Odds API
TheRundown
Odds, scores, stats and play-by-play API covering North American leagues, soccer, tennis, cricket and more, with data from 25+ sportsbooks and a free tier.
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Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; not enough public discussion to judge.
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
- $49/mo
- Free access
- Free tier
- Sports
- 10 (American football, Basketball…)
- Live data
- Not disclosed
- Delivery
- Streaming (WebSocket)
- Discussions
- 1 threads
- GitHub adoption
- 12 repos
Best for
Developers building odds comparison, scores and play-by-play tools for North American sports who want a free tier and clear monthly tiers.
Not ideal for
Teams that need real-time odds without paying: free is 5 minutes delayed, and live odds start at the Starter plan.
Limitations to check
- − Free plan covers 3 sportsbooks and prematch odds only, with a 5-minute delay
- − Plans meter data points, not requests
- − WebSocket needs the Ultra plan or higher
- − Starter is for personal use; commercial display begins at Pro
- − Terms page could not be read
Written from the provider's own pages (source).
Last checked 2026-11-03
TheRundown at a glance
- What is TheRundown best for?
- Developers building odds comparison, scores and play-by-play tools for North American sports who want a free tier and clear monthly tiers. Not ideal for: Teams that need real-time odds without paying: free is 5 minutes delayed, and live odds start at the Starter plan.
- How much does TheRundown cost?
- The cheapest public paid plan of TheRundown is $49/mo. Listed plans: Starter $49/mo; Pro $149/mo; Ultra $399/mo; Super $649/mo; Mega $999/mo.
- Does TheRundown have a free tier?
- Yes. TheRundown lists a free plan called "Free" (200,000 requests per month).
- What does TheRundown cover?
- TheRundown is a odds api. Its sports: American football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice hockey, Football (soccer), Tennis, Cricket, MMA and 2 more; data: Historical data, Odds, Play-by-play, Live scores, Team stats.
- Does TheRundown have a WebSocket or streaming API?
- Yes. TheRundown pushes data continuously: WebSocket.
- What do developers say about TheRundown?
- Odds and scores API with a free tier, offered directly and via RapidAPI. Very little real discussion: one old Stack Overflow question about a 404 and a few repos, including a sportsbook ingestion service and an odds API benchmark that lists it among rivals. No user opinion on quality or price is available.
- What are the alternatives to TheRundown?
- Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: BALLDONTLIE, SportsDataIO, OpticOdds, Odds-API.io, Sportrix.
Commercial decision
Pricing & plan limits
| Plan | Price | Requests | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 200,000 / month | 3 sportsbooks, prematch odds, 5 min delay, 1 req/s, REST onlysource |
| Starter | $49/mo | — | Live odds, 60s delay, 2 req/s, 25M data points/month, personal usesource |
| Pro | $149/mo | — | 30s delay, 5 req/s, 125M data points, commercial display with attributionsource |
| Ultra | $399/mo | — | Real-time, REST + WebSocket, 10 req/s, 500M data pointssource |
| Super | $649/mo | — | Real-time, 15 req/s, 1.25B data pointssource |
| Mega | $999/mo | — | Real-time, 20 req/s, 2.5B data pointssource |
| Max | $2,499/mo | — | Real-time, 50 req/s, 12.5B data pointssource |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | — | Custom limits, SLA, 50 WebSocket connectionssource |
Free tier limit shown is 200,000 data points/month (20,000/day); plans meter data points, not requests. Plan table obtained via page summarizer. Also offers a consumer odds screen (separate).
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
- American footballBasketballBaseballIce hockeyFootball (soccer)TennisCricketMMAGolfMotorsport
- Data types
- Historical dataOddsPlay-by-playLive scoresTeam 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
- odds history 7 to 365 days depending on plan
- Update frequency
- Not disclosed
- Name languages
- Not disclosed
- ID mapping
- Not disclosed
Coverage often depends on the plan; confirm the exact league and season on your plan.
Before you build
Usage rights & access
- 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
Developer-ready evaluation
Integration & documentation
- Protocols
- RESTWebSocket
- Formats
- JSON
- Authentication
- api key
- 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: TheRundown Goal: build a feature on TheRundown data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth. ## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them) - Website: https://therundown.io - Docs: https://therundown.io/api - Sports: American football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice hockey, Football (soccer), Tennis, Cricket, MMA, Golf, Motorsport - Data: Historical data, Odds, Play-by-play, Live scores, Team stats - Protocols: REST, WebSocket; formats: json - Auth: api_key - Free plan: Free, 200000 requests per month - Cheapest paid plan: $49/mo - Note: Free tier limit shown is 200,000 data points/month (20,000/day); plans meter data points, not requests. Plan table obtained via page summarizer. Also offers a consumer odds screen (separate). ## Verify before writing code - 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
Odds and scores API with a free tier, offered directly and via RapidAPI. Very little real discussion: one old Stack Overflow question about a 404 and a few repos, including a sportsbook ingestion service and an odds API benchmark that lists it among rivals. No user opinion on quality or price is available.
Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.
Discussions
- 404 page not found when requesting JSON from The Rundown APIStack Overflow · 2020-10
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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