Polymarket errors / Markets
404 Not FoundDon't retry

market not found

No market exists with this condition ID.

Retry? Don't retry

Sending the same request again returns the same error. Change the request first.

Returned by

Handling it in code

The CLOB API returns errors as {"error": "..."}. It also rewrites status codes by message, so branch on the text: anything containing "not found" becomes 404 and anything containing "unauthorized" becomes 401.

r = session.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
if r.status_code >= 400:
    msg = r.json().get("error", "")
    if "market not found" in msg:
        raise ValueError(msg)  # fix the request, don't retry

Related errors

For errors Polymarket doesn't document, like "order manager not ready" or 403s from the edge, see the full error guide.

Message and status from Polymarket's error reference, synced 2026-10-04.