Football data API from $5/month — everything included for $25
The same live scores, fixtures, standings and odds developers already build on — plus corner-line, Asian-handicap and card odds no cheap API carries. Real data, clean JSON, a free tier to start.
No credit card · free tier included · live in under a minute
curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/fixtures?status=live
-H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"{
"success": 1,
"data": [
{
"id": 422841891,
"league": {
"name": "USA USL Cup"
},
"teams": {
"home": {
"name": "Birmingham Legion FC"
},
"away": {
"name": "Tulsa"
}
},
"status": "in_play",
"goals": {
"home": 2,
"away": 1
},
"corners": {
"home": 7,
"away": 3
}
}
]
}Same data. A fraction of the price.
Everything included for $25
Sportmonks charges €249 for 120 leagues and reserves full coverage for Enterprise; football-data.org reaches €199 for 100 competitions, with odds still an add-on. Here $25 covers every league, every market, and the history.
Odds nobody ships cheap
1X2, Asian handicap, goal line, corner and card markets — pre-match and in-play, with real line movement, not a single snapshot or a 7-day cap.
The history they all delete
Most APIs wipe odds history 7 days after kickoff — even their premium feeds. We keep every price move and result back to 2014 — the full tick history ships with the Ultra plan, ready to pull for backtesting with one key.
See the tick history at work: What Is the First Goal Worth? →The data the big APIs skip.
Corners, cards and esoccer — the markets serious modelers actually trade are the ones most APIs skip or paywall. Here they're part of the standard feed.
- Corner-line & Asian-corner odds (opening / closing / in-play)
- Corner & card league tables via one parameter
- Timestamped corner events in every match timeline
- Card lines and yellow/red totals per fixture
- Esoccer fixtures & odds via one ?esports parameter — leagues most APIs don't carry (Ultra plan)
- Team & league names in 21 languages via ?lang, with English fallback
curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/fixtures/{id}/odds?market=corner
-H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"{
"success": 1,
"data": {
"fixture_id": 422841891,
"bookmakers": [
{
"slug": "bet365",
"odds": {
"corner_line": {
"opening": {
"line": 9.5,
"over": 1.85,
"under": 1.85
},
"closing": {
"line": 10.5,
"over": 1.9,
"under": 1.8
},
"inplay": {
"line": 11,
"over": 2,
"under": 1.7
}
}
}
}
]
}
}The same features, a fraction of the price
List prices as of 2026. We lead on price and bundle the odds and corner data others charge extra for.
| 5DollarFootballAPI | API-Football | football-data.org | SportMonks | SoccersAPI | TheSportsDB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $5/mo | $19/mo | €12 (~$13) scores only | €29 (~$31) 5 leagues | league-priced (€280 full) | $9/mo |
| Requests (entry paid) | 14,400 / day | 7,500 / day | 10→120 / min | per plan | per hour | 100 / min |
| Real-time live scores | yes | yes (15s) | no on €12 | yes | yes | ~2 min delay |
| Odds included | EU + Asian + goal line + corners + cards | pre-match + in-play, 7-day retention | €15/mo add-on | add-on / higher plans | yes (or $35 standalone) | none |
| Corner + card stats | corner line + corner & card tables | top leagues only | €15/mo add-on | yes | yes | metadata only |
| Free tier (no card) | Top-5 leagues, odds included | 100 / day | 12 competitions | 2 leagues | 3 fixed leagues | limited queries |
Competitor figures reviewed August 24, 2026 and may change. See sourced head-to-head comparisons. Names belong to their respective owners; we are not affiliated.
For individuals and for institutions
Everyone gets a free key with the top-5 leagues and no card. Two more $0 plans go further: one for people, one for schools.
Community Access
Students, researchers, early-career developers and anyone for whom $5 a month is a real decision. Pick the line that describes you and it is on — no card, no paperwork.
