Betting Odds APIs in 2026: Feeds, Latency, and What They Cost
An odds API delivers the prices a betting product runs on: prematch and in-play odds, fixtures, and the settlement data that closes bets, either streamed to you as a push feed over a message queue or pulled from REST endpoints you poll. This page compares the six vendors we review as API deliveries, feed shape, docs access, sandboxes, and latency, for the developer or product lead who has to ship against one.
The six split into two product classes. Sportradar, Genius Sports, and Stats Perform sell feeds backed by official league rights, the only legal source for some US in-play markets. LSports prices ~3M fixtures a year for breadth, OpticOdds aggregates the odds boards of 200+ books into one API, and Huddle sells props and micros pricing as a layer on top. The same roster ranked as rights holders and data suppliers lives in the sports data guide.
Our verdict, in brief
Read as API deliveries, the six sort cleanly. Sportradar (7.7) runs the segment's reference push rail: UOF streams odds, fixtures, and settlement over AMQP as one feed, with open docs and the deepest rights book behind it. Genius Sports (7.4) is the most readable of the rights holders before contract, REST and streaming APIs documented per sport with a public GitHub org beside them, and it owns the only legal lane for in-play NFL in the eight mandate states through the 2029 season. Stats Perform (6.9) holds the only hard latency number on file, 0.5 seconds glass-to-glass on streams, behind documentation an engineer cannot read before sales contact. LSports (6.4) is the breadth-for-money play: ~3M fixtures a year, open docs at docs.lsports.eu, and the one public price anywhere in the segment, a $180K TRADE360 contract listed on AWS Marketplace. OpticOdds (5.7) delivers the whole market's odds board over push, pull, and queue with docs you can read before anyone calls you back, holding no rights by design. Huddle (5.4) prices props and micros as a layer, a plug-and-play feed by vendor wording with no public spec to check it against.
The six APIs, by delivery
Rows run in segment score order, and the chip grades the whole review under the data weight set. Every cell prints what the review file holds, dated where the source dates it, and the info icon on each row carries the one note that most changes how a developer reads the vendor.
Real-time XML pushed over AMQP with a REST companion API, odds-recovery endpoints, and Java and .NET SDKs
Open · docs.sportradar.com/uof
None published (July 11, 2026)
None published (checked July 11, 2026)
1M+ (vendor-stated, June 2026)
NBA/WNBA/G League→2031 · NHL→2030-31 · MLB→2032 · ATP→2029 · Wimbledon(extended 2026-06) · US Open · Roland-Garros · UEFA→2026-27 · Bundesliga→2031-32 · DFB-Pokal · UFC · PGA TOUR · MLS · EuroLeague
REST and streaming APIs with API-key and OAuth2 auth, documented per sport
Open · developer.geniussports.com
None published (Jul 2026)
Under a second from in-stadia capture (DataCo matches, vendor-stated)
240,000 (vendor-stated, Jul 2026)
NFL exclusive on every lane through the 2029 season, Football DataCo (PL, EFL, SPFL) through 2028-29, Serie A through 2028-29, NCAA through 2032
Dynamic Stats API for on-demand stats, push feeds for trading data, embed players for streams, and drop-in widgets for graphics
Sales-gated
None published (July 11, 2026)
0.5s glass-to-glass (RealTime Streaming, vendor-stated)
500,000+ (vendor-stated, 2026)
FIFA World Cup 26 data + streaming, all 104 matches, exclusive worldwide through 2029 (signed 2026-01-12) · ICC→2027 (reclaimed from Sportradar) · WTA→2030 · Concacaf multi-year (2025-03-20) · Football DataCo media lane only
XML or JSON delivery from TRADE, with per-product integration guides in the public docs
Open · docs.lsports.eu
None public
None published (Jul 11, 2026)
Close to zero (homepage) and 0-1 seconds in-play (TRADE page), both vendor-stated Jul 2026
~3M fixtures/yr (vendor-stated, Jul 2026)
ITF via Infront (signed 2024-08-06, live from 2025, 50,000+ matches/yr, exclusivity unstated), nothing else by declared strategy
One real-time odds API with push, pull, and queue delivery, per-book feed endpoints, and an MCP connector for AI agents
Open · developer.opticodds.com
On request
Sub-second (vendor-stated, July 2026)
None published (200+ books aggregated)
None at any level, by design (July 11, 2026)
Plug-and-play feed and API (vendor wording), with the deepest engagements running as bespoke co-development
Sales-gated
A matter of weeks (vendor claim, Jul 2026)
Low latency and ultra-low latency (vendor wording, no figure anywhere)
None published (checked Jul 11, 2026)
None by model: a pricing layer holds no rights portfolio, and the CEBL official betting-technology seat (Feb 8, 2024) runs on SIS official data
Rights depth, reliability, litigation, and the full methodology for the same six live in the sports data ranking.
Rights vs feeds, in API terms
The six sell two different legal objects through similar-looking endpoints. Which class you buy decides what you may price, in which states, and how much leverage you hold at renewal.
Official-rights holders
The only legal sourceSportradar, Genius Sports, and Stats Perform sell feeds backed by league contracts, and for some products the contract is the market. Eight US states require official league data for in-play markets: Tennessee, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Virginia. In API terms, that list decides which endpoint you are legally allowed to price from.
