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, on 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.

6odds and data APIs compared240,000 to ~3Mpublished events a year2 of 6latency claims carry a number$180Kthe segment's one public price

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SportradarOur pick for this scenario7.7

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Our verdict

Read as API deliveries, the six sort cleanly. Sportradar 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 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 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 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 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 prices props and micros as a layer, a plug-and-play feed with no public spec behind it.

Deepest rightsSportradarNBA, NHL, and MLB locked into the 2030s Best value feedLSportsThe $180K TRADE360 listing on AWS Marketplace is the segment's one public price Fastest latency on fileStats Perform0.5s glass-to-glass on streams, the only hard latency number in the segment Widest event coverageLSports~3M fixtures a year, July 2026

Betting odds APIs

Every vendor on this page comes from the sports-data segment of our sportsbook directory and keeps its weighted ranking. That score covers the whole data offering, and how a feed actually ships is a separate question.

SportradarSports dataOfficial rightsvip

7.7Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 15, 2026·Founded 2001

SportsbookCasinoProductsThe deepest book in bettingOne feed for everythingThe outsourced trading floorThe full-stack lane

Sports dataOfficial rights

SportsbookCasinoProductsThe deepest book in bettingOne feed for everythingThe outsourced trading floorThe full-stack lane

The deepest official-rights book in betting: exclusive NBA, NHL, MLB, ATP, and Bundesliga data locked through 2029-2032 and three of four Grand Slams after the IMG Arena close. The buying case is broad: one documented feed carries official, scouted, virtual, esports, and even rivals' content, MTS trades for 200+ books, and FY25 printed EUR 1,290M in revenue with EUR 100M of profit. What nobody can give you is a price, a latency number, or an itemized read on unregulated-market exposure, where the company's own stated upper bound is 12% with no market-by-market breakdown published.

Best forUS-facing books that need official NBA, NHL, or MLB data (no alternative source exists until the 2030s), operators consolidating onto one feed, startups handing trading to MTS or the whole book to Orako, and prediction-market platforms on the Kalshi lane.

Events / yr1M+

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Genius SportsSports dataOfficial rightspro

7.4Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 15, 2026·Founded 2000

SportsbookMediaProductsThe rights gateWatch-and-bet playerOutsourced pricing & riskThe ad-tech bolt-on

Sports dataOfficial rights

SportsbookMediaProductsThe rights gateWatch-and-bet playerOutsourced pricing & riskThe ad-tech bolt-on

In eight US states an in-play NFL product must run on official league data, and official NFL data has exactly one seller through the 2029 season, so across a big slice of the American market Genius Sports stops being a vendor choice and becomes a line item. The same gate repeats in UK football, where the 2022 CAT settlement left rivals buying a delayed Premier League feed from Genius, and the machine keeps adding rights: Serie A in 2025, the NCAA to 2032, the Pac-12 in 2026. What the moat costs is the other half of the read: $85.6M of rights spend in a single quarter, a $111.6M FY2025 net loss, an $825M term loan from the Legend close, and a pricing history (the roughly 4x NFL reprice of 2021) that operators factor into every renewal.

Best forAny US book running in-play NFL (mandate states leave no alternative), UK-facing operators that need official Premier League, EFL, or SPFL data, books that want watch-and-bet streaming as a product edge, and operators outsourcing pricing and risk to a desk that already serves 300+ books.

Events / yr240,000

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Stats PerformSports dataOfficial rightspro

6.9Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 16, 2026·Founded 1981

SportsbookProductsThe World Cup 26 gatePricing-grade feeds0.5s glass-to-glass claimThe content layer

Sports dataOfficial rights

SportsbookProductsThe World Cup 26 gatePricing-grade feeds0.5s glass-to-glass claimThe content layer

The biggest betting event of 2026 has exactly one official source for both its data and its streams: Stats Perform, which FIFA appointed exclusive worldwide distributor for all 104 World Cup 26 matches on January 12, 2026, selling direct as the Exclusive FIFA Package through 2029. The balance sheet behind that gate cleared its maturity wall only in April 2026, at a 12.35% yield on a $475M term loan with $275M of Vista equity pushed in alongside, after a squeeze that saw the rights book shed Serie A and the Australian Open. Buy it for the federation properties nobody else can sell, and underwrite the counterparty like the B3-rated credit it is.

