Odds API comparison
PingOdds vs SharpAPI
PingOdds and SharpAPI are both JSON APIs for sportsbook odds. This page puts them side by side: what each costs, which books and leagues each covers, how fresh the prices are, and how to move a request from SharpAPI to PingOdds.
SharpAPI’s column comes from its own public pages, read on 23 October 2026; they’re listed at the bottom. Prices and coverage change, so if something here is out of date, tell us.
Pick SharpAPI if
- You need DraftKings, BetMGM or Caesars, or hundreds of leagues.
- You need player props, live odds, or prices refreshed about every 15 seconds.
- You want middles, low-hold and betting-split data.
- You’d rather have a per-minute rate limit and no monthly cap.
Pick PingOdds if
- You need Ontario books, or BET99, LeoVegas or Proline+.
- You want Pinnacle on every plan, Free included: SharpAPI puts sharp books like Pinnacle on its $399 plan.
- You want +EV and steam signals from $19 a month: SharpAPI’s +EV starts on its $229 plan.
- You want to know when each price last changed: SharpAPI’s docs say that field is gone.
- You want price history on every plan, webhooks, and the stream inside a $99 plan instead of a $99 add-on.
Side by side
| What | PingOdds | SharpAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 250 requests a month, 5 a minute; every book and league; no card | 12 requests a minute; 2 books (DraftKings, FanDuel); pregame; 60-second delay |
| Paid plans | Starter $19/mo (50,000 requests), Pro $99/mo (500,000 requests) | Hobby $79/mo, Pro $229, Sharp $399; streaming add-on $99/mo; 3-day trial with a card |
| What counts against your plan | One request per API call, however many books, markets or games it returns | Requests a minute per key (120 on Hobby to 1,000 on Sharp), no monthly cap; each plan also caps your books at 5, 15 or 25 |
| Sportsbooks | 14, the same on every plan: Pinnacle, FanDuel, BetRivers, Bally Bet, betPARX, Bovada, FanDuel Ontario, BetRivers Ontario, Bally Bet Ontario, Unibet Ontario, LeoVegas Ontario, Proline+, BET99 and Betway Ontario | Their pages give 33 to 59; sharp books like Pinnacle on the Sharp plan only |
| Ontario books | 8: FanDuel Ontario, BetRivers Ontario, Bally Bet Ontario, Unibet Ontario, LeoVegas Ontario, Betway Ontario, BET99 and Proline+ | None named; BET99, LeoVegas and PROLINE aren’t listed, and Unibet (Canada) is listed as temporarily unavailable |
| Sports and leagues | 15 leagues: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB, EPL, MLS, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, ATP and WTA | 800+ leagues across about 28 sports |
| Markets | Moneylines, spreads and totals. No player props yet | Moneylines, spreads, totals and player props (from Hobby) |
| Live (in-play) odds | No live feed yet | Yes, on eligible paid plans |
| How often prices update | Each league checked every 60–90 seconds, on every plan; no delay added on Free | /odds refreshes about every 15 seconds; 60-second delay on Free |
| How old each price is | last_update (last price change) and last_checked (last successful check) for every book, and meta.staleness_ms for the whole response | One timestamp per row; their docs say there is “no longer a field for when the price last moved” |
| Price history | Every price change PingOdds records, on every plan | Enterprise only; 48-hour closing lines from Pro |
| Betting signals | No-vig consensus and closing lines on every plan; steam, +EV and outlier signals from Starter; arbitrage on Pro | Arbitrage from Hobby; +EV, middles and low hold from Pro ($229) |
| Streaming | WebSocket, included in Pro ($99/mo) | SSE or WebSocket, a $99/mo add-on to a paid plan |
| Webhooks | For signals, on Pro | Not in their docs |
| AI agents (MCP) | Hosted MCP server with 13 tools, on Starter and Pro, with its own call allowance | Hosted MCP server with 17 read-only tools |
| API key goes in | Authorization: Bearer header | X-API-Key header (or Bearer, or a query parameter) |
What PingOdds doesn’t cover yet
- No player props: moneylines, spreads and totals only.
- No live (in-play) feed: each league is checked every 60–90 seconds, which suits pregame odds.
- 15 leagues: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB, EPL, MLS, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, ATP and WTA. No golf, MMA, cricket or esports.
- US and Ontario books only: no UK, European or Australian books, and no DraftKings, BetMGM or Caesars yet.
Moving from SharpAPI
The same odds, asked of each API:
SharpAPI
curl -H "X-API-Key: $SHARPAPI_KEY" \
"https://api.sharpapi.io/api/v1/odds?league=nba&market=moneyline"PingOdds
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $PINGODDS_API_KEY" \
"https://api.pingodds.com/v2/odds?league=basketball_nba&markets=h2h"SharpAPI returns one flat row per book and selection, a page at a time; PingOdds returns the league’s games in one response, grouped by game, then market, then book.
| SharpAPI | PingOdds |
|---|---|
league=nba | league=basketball_nba |
market=moneyline (spread, total) | markets=h2h (spreads, totals) |
sportsbook= | books= |
data[], one row per book and selection | events[].markets[].books[].outcomes[] |
odds_american, odds_decimal | price_am, price_dec |
selection_type (home, away) | outcomes[].name (home, away) |
timestamp | last_update (last price change) and last_checked |
next_cursor paging | None: one call returns the whole league |
The quickstart shows a full response, and the API reference every field.
Sources
SharpAPI’s own pages, as they read on 23 October 2026:
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