Prediction market API rate limits, tested with a daily ramp
TradingManifold
Trails1.75 s
- p99
- 2.49 s
- rank
- #5
- samples
- 37,003
Smarkets
No data in window
Manifold vs Smarkets
Manifold vs Smarkets on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks, awaiting live measurements.
Manifold
Play-money prediction market with AMM-based binary and multiple-choice markets. Documented public API at 500 requests per minute per IP, bots explicitly welcome.
Smarkets
UK-regulated peer-to-peer betting exchange with a public CLOB REST API. Covers political, sports and entertainment markets. No authentication required for market data including full order book quotes.
Side by side measurements
Best prediction market API, ranked by live latency and uptime
TradingManifold
Trails1.00 s
- p99
- 3.97 s
- rank
- #4
- samples
- 37,008
Smarkets
No data in window
Frequently asked questions
Manifold vs Smarkets: which one is better?
Manifold and Smarkets are compared on 2 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. See the live table on this page for every metric.
How is the Manifold vs Smarkets 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
A pair is published when all four conditions hold. Both providers run in the same OpenChainBench benchmark for at least seven consecutive days. Each provider has at least 1000 samples in the measurement window. The head to head query has observable third party search demand. Both providers have a public /products/[slug] page on OCB. The full pair ledger is versioned in the public repo so the methodology is externally verifiable.