odds-api

API Terms and Data License

These terms govern access to odds-api, the API data, paid subscriptions, account access, and customer use of odds-api.net.

Effective 1 May 2026. Version 2026-05-01.

1. Service scope

odds-api provides API access to sports, racing, bookmaker, market, odds, event, bet, result, and related data. odds-api.net markets and sells access to that API and related account, documentation, and billing flows.

odds-api is a data and software service. It is not a bookmaker, wagering operator, betting exchange, financial adviser, gambling adviser, or payment processor for bets. odds-api does not accept, place, settle, or recommend bets.

2. Software license and data license

The SDKs, examples, OpenAPI files, MCP server, and developer tooling published in the public GitHub repository may be released under their repository software license. That software license does not grant rights to access, copy, retain, redistribute, resell, or commercially exploit live or historical API data.

API access, API responses, data usage, account access, and paid subscription use are governed by these API Terms and Data License.

3. Accounts and API keys

You are responsible for activity under your account, API keys, and integrations. Keep API keys confidential, use them only for your own account or organization, and do not share keys publicly or embed them in client-side code where they can be extracted.

We may rotate, revoke, throttle, or suspend keys where needed for security, abuse prevention, non-payment, plan enforcement, legal risk, source restrictions, or service integrity.

4. Permitted use

Subject to your plan limits and these terms, you may use API data for internal analytics, modelling, dashboards, alerts, monitoring, backtesting, customer-facing websites, applications, bots, widgets, reports, and other commercial products.

Commercial use is allowed on paid plans, including paid products, affiliate or content sites, internal business tools, data dashboards, alerting products, model inputs, and customer-facing applications, provided you do not create a competing data feed or resell raw API data.

5. Prohibited use

You must not use odds-api or API data to:

  • break any law, regulation, gambling rule, licensing condition, platform rule, or third-party right;
  • offer, facilitate, or promote unlawful betting or betting in jurisdictions where your product is not permitted;
  • claim guaranteed profit, risk-free betting, certain arbitrage execution, or certain positive expected value outcomes;
  • misrepresent delayed, cached, stale, incomplete, suspended, or unavailable data as guaranteed live or complete;
  • resell, sublicense, syndicate, publish, or distribute bulk or raw API data as a standalone product or competing feed;
  • reverse engineer, scrape, overload, benchmark for competitive misuse, bypass limits, evade throttles, or interfere with the API;
  • reconstruct the source feed, bookmaker feed, or a substantially similar raw data service from API responses;
  • use the service for security abuse, credential harvesting, fraud, spam, malware, or deceptive practices.

6. Redistribution and raw snippets

You may display limited raw snippets of API data inside your own product, such as selected prices, event names, bookmaker names, market labels, timestamps, and small tables needed for the user experience.

You must not publish or provide bulk exports, database dumps, raw response archives, sublicensed datasets, API mirrors, feed endpoints, or any product that allows a third party to use odds-api data as a substitute for their own odds-api subscription.

7. Caching, retention, and historical records

You may cache API data as needed for performance, reliability, analytics, model development, audit trails, backtesting, historical snapshots, and product features. You may retain API data indefinitely unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.

Caching and retention do not expand your redistribution rights. If you display cached, delayed, or historical data, you are responsible for making freshness, delay, and availability clear where a reasonable user could otherwise believe the data is live.

8. Derivative works

You may create and own derivative outputs from API data, including analytics, scores, rankings, alerts, models, reports, charts, dashboards, historical studies, and transformed content.

Derivative works must not be used to reconstruct, expose, resell, or distribute the raw API data or a competing feed. You are responsible for your own product claims, model outputs, decisions, and customer-facing explanations.

9. Display rights

You may display odds-api data in websites, apps, bots, dashboards, widgets, internal tools, and customer-facing products. Attribution is appreciated but not required unless a separate agreement or specific endpoint documentation requires it.

Public displays must not imply that odds-api, bookmakers, sports bodies, leagues, teams, racing bodies, or data sources endorse your product. User-facing betting workflows should account for stale prices, delays, limits, voids, suspensions, bookmaker availability, jurisdictional availability, and execution risk.

10. Plans, limits, and availability

Plan features, request volumes, streaming access, historical access, and support levels are described on the pricing page or in a separate written agreement. We may enforce plan limits through throttling, quota checks, account controls, or API-key restrictions.

We may change, add, remove, suspend, or limit sports, bookmakers, markets, endpoints, schemas, fields, streaming features, regions, or historical availability where needed for product changes, source restrictions, legal risk, data quality, maintenance, cost control, or service integrity.

11. Billing, cancellation, and refunds

Paid plans renew monthly in USD unless cancelled before the next billing date. You can manage payment details, invoices, plan changes, and cancellation through the Stripe Customer Portal linked from your account page. Upgrades are handled as prorated Stripe subscription changes where available.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period unless we state otherwise in the portal or a separate written agreement. Access may continue until that period ends, subject to these terms.

Subscriptions are not routinely refundable. Refunds may be provided where required by law, for duplicate billing, for proven platform billing error, or at our discretion. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, refund right, or other right that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable law.

12. Termination and suspension

We may suspend, throttle, revoke keys, cancel access, or terminate an account if you breach these terms, fail to pay, create security risk, create legal or regulatory risk, misuse the API, threaten service integrity, breach source restrictions, or use the service in a way that could harm odds-api, customers, data sources, or third parties.

After termination, you must stop accessing the API and stop using API keys. Sections concerning data restrictions, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law, and retained data continue to apply.

13. Data-source disclaimers

API data may come from third-party sources, public sources, bookmaker information, sports or racing information, internal transformations, and derived calculations. Data may be delayed, stale, incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable, suspended, changed, removed, duplicated, mapped incorrectly, or affected by source outages and market changes.

Odds, markets, event status, start times, runners, team names, player names, results, bookmaker availability, and related fields can change quickly. odds-api does not warrant that data is live, complete, uninterrupted, error-free, suitable for betting execution, suitable for regulatory reporting, or accepted by any bookmaker, regulator, sports body, racing body, or other third party.

14. No advice or betting guarantee

API data and examples are for data, software, analytics, and product-building purposes. They are not financial, gambling, legal, tax, or investment advice. You are responsible for your own betting, trading, compliance, product, and business decisions.

Arbitrage, positive expected value, line movement, model, or alert examples do not guarantee profit, execution, availability, limits, settlement, or bookmaker acceptance.

15. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, odds-api is not liable for indirect, consequential, special, incidental, exemplary, punitive, loss-of-profit, loss-of-revenue, loss-of-data, loss-of-goodwill, trading, betting, settlement, or business-interruption losses.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, odds-api's aggregate liability for all claims relating to the service, API data, subscriptions, or these terms is capped at the amount you paid to odds-api for the service in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim.

16. Indemnity

You indemnify odds-api against claims, losses, liabilities, damages, penalties, costs, and expenses arising from your products, customer-facing displays, use or misuse of API data, unlawful betting use, regulatory breach, breach of these terms, security abuse, infringement of third-party rights, or claims made by your users, customers, partners, regulators, or other third parties.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms by posting the revised version on odds-api.net. Updated terms apply from the posted effective date. If you continue using the website, account, API, or subscription after the effective date, you accept the updated terms.

18. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. The parties submit to the courts of Queensland and the courts that can hear appeals from those courts, subject to any rights or forums that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

19. Contact

For support, billing, cancellation, security, or data-license questions, contact support@odds-api.net.