The comfortable middle vs. the actual builder stack.
SportsGameOdds sits in the comfortable mid-tier of the odds-API market. $99/month gets you real-time odds across the major U.S. sports, soccer, and a unified schema across books. It is what you graduate to when The Odds API's credit meter starts hurting and OpticOdds is too expensive.
It is also where most builders plateau, because mid-tier odds without an edge surface, hit rates, or an AI endpoint is the same data shape as the starter feed — just at a higher price. You ship the same product you were going to ship, just with more headroom.
MoneyLine is the alternative for the builder who wants to spend that mid-tier budget on the rest of the product instead. Same kind of real-time odds. Plus +EV, arbitrage, hit rates, and a grounded AI endpoint, all on a free tier with paid plans starting in the low double-digits.
Tale of the tape
| | Competitor | MoneyLine | |---|---|---| | Pricing | Real-time access starts at $99/mo. Free tier exists for evaluation. | Free tier covering personal AND commercial use, with every endpoint included. Paid plans start in the low double-digits. | | Coverage | NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, and more, with unified schema across books. | NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAF, NCAAB with canonical event IDs across odds, props, and edges. | | Edge data | Raw lines only — no pre-computed +EV / arbitrage. | +EV, value, and arbitrage as first-class endpoints with guardrails. | | Player props with hit rates | Player props for major U.S. sports; hit rates not first-class. | L5 / L10 / L25 / season hit rates pre-computed per market and line. | | AI / LLM endpoint | None. | /v1/ai/chat with grounded responses and a stable presentation contract. |