The expiry dates are the negotiating calendar. Every NFL lane runs on Genius Sports through the 2029 season, official NBA, NHL, and MLB betting data sits with Sportradar on deals running into the 2030s, and Stats Perform holds World Cup 26 data and streaming for all 104 matches, exclusive worldwide, signed January 12, 2026.
Aggregator feeds
Priced for breadthLSports covers ~3M fixtures a year (vendor-stated, July 2026) with open docs and pricing sold modularly by sports, leagues, and markets. OpticOdds aggregates the odds boards of 200+ books into one real-time API with push, pull, and queue delivery. Neither holds a rights book, and the OpticOdds file says why: official-feed mandates are structurally closed to a market-odds aggregator.
Prematch markets mostly stay open to unofficial collection, so the working pattern in mandate states is pairing an aggregator with a rights holder rather than replacing one.
The pricing layer
Rides other railsHuddlesells props and micros prices rather than coverage or rights, and its widest distribution runs over a rail its biggest competitor owns: Sportradar's UOF has carried Huddle props since July 2024 and micros since April 2025. Channel dependency of that kind is a commercial fact a buyer prices in.
The rights map with expiry dates, docket states, and per-vendor register trails is ranked in full in the sports data providers guide.
The budget lane: The Odds API
Not every odds consumer is a licensed book. Modeling projects, affiliate tools, and pre-launch products poll odds at volumes the six vendors above are not priced for, and the utility they usually reach for is The Odds API.
| Plan | Price | Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 500 credits / month |
| 20K | $30 / month | 20,000 credits / month |
| 100K | $59 / month | 100,000 credits / month |
| 5M | $119 / month | 5M credits / month |
| 15M | $249 / month | 15M credits / month |
The meter is credits: one credit buys one request for one sport, one betting market, and one bookmaker region. Every public tier includes all sports, all betting markets, and historical odds, the free tier covers most bookmakers rather than all, and higher-usage plans appear after account creation.
The Odds API has operated since 2017 out of Melbourne, Australia. It aggregates bookmaker odds, vendor-stated at over 70 sports and over 40 bookmakers across US, UK, EU, and Australian brands, delivered as JSON in decimal and American formats, with historical snapshots back to 2020, a scores and results API, and player props for selected US sports and bookmakers.
Two things it does not carry: official league rights on any property, and push delivery. The model is credit-metered polling against REST endpoints on published update intervals, so a price change reaches you on your next poll rather than the moment a trading engine moves.
Pricing and coverage figures from the-odds-api.com, captured July 14, 2026.
The rest of the sportsbook shelf
An odds API is one line of the stack. These guides rank the rest, and the first one ranks these same six vendors as rights holders.
Frequently asked
What developers and product leads ask before signing an odds feed.
What is a betting odds API?+
The service that delivers the prices a betting product runs on: prematch and in-play odds, fixtures, and the settlement data that closes bets. Delivery comes in two shapes, a push feed that streams changes over a message queue, like Sportradar's UOF as XML over AMQP, or REST endpoints you poll. Rights holders sell odds built on official league data, aggregators like OpticOddssell the whole market's odds board, and a pricing layer like Huddle sells props and micros prices on top of other feeds.
How much does an odds API cost?+
Among the six reviewed vendors, one public price exists: LSports lists a TRADE360 contract at $180K for 12 months on AWS Marketplace, retrieved July 2026. The rest quote deal by deal, and the record at the top end is buyer-hostile, including the roughly 4x reprice books absorbed when official NFL data moved to Genius Sports in 2021, with mandate states removing the walk-away option. Below the catalog, The Odds API publishes real tiers, from a free 500-credit month to $249 for 15 million credits, captured July 14, 2026.
What is the difference between push and pull odds feeds?+
A push feed streams every price change the moment the vendor's engine moves, which is what in-play trading runs on because a stale price is open risk. Sportradar pushes UOF as XML over AMQP with a REST companion API, and Stats Perform pushes trading data next to its on-demand stats API. Pull means you poll REST endpoints on an interval, which works for prematch display and analytics. OpticOdds sells push, pull, and queue delivery on one API, and The Odds API, the budget option outside this catalog, is pull only.
Do I need official league data for my sportsbook?+
In eight US states, yes, for in-play markets: Tennessee, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Virginia require official league data there. In practice that means in-play NFL runs on Genius Sports through the 2029 season, official NBA, NHL, and MLB betting data sits with Sportradar on deals running into the 2030s, and World Cup 26 data is a Stats Perform exclusive covering all 104 matches. Prematch markets mostly stay open to unofficial collection.
What is the difference between an odds API and a sports data API?+
An odds API carries prices: the markets, the odds, and the settlement results behind them. A sports data API carries the event layer those prices are built from: fixtures, live event data, stats, and tracking. The six vendors here sell both in different mixes, which is why the same roster appears twice in this directory. This page compares them as API deliveries, and the sports data guide ranks them as data suppliers and rights holders.
Which odds API latency claims carry real numbers?+
Two of the six put digits on latency. Stats Perform states 0.5 seconds glass-to-glass for its RealTime Streaming, the claim covering streams rather than data collection. LSports states 0 to 1 seconds in-play on its TRADE page with no published SLA behind the figure. Genius Sports states under a second from in-stadia capture for Football DataCo matches, with NFL streams carrying only a low-latency label. OpticOdds says sub-second, Huddle's wording stays at low latency with no figure anywhere, and Sportradar publishes no latency number at all, checked July 11, 2026. We print which claims carry numbers instead of averaging adjectives.