vs The Odds API
Confirmed lineups and injuries
- Big Balls Sports Data
- Included, one request
- The Odds API
- Not available
Every plan returns the same unified schema, every field carries confidence, and every sport we cover sits behind one key. What changes as you move up is volume — and what the API can answer.
Free covers every sport; Solo is 1, Trio is 3, and Edge opens all of them again.
One envelope across every sport. Integrate once, cover everything.
Live score push on Pro+. socket.io rooms by sport, league, match.
Every field exposes its own data quality and freshness so your app handles uncertainty.
Football (Soccer), basketball, baseball, NFL, NHL, F1, MMA, cricket, under one key.
Free tier is generous on purpose (2,000/day with GitHub connected), full dev plus a small production prototype fits.
Sign up with your email. No card on file until you actually need more volume.
Drag the sliders to your real numbers. We'll recommend a plan and show what the same usage costs on a raw-data API.
10,000 requests/day on Big Balls Sports Data. A full matchup page is 1 call here vs 8 raw calls per sport on BallDontLie.
Big Balls Sports Data
$49/mo
Trio plan · All sports, one subscription
BallDontLie
$119.97/mo
3 × GOAT
Save $70.97/mo($851.64/yr)
AND skip building the assembly layer.
Request volume
1 Big Balls call = 8 raw BallDontLie calls to assemble the same matchup page — per sport. At your scale that's 10,000 vs 240,000 requests/day.
Raw BallDontLie pricing covers the data subscription only. The assembly layer, intelligence features, and cross-sport unification are engineering time you build and maintain.
BallDontLie price = raw data subscription only. Assembly layer, intelligence features, and cross-sport unification are not included at any tier. Pricing verified 2026-05-28. Priced per sport, rate-limited per minute. Each sport is a separate subscription.
Three honest comparisons against the names you're probably evaluating us against. Full breakdowns on each competitor page.
vs The Odds API
vs Sportradar
Free is any sport, current + most-recent season. Solo and Trio add full history for the sport(s) you pick — see exactly how much per sport below, computed live, not promised. Edge and Pro cover every sport plus deeper stats, predictions, and derived odds intelligence.
Free
$0forever
Any sport
Solo
$19/ month
1 sport, your pick
Trio
Most popular$49/ month
3 sports, your pick
Edge
$149/ month
All sports
Pro
$299/ month
All sports
Enterprise
Customcontact sales
All sports
Computed live from what's actually in the database right now — not a promise. Some sports only have one season on record today; this says so plainly instead of selling history that doesn't exist yet.
| Sport | Solo / Trio history |
|---|---|
| Soccer | Current + 1 prior season |
| Basketball | Current + 1 prior season |
| American Football | Current + 1 prior season |
| Baseball | Current + 1 prior season |
| Ice Hockey | Current season only |
| Cricket | Current + 1 prior season |
| MMA | Current season only |
| Boxing | Current + 1 prior season |
| Formula 1 | Current season only |
Not priced yet. Tell us you're interested and we'll reach out when pricing is set.
Production
Coming soonHigher volume, dedicated infrastructure, and an SLA for production traffic.
Odds Board
Coming soonA live, book-by-book odds board across every market we carry.
We'll email you a one-time sign-in link. No password, no credit card , your key is ready in the dashboard the moment you click.
Prefer to sign up with GitHub, Google, or X? Use the full signup page instead.
Two buckets: per-minute (sliding window) + per-day (UTC fixed window). Every response carries X-RateLimit-Remaining; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
Yes, manage your plan from the dashboard or the Stripe Customer Portal. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle.
One HTTP request to any /v1/* endpoint. Fields inside a response don't count separately. Events received over the WebSocket feed do NOT count against your rate limit.
The gateway returns 429. You can upgrade instantly, new limits apply immediately.