Comparisons · Racing data APIs
Racing data APIs come in two kinds. Form services sell each runner's history: past runs, ratings and sectionals. Price APIs sell what the bookmakers offered and where they closed. Punting Form and The Racing API are form services, GreyhoundAPI is a greyhound results and exchange-price archive, FormFav sells form and, on its top plan, bookmaker prices, and PuntersEdge is a bookmaker price archive with thin form. Most model builders pair one of each.
Punting Form, The Racing API, FormFav and GreyhoundAPI pages opened 6 October 2026; each figure links to the page it came from. PuntersEdge figures are measured from the live feed (6 Oct 2026 04:51 UTC), not typed.
| Punting Form | The Racing API | FormFav | GreyhoundAPI | PuntersEdge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codes | Thoroughbred (their site) | Thoroughbred (their site) | Thoroughbred, harness and greyhound (their site) | Greyhound (their site) | Thoroughbred, harness and greyhound |
| Countries | Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore (their pricing page) | UK, Ireland and Hong Kong, with its Australian add-on unavailable to new subscribers (their site) | 24+ countries including Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong (their site) | Britain, Ireland, and Australia from 2022 (Victoria, with WA and NSW from 2026) (their site) | Australia, all three codes, and New Zealand thoroughbred and harness |
| Live bookmaker prices | None in its API (their docs) | UK and Irish bookmaker odds from Standard up (their pricing page) | Per-bookmaker win and place prices on Premium, bookmakers not listed (their docs) | None, SP and Betfair back and lay instead (their pricing page) | 15 Australian bookmakers on racing (coverage report) |
| Closing lines | None named, its Modeller plan adds historical Betfair prices and flucs (their pricing page) | Odds change history from market open on Pro, UK and Ireland (their pricing page) | Open, close, high, low and the last 20 moves per bookmaker on Premium (their docs) | SP and Betfair back and lay just before the off (their docs) | Every race's opening and closing price at every served book, and its full price path, from 4 August 2026. Plus and above read all of it; Standard reads the last 90 days (docs) |
| Results timing | A results endpoint, no timing stated (their docs) | Updated every 3 minutes on race day (their site) | Every 2 to 3 hours on Pro, as races settle on Premium (their docs) | A typical delay of 12 minutes (their site) | A median of 4.4 to 7.7 minutes after the scheduled start, by code and country over the last 7 days (data quality) |
| Form depth | Up to the last 10 runs per horse in the API (their docs) | 12 months of results on Standard, the full history as a £499 one-off on Pro (their pricing page) | A recent-form string and a last-20-starts summary (their docs) | 528,426 races since 2018, Australian from 2022 (their pricing page) | Thin, runs from our own results since 15 August 2026, plus one horse's Racing Australia form page per call (docs) |
| Sectionals | By API on its Modeller and commercial plans (their docs) | None stated (their pricing page) | None stated (their docs) | On 43% of archived Australian races (their site) | Thoroughbred sectionals from Racing Australia's form page, one horse per call, and NSW harness sectional times on results |
| Licence | Personal use only, API included (their terms) | Not for betting operators or sportsbooks (their terms) | Personal use only on Free, Pro and Premium (their terms) | Use in your own apps and analysis, no resale (their terms) | What you may do with the data follows your plan: personal use on Free, Hobby and Standard; display with attribution on Plus; commercial use on Business and Scale; redistribution on Platform (terms) |
| Price | $59 a month on Starter, the first plan with API access (their pricing page) | £27.99 a month on Basic, £59.99 on Standard (their pricing page) | $10 a month on Pro, $50 on Premium (their pricing page) | US$49, US$99 and US$199 a month (their pricing page) | A$9 a month for 7,500 credits on Hobby, A$29 for 75,000 on Standard (pricing) |
| Free tier | A free plan without API access (their pricing page) | Basic racecards and results (their pricing page) | 1,000 requests a day (their pricing page) | 50 calls a day (their site) | 3,000 credits a month, 30 requests a minute, no card |
A form service tells you about the runner, and a price archive tells you what the market offered and where it closed. A model that picks runners from Punting Form's form still needs a price to bet at and a closing price to score itself against, which is the half PuntersEdge sells. Join the two on meeting date, venue and race number, then saddlecloth number.
Read both licences before you build anything public. Punting Form's API and FormFav's plans below Enterprise are for personal use only (their terms). Ours: what you may do with the data follows your plan: personal use on Free, Hobby and Standard; display with attribution on Plus; commercial use on Business and Scale; redistribution on Platform.
Checked 6 October 2026. Every figure for Punting Form, The Racing API, FormFav and GreyhoundAPI is read from the linked pages, which are theirs to change: if one has changed, tell us and this page will be corrected. These pages are re-checked every quarter. The PuntersEdge column renders from the same measurements as data quality and the coverage report. All comparisons.
18+ only. The API provides odds data for lawful informational and analytical use. Not financial advice.