# 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 Prices and coverage change, so if something here is out of date, [tell us](https://pingodds.com/contact). ## 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](https://pingodds.com/docs/quickstart) shows a full response, and the [API reference](https://pingodds.com/docs) every field. [Get a free API key](https://pingodds.com/signup) [See every plan](https://pingodds.com/pricing) ## Sources SharpAPI’s own pages, as they read on 23 October 2026: - [Pricing and FAQ](https://sharpapi.io/pricing) - [Plans in the docs](https://docs.sharpapi.io/en/pricing/) - [Sportsbooks](https://docs.sharpapi.io/en/api-reference/sportsbooks/) - [Odds endpoint](https://docs.sharpapi.io/en/api-reference/odds/) - [Leagues](https://docs.sharpapi.io/en/api-reference/leagues/) - [MCP server](https://docs.sharpapi.io/en/sdks/mcp/) More comparisons: [PingOdds vs The Odds API](https://pingodds.com/vs/the-odds-api) · [PingOdds vs TheRundown](https://pingodds.com/vs/therundown)