SockOdds vs SportsDataIO
What each API covers, what it costs and how usage is counted, from our docs and SportsDataIO's own pages.
Both are odds data APIs, built for different jobs. SportsDataIO: The US sports betting ecosystem: traders, affiliates, media brands and predictive analytics. SockOdds: decimal prices from Australian and global bookmakers, exchanges and prediction markets, each with the time we saw it, readable keys, recorded history and official results.
Everything below about SportsDataIO comes from its own pages, read on 13 October 2026 and listed under Sources. Where its pages are silent, we say so rather than guess.
At a glance
| SockOdds | SportsDataIO | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Developers building on Australian and global bookmaker prices: comparison sites, models, alerts, bots and bet settlement. | The US sports betting ecosystem: traders, affiliates, media brands and predictive analytics. |
| Prices | Developer free; Rookie US$99 a month or US$948 a year; Pro US$299 a month or US$2,868 a year; Platform on request. | Discovery Lab, for personal and hobby use with next-day delayed data, is $99 a month or $599 a year for odds. The commercial APIs are priced through sales, by use case, volume and sports. |
| Free plan or trial | Developer: 2,500 objects a month at 10 requests a minute, with Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes, on MLB, NFL, AFL, NRL, Rugby League World Cup and Rugby League World Cup Women's. No card. | A free trial with no card, using scrambled data and a small daily call limit. Discovery Lab also has a free tier with last season's data. |
| How usage is counted | Objects: one for each record returned, plus one for each bookmaker price in it, with a requests-a-minute limit by plan. Pro has no monthly object cap. | Commercial plans have unlimited calls and are priced by use case, volume and sports. Discovery Lab allows a set number of calls a day by tier. |
| Bookmakers | 42 bookmakers, exchanges and prediction markets delivering prices as of 30 October 2026. | Odds from 10+ sportsbooks. |
| Australian bookmakers | 27 Australian bookmakers delivering, including Sportsbet, TAB, Ladbrokes, Neds and PointsBet. | Not stated on the pages we read. |
| AFL and NRL | Yes: league keys afl, aflw, nrl and nrlw, and both Rugby League World Cups, with player markets and official results. Prices are delivered in season. | The AFL, NRL and State of Origin are on its competition coverage page, which does not say whether odds are offered for them. |
| Update speed and streaming | Every price carries the time we saw it, and a price not seen for ten minutes is withheld. Pro adds a WebSocket stream that checks every 15 seconds. Pre-match first: not a low-latency in-play feed. | Polling over HTTP. Its NFL in-game odds endpoint documents a 5-second call interval. |
| Price history | On Pro: every price change we recorded, from 22 December 2025 for some leagues and 8 October 2026 for the rest, and whole days as Parquet files. | 10+ years of historical data through its Vault product (contact sales). |
| Results and settlement | Graded from official result sources, never a bookmaker's settlement, with the same outcome ids as the prices. | Settlement verification feeds that check results against official data. |
Where SportsDataIO may suit you better
- US sports in depth: its odds API is built for the US sports betting market.
- More than ten years of historical data for research and backtesting.
- A replay feed of real past games on the live schedule, for testing.
Where SockOdds may suit you better
- Australian bookmakers. 27 Australian bookmakers delivering, including Sportsbet, TAB, Ladbrokes, Neds and PointsBet. Each has its own key and sits next to exchanges and prediction markets in the same response.
- AFL, NRL and rugby league. Australian football and rugby league are leagues of their own, with player markets, periods down to quarters and halves, and results graded from official sources, dead heats included.
- Prices as shown. Decimal prices exactly as each bookmaker showed them, never converted or devigged, each with
observed_at. - Readable keys and stable ids. Leagues, teams, bookmakers and market types are readable keys; events, players, markets and outcomes have ids that stay the same across bookmakers, and results use the same outcome ids.
- A free plan and published prices. Developer: 2,500 objects a month at 10 requests a minute, with Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes, on MLB, NFL, AFL, NRL, Rugby League World Cup and Rugby League World Cup Women's. No card. Paid plans are on the pricing page.
Moving a request to SockOdds
Read our leagues and market types once from GET /v1/leagues and GET /v1/markets, then ask for the prices you show. Send your key in the Authorization: Bearer header, from your server. A round of AFL head to head, line and total prices at two bookmakers is one request:
GET /v1/odds?league=afl&markets=winner,handicap,total_points&bookmakers=sportsbet,tab
Authorization: Bearer <your key>Store our event id with anything you save and the outcome id with a bet, then settle from results. The quickstart has the first request in three languages.
Questions people ask
Does SportsDataIO cover Australian bookmakers?
The pages of SportsDataIO we read do not name any Australian bookmakers.
Does SportsDataIO have a free plan?
A free trial with no card, using scrambled data and a small daily call limit. Discovery Lab also has a free tier with last season's data.
How is SportsDataIO priced?
Discovery Lab, for personal and hobby use with next-day delayed data, is $99 a month or $599 a year for odds. The commercial APIs are priced through sales, by use case, volume and sports. Commercial plans have unlimited calls and are priced by use case, volume and sports. Discovery Lab allows a set number of calls a day by tier.
Does SockOdds have a free plan?
Yes. Developer: 2,500 objects a month at 10 requests a minute, with Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes, on MLB, NFL, AFL, NRL, Rugby League World Cup and Rugby League World Cup Women's. No card. See pricing.
Sources
- SportsDataIO: Betting Odds API, read 13 October 2026
- SportsDataIO: Developer APIs (access methods), read 13 October 2026
- SportsDataIO: Competition Coverage, read 13 October 2026
- SportsDataIO: NFL API documentation, read 13 October 2026
Providers change their plans, prices and coverage. Check SportsDataIO's own site before you rely on a figure here, and if something is out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
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SockOdds provides data only. It does not offer tips or predictions on any game.