# PingOdds vs The Odds API PingOdds and The Odds API 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 The Odds API to PingOdds. The Odds API’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 Prices and coverage change, so if something here is out of date, [tell us](https://pingodds.com/contact).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 The Odds API if - You need UK, European or Australian books, or sports PingOdds doesn’t cover. - You need player props. - You need historical snapshots going back to 2020. - You poll a lot of featured markets: their 5M-credit plan is $119 a month. ## Pick PingOdds if - You build for Ontario and need FanDuel, Betway, LeoVegas, Unibet or Bally Bet there. - You want every price change PingOdds records, on every plan, instead of 5-minute snapshots on paid plans. - You want each response to say when every book’s price last changed and when it was last checked. - You want +EV, steam, outlier and arbitrage signals, webhooks, a WebSocket stream or an MCP server for your AI agent. - You’d rather count calls than credits per market per region. ## Side by side | What | PingOdds | The Odds API | | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Free plan | 250 requests a month, 5 a minute; every book and league; no card | 500 credits a month; most bookmakers; no historical odds | | Paid plans | Starter $19/mo (50,000 requests), Pro $99/mo (500,000 requests) | 20K credits $30/mo, 100K $59, 5M $119, 15M $249; bigger plans after sign-up | | What counts against your plan | One request per API call, however many books, markets or games it returns | Credits: 1 per market per region on each call (3 markets × 3 regions = 9); 10 per market per region for historical odds | | 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 | Over 100, in regions for the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden and Finland | | Ontario books | 8: FanDuel Ontario, BetRivers Ontario, Bally Bet Ontario, Unibet Ontario, LeoVegas Ontario, Betway Ontario, BET99 and Proline+ | One ca region of 8 books, 7 marked Ontario: BET99, Betano, BetMGM, BetRivers, PointsBet, PROLINE and Sports Interaction. FanDuel, Betway, LeoVegas and Unibet aren’t listed for Ontario | | 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 | Over 100 sports, all on every plan | | Markets | Moneylines, spreads and totals. No player props yet | Moneylines, spreads, totals, outrights, alternates, periods and player props (props mainly for US sports and books, one game per call) | | Live (in-play) odds | No live feed yet | Yes | | How often prices update | Each league checked every 60–90 seconds, on every plan; no delay added on Free | Featured markets every 60 seconds before the game and 40 seconds in play; props and alternates every 60 seconds | | 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 | last\_update per bookmaker (per market on single-game calls) | | Price history | Every price change PingOdds records, on every plan | Snapshots every 5 minutes since September 2022 (every 10 minutes from June 2020), on paid plans | | Betting signals | No-vig consensus and closing lines on every plan; steam, +EV and outlier signals from Starter; arbitrage on Pro | Not in their docs | | Streaming | WebSocket, included in Pro ($99/mo) | Not in their docs: REST polling only | | Webhooks | For signals, on Pro | Not in their docs | | AI agents (MCP) | Hosted MCP server with 13 tools, on Starter and Pro, with its own call allowance | Not in their docs | | API key goes in | Authorization: Bearer header | apiKey query parameter | ## What PingOdds doesn’t cover yet - No player props: moneylines, spreads and totals only. - No live (in-play) feed: each league is checked every 60–90 seconds, which suits pregame odds. - 15 leagues: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB, EPL, MLS, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, ATP and WTA. No golf, MMA, cricket or esports. - US and Ontario books only: no UK, European or Australian books, and no DraftKings, BetMGM or Caesars yet. ## Moving from The Odds API The same odds, asked of each API: The Odds API ``` curl "https://api.the-odds-api.com/v4/sports/basketball_nba/odds/?apiKey=$ODDS_API_KEY®ions=us&markets=h2h,spreads&oddsFormat=american" ``` PingOdds ``` curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $PINGODDS_API_KEY" \ "https://api.pingodds.com/v2/odds?league=basketball_nba&markets=h2h,spreads" ``` PingOdds uses The Odds API’s sport keys for its 13 team-sport leagues (`basketball_nba`, `soccer_epl` …), so `league` takes the value you already send; tennis is one league per tour, `tennis_atp` and `tennis_wta`. There are no regions: a call returns every book unless you name some in `books`. Market keys are the same: `h2h`, `spreads`, `totals`. | The Odds API | PingOdds | | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | \[\] of games | events\[\], each with an event and its markets | | bookmakers\[\].markets\[\].outcomes\[\] | markets\[\].books\[\].outcomes\[\] (market first, then book) | | home\_team, away\_team | event.home.name, event.away.name | | outcomes\[\].name (a team name) | outcomes\[\].name: home, away, draw, over or under | | price (decimal or American, per oddsFormat) | price\_dec and price\_am, always both | | point | line | | last\_update per bookmaker | last\_update and last\_checked per book | | bookmakers= | books= | | x-requests-remaining header | X-RateLimit-Remaining header | 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 The Odds API’s own pages, as they read on 23 October 2026: - [Plans and prices](https://the-odds-api.com/) - [API guide (v4): usage costs, request format](https://the-odds-api.com/liveapi/guides/v4/) - [Bookmakers by region](https://the-odds-api.com/sports-odds-data/bookmaker-apis.html) - [Betting markets](https://the-odds-api.com/sports-odds-data/betting-markets.html) - [Update intervals](https://the-odds-api.com/sports-odds-data/update-intervals.html) - [Historical odds](https://the-odds-api.com/historical-odds-data/) More comparisons: [PingOdds vs TheRundown](https://pingodds.com/vs/therundown) · [PingOdds vs SharpAPI](https://pingodds.com/vs/sharpapi)