| Name | Creator | Code | Version | Paper | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zocalo | Chris Hibbert | open source | latest release 2006/7/14 | CommerceNet Tech Report: The Zocalo White Paper | A java toolkit for prediction markets. Includes an general purpose prediction market configuration as well as a configuration intended for use in laboratory economics experiments. |
| Free Market | Jesse Gillespie | open source | link is broken | “a PHP-based freeware virtual market package using MySQL. When completed, FreeMarket will provide an open-source way for researchers and educators to easily incorporate IEM-like electronic virtual prediction markets into their programs.” | |
| jMarkets | CalTech | open source | version 1.5 released 2005/11/1 | “a web-based platform for running large-scale market experiments.” CDA with book | |
| jAuctions | CalTech | “Available soon!” since at least mid-2005 | a web-based platform for running auctions. | ||
| multistage | CalTech | open source | last release 2004/9/16 | “a modular package, designed to deal with a broad class of multi-stage games, where the stages may be determined by players’ play and/or random events.” | |
| JASA | Liverpool University. | open source | latest release 2005/2/18 | Phelps, et. al., Co-Evolutionary Mechanism Design: A Preliminary Report | “a high-performance auction simulator that allows researchers in agent-based computational economics to run trading simulations.” |
| Idea Futures | Ken Kittlitz | open source (limited license) | latest release 2005/8/25 | Experiences with the Foresight Exchange | The source code for the longest running open play-money prediction market site on the web. |
| usifex | Peter McCluskey | open source | 2000/2/9 | none | An implementation of prediction markets that makes general conditional betting possible. |
| MUMS | HP Labs | closed source | Not available | COMPUTER GAMES AND ECONOMICS EXPERIMENTS, Yut Chen and Ren Wu | focused on games & turn taking; no foundation for switchable auctions/markets |
| Gambit | Texas A&M | open source | latest release 2006/1/20 | focused on general games | |
| AuctionBot | Wellman, UMich | closed source | retired | a mention | supported auctions between automated agents and people; demand functions |
| Walras | Wellman, UMich | closed source | not available | Market Oriented Programming | call market; competitive equilibria; demand functions; market simulation |
| Resource Oriented Multi-commodity Algorithm | Fredrik Ygge | open source | 1998/2/27 | Publications | An algorithm, not a toolkit |
