Comparison
OddsRelay vs OpticOdds
OpticOdds runs at the enterprise end of this lane, and the concession comes first: it streams fast, broad raw odds to sportsbook operators, traders and platforms, through a sales conversation. OddsRelay's odds data API is built for the other buyer: a UK feed already matched against exchange lay prices and rated, licensed from a self-serve trial key. A trading desk needs the first product. A matched-betting build needs the second.
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 OpticOdds does well
- Genuinely broad source coverage: its homepage and API page state real-time odds from 200+ sportsbooks.
- Fully public, well-structured developer documentation with published rate limits and no login wall, which is rarer than it should be at the enterprise end of this category.
- Real market standing: 'Trusted by 200+ companies' by its own count, and part of Gambling.com Group's (Nasdaq: GAMB) Sports Data Services division.
- Early AI distribution: it announced in June 2026 that it powers live sports-betting queries inside Perplexity Computer, its first consumer-facing deployment, after shipping an MCP integration for Anthropic's Claude in May 2026.
Side by side
| Dimension | OpticOdds | OddsRelay |
|---|---|---|
| Core output | Raw odds (stated real-time) plus an odds screen, bet builder/SGP and trading tooling; no matched-betting, oddsmatcher or rated output that pairs back prices against exchange lay is documented on its API page, FAQ or docs. | Back prices arrive already paired to a live exchange lay price, with liquidity carried: the shape an oddsmatcher renders directly. The guide calls this oddsmatcher-ready. |
| Bet365 | Listed in its public developer-docs sportsbook reference table, as a raw odds source. | Covered across all six feed types, already matched. |
| UK bookmaker depth | Does not list a UK region or UK coverage category; geographic labelling is per-book parentheticals (e.g. 'Betano (Argentina)', 'PointsBet (Ontario)') with no region taxonomy. | 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 | Lists Betfair Exchange (including a lay source), Smarkets and Limitless Exchange as raw odds sources; does not list Matchbook; lay prices appear unpaired, as sources rather than matched output. | Four exchanges (Betfair, Smarkets, Matchbook and BETDAQ) with lay prices and liquidity pre-paired to every bookmaker back price and rated. |
| Regions | No region-based feed taxonomy is listed; one South-Africa-facing book (Supabets) appears in the docs table, and Nigerian bookmakers such as Bet9ja, SportyBet and BetKing are not listed. | 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. |
| Delivery | Push-stream delivery built for in-play trading. A genuine strength. | ~3s pre-match polling, built for pre-match matched output. If in-play trading speed is the job, we do not claim parity; they are the stronger tool. |
| Pricing posture & trial | Sales-gated: the pricing page is a multi-step request-pricing contact form with no published tiers; the API FAQ references a free trial but documents no self-serve signup path, with access routed via a sales rep. | A self-serve free trial key first, then a scoped licence and a plain conversation. |
When OpticOdds is the correct choice
If you are a sportsbook operator, trading team, platform provider or betting app that needs in-play speed and source breadth, OpticOdds is likely the correct choice, and its public docs let you evaluate before you talk to sales. Its sister brand OddsJam (same parent, Gambling.com Group) is compared at the OddsJam comparison.
This comparison earns its keep when your product is a UK matched-betting or arbitrage tool, where speed and book count stop deciding the purchase and the matching layer does. The rows above show who builds that layer on each side; the row shape it produces is on the matched feed page.
Pick OpticOdds if
- You are a sportsbook operator, trading desk or platform provider and in-play speed is the requirement.
- You want very broad source coverage and raw prices are the product.
- You need the wider enterprise surface: an odds screen, bet builder/SGP engine and trading automation.
- You have procurement capacity and a sales-led evaluation suits how your team buys.
Pick OddsRelay if
- The matching layer is what you are buying, and you would rather license it than build it.
- You want depth beyond the aggregator staples: 140+ books across 20 countries in one normalised schema.
- You want all four UK exchanges, with lay prices pre-paired to back prices.
- You would rather start on a self-serve trial key today than begin with a sales conversation.
Questions
Is OddsRelay faster or broader than OpticOdds?
No, and this page does not claim it. OpticOdds streams pushed odds from 200+ sportsbooks. OddsRelay polls pre-match prices on a ~3s cycle across 140+ books. The honest comparison is speed and breadth versus UK depth and matched processing. Pick by which of those your product actually runs on.
Test the matched difference
A free trial key delivers the matched UK feed into your own product today. The live dashboard shows coverage and update times before any conversation.