Best forBooks that need official World Cup 26 or Women's World Cup 2027 data and streams (there is no other source), cricket-facing operators inside the ICC window to 2027, tennis in-play desks after the WTA umpire feed, and anyone building soccer content on the Opta brand.

Events / yr500,000+

Latency0.5s glass-to-glass

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LSportsSports dataOfficial rightspro

6.4Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 15, 2026·Founded 2012

SportsbookProductsPrice your own bookThe no-rights machineRisk & engagement modulesThe 2026 lane

Sports dataOfficial rights

SportsbookProductsPrice your own bookThe no-rights machineRisk & engagement modulesThe 2026 lane

LSports sells the widest coverage claim in sports data at value prices by refusing to buy official rights, collecting from public sources with web scouting, computer vision, and STATSCORE's on-venue scouts, a strategy its CEO defends publicly as the answer to rightsholder monopolies. The economics are more honest than the segment's norm, since the only public price in sports data is LSports' own $180,000 twelve-month TRADE360 contract on AWS Marketplace (July 11, 2026). The catches are equally documented: zero financial disclosure in 14 years, close-to-zero latency claims with no published figures behind them, and 39 roles cut in a May 2026 AI-pivot restructuring.

Best forBooks that trade their own risk and want maximum coverage per dollar, LatAm and CEE operators scaling on a budget, platforms embedding a feed the way NuxGame does, and operators adding prediction-market content.

Events / yr~3M fixtures/yr

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OpticOddsSports datapro

5.7Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 15, 2026·Founded 2023

SportsbookProductsThe market's odds boardThe trading terminalDerived pricing layerThe new channel

Sports data

SportsbookProductsThe market's odds boardThe trading terminalDerived pricing layerThe new channel

OpticOdds sells the whole market's odds board: real-time lines from 200+ sportsbooks (July 2026) flowing through one API into trader screens, automated pricing, and an SGP engine, with Kalshi, PrizePicks, and Pragmatic Play running production loads on it. The catch list is equally concrete: zero official rights by design, a collection method documented nowhere public, and a Nasdaq parent that cut guidance and about a quarter of its staff in May 2026. Buy it as market infrastructure with its own disclosure file, and price that file into the contract.

Best forTrading desks that want the whole market on one screen, books benchmarking or automating prices against consensus with Copilot, DFS and prediction-market operators buying player-level feeds at Kalshi and PrizePicks scale, and platforms or media embedding odds through APIs and widgets.

LatencySub-second

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HuddleSports datapro

5.4Partnerkin scoreVerified Aug 15, 2026·Founded 2020

SportsbookProductsThe pricing coreWorld Cup-newThe control layerThree ways in

Sports data

SportsbookProductsThe pricing coreWorld Cup-newThe control layerThree ways in

Huddle is an elite pricing engine for player props, micro-markets, and same-game parlays. It is deliberately none of what this segment's weights pay for: it collects no raw data, holds no league rights, and publishes no coverage or latency numbers, which is how a vendor that Sportradar distributes, Entain deploys, and Betr runs its whole book on prints the segment floor. Read the score as category fit for an add-on layer: the props depth is real and tier-1-proven on US sports (plus soccer since June 10, 2026), and the catches are total commercial opacity and a main distribution lane that rides a competitor's rail.

Best forOperators and platforms that already run a primary feed and want props, micros, and SGP depth on US sports without building a quant desk, switched on through Sportradar UOF with zero development, taken as a direct feed, licensed whole the Betr way, or co-developed the Entain CEE way.

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The full sports data ranking

The delivery board

How the six odds APIs deliver data

The rows keep the segment's score order, and the chip grades the whole review under the data weight set. The info icon on each row carries the one note that most changes how a developer reads that vendor.

