OpenChainBench

Kalshi — Sports vs Polymarket — Crypto

Kalshi — Sports leads on the only live benchmark. Kalshi — Sports wins on Resolution delay, Polymarket vs Kalshi (5.8 min vs 10.4 min).

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KS
Kalshi — Sports
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Polymarket — Crypto

Side by side measurements

Resolution delay, Polymarket vs Kalshi

Trading

Kalshi — Sports

Leads

5.8 min

p99
31.2 min
rank
#1
samples
192

Polymarket — Crypto

Trails

10.4 min

p99
131.0 min
rank
#2
samples
41,607

Polymarket delay is measured from the first onchain outcome proposal to resolution (UMA challenge window, minimum 2h by protocol). Kalshi delay is settlement_ts - close_time (exact from API), where close_time is the scheduled market close, not the real-world event end. Kalshi auto-generated parlay markets (Exotics) are excluded. Both anchors are lower bounds on total user wait from the real-world event ending.

Frequently asked questions

Kalshi — Sports vs Polymarket — Crypto: which one is better?

Kalshi — Sports and Polymarket — Crypto are compared on 1 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Kalshi — Sports leads on Resolution delay, Polymarket vs Kalshi. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is faster, Kalshi — Sports or Polymarket — Crypto?

On the Resolution delay, Polymarket vs Kalshi benchmark, Kalshi — Sports leads at 5.8 min versus Polymarket — Crypto at 10.4 min. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Kalshi — Sports vs Polymarket — Crypto comparison measured?

Every benchmark on this page uses the same open methodology, published at https://openchainbench.com/methodology. Data is CC-BY-4.0. Measurement harnesses are MIT-licensed.

How this pair was selected

Auto-generated pairs require: both providers in the same benchmark for seven consecutive days, at least 1000 samples per provider, observable third-party search demand, and a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. Editorially curated pairs (like this one) may publish early when search demand is high and data is accruing — panels with fewer than 100 samples are shown as provisional. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo.

Live data refreshes via ISR within 60 seconds of a new run. Sources are the same Prometheus queries surfaced on the parent benchmark pages.