The short version: de-vigged probability APIs start at thousands per month because they're built for sportsbooks. SkipOdds is built for everyone else.
| SkipOdds | Typical devig API | Raw odds API + DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free — 250 requests/day · paid from $29/mo, self-serve | Sales-gated · reported $3,000–5,000+/mo | Metered credits + your engineering |
| De-vigged probabilities | Built in — the SkipOdds Index, one number per outcome | Built in | You write the aggregation & devig yourself |
| Sports | 13 sports, one key — soccer to golf | US sports first, built for operators | Everything, shallowly |
| Bookmaker names in responses | Never — publisher-safe | Everywhere | Everywhere |
| Line movement | De-vigged consensus deltas | Per-book ticks | DIY |
| Embeddable widget | Free — two lines, any sport | — | — |
| AI assistants (MCP) | Built in at /mcp — no key needed to start | — | Community wrappers, bring your own key |
| Live demos | Eleven production storefronts | — | — |
| Setup | One curl with the demo key | Sales call | Weeks of pipeline work |
Comparison reflects published entry pricing of comparable services as of August 2026; verify current pricing with each vendor.
The table above compares categories. This one names two vendors a buyer actually shortlists: one self-serve, one enterprise. Cells marked not published are things those vendors do not state publicly — we are not going to guess on their behalf.
| SkipOdds | SportsGameOdds | OpticOdds | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 250 requests/day (~7,500/mo) | 2,500 objects/mo | None |
| Entry paid plan | $29 — 5,000/day | $99 — 100,000/mo | Sales quote |
| High volume | $199 — 500,000/day | $299 — unlimited | Sales quote |
| How you start | One curl, no signup | Self-serve signup | Book a demo |
| De-vigged probabilities | Built in — one number per outcome | Raw odds — you devig | Not published |
| Bookmaker names in responses | Never — publisher-safe | Returned | Not published |
| AI assistants (MCP) | Built in, keyless to start | Community wrapper, your key | Not published |
| Coverage | 13 sports · 69+ books | 53 leagues · 82 books | 200+ sportsbooks |
Read the coverage row honestly: both cover more books than we do, and OpticOdds covers far more. If you need 200 sportsbooks, per-book prices with names attached, or full prop and alternate-line depth, buy theirs. What SkipOdds sells is the cleaned consensus — one honest number per outcome, publisher-safe, de-vig already done, and an endpoint an AI assistant can call without a key or a sales call.
Competitor pricing and coverage as published by each vendor, checked August 2026. Verify current terms directly.
The expensive players serve sportsbooks and professional bettors: hundreds of books, dozens of sports, per-tick feeds, compliance teams, sales engineers. All of that cost lands in the price. SkipOdds does one narrow thing with a fully automated pipeline — survey the market, strip the margin, serve the answer from the edge — and runs in production every day powering WunderGoal and eleven sibling storefronts across thirteen sports. No sales team, no per-seat licensing, no surcharge for sports you don't use.
Raw bookmaker odds overstate every outcome — the margin ("vig") is baked in, and the implied probabilities sum to 105–110%. Publish those and your content quietly inherits the bookmaker's bias. SkipOdds aggregates the surveyed prices per outcome and normalises them so probabilities sum to exactly 100%. That cleaned number is the SkipOdds Index — the market's actual opinion, ready to print. And because responses never name a bookmaker, there's nothing gambling-adjacent to moderate: it's a weather report for sports.
Win probabilities on previews for any of 13 sports — via the free widget or the API — without a betting license conversation.
"The market gives City 68%" reads better than three columns of odds. One request per competition returns the whole slate.
The Scale tier: 500k req/day and a 14-day movement window for market screens and closing-line analysis — at a hobbyist's price, not an operator's.
A clean market baseline to score models against, with movement history for calibration studies.
If you need per-bookmaker prices with names attached, US sports, player-prop screens across every book, or sub-second trading feeds — the enterprise vendors earn their price and you should pay it. SkipOdds provides the cleaned consensus, not the raw tape.
curl https://skipodds.com/v1/fixtures -H "x-api-key: skipodds-demo-2026"