedges elsewhere or runs a second address will be scored on a
fraction of their book and the score will not say so. Both are honest and neither is fixed.

**One says nothing either way.** Polysights publishes no position on the question.

Note what is not on this list: nobody links addresses to people, and nobody claims to. The choice
is between a ranking with a published removal rule, a ranking with published error bars, and a
ranking with a warning on it.

## What you can examine before paying, and what the price is per

The gate runs the opposite way to the evidence, which is worth knowing before the free tiers are
compared on features.

Predicts.guru is open to anyone with a browser: no account, no tier, no metering — and its terms
cap total operator liability at zero dollars, which is the honest price of that. OrcaLayer gives
five lookups to a guest and twenty a day to a free account, both without a card. Convexly's first
check needs no signup at all. Polysights opens three of five screens to nobody in particular, and
keeps the two that would make it a trading client behind a code whose price is published nowhere.
Airavat opens nothing: the site is a request-access form, the terms say accounts are invite-only,
and the FAQ entry that asks what it costs does not render its answer to a logged-out reader.

So on the one axis where a reader can protect themselves — look at the output before paying for it
— the two products with the least published method are the two that show the least.

The paid units are also not the same unit, and the two nine-dollar prices are the trap. OrcaLayer's
9.99 a month removes a cap on how often *you* may look, and adds Telegram alerts, a 25-wallet
watchlist and CSV. Convexly's 9 a month buys three wallets that *it* re-reads in full every 30
days; its 49 tier buys ten on the same cadence plus on-chain reconciliation and an API; its 499
tier buys fifty re-read weekly. One is priced per query, the other per maintained record, and the
second is the one that decides whether a number you look at in November describes November.

Convexly's 19 USD one-time read is the outlier worth naming: a single reconciled read of one named
address delivered with the block it was reconciled at, a hash over that subset and the command that
re-derives it against any Polygon archive node. It is the only artefact any of these five sells
that a buyer can independently check.

## Where the cards use the same field differently

Two gated products, two opposite flag conventions. The Polysights card sets charting, order book,
live trading and news to `false` and explains in prose that all four are advertised and all four
sit behind the access code — a flag is what a reader filters on, and a reader filtering for live
trading wants something they can trade on today. The Airavat card sets charting and order book to
`true` for surfaces that are equally unreachable without an invitation. Filter the category on
either flag and you will get one of these two and not the other, for the same underlying situation.

The verification dates line up, unusually: all five cards were re-read between 19 and 20 September
2026, so nothing here rests on a stale check.

## Which one to take

**Take [OrcaLayer](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/orcalayer) if you are going to act on a ranking.** It is the only one of
the five that both publishes its exclusion thresholds as numbers and has published what the
unfiltered population looks like — six in ten flawless records being farmers is the fact that makes
every unfiltered leaderboard in this category unusable for the purpose people use it for. Twenty
free lookups a day is enough to decide, 9.99 removes the cap and adds alerts, 19.99 is the API
tier.

**Switch to [Convexly](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/convexly) the moment the question changes from "who is up" to "is
this record distinguishable from luck".** Those are different questions and OrcaLayer answers only
the first. Start with the 19 USD single read rather than a subscription: it is one wallet, it comes
with the block and the command to re-derive it, and it is refundable within 14 days. Move to 49 a
month only when you need ten addresses kept current rather than one answered once. It costs more
per wallet than everything else here and the reason is on the card — the price is the re-reading,
not the watching.

**Take [Predicts.guru](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/predicts-guru) if you will supply the judgement yourself.** Free, no
account, the full per-address history and ten-way comparison, and its own notes tell you a row is
an address. There is no API and no export, so the ceiling is what you can read off a page, and its
header carries a persistent link to the venue it covers — the data is not wrong, the framing has a
direction.

**[Airavat](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/airavat) is not a purchase you can currently make**, and if you do get an
invitation the reason to use it is not its trader score, which is the weakest-documented of the
four that document anything. It is the UMA layer: active disputes, the resolution lifecycle and
diffs when a market's rules text changes, over a stated 3,700-plus disputes. A quietly reworded
resolution criterion is the failure mode that costs a reader a position they thought they
understood, and nothing else in this category watches for it.

**[Polysights](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polysights) is worse on every axis this page measures** — no published
method, no error rate, no terms of service, no privacy policy, no API, no export, and two of five
screens behind a code with no published price, on a landing page that carries "V1 Coming Soon" at
the top and a sentence saying everything above is live in the terminal right now at the bottom. The
single axis on which it is not worse is that it is the only one of these five that intends to put
execution beside the wallet screen at all: Convexly deliberately will not trade, OrcaLayer does
not, Airavat simulates fills against virtual funds. That intention is currently a code form and a
contradiction on one page. If execution next to the analytics is the actual requirement,
[Polyrama](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polyrama) does it today and reads two venues while doing it.

## FAQ

### Which of these can I use without an account?

Predicts.guru entirely — no signup, no wallet connection, no paid tier to upgrade to. OrcaLayer allows five wallet lookups as a guest and twenty a day with a free account. Convexly's first wallet check needs no signup, and a free account then watches one wallet. Three of Polysights' five screens render with no account, no wallet and no code. Airavat gives an unauthenticated reader nothing at all, including its price.

### Can any of them tell me who a wallet belongs to?

No, and none of them claims to. What they read is the settled record on Polygon — which address paid what for which outcome token, and what it was worth at resolution. Identity, how many addresses one person runs, and what anyone knew before a price moved are all outside that record. The guide on what wallet tracking shows, linked from the body above, sets out where that boundary sits.

### Is a "smart money" or "insider" label evidence about a person?

It is the output of a threshold over public transactions. OrcaLayer publishes its thresholds and its own April 2026 audit of 470 million trades reports that six of ten wallets with apparently flawless records were airdrop farmers; it also stripped four Polymarket protocol router contracts from its rankings platform-wide after one of them was surfaced as an apparent insider. Convexly pointed its own skill-versus-luck filter at its own published top-50 board in July 2026 and reported that zero of the 35 readable wallets cleared its bar.

### Which is cheapest, and cheapest per what?

Predicts.guru is free with no tier at all. Then the units stop matching — OrcaLayer's 9.99 USD a month lifts a lookup cap and adds alerts and a 25-wallet watchlist, while Convexly's 9 USD a month buys three wallets re-read in full every 30 days — one meters how much you may look, the other how much it re-reads for you. Polysights publishes no price for its access code, and Airavat publishes no price for anything.

### Which one if I need the data programmatically?

OrcaLayer Premium at 19.99 USD a month — a documented REST API at 600 requests a minute, server-sent event streams, webhooks, an MCP server and a Python client, though its terms forbid reselling the data or using it to train or evaluate models. Convexly's public API starts at the 49 USD Researcher tier under a daily row quota. Airavat's API is invite-only and priced case by case. Polysights and Predicts.guru publish no API and no export at all.
