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SportsGameOdds
ParlayAPI

Both APIs aggregate sportsbook odds across a broad set of sports. SportsGameOdds bills per event returned instead of per market or bookmaker - a genuinely efficient model if you're pulling full market breadth on a lot of games. ParlayAPI measures 30+ sources actually writing odds in the last 24 hours, tracks 4,000+ distinct prop markets, and gives WebSocket streaming starting on our Business tier instead of a custom-quote Enterprise plan. Below is the honest, sourced breakdown - including where they win.

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30+
Distinct sources, 24h
as of 2026-08
92
Sports/leagues advertised
as of 2026-08
4,241
Distinct prop markets, 24h
as of 2026-08
2-4s
Top-source freshness
as of 2026-08

Feature & coverage comparison

Our numbers are measured live against production and cited "as of 2026-08" (see growth/verified_numbers.md). SportsGameOdds numbers are pulled from their own public pricing and docs pages, read 2026-08-09 - source and date are noted in an HTML comment next to each claim. Green marks whoever is genuinely ahead on that row.

Feature ParlayAPI SportsGameOdds
Active sources (measured, 24h) 30+ sources actually writing odds in the last 24h (27 on game lines, 43 on player props) 82 bookmakers on Pro tier, 77 on Rookie, 9 on free Amateur - published catalog size, not an independently measured live-write count
Sports / leagues 92 sports advertised (55 soccer leagues, 7 esports, 5 tennis / 6 table tennis) 25-28+ sports, 65-67+ leagues (homepage and docs give slightly different figures)
Prop / market depth 4,241 distinct prop market keys tracked in the last 24h 1,308 total markets listed (all sports combined)
Live update cadence Sub-5-second freshness measured on major books (fanduel ~2s) 10-min on free; faster cadence on higher paid tiers. See their pricing
Free tier 1,000 credits/month, no credit card, no rate cap below your credit balance 2,500 objects/month but capped at 10 requests/min, 10-min-stale data, only 8 leagues / 9 bookmakers
Billing model Credit-per-call, scaled by markets/bookmakers returned (see /pricing) Bills per event returned, not per market or bookmaker - genuinely cheap if you pull full market breadth on many games
WebSocket / real-time streaming ✓ Included from our Business tier up (see /pricing) Only on the custom-quote All-Star/Enterprise tier
Historical odds 1.7M+ historical closing lines from 2005, plus 30M+ prop closing lines since 2022-06 (both counted, dated, and queryable) "Historical data included" on Pro tier and up; no published volume or start date
Official SDKs / tooling Python SDK on PyPI (parlay-api) + MIT-licensed GitHub examples Official SDKs in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Java, plus an interactive data explorer
AI / MCP tool access 22-tool MCP server published on PyPI (parlayapi-mcp) They ship an official MCP server, npx -y sports-odds-api-mcp, published on npm and named on their site for Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot, read 2026-09-01
Track record API endpoint surface: 200 documented endpoints Live since 2019, 1B+ API requests served
Entry-level paid pricing See /pricing for current tiers Rookie tier: $99/mo billed annually, $149/mo billed monthly

When to actually pick SportsGameOdds

We'd rather lose your business to an honest "not us" than win it on a page that only flatters ParlayAPI. Pick SportsGameOdds if any of this matches what you need:

Pick SportsGameOdds if…

  • You're pulling full market + bookmaker breadth across a lot of games and want the per-event billing model - it's a genuinely cheaper way to consume bulk odds data than a per-market credit scheme.
  • You want an official first-party SDK in Java, not just JS/TS or Python.
  • You want a browser-based interactive data explorer to poke at responses before you write code.
  • An established, longer-running provider (live since 2019, 1B+ requests served) matters more to you than raw source count or update speed.
  • You don't need WebSocket streaming below a custom Enterprise quote.

Pick ParlayAPI if…

  • You want the widest measured, active source count and want it verifiable, not just advertised.
  • You need deep player-prop coverage: 4,000+ distinct prop markets refreshed in the last 24h.
  • You want WebSocket streaming without a custom sales quote.
  • You need dated, counted historical depth (1.7M+ closing lines from 2005; 30M+ prop closing lines since 2022) instead of an unspecified "historical data included."
  • You want a free tier with no card and no crippling rate cap.
Pricing details: /pricing

Getting started

ParlayAPI's response shape does not mirror SportsGameOdds's schema, so this isn't a one-line swap the way our the-odds-api migration is. It's still a plain REST + JSON API - here's the shortest path to a first response.

curl example 
# get free credits, no card required
curl "https://parlay-api.com/v1/sports" \
 -H "apiKey: YOUR_PARLAY_KEY"

# pull odds for an NBA game
curl "https://parlay-api.com/v4/sports/basketball_nba/odds?regions=us&markets=h2h,spreads,totals&apiKey=YOUR_PARLAY_KEY"
Python (our SDK) 
pip install parlay-api

from parlay_api import ParlayAPI
client = ParlayAPI(api_key="YOUR_KEY")
events = client.odds("basketball_nba", regions="us", markets="h2h,spreads,totals")

# player props
props = client.props("baseball_mlb", markets=["player_strikeouts"])

SDK on GitHub: JacobiusMakes/parlay-api-python (MIT-licensed, ships with example +EV scanner, arbitrage finder, and WebSocket stream tools). Full endpoint reference: /docs.

See the live numbers yourself.

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