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Gracenote Sports

Gracenote's Global Sports Data and Gracenote On Sports provide licensed schedules, live event data and IDs across many leagues for media, pay-TV and device makers. Access by request.

Facts verified against the provider's site on

Commercial use: not disclosedBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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SportDex Score

#151 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
26

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability
—

Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; not enough public discussion to judge.

Transparency
35

Public prices, docs, terms and coverage you can check before calling sales

Developer experience
24

Free access, docs, SDKs, OpenAPI, sandbox, realtime delivery, ecosystem

Computed from public data only; uptime and latency are not measured yet. Enterprise feeds that sell by contract score lower on transparency by design. How the score works

Starting price
Contact sales
Free access
Not disclosed
Sports
1 (Multi-sport (40+))
Live data
Not disclosed
Delivery
Not disclosed
Discussions
0 threads
GitHub adoption
52 repos

Best for

Media, pay-TV and device companies that need licensed schedules, results and Gracenote IDs across many sports.

Sports schedules for TV guidesLive event data for media appsID matching across Gracenote content

Not ideal for

Self-serve developers: access is by request only, with no public pricing or documentation of plans.

Limitations to check

  • − Access and pricing are by contact only
  • − Licence terms are set by contract
  • − Saved home and terms pages hold little sports detail

Written from the provider's own pages (source).

Last checked 2026-11-03

Gracenote Sports at a glance

What is Gracenote Sports best for?
Media, pay-TV and device companies that need licensed schedules, results and Gracenote IDs across many sports. Not ideal for: Self-serve developers: access is by request only, with no public pricing or documentation of plans.
How much does Gracenote Sports cost?
Gracenote Sports has no public price list: pricing is quoted by sales on request.
Does Gracenote Sports have a free tier?
Gracenote Sports does not say whether a free tier exists. Check https://www.gracenote.com.
What does Gracenote Sports cover?
Gracenote Sports is a b2b data feed. Its sports: Multi-sport (40+); data: Fixtures, Results, Live scores, Standings, Team stats.
What do developers say about Gracenote Sports?
Licensed sports schedule and event data sold to media and device makers by request. Everything the digest found concerns Gracenote's music-recognition and metadata APIs, or TV guide tools, not its sports data. No developer opinion on the sports product, so nothing is known about price, quality or access.
What are the alternatives to Gracenote Sports?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Sportradar, Enetpulse, Data Sports Group, HockeyTech LeagueStat, TheSportsDB.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
CustomContact sales—Licensed; contact Gracenote for credentials and termssource

Crawled home/docs were generic Gracenote pages with no sports detail; facts from web search snippets (70 sports / 300k matches per year is third-party). On API sports endpoint reportedly uses api_key param. Part of Nielsen.

Before choosing a paid plan, confirm

• What counts as one request (per call, per market, per region?)

• What happens when you exceed the quota: blocked or billed

• Whether live and historical data are on your plan

• Whether your use (public app, betting, resale) is licensed

The critical question

Data coverage

Sports
Multi-sport (40+)
Data types
FixturesResultsLive scoresStandingsTeam stats
Key competitions
Not disclosed
Competitions
Not disclosed
Live / in-play
Not disclosed
Women's competitions
Not disclosed
Betting markets
Not disclosed
Bookmaker regions
Not disclosed
Bookmakers
Not disclosed
History depth
Not disclosed
Update frequency
Not disclosed
Name languages
Not disclosed
ID mapping
Offers other providers' IDs

Coverage often depends on the plan; confirm the exact league and season on your plan.

Before you build

Usage rights & access

Rights are set in an individual contract; the public terms only cover the website.

Commercial use
Not disclosed
Betting products
Not disclosed
Redistribution
Not disclosed
Storing data
Not disclosed
Attribution
Not disclosed
Logos & photos
Not disclosed
Who can buy
Not disclosed
Verification (KYC)
Not disclosed
Not available in
Not disclosed
Only available in
Not disclosed
Read the terms

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols
Formats
XML, JSON
Authentication
Not disclosed
SDKs
Not disclosed
OpenAPI spec
Not disclosed
Claimed latency
Not disclosed
Status page
Not disclosed
Sandbox / test keys
Not disclosed
Support
Not disclosed
SLA uptime
Not disclosed
Preview brief
# Integration brief: Gracenote Sports

Goal: build a feature on Gracenote Sports data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth.

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://www.gracenote.com
- Docs: https://video-mcp-server-docs.gracenote.com/sports/Global-Sports-Data/global-sports-data-overview
- Sports: Multi-sport (40+)
- Data: Fixtures, Results, Live scores, Standings, Team stats
- Protocols: UNKNOWN — check the docs; formats: xml, json
- Auth: UNKNOWN — check the docs
- Free plan: none listed
- Note: Crawled home/docs were generic Gracenote pages with no sports detail; facts from web search snippets (70 sports / 300k matches per year is third-party). On API sports endpoint reportedly uses api_key param. Part of Nielsen.

## Verify before writing code
- authentication method
- live update frequency
- whether commercial use is allowed on the plan you pick
- exact endpoint paths, parameters and response fields (read the official docs, do not guess)

## Implementation rules
- Keep the API key on the server (environment variable, backend route or edge function); never ship it to the browser.
- Cache responses and respect rate limits; count how many requests each screen triggers.
- Handle errors explicitly: invalid key, quota exceeded (429), missing fields, empty fixtures, timeouts.
- Start with one demo request and log the raw response before building UI on assumed field names.

Data quality signals

Data source & company

Official partners
Not disclosed
How data is collected
Not disclosed
Certifications
Not disclosed
Payment methods
Not disclosed
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
Not disclosed
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Too little discussion

Licensed sports schedule and event data sold to media and device makers by request. Everything the digest found concerns Gracenote's music-recognition and metadata APIs, or TV guide tools, not its sports data. No developer opinion on the sports product, so nothing is known about price, quality or access.

Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.

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Evidence & transparency

Official sources

Facts were extracted from the provider's own pages on 2026-11-03. Empty fields mean the provider does not say, not that the feature is missing. How we know