How much does the Sportradar API cost
There is no public price list. Sportradar sells its sports data and odds APIs through a sales process, and the number you get depends on the products, sports and usage in your quote. Its developer portal lets you start a trial, but a production key comes with a signed agreement, not a checkout page.
Outside estimates exist, and they disagree with each other. The sportsapis.dev directory files Sportradar in its top price band of $1,000 a month and up. Comparison pages written by rival data vendors quote anything from roughly €1,300 a month to $10,000 a month and more. None of those figures come from Sportradar, and most come from companies that sell a competing feed, so treat them as a rough floor rather than a quote.
What buyers do report consistently is the shape of the deal: an annual term, a minimum commitment, and a price that grows with every extra sport, league or product you add. For a new operator that is the real budgeting problem. You often need to commit to a year before you have a single customer.
Does Sportradar have a free trial
Yes, for most of its REST APIs. You create an account on the Sportradar developer portal and add a trial for each product you want to test. Sportradar's own integration guidance describes trials as lasting 30 days with 1,000 calls in total and a limit of 1 query per second. Some sport documentation lists different trial lengths, so check the terms shown on your account.
Not every product can be trialled on your own. Push feeds and the probabilities product require a conversation with sales before you get access. That matters for live betting, because push delivery is exactly what an in-play product needs. A trial on a polled endpoint at 1 query per second shows you the data model, but it does not show you how the feed behaves during a busy Saturday of live markets.
The RealTimeBets sandbox key is a one-time test as well: one sport, 60 seconds behind real time, 1,000 requests over 7 days, and the streaming endpoint is included so you can test reconnects and suspensions before you pay.
What drives a Sportradar quote up
Because the price is built line by line, it helps to know which lines move it. These are the factors buyers and directories mention most often.
- Number of products. Live odds, prematch odds, player props, futures, probabilities and the sport data APIs are separate products. Each one you add is another line on the quote.
- Sports and leagues. Coverage spans more than 50 sports, with separate APIs for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and NCAA. Every additional league adds cost.
- Delivery. Polled REST access is the entry point. Push feeds for in-play markets are a sales-led product.
- Usage tier. Sportradar documents that its tiers depend on how often you pull from the real-time feeds, and every key carries a rolling 30 day quota and a per-second limit.
- Contract length and audience. Annual terms with minimums are the norm, and a betting use case is priced differently from a media one.
If your shortlist only needs live prices, suspensions and settlement for the major sports, a lot of those lines are spend you do not need yet.
| Provider | Published price | How you buy | Trial | Push for live | Own pricing models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RealTimeBets | From $499/mo ($249/mo yearly) | Checkout, no sales call | Sandbox key, 1,000 requests over 7 days | Yes, every plan | Yes, fair probability and margin in payload |
| Sportradar | Not published, quote-based | Sales process, annual contract | 30 days, 1,000 calls, 1 query per second (REST) | Yes, via sales | Probabilities product via sales |
| SportsDataIO | Not published | Trial, then sales process | Yes, free trial | Not published | Not published |
| The Odds API | $30 to $249/mo | Self-serve | 500 free credits | No, polling | No, aggregated bookmaker lines |
A published-price alternative for live odds
RealTimeBets Platform is a live odds API and pricing engine with its prices on the pricing page. Every plan is bought at checkout, monthly or yearly at half the monthly rate, and you can cancel at the end of any paid period.
- Starter, $499 a month ($249 a month billed yearly). Live odds over REST and streaming push for 3 sports, the event data feed, 500,000 requests and 2 streaming connections, embeddable widgets and signed settlement webhooks.
- Growth, $1,999 a month ($999 a month billed yearly). Every sport and CS2, the micro-market generator with automatic suspension, the risk engine, model-based pricing with your margin, 5,000,000 requests and 10 streaming connections.
- Enterprise, $4,999 a month ($2,499 a month billed yearly). Everything in Growth plus a white label front on your domain, your wallet integration, cash out, SSO, audit log and a 99.95% uptime SLA.
The prices come from our own statistical models, recomputed every second, with the fair probability and the margin in every payload. That is a different product from a data house that resells official league data, and the next section is honest about where that difference matters. The full payload is described on the odds API page, and the raw scores and incidents feed on the sports data API page.
When Sportradar is still the right choice
Sportradar is one of the largest sports data companies in the world, and for some buyers nothing smaller will do. Pick it, or a similar data house, when any of these apply.
- You need official league data. Several US states, Illinois and Tennessee among them, have rules that tie certain in-play wagers to official league data. If your regulator or a league agreement requires an official feed, you need a provider that holds those rights.
- You need very broad coverage. Our engine prices soccer, basketball, tennis, American football, ice hockey, baseball and CS2. If your book lists table tennis, cricket, darts or lower divisions across dozens of countries, a large data house covers far more.
- You need managed trading. Large operators that outsource trading to a team of people buy services, not just a feed.
Plenty of operators run both: an official feed where the law or a league contract requires it, and a self-serve engine for the micro-markets and live props that keep customers betting between big moments. The micro betting page shows what those short-window markets look like.
Budgeting a live odds feed for a new licensed operator
For a new US or international book, the first year usually decides whether the data bill is survivable. A simple way to compare offers is to price the first 12 months, including the minimum commitment, against the revenue you can realistically expect from live betting in that year.
On published prices the math is short. Growth billed yearly is $11,988 for the year and covers every sport, micro-markets, risk and settlement. Starter billed yearly is $2,988 and suits an affiliate, a media group or an odds comparison site that shows prices next to content. An upgrade charges the difference immediately, so you can start small and move up when volume arrives instead of committing to the top tier on day one.
When you get a quote from any enterprise data house, ask for the same four numbers so the comparison is fair: the annual minimum, the price per extra sport or league, whether push delivery is included, and what happens to the price at renewal. If you are still choosing the delivery model, our guide on how to choose a live odds API walks through the request math for polling versus push.
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