Which one fits what you are building?
The Odds API covers sports odds from bookmakers worldwide, including Australian books for Australian sports. Its own sports listing carries no horse, harness or greyhound racing. PuntersEdge covers Australian thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing and New Zealand thoroughbred and harness, from 14 racing bookmakers, plus Australian sports. So the first question is not price, it is whether racing is in scope for you: if it is, this is not really a comparison, and if it is not, read on.
On price at the entry tiers PuntersEdge is the cheaper feed. The Odds API gives 500 free credits a month and charges US$30 for 20,000; PuntersEdge gives 3,000 free and charges A$29 for 75,000. Their credits are also consumed per sport, per market and per region on a single request, where PuntersEdge prices each endpoint — 1 to 4 credits for the live racing and sports calls, 5 or more for history and archive exports — so compare the calls you will actually make, not only the headline numbers.
At high volume that reverses. Their US$119 tier carries 5,000,000 credits a month, where the PuntersEdge tier with 5,000,000 credits is A$249. If you are pulling global sports odds at that scale and racing is irrelevant to you, they are the better buy and we would rather say so than have you find out after a month.
The other real difference is what sits behind the prices. PuntersEdge publishes settled results, scratchings, runner form, a permanent closing-line archive and price movement history, which is what a model needs to score a bet after the fact rather than only to place one. That is racing infrastructure rather than an odds feed, and it is the reason most of our paid usage is racing.
- Racing: PuntersEdge covers AU thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing, and NZ thoroughbred and harness. The Odds API lists no racing.
- Free tier: 3,000 credits a month against 500.
- Around US$30 a month: A$29 buys 75,000 credits against their US$30 for 20,000. Paid plans here start at A$9.
- Credit model: PuntersEdge prices each endpoint — 1 to 4 credits for live calls, 5 or more for history and exports; theirs multiplies by sport, market and region.
- High volume: their US$119 tier carries 5M credits, where ours carries 5M at A$249. At that scale on global sports they are cheaper.
- Beyond prices: results, form, scratchings, closing-line archive and price movements.
Example API calls
# Racing — its own endpoint family, NOT a sport_key
curl "https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/racing/next-to-go?categories=horse&num_races=5" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
# Sports — best price per outcome across the books quoting it
curl "https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/best-odds/nrl" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
curl "https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/racing/next-to-go?num_races=5&country=AU" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"