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Timeform

UK racing and greyhound data and ratings house owned by Flutter, selling racecards, results and ratings to commercial customers via an API; B2B distribution handled by PA Betting Services.

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Commercial use: Licence requiredBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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SportDex Score

#153 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
37

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
2

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
3 (Horse racing, Greyhound racing…)
Live data
Not disclosed
Delivery
Not disclosed
Discussions
3 threads
GitHub adoption
8 repos

Best for

Commercial customers wanting UK racing and greyhound ratings, racecards and results from a long-running ratings house, bought through a B2B licence.

Racing racecards and resultsRatings-based betting products

Not ideal for

Hobby or self-serve developers; API access is by commercial agreement and prices are not public.

Limitations to check

  • − No public API documentation or pricing
  • − Website terms bar copying and scraping without written permission
  • − The API does not carry bookmaker prices per a search snippet

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

Last checked 2026-11-03

Timeform at a glance

What is Timeform best for?
Commercial customers wanting UK racing and greyhound ratings, racecards and results from a long-running ratings house, bought through a B2B licence. Not ideal for: Hobby or self-serve developers; API access is by commercial agreement and prices are not public.
How much does Timeform cost?
Timeform has no public price list: pricing is quoted by sales on request.
Does Timeform have a free tier?
Timeform does not say whether a free tier exists. Check https://timeform.com/commercial/products.
What does Timeform cover?
Timeform is a b2b data feed. Its sports: Horse racing, Greyhound racing, Football (soccer); data: Fixtures, Historical data, Predictions, Results, Team stats.
Can I use Timeform data commercially or for betting?
According to the public terms of Timeform — commercial use: licence required; redistribution: licence required.
What do developers say about Timeform?
UK racing ratings and data house whose API is licensed to commercial customers. Discussion is minimal: an old comment says its licensed data is beyond most individuals' budgets, and hobbyist repos and tutorials mostly scrape the website instead. No evidence of hands-on API experience, so quality, latency and support are unknown.
What are the alternatives to Timeform?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: Data Sports Group, Punting Form, Football Charts, StatPal, TrackMaster (Equibase).

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
EnterpriseContact sales—Published commercial packages; prices not publicsource

Home page crawl only plus search snippets; package pricing and current PABS arrangement not confirmed. No bookmaker prices in the API per search snippet.

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
Horse racingGreyhound racingFootball (soccer)
Data types
FixturesHistorical dataPredictionsResultsTeam 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
early 1990s (racing)
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
Licence requiredsource
Betting products
Not disclosed
Redistribution
Licence required
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

Website users must be over 18.

Read the terms

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols
Formats
Not disclosed
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: Timeform

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

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://www.timeform.com
- Docs: UNKNOWN — find the developer docs first
- Sports: Horse racing, Greyhound racing, Football (soccer)
- Data: Fixtures, Historical data, Predictions, Results, Team stats
- Protocols: UNKNOWN — check the docs; formats: UNKNOWN — check the docs
- Auth: UNKNOWN — check the docs
- Free plan: none listed
- Note: Home page crawl only plus search snippets; package pricing and current PABS arrangement not confirmed. No bookmaker prices in the API per search snippet.

## Verify before writing code
- authentication method
- live update frequency
- 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
United Kingdom
Founded
1948

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What developers say

Too little discussionpricinglegal

UK racing ratings and data house whose API is licensed to commercial customers. Discussion is minimal: an old comment says its licensed data is beyond most individuals' budgets, and hobbyist repos and tutorials mostly scrape the website instead. No evidence of hands-on API experience, so quality, latency and support are unknown.

Praised for

    Nothing specific.

    Complaints

    • Licensed data seen as too costly for individuals
    • Hobbyists resort to scraping

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

    Discussions

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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