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Polymarket historical data —
every tick, every book update, every trade.

Tick-by-tick price history, the full 25-level L2 order book and the trade tape — captured live from the venue by dual-region, sequence-audited collectors and delivered as clean parquet/CSV bundles or over a REST API.

No websocket feed handler to write, no capture plant to babysit, no gaps the moment you blink. The market you didn't think to record last month is already on disk — we never stopped watching.

Running your own plant — capture, storage, redundancy, normalization — starts at $1,000+/month, and every month you spend building it is a month of history you cannot go back for.

  • ✓Whole venue, continuously — every market on Polymarket, not the handful you thought to point a recorder at.
  • ✓Analysis-ready — deduplicated, sequence-audited, stable schemas and join keys across every market and day.
  • ✓Yours in minutes — pick a market·day, and the bundle stages while you finish your coffee.
Start with the real data
no card
pick a market·day — the first 5 are free
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↓ Download the sample bundle — 23 MB parquet, no sign-up

BTC Up or Down 4h · 2026-08-19 · full day of L1 / L2 / trades + one hour of raw websocket.

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  • ✓$0 — 5 market·days of your choosing from July 2026, any market
  • ✓Parquet with a CSV twin, plus the reference dictionary to join it
  • ✓The whole catalog, browsable — see exactly what exists before you buy

Takes about a minute. No card, no sales call. Paid plans start at $29/mo and cancel any time.

Already know the market·day you need? Buy it straight from the catalog — checkout takes an email and a card, no account first.

ticks captured
238,354,006,049
archive · compressed
29,328 GB
outcome tokens tracked
515,676
capture running since
2026-05-11
One-minute candles for the Polymarket market “Will Spain vs. Argentina end in a draw?” on 2026-07-19: flat at 32¢ all day, then a steady climb to 100¢ over the ninety goalless minutes of the World Cup final.
The 2026 World Cup final as the order book saw it — our own capture, not a vendor's replay. These 151 one-minute bars are an aggregate of the layer you actually download: 40,529 individual book updates, each with a nanosecond receive timestamp. Read the note on this market →
from this page to a dataframe

Three steps, about five minutes.

There is no onboarding call, no data-request form and no quote to wait on. The whole thing is self-serve, and the free tier is the same delivery path a paying customer uses.

01
Create the free account

Email and password. No card, no sales call, no waiting on a quote — the catalog opens immediately. Or skip it: a single market·day can be bought as a guest, and the receipt sets your password afterwards.

02
Pick a market and a day

Search the catalog of every market·day on disk — sports, politics, crypto, culture — and claim 5 of them free from July 2026, any market. The bundle stages in about a minute.

03
Load it and get to work

Parquet with a CSV twin, plus a reference dictionary that maps every id to the real question. One read_parquet and you have a dataframe.

step 03 — the whole integrationpython
import pandas as pd

l1     = pd.read_parquet("l1.parquet")      # every quote change, ns timestamps
book   = pd.read_parquet("l2.parquet")      # 25 levels a side, every update
trades = pd.read_parquet("trades.parquet")  # the print tape

l1["mid"] = (l1.best_bid + l1.best_ask) / 2
That snippet runs against your first free bundle — the quickstart notebook walks a real one end to end.
what's in the archive

Four layers of history, one contiguous archive.

Everything below comes from the same captured tape and joins on the same keys — outcome token, market, event, series — with nanosecond receive timestamps on a single clock. Full column-by-column detail is in the schema reference, and every change to it is dated in the changelog. What the 25-level book looks like over a real day (depth by level, spread, update rate) is on Polymarket order book data.

Price history — L1 quotes

every tick

Best bid, best ask and mid for every outcome token, recorded on every change — not sampled, not bucketed into candles. Each row carries the collector's nanosecond receive timestamp, so the price history replays in true arrival order.

Order-book history — L2 depth

25 levels

The full limit-order-book ladder, up to 25 levels per side, on every book update. Resting size, spread regimes, sweeps and refills — the microstructure detail that sampled price feeds throw away and that can't be reconstructed after the fact.

Trade history — the tape and on-chain fills

on-chain since 2023

Every trade the venue reported, with price, size and aggressor side, captured tick-by-tick from its own feed since April 2026: the print tape as it happened, not a reconstruction. The deeper history is on-chain: every settled fill read from Polygon, back to 2023 per market (thinner before 2026), sold as its own layer on L25 and up.

Raw feed — websocket atoms

Custom

The untouched websocket messages our collectors received, compressed and hash-audited, plus the deterministic replay engine. For desks and auditors who need to rebuild any book at any nanosecond, in-house, byte-for-byte.

formats & delivery

Download it as CSV or parquet. Or don't download it at all.

Every bundle is columnar parquet with a CSV twin — one read_parquet or read_csv away from a dataframe, in pandas, R or Excel. Take it whichever way suits the job.

Dashboard downloadevery plan

Pick a market·day, watch it stage, pull the file. Interrupted transfers resume rather than restarting, so a multi-gigabyte pull survives a flaky connection.

REST APIevery paid plan

List the catalog, request any market·day, poll the build and stream the bundle — key-authenticated end to end. Feed a backtest grid or a training pipeline without clicking anything.

