vs The Odds API
Confirmed lineups and injuries
- Big Balls Sports Data
- Included, one request
- The Odds API
- Not available
Simple pricing. Start free.
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.
- Historical depthfrom Soloup to five seasons joined to results, not just the current one
- Model intelligencefrom Solomatch predictions, value props and trending
- Full archivefrom Edgeall available historical seasons across every sport
- Market intelligencefrom Edgeconsensus and fair price, divergence, line movement and closing lines
- Real timefrom ProWebSocket push instead of polling, plus an SLA
Free covers every sport; Solo is 1, Trio is 3, and Edge opens all of them again.
Unified schema
One envelope across every sport. Integrate once, cover everything.
WebSocket live feed
Live score push on Pro+. socket.io rooms by sport, league, match.
Confidence scoring
Every field exposes its own data quality and freshness so your app handles uncertainty.
Every sport
Football (Soccer), basketball, baseball, NFL, NHL, F1, MMA, cricket, under one key.
250 free / day
Enough to build and evaluate the whole API against real data (500/day with GitHub connected). No credit card, no trial clock.
No credit card
Sign up with your email. No card on file until you actually need more volume.
Not sure which plan? Price it at your scale.
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
1
3 sports
10,000 upstream requests/day after your own caching. For per-sport products, the model distributes that traffic evenly across selected sports.
Big Balls Sports Data
$49/mo
Trio plan · up to 3 selected sports
BallDontLie
$0
3 × Free
BallDontLie's raw feed costs $49 less
Here's what that $49/mo doesn't include:
- Our pre-assembled matchup response shape
- Our exact Elo, ATS, and value-prop model outputs
- One response schema shared by every supported sport
Comparison basis
Both prices use the same 10,000 upstream requests/day. Extra BallDontLie endpoint calls are not added because the exact fan-out depends on what you build.
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 2026-10-04. Priced per sport, rate-limited per minute. Each sport is a separate subscription. View the official source.
How we stack up
Three honest comparisons against the names you're probably evaluating us against. Full breakdowns on each competitor page.
vs Sportradar
Elo predictions and win probability
- Big Balls Sports Data
- Included, one request
- Sportradar
- no Elo model
The plans
Free includes the current season. Solo and Trio include up to five seasons for the sport(s) you pick. Edge and Pro include all available history across every sport, plus deeper stats, predictions, and derived odds intelligence.
Free
$0forever
Any sport
- · Any sport, current + most-recent season
- · 250 requests / day (500 with GitHub)
- · 100 requests / min burst
- · Scores, standings, stats
Solo
$39$19/ month
1 sport, your pick
- · 1 sport, your pick — see live depth below
- · Up to 5 seasons joined to results
- · Match predictions, value props and trending — the model layer
- · 10,000 requests / day
- · 300 requests / min burst
- · Change your sport once every 30 days
Trio
Most popular$99$49/ month
3 sports, your pick
- · Any 3 sports, your pick — see live depth below
- · All historical seasons joined to results
- · 25,000 requests / day
- · 500 requests / min burst
- · Change your 3 sports (as one set) once every 30 days
Edge
$299$149/ month
All sports
- · All available history
- · Full stats depth for cricket, hockey, baseball, NFL, and NBA — soccer expanding
- · Fair-price edges across the market — expanding sport by sport
- · Model-ready team features — rest/fatigue (days_rest, back-to-back, last-5 form) and against-the-spread splits by home/away and favorite/underdog
- · Derived odds intelligence — consensus, fair price, divergence, and line movement
- · 100,000 requests / day
- · 1,500 requests / min burst
Pro
$999$299/ month
All sports
- · Everything in Edge
- · NFL play-by-play — full EPA + win probability event log
- · WebSocket / real-time push
- · Priority support + SLA
- · 200,000 requests / day
- · 3,000 requests / min burst
- · Licensed raw odds board (coming, once the redistribution license lands)
Enterprise
Customcontact sales
All sports
- · Every sport, full history
- · Bulk export, deep archive, odds intelligence, play-by-play
- · Custom volume, SLA, dedicated support
What Solo and Trio actually get, per sport
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 + 4 prior seasons |
| Basketball | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| American Football | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| Baseball | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| Ice Hockey | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| Cricket | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| MMA | Current + 4 prior seasons |
| Boxing | Current + 1 prior season |
| Formula 1 | Current season only |
Coming soon
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.
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Frequently asked
How do rate limits work?
Two buckets: per-minute (sliding window) + per-day (UTC fixed window). Every response carries X-RateLimit-Remaining; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
Can I downgrade or cancel anytime?
Yes, manage your plan from the dashboard or the Stripe Customer Portal. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle.
What counts as one request?
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.
What if I exceed my plan?
The gateway returns 429. You can upgrade instantly, new limits apply immediately.