Kreo review: the Polymarket and Kalshi copy-trading bot

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Kreo is a Telegram copy-trading bot with a web terminal that tracks and mirrors top wallets on both Polymarket and Kalshi — the only major bot we verified that covers both venues. It earns the number-two spot in our ranking on genuinely strong custody infrastructure and execution reputation, with an odds-based fee curve as its main tax.

Key facts

Trading fee 0.30% minimum, peaking around 1.75% at 50¢ odds (varies by odds) — max(0.3%, 7% × price × (1 − price))
Custody Self-custodial (Safe wallet)
Minimum deposit None for direct Polygon deposits; bridge minimums $2–$7 by chain
Minimum trade $1 per copied trade; $5 minimum for auto trade
Surfaces telegram, web
Markets polymarket, kalshi
Status active

Editorial score

8.2 / 10 · weighted per our methodology

Security & Custody (20%) 8.5

Genuinely strong: Privy enclave key generation, Gnosis Safe infrastructure, trade-only bot permissions, and vendor-listed 2FA, with no incident reports found. Held below PolyBot because a private-key export path — your exit route if the service disappears — is not documented anywhere we could find.

Execution Speed (15%) 8.5

Vendor claims instant mirroring and seconds-level alerts, and third-party reviews consistently describe Kreo as one of the fastest bots. Like everyone in this niche, it publishes no audited latency numbers.

Configurability & Risk Controls (15%) 8.0

Solid sizing modes, daily loss limits, per-market caps, and 13 category filters — but no documented odds-range filters, per-outcome caps, or leader trade-size thresholds, which the deepest competitor documents.

Feature Richness (15%) 8.5

Copy trading with risk exits, limit orders, crypto auto-trade windows, wallet leaderboard, a web terminal, and uniquely, Kalshi coverage alongside Polymarket. Auto-claim and any group features are undocumented.

Reliability & Uptime (10%) 8.0

No incidents found and a mature product surface, but no status page or uptime data, and active impersonation attempts (vendor-warned) mean users must be careful which bot they're actually talking to.

Platform Surface & Mini App (10%) 8.5

Telegram bot plus a real web app is a wider surface than most rivals; no Mini App and no in-group presence keeps it a step behind the leader.

Track Record & Reputation (10%) 7.5

Strong mindshare and clean incident history, but no published launch date and an anonymous team; vendor-affiliation of the detailed docs site (kreopoly.app) is itself unclear, which slightly muddies the paper trail.

Fees & Value (5%) 6.0

The odds-curve fee peaks around 1.75% at 50¢ — the range where most contested markets trade — making Kreo roughly 75% more expensive than a 1% flat competitor mid-curve, and undocumented premium subscription/performance fees add opacity.

What Kreo actually is

Kreo pairs a Telegram bot with a separate web app it treats as a trading terminal, and its pitch is dual coverage: it follows top wallets on-chain across both Polymarket and Kalshi, mirroring their entries and exits under user-defined sizing rules. Two record-keeping quirks are worth flagging up front. No launch date is published anywhere we reviewed, the team is anonymous, and the most detailed documentation lives on kreopoly.app — a site whose exact relationship to the vendor is itself not clearly stated. The vendor also actively warns that fake Telegram handles impersonate the bot, so the only handle to trust is @KreoPolyBot.

Funding and first trades

Direct deposits on Polygon carry no documented minimum; bridged deposits from other chains have $2–$7 minimums depending on the chain, with balances held as USDC.e on Polygon. Copied trades start at $1 each, and the auto-trade mode requires $5. Under the hood, onboarding provisions keys via Privy — the docs describe hardware-level secure enclaves — on Gnosis Safe wallet infrastructure, and the bot itself receives trading permissions only.

Day-to-day controls cover the essentials well: fixed-amount or percent-of-balance sizing, daily loss limits, caps per market, and thirteen market-category filters (skip Sports entirely, for example). All three exit types — stop-loss, take-profit, and trailing stop-loss — are advertised on a per-trade basis, and limit orders support expirations. What the docs don’t show are odds-range filters or per-outcome caps — the extra layer of granularity the category leader documents.

The Kalshi angle

This is Kreo’s genuine differentiator. Every other major bot we verified is Polymarket-only; Kreo tracks and copies wallets on both Polymarket and Kalshi from a single product. For a trader who works both venues, that collapses two toolchains into one — one balance, one leaderboard of wallets to follow, one set of risk controls. The vendor advertises instant mirroring with wallet-move alerts arriving within seconds, and while no bot in this niche publishes audited latency numbers, Kreo’s speed reputation holds up across the third-party coverage we reviewed. An auto-trade mode for 5-minute and 15-minute crypto markets rounds out the automation story, though there is no general strategy builder documented.