SFTPL25 +

Self-serve setup with your own key. Your bundles appear grouped by date, alongside a rolling window of the live normalized tree scoped to the markets you chose.

request a market·day over the APIbash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer tf_live_…" \
  -X POST https://tickfoundry.com/api/v1/downloads \
  -d '{"unit_id": "…", "date": "2026-07-15"}'

Full endpoint reference, auth and worked examples in the API docs.

coverage & provenance

The whole venue, continuously — not just the markets you thought to watch.

A DIY recorder only captures what it was pointed at. TickFoundry captures every market on Polymarket, all day, every day — sports, politics, crypto, culture — so when your research changes direction, the history is already there. Two redundant collectors in separate regions record the same feed; sequence numbers are audited mechanically and gaps are cross-filled between them.

Tick and book capture since 2026-05-11 · on-chain fills back to 2023-08, per market — thinner before 2026. We start clean and accumulate — one contiguous archive, no synthetic backfill. Where a day has a known gap, the bundle says so in writing. Our research notes are computed from the same bundles we sell, so you can rerun every figure yourself.

Every market·day on disk is listed and datestamped in the catalog. Check your markets are there before you spend anything.
plans

Start at zero. Scale to the whole venue.

No per-market pricing and no credits arithmetic — one flat plan reaches any market·day when you need it. You do not have to know in advance which markets you will want: every plan roams the whole venue, you download only the market·days you actually use, and keeping the rest on disk stays our problem, not yours. So does keeping the capture alive: the monitoring, and the pager when a feed drops at three in the morning.

Run it yourself
$1,000+/ month, at least
Storage, compute, redundancy, normalization — billed every month, mostly for markets you're not even sure you'll use, and none of it recovers a single day from before you switched it on. Pull what you need instead; the history is already on disk. why →
Or pay:
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FreeKick the tires — no card.
$0

Create a free account and pull any 5 market·days from July 2026, plus the full sample bundle. Validate the schema against your pipeline before you pay a cent.

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StarterThe Lab, top of book, and one series at full depth.
$29 /mo

Top of book and every trade for the whole venue, one series of your choice at full depth, and the TickFoundry Lab. Seven days of history before you join and every day after; earlier months are backfill at $15 a month, or $8 a month for your series.

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L10The 10-level book on every market, flat rate.
$49 /mo

Every market on your venue — every Polymarket series and event, or every Hyperliquid coin, with the 10-level book — plus L1, trades and the Lab. Seven days of history before you join and every day after; earlier months are backfill at the same $49 a month.

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L25Full depth, spot, SFTP, fair use.
$99 /mo

Everything in L10 with the full 25-level ladder, the Binance + Chainlink spot feeds in every bundle, on-chain fills, SFTP delivery and a fair-use cap on the API. Seven days of history before you join and every day after; earlier months are backfill at the same $99 a month.

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Tier-by-tier detail — limits, licences and what each layer includes — on the pricing page.
faq
Does Polymarket provide historical data?
Not at this fidelity. Polymarket's public endpoints serve sampled price points at best, and the real-time websocket is not recorded for you — once a book update scrolls past, it is gone. Tick-level order-book depth and the full trade tape cannot be fetched retroactively from the venue. TickFoundry has captured the whole venue continuously since 2026-05-11, and order-book history reaches back to February 2026, so that history exists here.
How do I download Polymarket price history as CSV?
Create a free account (or buy a single market·day as a guest, no account first), pick any market and date in the catalog, and download the bundle from the dashboard — every bundle ships as parquet with a CSV twin, so it loads in pandas, R or Excel without special tooling. Free accounts get 5 market·days plus the full sample bundle; paid plans pull the whole venue.
How far back does the historical data go?
Order-book and tick history runs back to February 2026, and our own capture has run continuously since 2026-05-11 — every market·day from that date on is capture rather than reconstruction. On-chain trade fills go deeper still: settled fills read from Polygon, back to 2023, requested separately from market·day bundles (L25 and up). Coverage there is per market — it starts when that market first traded, and we publish the exact range per unit instead of quoting one floor. Density before 2026 is thinner because our market universe was still filling in. We start clean and accumulate — no synthetic backfill or gaps to paper over.
Is there a free sample of the tick data?
Yes — the free sample is a real slice of the archive (a Bitcoin market on 2026-05-19): raw feed, L1 quotes, L2 depth, trades and reference data, in the schema every paid bundle ships in. Judge the fidelity before you pay a cent.
Is there an API for the historical data?
Yes — a REST API on every paid plan. List the catalog, request any market·day, poll the staging job and stream the bundle down with your API key. L25 adds SFTP delivery. The free tier is dashboard-download only.
Why pay when free Polymarket data exists?
Free Polymarket order-book dumps exist, and if one covers your dates, use it. A plan adds four things they do not: new days every day, not an archive that stopped; our own two-region capture since 2026-05-11, with the venue's millisecond timestamp and our nanosecond receive time on every row; a known_gaps.csv in any bundle whose day touched an outage, so a quiet stretch is never ambiguous; and the 25-level book already rebuilt per market, as parquet you can load, instead of a venue-wide event log to replay. Kalshi and Hyperliquid arrive in the same shape.
Who can use a plan?
Every paid plan is one named seat: you, using the data for your own analysis, research and trading. Sharing it with colleagues who have no seat of their own, redistributing it, or embedding it in a product you ship needs a written agreement (the Custom plan).

The history exists because we captured it.
Now it's a download away.

5 market·days and the full sample bundle, free, with no card — enough to run your idea against the real tape before you decide anything.

Or skip the account entirely: buy a single market·day from the catalog with just an email and a card.

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