Sportradar7.7Official rights

API style

Real-time XML pushed over AMQP with a REST companion API, odds-recovery endpoints, and Java and .NET SDKs

Docs

Open · docs.sportradar.com/uof

Integration time

None published (July 11, 2026)

Latency claim

None published (July 11, 2026)

Events / year

1M+ (June 2026)

Distribution

UOF push feed (XML over AMQP)REST APIsMTS managed layerKalshi prediction-market lane (June 8, 2026)

Official rights on file

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

Genius Sports7.4Official rights

API style

REST and streaming APIs with API-key and OAuth2 auth, documented per sport

Docs

Open · developer.geniussports.com

Integration time

None published (Jul 2026)

Latency claim

Under a second from in-stadia capture (DataCo matches)

Events / year

240,000 (Jul 2026)

Distribution

Direct API, BetVision embedded player, managed trading, FANHub ad stack

Official rights on file

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

Stats Perform6.9Official rights

API style

Dynamic Stats API for on-demand stats, push feeds for trading data, embed players for streams, and drop-in widgets for graphics

Docs

Sales-gated

Integration time

None published (July 11, 2026)

Latency claim

0.5s glass-to-glass (RealTime Streaming)

Events / year

500,000+ (2026)

Distribution

Direct license only: Dynamic Stats APIfeed deliveryBet LiveStreams and RealTime Streaming embedsOpta Graphics and Pulse widgetsSP Payout Card

Official rights on file

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

LSports6.4Official rights

API style

XML or JSON delivery from TRADE, with per-product integration guides in the public docs

Docs

Open · docs.lsports.eu

Sandbox

None public

Integration time

None published (Jul 11, 2026)

Latency claim

Close to zero overall and 0-1 seconds in-play (Jul 2026)

Events / year

~3M fixtures/yr (Jul 2026)

Distribution

Direct APIAWS Marketplace SaaS via CloudZoneplatform embeds (NuxGame, Playtech for Caliente)

Official rights on file

ITF via Infront (signed 2024-08-06, live from 2025, 50,000+ matches/yr, exclusivity unstated), nothing else by declared strategy

OpticOdds5.7No rights by design

API style

One real-time odds API with push, pull, and queue delivery, per-book feed endpoints, and an MCP connector for AI agents

Docs

Open · developer.opticodds.com

Sandbox

On request

Latency claim

Sub-second (July 2026)

Events / year

None published (200+ books aggregated)

Distribution

Direct API (push, pull, queue)per-book endpointswidgetsClaude MCP connector (May 2026)Perplexity Computer beta (June 4, 2026)

Official rights on file

None at any level, by design (July 11, 2026)

Huddle5.4No rights by design

API style

Plug-and-play feed and API, with the deepest engagements running as bespoke co-development

Docs

Sales-gated

Integration time

A matter of weeks for the feed (Jul 2026)

Latency claim

Low latency and ultra-low latency, with no figure anywhere

Events / year

None published (Jul 11, 2026)

Distribution

Direct feed/APISportradar UOF (props Jul 2024, micros Apr 2025)full technology license (Betr, Aug 2024)bespoke co-development (Entain CEE, Apr 2026)

Official rights on file

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, and the full methodology for the same six live in the sports data ranking.

Two product classes

Rights holders vs aggregator feeds

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 source

Sportradar, 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 breadth

LSports covers ~3M fixtures a year (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: 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 rails

Huddle sells 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 full rights map, with expiry dates and per-vendor register trails, is in the sports data providers guide.

Outside the catalog

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 reviewed vendors aren't 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 odds from more than 40 bookmakers across US, UK, EU, and Australian brands, covering over 70 sports, 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.

It sits outside our scored catalog as a matter of scope: a utility-class aggregator built for hobbyist-to-startup request volumes, with no gaming-register footprint at all. For a licensed book's trading stack, the six vendors above are the market.

Pricing and coverage figures as of July 14, 2026.

Keep comparing

The rest of the sportsbook stack

An odds API is one layer of the stack. These guides cover the rest, and the first one ranks the same six vendors as rights holders.

Sports data providersThe same six scored and ranked, with the rights map and full methodology.All sportsbook softwareBoth ranked lists, platforms and data feeds, on one page.Turnkey sportsbook softwareNine full-stack vendors, most of them buyers of these feeds.Casino platform directoryThe platform stacks whose sportsbooks run on these APIs.

Questions

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 OpticOdds sell 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 (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 (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 a number 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 (July 11, 2026).