Simple pricing, honestly cheap
Every plan gets the same Bet365 odds markets — corners and cards included. Plans differ by coverage, throughput and how far back you can go. Start free with no credit card. Community offers the same data quality with focused coverage and throughput, at $0 for those who can't yet pay.
Football API plans
Free
Explore real football odds. The five big leagues, every Bet365 market, no credit card.
- 60 requests / hour
- Top-5 leagues: EPL, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1
- All Bet365 odds markets — 1X2, Asian handicap, goals, corners, cards, halftime & BTTS — opening, closing & in-play
- Live scores, fixtures, standings & the last 3 months of results
Pro
Run a global production product. Every major league, batch odds, the $5 that names us.
- 10 requests / min
- 130+ competitions — the top flight in 84 countries, plus 34 second divisions
- Odds for a whole day's fixtures in one call
- Last 12 months of results & odds
Ultra
Research every market movement. All leagues, 20 bookmakers, history back to 2014 for supported competitions.
Business
Bulk volume and custom data work for teams that depend on it.
- Custom rate limits
- Custom stats endpoints built for your use case
- Model-backed match predictions built to your spec, with the backtest behind them walked through before you commit
- Priority support
Need a higher rate limit than Ultra?
The same Ultra data, more requests a minute.
One simple rate window per plan — hourly on Free and Community, per-minute once you are paying — with no daily caps, no monthly pools and no strict one-request-per-second gates. Every response returns X-RateLimit-* headers.
Paid plans are billed in USD through Stripe; upgrades apply to every key on your account the moment they go through.
Community Access
For students, researchers, early-career developers and anyone building with no budget. No card, no paperwork — we take your word for it.
A bigger budget should buy scale, not the right to participate.
- 300 requests / hour
- Top-5 leagues plus one country pack of your choice
- All Bet365 odds markets · last 12 months of history
Education Access
For schools and universities that teach with real data. Students join a course with a code; their institution approves them; the plan runs for the length of the course.
For government-registered educational institutions that actually run courses: you provide the registration documents, or we verify you on the official register. Free for the institution and for every student it approves.
This is the public baseline. What a course actually gets — deeper history, a higher rate — is agreed per programme to fit what it teaches.
- 10 requests / min
- 130+ competitions — the same coverage as Pro
- Odds from 20 bookmakers with the full tick history — every price move, pre-match and in-play
- Last 12 months of results & odds
Same markets everywhere. Three things change.
Which leagues, how fast and in what batches, and how far back. The odds you see on Free are the odds Ultra sees — Ultra just sees every league, every bookmaker and every tick back to 2014 for supported competitions — how deep each one goes is measured and published, not assumed.
| Free $0 | Community Access $0 | Pro $5/mo | Education Access* $0 | Ultra $25/mo | Business Contact us | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leagues | Top-5 leagues | Top-5 + one country pack | 130+ competitions | 130+ competitions | All 1,600+ | All 1,600+ |
| Bet365 snapshot markets opening, closing & in-play | All markets | All markets | All markets | All markets | All markets | All markets |
| Odds for a whole fixture list in one call | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rate window | 60 / hourmax 20 / min | 300 / hourmax 20 / min | 10 / min | 10 / min | 40 / minup to 120 / min | Custom |
| Results & odds history | Last 3 months | Last 12 months | Last 12 months | Last 12 months | Back to 2014 | Back to 2014 |
| Bookmakers | Bet365 | Bet365 | Bet365 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Odds tick history | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Attribution a linked “Football data by 5DollarFootballAPI” | Required on public products | Required on public products | Optional | Required on public products | Optional | Optional |
| Support | Docs | Docs | Priority | Priority |
* Public baseline. Partner programmes can get more benefits by agreement, to fit the course. How it works
The same features for a fraction of the price
Competitor list prices reviewed August 24, 2026. We include the odds and corner data others sell as add-ons.
| 5DollarFootballAPI | API-Football | football-data.org | SportMonks | SoccersAPI | TheSportsDB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $5/mo | $19/mo | €12 (~$13) scores only | €29 (~$31) 5 leagues | league-priced (€280 full) | $9/mo |
| Requests (entry paid) | 14,400 / day | 7,500 / day | 10→120 / min | per plan | per hour | 100 / min |
| Real-time live scores | yes | yes (15s) | no on €12 | yes | yes | ~2 min delay |
| Odds included | EU + Asian + goal line + corners + cards | pre-match + in-play, 7-day retention | €15/mo add-on | add-on / higher plans | yes (or $35 standalone) | none |
| Corner + card stats | corner line + corner & card tables | top leagues only | €15/mo add-on | yes | yes | metadata only |
| Free tier (no card) | Top-5 leagues, odds included | 100 / day | 12 competitions | 2 leagues | 3 fixed leagues | limited queries |
Competitor figures reviewed August 24, 2026 and may change. See sourced head-to-head comparisons. Names belong to their respective owners; we are not affiliated.
