CopyGrade vs Polycopy: a diligence layer and an execution bot are different tools
CopyGrade and Polycopy are not competitors, and choosing between them is the wrong question: Polycopy is an execution bot — it mirrors a Polymarket wallet's trades into your account, manually on a free tier or automatically for $30/month, with a flat 0.5% fee on any trade it executes — while CopyGrade is an analysis layer that grades whether a wallet is worth copying at all and never executes, holds, or custodies anything. If you copy on Polymarket you may well use both: CopyGrade to decide who, and a bot such as Polycopy to do the copying. This page exists because the two get confused — Polycopy publishes a trader signal called "Copy Score", which is not the CopyGrade Score — and the names are close enough that a search for one can return the other.
Every Polycopy fact below was read from polycopy.app on 2026-08-26 and is quoted where the wording matters. CopyGrade has no affiliation with, and takes no referral fee from, Polycopy or any other bot; see how CopyGrade stays independent.
What does each product actually do?
| CopyGrade | Polycopy | |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Grades a wallet's copyability — a 0–100 CopyGrade Score, five sub-scores, and a vetoing farming-risk check — before you commit capital | Mirrors a wallet's Polymarket trades into your account: manual copying on the free tier, "Auto Copy Bots" on Premium |
| Executes trades? | Never. Analysis-only; no execution control on any screen | Yes — that is the product |
| Custody | Holds nothing; you never connect a wallet | "Non-custodial execution. Your keys, your capital." (its site); it says you can disconnect your wallet anytime |
| Price | Every score is free; Pro is $15/month for alerts, screens, baskets, CSV and delivery | Free tier (manual copying, Copy Score access); Premium $30/month with a 7-day trial; a flat 0.5% fee on real executed trades |
| Its trader metric | CopyGrade Score — a 0–100 grade from edge authenticity, risk-adjusted return, drawdown resilience, consistency and a farming veto, graded against forward outcomes in public | "Copy Score" — in its own words "a free trader signal, not a per-trade grade", "a free trader-level veto after copy costs (not a ranking)", shown as "a signed whole number like +6 or -4" |
| Who it ranks | The graded leaderboard and the best-traders shortlist rank by CopyGrade Score with the farming veto applied | Its leaderboard: "500K+ Polymarket traders ranked live by verified P&L, ROI, and win rate", with a 30-day window as one of the filters |
Is Polycopy's "Copy Score" the same as the CopyGrade Score?
No. They share a word and a purpose — steering you away from wallets that are hard to copy — and nothing else. Polycopy describes its Copy Score as a trader-level veto after copy costs and explicitly "not a ranking" — its own guidance is "Do not sort a list of strangers by the number and call the top row the best to copy." The CopyGrade Score is a full grade: five weighted factors built from a wallet's complete public trade history, a farming-risk check that can cap the score outright, a realistic post-fee return estimate, and a published track record that includes our own null result. Neither number is derived from the other, and a wallet's reading on one says nothing about its reading on the other.
Which one do I need?
- Deciding whether a wallet is worth copying: CopyGrade. The score, sub-scores and farming forensics are free and public on every wallet verdict page, and the vetting checklist is the method behind them.
- Actually placing the mirrored trades: a bot. Polycopy is one of several; the platform comparison lays the field out on custody, pricing and controls, and the bot-selection guide gives the criteria.
- Both, in that order, is the loop this site teaches: shortlist, vet, choose a bot, size, monitor.
What does neither product do?
Neither guarantees a copied return. Polycopy's own framing — a veto after copy costs rather than a pick — and CopyGrade's live Copyability Index point the same way: only a small share of graded Polymarket wallets currently clears a copyable bar, and a bot faithfully mirroring a wallet with no post-fee edge faithfully mirrors the loss. Before any bot touches your capital, read what a copied gain actually costs and when to stop copying.
Why does CopyGrade not just execute copies too?
Because the fee model would then pay CopyGrade to call every wallet copyable. A flat subscription with no execution, no performance fee and no custody is the alignment guarantee — the reasoning is on the trust page, and the custody trap post explains why keeping the analysis layer separate from the keys is also the safer architecture for you.