- Top-5 leagues plus one country pack of your choice
- All Bet365 odds markets and the last 12 months of history
- 300 requests / hour, renewable every 12 months
Education Access
For schools and universities that teach with real data. Free for the institution and for every student it approves: create a course, hand out its code, approve the students who apply.
- 130+ competitions — the same coverage as Pro
- Odds from 20 bookmakers with the full tick history
- Students hold the plan for the length of the course; partner programmes can get more
Education partners
Your first call in three steps
Create a free account
Sign up and we issue a working API key instantly — no card.
Add your key
Send it as an Authorization: Bearer header on every request.
Call the API
Hit /v1/fixtures, /odds, /standings and more. Clean JSON back.
Frequently asked questions
You get the same core resources developers build on — live scores, fixtures, standings, teams and odds — plus corner-line odds and corner/card league tables that API-Football does not offer. We do not claim parity on player-level extras like transfers or injuries. The pitch is "their feature set, plus richer odds and corner stats, at roughly a quarter of the price."
A different business model, not different data. We run on thin margins and make it work on volume — pricing for every developer, not a handful of premium accounts. That is also why there are no add-ons or per-league packs: one flat price keeps the model simple. The price is not a teaser or an introductory rate; it is how the business is built.
European 1X2, Asian handicap, goal line (over/under), corner line, corner Asian handicap, card lines and both teams to score (BTTS) — pre-match and in-play, with opening, current and live values. Bet365 comes with every plan, and 18 more bookmakers are available on Ultra.
See what every bookmaker carries, per marketYes — no credit card required. It covers the top-5 leagues with live scores, fixtures, standings and every Bet365 odds market — corners and cards included — at 60 requests / hour, so you can see the real data before you ever pay. Fixture lists with odds expanded in one call (include=odds) start with Pro.
The free plan with a wider door, for students, researchers, early-career developers and anyone for whom $5 a month is a real decision: the top-5 leagues plus one country's leagues of your choice, the same Bet365 odds markets, 12 months of history and 300 requests / hour, at $0. Pick the line that describes you and a country and it is on for 12 months — on your word, and no card is asked for. Batch odds and the full league list stay with Pro; that is the plan that keeps this one free.
How Community Access worksA $0 plan for schools and universities that teach with real data, free for the institution and for every student it approves. The institution creates a course and hands out its code; students sign up, enter the code on their profile, and once approved hold the plan until the course ends. The public baseline is Pro's coverage with all 20 bookmakers and their tick history, 12 months of it, at 10 requests a minute; partner programmes can get more by agreement, to fit the course. Open to government-registered educational institutions that actually run courses — you provide the registration documents, or we verify you on the official register.
How Education Access worksOne window per plan: 60 requests / hour on Free and 300 requests / hour on Community (both also capped at 20 a minute), then 10 requests / min on Pro and 40 requests / min on Ultra. Ultra can go faster on the same data: 60 requests / min for $35, 80 for $45, 100 for $55 and 120 for $65 a month. The window belongs to your account and is shared by every key on it. No daily caps, no monthly pools. Every response includes X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset headers.
Live scores and in-play statistics are written continuously while matches run, and odds are stored tick by tick as bookmakers move their prices. Rather than quote a number here that could go stale, we publish measured freshness — per-match update ages, odds price-change frequency, result settlement completeness and independently monitored uptime — on a public status page that refreshes every minute.
See the live measurementsYes: build the data into commercial websites, apps, models and internal tools, display scores, statistics and odds to your end users, and cache responses. On the $0 plans — Free, Community Access and Education Access — a public-facing product (website, app, bot or published dataset) must include “Football data by 5DollarFootballAPI” with a link to the site. Attribution is optional on paid plans and for private or internal use. The one hard line is reselling or redistributing the raw data itself as a competing feed.
The full usage terms, in plain EnglishPick Pro or Ultra, monthly or annual, and check out through Stripe — card details never touch our servers. The upgrade applies to every API key on your account immediately. Cancel from your dashboard at any time and you keep the paid plan until the end of the period you already paid for.
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