bet365 odds APIs compared

bet365 at each provider

What each provider's own pages say about bet365, the plan that carries it, and what sits beside it on the exchange side. Each name opens that provider's comparison with OddsRelay, where there is one.

Choosing the best bet365 odds API

The best bet365 odds API for you is the supplier whose bet365 prices you can check yourself before you sign. Six checks separate one supplier from another: market depth, serving status, lay side, price age, cost and contract.

All six run on OddsRelay's free plan before any payment, and you can sign up free.

Three kinds of supplier carry bet365

bet365 prices reach a product through three kinds of supplier: raw odds APIs or aggregators, enterprise data feeds and matched feeds. The last column is what separates a good supplier of each kind from a poor one.

Book count is the wrong first question

A headline book count is the easiest figure to print and the least useful one for a bet365 buyer. A feed can list hundreds of books and still carry bet365 on a handful of markets. Start from the markets your product shows, then ask for bet365 on exactly those.

On OddsRelay that is one call: bookmakers=bet365 with the markets, sports and kick-off window (commenceTimeFrom, commenceTimeTo) you need, as filtering matched odds shows. A supplier that can only answer with a total has not answered the question.

bet365's serving status should be public

Our check is public: GET /v2/coverage needs no key and returns each product, venue and sport as live (serving now) or interrupted_24h (not serving now, though it served within the last 24 hours). The coverage page lists what is covered, without live status, and this route is the live check.

curl --compressed -s "https://api.oddsrelay.io/v2/coverage?region=uk"

Put the same question to every supplier you shortlist, and ask for an answer you can read without them.

Ask where the lay side comes from

A bet365 back price on its own is a number. For an oddsmatcher or a comparison tool it becomes useful once it sits beside an exchange lay price for the same selection, with the liquidity on offer at that price. Decide early whether you want the supplier to do that pairing or whether you will build the matcher yourself. This one choice rules out whole kinds of supplier.

On OddsRelay's standard board, bet365 back offers sit beside exchange lay from Betfair, Smarkets, Matchbook and BETDAQ, and a lay too thin to use is left off. In the reply that pair is one outcome: a back offer whose bookmaker is bet365, with its price, beside lay offers that each carry an exchange, a price and available. bet365's page lists every board that carries its prices, and the bet365 odds data guide walks through a full row field by field.

Your code turns the two prices into a rating and a qualifying loss at your own commission rate, and the oddsmatcher widget shows the same numbers.

// back from a bet365 offer, lay from an exchange offer on the same outcome
const rating = (back / lay) * 100;

Whoever supplies the pair, ask which exchanges it draws on. A lay side from one exchange misses prices the others may be showing.

Price age belongs in the reply

Every product on sale meets a maximum update time of 10–20 s: how old a bookmaker's price can be when it reaches you. Our matched and raw board replies carry the board's time in meta.processed_at and the X-Processed-At header (the header alone under format=bare). Matched boards add meta.last_seen, the last read per venue and sport, so now minus bet365's entry is an upper bound on a bet365 price's age. Raw carries a last_update per market, the time that market last changed. The freshness guide shows how to read each field.

Price a bet365-only call

A bet365-only call should cost less than a call for every book, so ask each supplier whether naming books lowers the price. We price a call from the request, the board and its filters, and naming bookmakers narrows the price on the standard, dutching and raw boards. On the other matched boards, a call costs the same whatever you filter. Add quote=true and the call is priced without spending anything.

curl --compressed -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $ODDSRELAY_KEY" \
  "https://api.oddsrelay.io/v2/odds/standard?region=uk&bookmakers=bet365&quote=true"
# {"cost": …, "remaining": …, "rate_card": "…"}

The filters and tokens guide explains the rate card, and pricing lists the plans.

Read the contract before you write a parser

bet365 sets no spec, so each supplier names its own fields, event ids and market keys. OddsRelay's OpenAPI 3.1 contract is keyless at https://api.oddsrelay.io/v2/openapi.json, and the reference renders it. OddsRelay's event ids are opaque and never change once served. To join another supplier's events to them, match on teams and kick-off.

bet365 on OddsRelay

OddsRelay is an odds API with bet365 on every plan, Free included, for featured football and UK and Irish racing. It sells six matched boards and a raw board, covering 140+ bookmakers, 60+ of them live in the UK & Ireland, all on every plan, so plans differ only in tokens. The feed is built for pre-match prices and has no in-play product, so in-play bet365 odds have to come from another supplier.

Questions

Sources

Every fact about another provider comes from its own public pages, read on the day given above. They change, so check them before you rely on them. OddsRelay does not resell any other provider's feed.