Polydune vs. Dune Analytics for Prediction Markets
Dune is SQL over raw chain data; Polydune is widgets over reconstructed Polymarket analytics. When each fits, what Polydune's query language covers, and where SQL still wins.
Dune is the right tool when you want raw chain data and are happy to write SQL: decoded Polygon events, your own joins, any aggregate. Polydune starts from the other end: the analytics are already built — wallet P&L from fills, win rates, category ranks, bot detection, smart-money positioning — and you compose widgets over them.
What you get without SQL
- Nine live sources with the premium fields: markets, odds history, smart money per market, leaderboard, trader deep-dive, signals, conviction, tape, categories.
- A transform layer that covers what dashboard SQL actually does:
where, computed columns,groupwith sum/avg/count/min/max,sort,limit— as forms or as the query language. - Dithered charts, public pages, one-click templates for every niche.
Where SQL still wins
Joins across sources, window functions, arbitrary history. If you need those, the Developer API gives you the same reconstructed data to load into your own warehouse — and Dune remains excellent for raw on-chain questions.
Pricing
Polydune is paid only — Hobby $49.99/month, Developer $149.99/month, Scale by contact — with public dashboards free to view. See pricing.