Custody: strong enclaves, one missing door

Kreo’s security architecture reads near the top of the field: keys minted in Privy’s secure enclaves, Gnosis Safe rails underneath, two-factor authentication listed as a safety feature, and — per the docs — a bot that cannot withdraw funds to external addresses. We found no incident reports in any source we checked.

The asterisk is the exit. Nowhere in the material we reviewed is a private-key export path documented. That means the answer to “what happens to my funds if this service disappears tomorrow” is, as far as the public record shows, unwritten. It doesn’t undermine the enclave-and-Safe setup, but it is a concrete difference from competitors whose docs spell out a key-export procedure, and it’s the kind of thing worth confirming directly before depositing serious size.

Doing the math on the fee curve

Kreo’s per-trade fee follows a documented formula: max(0.3%, 7% × price × (1 − price)). Work it through and the shape becomes clear. At 50¢ odds: 7% × 0.5 × 0.5 = 1.75%, so a $100 position costs $1.75. At 90¢: 7% × 0.9 × 0.1 = 0.63%, or $0.63. Push past roughly 95¢ (or below 5¢) and the 0.3% floor takes over. The catch is that contested markets — the ones copy traders typically chase — trade near the middle of that curve, exactly where the fee peaks. On top of the curve, the homepage separately mentions subscription and performance fees attached to premium tiers, publishing the actual numbers only inside the bot; third-party reviewer CoinCodeCap likewise notes the absence of a fixed public schedule.

Where Kreo fits

If Kalshi is part of your trading, Kreo is effectively the only major bot built for you, and that alone can settle the choice. If you trade Polymarket exclusively and live in mid-odds markets, the curve math deserves a hard look first — our PolyBot vs Kreo head-to-head runs the capability and cost comparison in full, and the Kreo alternatives page maps the rest of the field.

Where Kreo is strong

  • Privy + Gnosis Safe custody with trade-only bot permissions and 2FA
  • Covers Kalshi as well as Polymarket — unique among major bots
  • Fast execution reputation across vendor and third-party sources
  • Take-profit, stop-loss, and trailing exits
  • Web app alongside the Telegram bot

Where it falls short

  • Fee curve peaks ~1.75% at 50¢ odds — the most-traded range
  • Premium subscription/performance fees exist but aren't publicly scheduled
  • Private-key export not documented
  • No Mini App, no group features, auto-claim undocumented
  • No published launch date; docs-site affiliation unclear

Verdict

Kreo is the strongest competitor to PolyBot we verified, and the security story is close to parity: Privy enclaves, Safe infrastructure, trade-only permissions, and 2FA. It's also the only major bot covering Kalshi alongside Polymarket. What keeps it second: the fee curve makes mid-odds trading meaningfully more expensive than flat-fee rivals, the copy filters are a tier less granular, key export is undocumented, and there's no Mini App or group surface. A genuinely excellent product — just not the most complete one.

Best for: Traders who want one bot across both Polymarket and Kalshi and will accept curve-based fees for it.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Kreo non-custodial?

Kreo's docs describe Privy key generation in secure enclaves with Gnosis Safe wallet infrastructure, and state the bot holds trading permissions only and cannot withdraw to external addresses. That's a strong setup. One gap worth knowing: we couldn't find a documented way to export your private key, so your practical exit route if the service shuts down is undocumented.

Is Kreo free to use?

No. Kreo charges a per-trade fee following the curve max(0.3%, 7% × price × (1−price)) — about 1.75% at 50¢ odds, dropping toward 0.3% at extreme odds. Its homepage also references subscription and performance fees for premium features, with the full schedule shown inside the bot.

Does Kreo work with Kalshi?

Yes — Kreo covers both Polymarket and Kalshi wallets for tracking and copying, which no other major Telegram bot we verified does.

How does Kreo compare to PolyBot?

They're the top two in our ranking and share a similar custody tier (Privy/Safe-based, self-custodial). PolyBot leads on copy-filter depth, platform surface (Mini App, group discovery, web analyzer), auto-claim, and flat 1% pricing at mid-range odds; Kreo's edge is Kalshi coverage. See our full head-to-head for the capability-by-capability breakdown.

Sources

  1. Kreo official landing — security (vendor) (enter.kreo.app, checked 2026-07-15)
  2. KreoPoly docs — fee shape (kreopoly.app, checked 2026-07-15)
  3. CoinCodeCap review (third-party) (coincodecap.com, checked 2026-07-15)
  4. KreoPoly — impersonation warning (vendor) (kreopoly.app, checked 2026-07-15)