Polymarket US moves to tiered taker fees, raising costs for traders under $10K volume
The US exchange's taker coefficient now runs from 0.095 for accounts with under $10,000 of 30-day taker volume down to 0.0695 at $250,000 and up. Before, every account paid 0.0695. The international polymarket.com schedule is unchanged.
· Effective · Verified 2026-11-10 via official docs
Effective Nov 6, 2026: Polymarket US moves to tiered taker fees, raising costs for traders under $10K volume. Affects: Polymarket US traders with under $250,000 of 30-day taker volume, most of all those under $10,000. Source: docs.polymarket.us, verified Nov 10, 2026. If this rules Polymarket out, our top-listed alternative is Kalshi.
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Polymarket US, the CFTC-regulated exchange for US users, moved its standard taker fee to four volume tiers from 1:00 PM ET on Friday, 6 November 2026, according to its fee schedule. Accounts with under $10,000 of taker volume over the previous 30 days pay a coefficient of 0.095 in the formula fee = coefficient x contracts x price x (1 - price), up from the flat 0.0695 every account paid before. At a 50c price that is $2.38 on 100 contracts instead of $1.74.
The tiers are 0.095 below $10,000 of trailing 30-day taker volume, 0.085 from $10,000, 0.075 from $50,000 and 0.0695 from $250,000. Volume counts what the trader paid for the side received, not face value: buying 1,000 contracts at 10c counts as $100. Tiers are reset daily at midnight ET. Table tennis markets drop their separate 0.10 coefficient and use the same ladder. New accounts pay 0.0695 for their first seven days whatever their volume, and through November existing accounts get the better of their trailing 30-day tier or the tier based on October volume.
Polymarket US's fee page still labels the tiers as upcoming and still prints the older 0.0695 price table, but it gives the effective time as 1:00 PM ET on 6 November, and the PM Pulse newsletter reported that traders saw the higher fees from 7 November. Makers still pay no fee; maker and taker rebate tiers keep their thresholds and now use a rolling 30-day window instead of the prior calendar month.
A separate change to combo (multi-leg) taker fees is scheduled for 1:00 PM ET on Wednesday, 11 November and is not live yet: the combo formula will use the trader's own tier coefficient plus a smaller 0.06 term, replacing 0.0695 plus 0.085. On a 50c combo that works out higher for the lowest tier and lower for the top tier. CCN and PM Pulse note that at the lowest tier a 50c trade now costs about 36% more than at Kalshi's standard 0.07 coefficient. The fee schedule on the international polymarket.com site, which blocks US users, did not change.
“Upcoming taker fee tiers — effective at 1:00 PM ET on Friday, November 6, 2026. Taker fees will use the volume tiers below.”
— Polymarket US fee schedule
Who this affects
Polymarket US traders with under $250,000 of 30-day taker volume, most of all those under $10,000. International polymarket.com users and makers are not affected.
Polymarket at a glance
Polymarket is a prediction market where users trade Yes/No outcome shares on an order book. It runs two separate platforms: the international, crypto-based polymarket.com on Polygon, and Polymarket US, a fiat, CFTC-regulated exchange operated by QCX LLC. The international site also lists perpetual futures.
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Sources
Last checked . Fees and terms change often; the venue's own page wins if it disagrees with ours.
- Polymarket US Documentation - Fee Schedule (taker fee tiers effective 2026-11-06; combo change 2026-11-11) — checked 2026-11-10
- Polymarket US Documentation - Changelog (2026-11-09 combo fee notice; 2026-10-22 tiered rebates) — checked 2026-11-10
- The PM Pulse 084 - Polymarket US raises taker fees for smaller traders — checked 2026-11-10
- CCN - Polymarket Fees Now Up to 36% Higher Than Kalshi After New Tiered Taker Fee Rollout (2026-11-09) — checked 2026-11-10
- Polymarket Documentation - Fees (international schedule, unchanged) — checked 2026-11-10
- Kalshi Help Center - Fees — checked 2026-11-10
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