OpenChainBench

Polymarket vs Vest

Split decision: Polymarket leads on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked (0.00031% vs 0.0047%) and Most tradable markets on a perp DEX, live count per venue (89 vs 88); Vest leads on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized (2.40 bps vs 3.00 bps) and Perp DEX volume share, live 24h notional ranked ($235.99M vs $102.32M).

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Polymarket

The largest crypto prediction market, settled on Polygon via UMA optimistic oracle. CLOB-style order book hosted on the Polymarket gateway with sub-second publish latency for live odds.

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Vest

Side by side measurements

Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized

Trading

Polymarket

Trails

3.00 bps

p99
3.00 bps
rank
#8
samples
2,880

Vest

Leads

2.40 bps

p99
-0.43 bps
rank
#7
samples
198
Funding cost to hold a long 24h
Polymarketn/aVestn/a

Funding is signed. Positive means longs pay shorts, negative means longs get paid to hold. Venues settle on different native periods (1h for Hyperliquid and dYdX, 4h or 8h elsewhere); every figure is normalized from the venue's own quoted rate and interval before ranking. Funding is only the holding cost. Opening costs (taker fee, spread, impact) are the companion bench perp-fees.

Rolling 24h · Funding cost to hold a long 24hRaw JSON

Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked

Trading

Polymarket

Leads

0.00031 %

p99
0.00036%
rank
#1
samples
2,880

Vest

Trails

0.0047 %

p99
0.0014%
rank
—
samples
198
24h ETH funding stddev
Polymarketn/aVestn/a

Ranked only with 24 hours of funding history (288 samples) and a stddev above zero: a young listing, or a venue whose rate has not moved since listing (Ondo Perps at launch, Polymarket in July), reads artificially stable and shows as Provisional, never as the leader. Stability is not directionality: a persistently positive but tight band ranks above a rate that flips every settlement.

Rolling 24h · 24h ETH funding stddevRaw JSON

Frequently asked questions

Polymarket vs Vest: which one is better?

Polymarket and Vest are compared on 4 shared OpenChainBench benchmarks. Polymarket leads on Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked. Vest leads on Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized. See the live table on this page for every metric.

Which is cheaper on 24h eth funding stddev, Polymarket or Vest?

On the Perp DEX funding stability, 24h stddev of ETH funding ranked benchmark, Polymarket leads at 0.00031% versus Vest at 0.0047%. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

Which is cheaper on funding cost to hold a long 24h, Polymarket or Vest?

On the Cheapest perp venue to hold a position, live funding normalized benchmark, Vest leads at 2.40 bps versus Polymarket at 3.00 bps. Live measurement is updated continuously by the OpenChainBench harness.

How is the Polymarket vs Vest 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.