Comparison
OddsRelay vs BetsAPI
Cheap, documented, raw Bet365 data is BetsAPI's core offer, and it delivers: public docs you can read before paying, packages sold per sport or per bookmaker, in-play through results. OddsRelay's odds data API delivers 140+ books across 20 countries with each back price already matched against an exchange lay price and rated. Buy the data, or buy the processing done.
Matched · rated
Arsenal v Chelsea · Match Odds
Football · Arsenal
- Back · Bet365
- 2.10
- Lay · Exchange
- 2.05
- Rating
- 102.4%
Paired and liquidity-gated, with the lay price and liquidity carried. The rating here is one line of client-side maths at your own commission rate (at 0: 100 × back ÷ lay). You render the row.
What BetsAPI does well
- Genuinely deep Bet365 coverage as its flagship, documented to the endpoint level.
- Results and settlement data across many sports, documented alongside the odds endpoints.
- An established, long-running service with a very low cost of entry, so prototyping is easy.
Side by side
| Dimension | BetsAPI | OddsRelay |
|---|---|---|
| Core output | Raw events, odds and results per bookmaker; its docs make no mention of matched output paired against exchange lay prices, or oddsmatcher ratings. | Back prices arrive already paired to a live exchange lay price, rated, with liquidity attached. That is oddsmatcher-ready output. |
| Bet365 | Its flagship: documented endpoints for in-play, upcoming, pre-match odds and results, stated to cover all markets and odds on the Bet365 site, with the docs' own caveat that pre-match odds are not updated once an event goes in-play. | Covered across all six feed types, already matched against exchange lay prices. |
| UK bookmaker depth | Names five bookmakers with full odds APIs in its docs (Bet365, Betfair, BWin, Sbobet and 1xBet) plus results-only endpoints for William Hill and Betsson; does not list a broad multi-book UK panel. | 140+ bookmakers across a 20-country network (UK and Irish books plus the African, Australasian and North American domestic names big aggregators skip), normalised into one schema and live on the coverage dashboard. |
| Exchange lay prices | Documents Betfair Sportsbook and Exchange endpoints; its own Betfair docs state "it's NOT official API". Pairing lay prices to back prices is your build. | Lay prices from four exchanges (Betfair, Smarkets, Matchbook and BETDAQ), pre-paired to every bookmaker back price and rated. |
| Regions | Packages are sold per sport, per bookmaker, or all-inclusive; does not list a region concept, and does not list a UK, South Africa or Nigeria region anywhere in its docs. | A 20-country coverage network (the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, DR Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Australia, Canada, the US, Rwanda and New Zealand), region-filtered from one endpoint. |
| Sports & events discovery | Documents event endpoints by status (upcoming, inplay and ended); its aggregated Events API carries only 1-3 main markets per sport and lists no sports-enumeration endpoint on that page. | GET /v2/sports enumerates in-season sports and GET /v2/events lists fixtures with a has_coverage flag showing which feed types each event supports. |
| Pricing posture | Published self-serve pricing with cheap paid trial packages (each purchasable a limited number of times); no free tier listed. A default limit of 3,600 requests per hour, expandable by buying separate volume packages. | Scoped per client: a free trial key first, then a plain conversation. No request-quota arithmetic. |
| Docs and authentication | Fully public docs, no login wall; authentication is a token passed in the URL query string. | Public docs at /docs; keys are sent as request headers, shown once at issue, and scoped to the feeds you license. |
Where BetsAPI makes sense
For a solo developer who needs raw Bet365-shaped data at minimal cost, BetsAPI is a real option and often the correct one. If your product consumes one book's events, odds and results and you own the processing, nothing here argues you need more.
A UK matched-betting or arbitrage product changes the job. Cheap Bet365 data stops being the whole of it: normalising 140+ books and doing the matching is, and posture starts to matter. BetsAPI's docs list no SLA, uptime commitment or status page. OddsRelay's feed is monitored, on a ~3s pre-match polling cycle, with coverage and update times on the live dashboard.
Pick BetsAPI if
- You need cheap, documented, raw Bet365 event and odds data and are happy to build the processing yourself.
- You want to buy a narrow slice (one sport or one bookmaker) rather than license a full feed.
- Public endpoint docs you can read before paying matter more to you than an SLA posture.
- You are prototyping and a low-cost paid trial package is enough to validate the idea.
Pick OddsRelay if
- You are building on matched, rated rows rather than raw per-bookmaker odds.
- You need depth beyond a handful of named books: 140+ bookmakers across 20 countries in one normalised schema.
- You want a managed feed posture: monitored, dashboard-verified update times and uptime, rather than a raw token API.
- You need African, Australasian and North American domestic books from the same region-filtered endpoint.
Questions
Does BetsAPI have a free trial?
Its docs list cheap paid trial packages, each purchasable a limited number of times. No free tier is mentioned in the documentation as of 2 July 2026. OddsRelay's trial is a free, time-boxed key that delivers the full matched UK feed into your own product.
Start the trial
A free trial key delivers the matched UK feed into your own product. Coverage and update times are on the live dashboard first.