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● comparison — competitor pricing checked 24 August 2026

The Odds API alternative
for real-time Pinnacle odds.

The Odds API meters credits and you fetch on a timer. pinnodds pushes every Pinnacle price change as it happens, over WebSocket and SSE, and meters throughput instead of calls.

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No card. No Pinnacle account. One API key for REST + streams.

They start
$30/mo
We start
$99/mo
Their push
None
Our push
WS + SSE
Live odds feed WSS /ws/feed
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Module 01 — Overview

pinnodds vs The Odds API

The Odds API is a broad multi-bookmaker REST API sold by the credit. It covers a lot of books and markets, and if your workload is a few polls a minute it is inexpensive and perfectly good.

The structural difference is delivery. The Odds API has no push transport at all — no WebSocket, no server-sent events, no webhooks are documented on its site or in its v4 guide. You discover a price change by asking again, which means your worst-case staleness is your polling interval, and every poll spends credits whether the price moved or not.

pinnodds is the opposite trade. It is Pinnacle only, and the price change reaches you in roughly 30–150 ms over WebSocket or SSE without you asking. You are billed for throughput, not for the number of times you checked.

Module 02 — Side by side

Head to head

pinnodds vs the odds api checked 24 August 2026
 pinnoddsThe Odds API
DeliveryPush — WebSocket + SSEREST polling only
Billing unitThroughput (req/s)Credits per call
Free tierFree forever, 20/min500 credits/mo
Entry paid plan$99/mo$30/mo
Top published plan$229/mo$249/mo
BookmakersPinnacle (specialist)Many books
Dropping-odds alertsBuilt inNot offered
Cost of an unchanged priceNothing — nothing is sentA credit, every poll

Our plans: Trial $0 (20/min, 100/day) · Stream $99 · Pro $99 (10 req/s, unlimited volume) · Pro + SSE $149 · Scale $229. Competitor figures were taken from The Odds API's own published pages on 24 August 2026 and may have changed since — check theirs before you decide.

Module 03 — Straight answer

When The Odds API is the better choice

Pick The Odds API if your product needs many bookmakers side by side, or a consensus across the market. pinnodds carries Pinnacle only — if you need FanDuel and DraftKings next to it, The Odds API covers far more books than we do, and at low poll rates it is cheaper.

Pick pinnodds if you want the Pinnacle line specifically, delivered as it changes rather than when you next ask, with dropping-odds detection already done for you. Start on the free key and measure it against whatever you are using now — that is a faster answer than any comparison table, including this one.

Module 04 — Query log

Frequently asked questions

Does The Odds API support WebSocket or SSE?
No. As of the date checked, no WebSocket, server-sent events or webhook transport is documented on their site or in their v4 guide — the API is REST polling. pinnodds pushes over both WebSocket and SSE.
Is The Odds API cheaper than pinnodds?
At low volume, yes — their entry plan is $30/mo against our $99/mo. The comparison changes with frequency: they charge per call, so a fast polling loop burns credits, while our plans are flat regardless of how much data is pushed to you.
Can I use both?
Plenty of customers do. A common pattern is The Odds API for wide bookmaker coverage and pinnodds for the Pinnacle line in real time, since Pinnacle is the reference price most models are built on.
What is a credit?
On The Odds API a credit is consumed per request, scaled by the markets and regions you ask for. On pinnodds there is no credit meter — you are limited by requests per second, and pushed data is not metered at all.

Test it against what you use now

The free key costs nothing and needs no card. Point it at the same market you are watching today.

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REST · WSS · SSE · 12 sports · live + prematch · 30–150 ms