1,000 credits every month, no credit card, no expiry. Real sportsbook odds across 32 books and prediction markets, plus a set of endpoints that never cost a credit at all. Build and test a real integration before you pay a cent.
Get a free key Try with no signup →Your free key hits the same live endpoints as paying customers — odds, player props, events, EV, arbitrage, consensus, historical. Nothing is walled off; you just have a monthly credit budget.
Renews monthly, no card on file. Player props are 3 credits a call, most reads are cheaper, so it's plenty to prototype, backtest a model, or run a small side project.
Live source-quality, per-book SLA thresholds, parser-coverage, uptime status, and the changelog are always free, no budget touched — poll them as much as you want.
The free tier doesn't expire. It's where you land and stay — and the tier paid plans revert to if you ever cancel, so you're never cut off. Upgrade only when your volume outgrows it.
| Endpoint | Returns |
|---|---|
GET /v1/status | Live uptime + per-source freshness. |
GET /v1/meta/source-quality | Every source's freshness classification. |
GET /v1/meta/per-book-sla | The exact SLA thresholds we grade books against. |
GET /v1/meta/parser-coverage | Which markets each book actually provides. |
GET /v1/meta/changelog | Machine-readable release log. |
No vendor hand-waving on coverage or freshness — it's all public, no auth, no credits.
# Sign up (no card), grab your key, then: curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_FREE_KEY" \ "https://parlay-api.com/v1/sports/baseball_mlb/odds?markets=h2h,spreads,totals" # These cost you nothing at all: curl "https://parlay-api.com/v1/status" curl "https://parlay-api.com/v1/meta/parser-coverage"
Prefer to look before signing up? The /try playground serves live odds with no key at all.
None. The free tier exists so you can build against real data before paying. When your polling volume outgrows 1,000 credits, or you want Pinnacle as your sharp anchor, you upgrade — Starter is $5/month. Until then, free is free.
No. Sign up with an email, get a key, start calling — no card required. And the free tier itself never expires.
Pinnacle lines and the higher monthly credit budgets are Starter ($5/mo) and up. Everything else — the endpoints, the 32 books, DFS apps, prediction markets — is the same.
Yes. Free keys read the same live feed as paid; there's no delayed or degraded free dataset.
1,000 credits a month, no card, no expiry. Upgrade to Starter ($5/mo) for Pinnacle and more headroom whenever you're ready — not before.
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