Frequently asked questions
You get the same core resources developers build on — live scores, fixtures, standings, teams and odds — plus corner-line odds and corner/card league tables that API-Football does not offer. We do not claim parity on player-level extras like transfers or injuries. The pitch is "their feature set, plus richer odds and corner stats, at roughly a quarter of the price."
A different business model, not different data. We run on thin margins and make it work on volume — pricing for every developer, not a handful of premium accounts. That is also why there are no add-ons or per-league packs: one flat price keeps the model simple. The price is not a teaser or an introductory rate; it is how the business is built.
European 1X2, Asian handicap, goal line (over/under), corner line, corner Asian handicap, card lines and both teams to score (BTTS) — pre-match and in-play, with opening, current and live values. Bet365 comes with every plan, and 18 more bookmakers are available on Ultra.
See what every bookmaker carries, per marketYes — no credit card required. It covers the top-5 leagues with live scores, fixtures, standings and every Bet365 odds market — corners and cards included — at 60 requests / hour, so you can see the real data before you ever pay. Fixture lists with odds expanded in one call (include=odds) start with Pro.
Two ways, neither needs a card. The live scoreboard at /scores is the API rendered as a page: today's fixtures, live scores, finished results, corners and cards for every competition we carry, from the same /v1 calls a customer makes, and each match opens its statistics, head-to-head and odds. And a free key returns the real JSON for the top-5 leagues within a minute of signing up.
Live scores, rendered from the APIThe free plan with a wider door, for students, researchers, early-career developers and anyone for whom $5 a month is a real decision: the top-5 leagues plus one country's leagues of your choice, the same Bet365 odds markets, 12 months of history and 300 requests / hour, at $0. Pick the line that describes you and a country and it is on for 12 months — on your word, and no card is asked for. Batch odds and the full league list stay with Pro; that is the plan that keeps this one free.
How Community Access worksA $0 plan for schools and universities that teach with real data, free for the institution and for every student it approves. The institution creates a course and hands out its code; students sign up, enter the code on their profile, and once approved hold the plan until the course ends. The public baseline is Pro's coverage with all 20 bookmakers and their tick history, 12 months of it, at 10 requests a minute; partner programmes can get more by agreement, to fit the course. Open to government-registered educational institutions that actually run courses — you provide the registration documents, or we verify you on the official register.
How Education Access worksOne window per plan: 60 requests / hour on Free and 300 requests / hour on Community (both also capped at 20 a minute), then 10 requests / min on Pro and 40 requests / min on Ultra. Ultra can go faster on the same data: 60 requests / min for $35, 80 for $45, 100 for $55 and 120 for $65 a month. The window belongs to your account and is shared by every key on it. No daily caps, no monthly pools. Every response includes X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset headers.
Live scores and in-play statistics are written continuously while matches run, and odds are stored tick by tick as bookmakers move their prices. Rather than quote a number here that could go stale, we publish measured freshness — per-match update ages, odds price-change frequency, result settlement completeness and independently monitored uptime — on a public status page that refreshes every minute. The same page reports event capture delay: how many match-minutes after a goal or corner it is visible in the API, measured by a probe twice a week, with the source's own retractions and minute revisions counted rather than hidden.
See the live measurementsMeasured, not claimed. For every competition we publish the share of finished matches in the last 12 months that carry corner counts, a corner line, pre-match odds, an event timeline and live statistics, plus season-by-season history back to the first season on record — recounted nightly from the same tables the API reads. Results, odds, events and live statistics sit above 99% across the board; corner lines are the column that reads lowest, around half of all finished matches, because bookmakers price corners for far fewer competitions than goals. Look your league up there before you pay.
Data quality, measured per leagueYes: build the data into commercial websites, apps, models and internal tools, display scores, statistics and odds to your end users, and cache responses. On the $0 plans — Free, Community Access and Education Access — a public-facing product (website, app, bot or published dataset) must include “Football data by 5DollarFootballAPI” with a link to the site. Attribution is optional on paid plans and for private or internal use. The one hard line is reselling or redistributing the raw data itself as a competing feed.
The full usage terms, in plain EnglishPick Pro or Ultra, monthly or annual, and check out through Stripe — card details never touch our servers. The upgrade applies to every API key on your account immediately. Cancel from your dashboard at any time and you keep the paid plan until the end of the period you already paid for.
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