Use Case: Current Market Activity Dashboard
A sample Prediction Markets API pricing simulation for polling current market activity across active prediction markets.
Use Case: Current Market Activity Dashboard
This example estimates the cost of polling current market activity for a dashboard that monitors active prediction markets.
Assumptions
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Protocol | REST |
| Endpoint pattern | GET /v1/activity/{exchange_id}/{market_id}/current |
| Example exchange | POLYMARKET |
| Example market IDs | BITCOIN-ABOVE-58K-ON-JUNE-5-2026_YES, BITCOIN-ABOVE-58K-ON-JUNE-5-2026_NO, ANTHROPIC-OPENAI-VS-MICROSOFT-HIGHER-VALUATION-ON-DECEMBER-31_MICROSOFT |
| Markets monitored | 50 markets |
| Polling frequency | Every 5 minutes |
| Polling cycles per day | 288 |
| Active market refresh | 24 calls/day |
| Estimated usage | 14,424 calls/day |
Example endpoints:
| Purpose | Example endpoint |
|---|---|
| Active markets | GET /v1/markets/POLYMARKET/active?limit=100&page=1 |
| Current activity | GET /v1/activity/POLYMARKET/BITCOIN-ABOVE-58K-ON-JUNE-5-2026_YES/current |
| Current activity | GET /v1/activity/POLYMARKET/BITCOIN-ABOVE-58K-ON-JUNE-5-2026_NO/current |
| Current activity | GET /v1/activity/POLYMARKET/ANTHROPIC-OPENAI-VS-MICROSOFT-HIGHER-VALUATION-ON-DECEMBER-31_MICROSOFT/current |
Estimated usage
Current activity calls:
50 markets × 288 polling cycles = 14,400 calls/day
Active market refresh:
24 calls/day
Total:
14,400 + 24 = 14,424 calls/day
Pay As You Go estimate
API call pricing is tiered daily:
| Tier | Usage | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| First 1,000 requests/day | 1,000 | $5.00 |
| More than 1,000 requests/day | 13,424 | $13.42 |
| Total/day | 14,424 | $18.42 |
Estimated 30-day usage:
$18.42 × 30 = $552.72/month
Plan comparison
| Plan | Price per Credit | Monthly cost | Included credits | Estimated monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | $1.00/Credit | No commitment | N/A | $552.72 |
| Committed 64 | $0.85/Credit | $64 | ~75.29 credits | $541.43 |
| Committed 256 | $0.75/Credit | $256 | ~341.33 credits | $467.39 |
| Committed 512 | $0.70/Credit | $512 | ~731.43 credits | $512.00 |
| Committed 1024 | $0.65/Credit | $1,024 | ~1,575.38 credits | $1,024.00 |
Result
For this sample, Committed 256 has the lowest estimated cost.
Committed 512 fully covers the estimated monthly usage, but Committed 256 is still lower in this scenario because it has a lower monthly commitment and the remaining usage is billed as overage.
Caveat
Actual usage depends on the number of markets monitored, polling frequency, pagination, retries, and whether the dashboard also calls market history or order book endpoints.
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