Odds API comparison

OddsLink vs OpticOdds

OpticOdds sells through a sales form with no public prices. OddsLink lists every plan on the page, starts free, and hands you a key with all 46 books the moment you sign up.

Where OddsLink is different

Prices on the page

Free, then $24, $49, $99 and $199 a month, with Enterprise from $499. You know the bill before you write a line of code.

A key the day you sign up

Sign up, copy the key, send one request. Every plan, Free included, sees the same 46 books.

One shape for every kind of book

Sportsbooks, exchanges and prediction markets share one schema and one fixture id, so your code never special-cases a venue.

Side by side

  • Yes
  • Partly
  • No
  • Not published
FeatureOddsLinkOpticOdds
Books46 books: 37 sportsbooks, 6 exchanges, 3 prediction markets200+ sportsbooks
Free plan1,000 requests a month, all 46 books, no time limitNo public free tier
PricingPublic plans, $0 to $199 a monthContact sales, no public rate card
API keyX-API-Key headerIssued after contacting sales
Price timestampslast_update on every priceNot on their public pages
HistoryOpeners, closing lines and series: the last 2 years on Scale, everything recorded on BusinessCurrent and historical odds, depth not published
Free discovery callsSports, books and markets lists never countList endpoints exist, billing not published
Push feedWebSocket add-on from Growth, included on BusinessServer-Sent Events
MCP serverHosted or local MCP server, 7 toolsMCP server for Claude Desktop

When OpticOdds may suit you better

  • You need more than 46 books. They cite 200+ sportsbooks.
  • You would rather buy through a sales team than sign up yourself.

Not sure yet? Run a real request without an account, or see which markets each book carries.

Every book on every plan

Plans differ in how much you can ask for, never in which books you see.

  1. Free$01,000 requests a month
  2. Starter$2420,000 requests a month
  3. Growth$49100,000 requests a month
  4. Scale$99500,000 requests a month
  5. Business$1995,000,000 requests a month
  6. EnterpriseFrom $499By contract

Compare every plan

Questions

Is OddsLink an alternative to OpticOdds?

Yes, for teams that want public pricing and a key today. OddsLink serves 46 books in one JSON shape with in-play odds, props, history, a WebSocket feed and an MCP server.

Can I try OddsLink without talking to sales?

Yes. The Free plan gives 1,000 requests a month with all 46 books, and /try/ runs 5 real requests a day with no account at all.

Does OddsLink carry Pinnacle?

Yes. Pinnacle is one of the 46 books, on every plan including Free, with moneylines, spreads, totals, alternate lines and period markets.

Can I build arbitrage, +EV or middles tools on OddsLink?

Yes. Every book comes back in one JSON shape on one fixture id, so comparing prices across sportsbooks, exchanges and prediction markets takes one request per sport. The free calculators at /tools/ cover no-vig prices and middles.

Try all 46 books free

The Free plan gives you 1,000 requests a month across every book.

Facts about OpticOdds come from OpticOdds's public pages, checked 28 Sep 2026.