Access Model
Free vs Pro in PolyLab — what is free, what Pro adds, and how trials, billing, grace periods and cancellation work.
Free vs Pro at a glance
| Guest (no account) | Free account | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screener: search, list, every market filter and sort (price, APR, spread, volume, liquidity, expiry, tags, category) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| All strategies (their market filters) | Yes | Yes | Yes, including the smart-money gate |
| One showcase strategy fully unlocked (usually Coinflip Club), smart money included | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free picks: smart money unlocked on homepage picks, 3 rotating markets per strategy (new every hour) and editorial collections | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Smart-money verdict and per-side P/L on every market | Locked preview | Locked preview | Yes |
| Holder lists with wallet P/L, market history | Free picks | Free picks | Yes |
| Smart-money filters and sorts | No | No | Yes |
| Saved markets with price-move and resolution alerts | No | Up to 3 | Unlimited |
| Smart-money / holder-change alerts | No | No | Yes |
| Ask PolyLab AI | No | No | Yes |
Free
Browse the scanner without an account: search markets, use every market filter and sort, and open any strategy. Strategies apply their market filters for free users; the smart-money gate of a strategy is a Pro feature. One strategy is the free showcase and is fully unlocked, including its smart-money gate, verdicts, profitable/losing counts and per-side P/L, so you can see what Pro looks like. It is usually Coinflip Club; when Coinflip Club has fewer than 3 qualifying markets in the current data, the showcase switches to Newsmaker (or, failing that, Longshot) until the next data refresh. The app always labels which strategy is the free showcase. Free picks go further: every market the homepage recommends, 3 markets from each strategy (picked from that strategy's top results and rotating every hour, pinned at the top of the strategy for non-Pro users), plus markets in editorial collections (for example ones linked from an article), show the full smart-money layer — verdict, profitable/losing counts, per-side P/L and signal score — to everyone, without an account. The app opens them in a Free picks view (/app?view=free, /app?pick=<condition_id>, /app?picks=<collection>) with a green Free pick badge. Free picks also include the wallet list behind each side and available market history. Published social picks are pinned in the published editorial collection so their direct market links stay unlocked while the market remains in the dataset. Methodology and documentation remain public.
A free account adds up to 3 saved markets with price-move and resolution alerts (email, Telegram or in-app). Saved markets whose market has resolved no longer count toward the 3. If a Pro subscription ends, saved markets are kept and alerts continue for the 3 oldest that are still live; the rest are paused until you upgrade. A paused market that becomes active again starts from a fresh price baseline, so it never alerts on old moves.
Pro
Pro adds the smart-money verdict and per-side P/L on every market, holder lists with wallet P/L, smart-money filters and strategy gates, unlimited saved markets plus smart-money and holder-change alerts, market history (beta) and Ask PolyLab AI.
Pro costs USD 29/month (early-access price, normally USD 49) after a 7-day free trial. A payment card is required to start the trial; you can cancel anytime, and canceling before the trial ends avoids any charge. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled. The price and trial terms are shown before checkout. There is no annual plan.
Early-access accounts
Existing early-access accounts keep Pro free (shown as "Pro · early access") and are never automatically enrolled in a subscription.
Billing, grace period and cancellation
Payments are processed by Stripe. Manage your payment method, invoices and cancellation at any time through the Stripe customer portal (Account → Subscription & invoices in the app). Period-end cancellation keeps access until the end of the current billing period.
If a renewal payment fails, Pro stays active for a 3-day grace period and the app shows an "Update payment" banner. If the payment method is not updated in time, the account returns to Free.
What plans do not change
Plans only change the analysis layer, never which markets are listed. Markets past their scheduled end date that are still trading on Polymarket stay listed for everyone.
Access enforcement
Access is verified by the server from your signed-in account and stored subscription state; a checkout redirect alone never grants access. Smart-money fields are removed from responses for guests and free accounts, except for the server-resolved showcase strategy and free picks. Unauthenticated requests to protected endpoints return HTTP 401; signed-in accounts without Pro receive HTTP 403. Signed-in analysis responses are not stored in shared caches.