A free Polymarket liquidity rewards calculator. Enter your capital, the market's daily reward pool, and how crowded it is, and see your estimated daily and monthly reward - built on Polymarket's real scoring math, with the one-sided penalty and the $1-a-day minimum baked in.

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Estimate only, on Polymarket's public scoring math. Your real payout depends on the live pool, the competition minute by minute, and program terms that can change. A market only pays a day if your share clears the $1 minimum.

How the calculator works

Polymarket's liquidity rewards pay you for keeping limit orders resting near a market's midpoint, inside its reward band - whether or not those orders ever trade. Every minute, the book is sampled and your qualifying orders are scored. Your payout for a market is simple to state:

your_daily_reward = market_daily_pool x (your_score / total_maker_score)

The calculator estimates your score from the capital you rest, then splits the pool by how crowded the market is (the "other makers" slider). Two rules shape the result, and both are built in:

  • The one-sided penalty. Quote only one side and your score is cut to one third while the midpoint is between 0.10 and 0.90 - and to zero outside that range, where only two-sided liquidity qualifies.
  • The $1 daily minimum. A market only pays for a day if your total there reaches $1. Below that, it pays nothing and does not roll over, so spreading thin across many crowded markets can net you zero.

What the live numbers look like

To calibrate the sliders, here is the real program as of June 2026, pulled from Polymarket's rewards API:

  • About 7,300 markets were paying rewards at once, sharing roughly $200,000 per day.
  • The pools are extremely uneven - the biggest paid around $10,000/day, the median about $5/day, and only roughly 370 markets paid $100/day or more.
  • The most common reward band was 4.5 cents and the most common minimum order size was 50 shares.

The lesson the calculator makes obvious: a handful of well-funded, uncrowded pools are worth far more than thousands paying pocket change. To go deeper on the strategy - including how to find those pools and avoid getting filled - read our liquidity rewards farming guide, and check the official Polymarket rewards page for live rates.

Frequently asked questions

How does the Polymarket liquidity rewards calculator work?
It uses Polymarket's own payout rule: your daily reward equals the market's reward pool times your share, and your share is your liquidity score divided by every maker's score in that market. The calculator estimates your score from the capital you rest, applies the one-third penalty if you quote only one side, splits the pool by how crowded the market is, and zeroes out any day that falls under the $1 per-market minimum.
Why does a crowded market pay so little?
Because the pool is shared. Your payout is your score divided by the total of everyone's scores, so when a lot of makers pile into the same book, each slice shrinks. The same capital that earns a few dollars a day in a quiet, well-funded market can round to almost nothing in a mobbed one. Less crowded is the single biggest lever on your return.
What is the one-sided penalty?
If you quote only one side (say YES) while the midpoint sits between 0.10 and 0.90, your score is cut to one third of the two-sided rate. If the midpoint is below 0.10 or above 0.90, one-sided liquidity earns nothing at all. The calculator applies the one-third factor when you tick the one-sided box, so you can see the difference.
Is this an official Polymarket tool?
No. This is an independent estimator built on Polymarket's publicly documented scoring math. It is an estimate, not a guarantee - real payouts depend on the exact reward pool, the live competition minute by minute, and Polymarket's program terms, which can change. Always confirm a market's live reward rate and band before committing capital.
How much do Polymarket liquidity rewards actually pay?
It varies enormously by market. In June 2026 the live program had roughly 7,300 markets sharing about $200,000 per day, but the pools were wildly uneven: the biggest paid around $10,000 a day while the median paid about $5. Only a few hundred markets paid $100/day or more. For a retail account, the realistic play is to concentrate capital in a few uncrowded, well-funded markets rather than spread it thin.