OddsJam is a genuinely polished product - for bettors. Its odds Screen is one of the best no-code tools in the market. But if you came here as a developer wanting an API, their path runs through a “Have us reach out” contact form with no published price (oddsjam.com, read 2026-08-25). ParlayAPI is the other model: a self-serve odds API you can sign up for and call in minutes, with a free tier and no credit card.
Most OddsJam customers aren't API customers. Knowing which product you actually need is the whole decision.
A bettor-facing web app: real-time odds screens for main markets, alternate markets, and player props, custom weighted consensus lines, line-movement notifications, and Slack / Microsoft Teams integrations. It's a finished tool you use, not a data feed you build on. If this is what you want, ParlayAPI is not a substitute - we don't make a screen.
An enterprise data feed advertising real-time odds from 100+ sportsbooks, player props, injury data, schedules, scores, deep links, push feeds, and a bet auto-grader. Access is contact-sales: the page's calls to action are a contact form and “Contact us to get started,” with no published pricing and no self-serve signup as of 2026-08-25.
ParlayAPI numbers are measured against our own production database and API, as of 2026-08. OddsJam claims are read from oddsjam.com on 2026-08-25 and cited inline in the page source. Where we couldn't find a public number for OddsJam, we say so instead of guessing.
| Feature | ParlayAPI | OddsJam |
|---|---|---|
| Getting an API key | Self-serve signup, key issued immediately, no card | Contact form (“Have us reach out”), then a sales conversation |
| Published API pricing | Fixed self-serve tiers at /pricing | None published; their API page's own FAQ poses “What is the price of the OddsJam API?” without displaying one |
| Free tier | 1,000 credits/month, no credit card required | No public free API tier found on their site as of 2026-08-25 |
| Sportsbooks & sources | 45+ distinct sources wrote odds in the trailing 24h (a measured “currently live” count) | 100+ sportsbooks claimed their sitewide claim; not the same definition as our measured 24h count |
| Sports / leagues | 92 sports/leagues advertised (55 soccer leagues) | Major leagues named (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UFC, soccer); no total count published |
| Player props depth | 4,241 distinct prop market keys in the trailing 24h | Real-time player props and alternate markets advertised; no market-count published |
| Historical odds | 1.7M+ game closing lines from 2005; 30M+ prop closing lines since 2022 - counts published | “Full historical odds database” advertised; no row counts or depth published |
| Streaming | WebSocket and SSE on Business tier and up - see /pricing | Push feeds advertised (terms not public) |
| Injury data, schedules, rosters, results | Not published | ✓ Injury reports, schedules & rosters, game and player results |
| Sportsbook deep links + bet auto-grader | Not published | ✓ Deep links to the exact wager; bet-grading endpoint |
| Prediction markets | ✓ Polymarket + Kalshi in the same schema as sportsbooks | Not listed on their API page as of 2026-08-25 |
| MCP / AI-agent tooling | 22-tool MCP server (parlayapi-mcp on PyPI) |
No public MCP server found on their site as of 2026-08-25 |
OddsJam claims read from oddsjam.com on 2026-08-25, cited inline in the page source. ParlayAPI figures come from our internal verified-numbers ledger, measured 2026-08 against production. We intentionally don't reprint our own dollar pricing here - it lives at /pricing so this page can't drift stale.
Worth reading before committing to any subscription product - theirs or anyone's. All figures and quotes below are from OddsJam's public Trustpilot profile (trustpilot.com/review/oddsjam.com), read 2026-08-25. Two honest caveats: these reviews are overwhelmingly about OddsJam's consumer Screen subscriptions, not their enterprise API - and the distribution is polarized, with nearly as many five-star reviews as one-star.
“Canceled the subscription before the free trial. I saw they still charged me… they refused to refund.”
“Never took their subscription. Woke up with a $354 charge on my account.”
“I cancelled my subscription with this company … and was STILL billed for the month.”
These are the reviewers' own accounts, not ours; we can't verify individual billing disputes. The pattern we can verify is the rating itself: 2.7/5 with 49% one-star as of the read date. ParlayAPI's free tier requires no card, so evaluating us costs nothing to cancel.
The operator brief we write these pages under requires naming what the other product does better. Here it is, plainly.
OddsJam's dashboards and UX are more polished than anything ParlayAPI offers - we don't even ship a screen. Custom weighted consensus lines, real-time notifications, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, injuries/scores/weather in one view. If you're a bettor who wants finished arb/+EV tooling without writing code, stay with OddsJam - ParlayAPI would be a downgrade for you.
Injury reports, schedules and rosters, game and player results, deep links that send a user to the exact wager at the right sportsbook, and a bet auto-grading endpoint - none of which ParlayAPI publishes today. If your product needs those alongside odds, OddsJam covers in one contract what we'd only partially cover.
They advertise infrastructure processing over 1 million odds per second and custom API endpoints with dedicated support for high-volume use . If you're a syndicate or operator with enterprise budget and you want a white-glove vendor relationship, their sales-led model is a feature, not a bug.
No sales call. Sign up, grab the key from your dashboard, call the API. The free tier's 1,000 monthly credits are enough to evaluate the data before you spend anything.
# sign up free at /auth?signup=1, then: curl "https://parlay-api.com/v1/sports/basketball_nba/odds?regions=us&markets=h2h&apiKey=YOUR_KEY"
pip install parlay-api from parlay_api import ParlayAPI client = ParlayAPI(api_key="YOUR_KEY") events = client.odds("americanfootball_nfl", regions="us", markets="h2h,spreads,totals") props = client.props("americanfootball_nfl", markets=["player_pass_tds"])
SDK on GitHub: JacobiusMakes/parlay-api-python (MIT-licensed). Full endpoint reference at /docs.
ParlayAPI does. We compete with OddsJam's odds API, and we say so up front. Every OddsJam claim on this page is sourced to OddsJam's own site or to Trustpilot, with the URL and the date we read it. Every ParlayAPI number comes from our own measured internal ledger as of 2026-08.
Not that their site shows. As of 2026-08-25, oddsjam.com's API page has no published pricing and no self-serve signup: access starts with a “Have us reach out” contact form, and the page's own FAQ lists the question “What is the price of the OddsJam API?” without displaying a price on the page. ParlayAPI's API is self-serve with a free tier of 1,000 credits/month, no card required.
Several real things. OddsJam's bettor-facing Screen is a genuinely polished product: real-time odds screens with custom weighted consensus lines, notifications, and Slack/Microsoft Teams integrations - a no-code experience we don't offer at all. Their data catalog is also broader in kind: injury reports, schedules and rosters, game and player results, deep links, and a bet auto-grader, none of which ParlayAPI currently publishes. And they advertise serious scale: infrastructure processing over 1 million odds per second, per their own site.
If you're a bettor rather than a builder, OddsJam is the finished product and ParlayAPI is a box of parts - stay with their Screen. Also stay if your product needs injury data, schedules, rosters, or sportsbook deep links (we don't publish those), or if you're an operation with the budget for enterprise sales and want their white-glove path.
As of 2026-08-25, OddsJam's Trustpilot profile shows a 2.7/5 TrustScore across 94 reviews, split sharply: 44% five-star and 49% one-star. The most common recent one-star theme is billing on their consumer subscriptions - reviewers reporting charges after cancelling and refused refunds. These reviews concern their consumer Screen subscriptions, not specifically their enterprise API. Read them yourself at trustpilot.com/review/oddsjam.com before deciding either way.
Sign up free with 1,000 credits, no card required. If OddsJam turns out to be the better fit for your use case, you've lost nothing.