Comparison
Fast Odds API vs Krok Odds: an alternative built around Australian bookmakers
Krok Odds: Australian, ABN 51 388 454 681; a punters' product (the Apex arbitrage scanner and a Discord) with an API beside it. Its strength is racing and sports in one Australian-dollar subscription, with arbitrage, +EV and middles already computed for you. Here is how it lines up against Fast Odds API on twelve facts, each read from the provider's own page on 12 Oct 2026 and linked beside it. The verdict at the end says when Krok Odds is the better pick.
| Fast Odds API (SockOdds) | Krok Odds | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian bookmakers | 37 Australian books and exchanges, each priced separately, from Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes to the small books; brands that copy one shared price board are flagged as such sockodds.com/bookmakers | "157 branded sites covered", with its own note that clone brands on an aggregator platform share one odds line, "coverage breadth, not extra prices"; 20 are named krokodds.com.au/bookmakers |
| Other sources | Pinnacle, Matchbook, ProphetX, Kalshi and Polymarket in the same response: 42 bookmaker keys sockodds.com/bookmakers | Betfair Exchange and Pinnacle on the same list krokodds.com.au/bookmakers |
| Free plan | 2,500 objects a month, 10 requests a minute, AFL, NRL, NFL and MLB from Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes; no card, no expiry sockodds.com/pricing | 50 credits a month at 5 requests a minute, no card, every live endpoint, 14 days of racing history krokodds.com.au/api-access |
| Paid plans | Rookie US$99 a month (100,000 objects, every league, 10 books); Pro US$299 (unlimited objects, every book, history); Platform custom; 20% off annually sockodds.com/pricing | API A$49 a month: 50,000 credits, 500 requests a minute, archives, webhooks, SSE; the Apex scanner for punters is A$29 a month krokodds.com.au/pricing |
| What a plan counts | Event objects returned: one game with every market and bookmaker inside it is one object sockodds.com/pricing | Credits per call krokodds.com.au/api-access |
| How fresh | About every 5 minutes, pre-match first; every quote carries the time it was seen sockodds.com/faq | A "30-second scan cycle" on its home page; the API page says responses carry a 5-minute cache krokodds.com.au |
| In-play | No: live games carry a live status, but prices move on the same five-minute cycle sockodds.com/faq | "Live odds from major sportsbooks" is listed for the Apex scanner; the API page makes no in-play claim krokodds.com.au/pricing |
| Price history | Recorded price changes per event, and opening and closing prices, on Pro, since 14 August 2026 sockodds.com/docs | "650,000 odds snapshots" on the home page; closing lines and odds history beyond 14 days on the paid API krokodds.com.au |
| Racing | No sockodds.com/faq | Yes: every Australian thoroughbred, harness and greyhound meeting krokodds.com.au |
| Australian codes | AFL, AFLW, NRL, NRLW, the Rugby League World Cup, rugby union internationals, the NBL and the IPL; no A-League or Big Bash as named leagues sockodds.com/leagues | AFL, NRL, NBL, cricket including the Big Bash, A-League, Super Rugby, plus the US majors and European soccer krokodds.com.au |
| Fair (no-vig) price | No fair price field: Pinnacle and Betfair Exchange prices sit beside the bookmakers', so you remove the margin with the method you choose sockodds.com/docs | Not stated as a field; it sells ready-made +EV, arbitrage and middles feeds instead krokodds.com.au/api-access |
| Streaming | WebSocket snapshots on Pro, refreshed every 15 seconds sockodds.com/docs | SSE and webhooks on the paid API krokodds.com.au/api-access |
Every fact read from the linked pages on 12 Oct 2026. Out of date? Email [email protected] and we will correct and re-date it. The full field: every Australian odds API compared.
Fair verdict
When each one is the better pick
Choose Krok Odds for punters and small tools that want racing plus sports and a ready-made edge feed in AUD. Racing and sports in one Australian-dollar subscription, with arbitrage, +EV and middles already computed for you.
Choose Fast Odds API for products that need the whole Australian market, props and alternate lines included, with sharp prices to measure every quote against. Every Australian book priced separately in one response, Pinnacle and the Betfair Exchange beside them, and a bill that does not grow with markets or bookmakers.
Watch for, with Krok Odds: the headline bookmaker count includes clone brands that share one price, the free API is 50 calls a month, and the cache means a quote can be five minutes old. With us: a five-minute refresh (not an in-play feed), no racing, and a price archive that only began in August 2026.
If you switch
What changes in your code
Its API sells computed opportunities (arbs, +EV picks) as much as raw prices; ours returns every book's raw quote and a fair price so you compute your own. Expect to write the scanner yourself.
Both have a way to try before paying, so the honest test is a day of your own requests against each. Our quickstart gets you to a first response in minutes.
Questions
Moving from Krok Odds
Does Fast Odds API cover the same bookmakers as Krok Odds?
Krok Odds: "157 branded sites covered", with its own note that clone brands on an aggregator platform share one odds line, "coverage breadth, not extra prices"; 20 are named. Fast Odds API: 37 Australian books and exchanges, each priced separately, from Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes to the small books; brands that copy one shared price board are flagged as such. Compare the named lists rather than the headline numbers, because providers count different things.
How do the bills compare?
Krok Odds counts credits per call. We count event objects returned: one game with every market and bookmaker inside it is one object. Put your real request shape through both before deciding; a narrow request can be cheaper on a credit meter, a wide one is cheaper per event.
Can I run both while I decide?
Yes. 50 credits a month at 5 requests a minute, no card, every live endpoint, 14 days of racing history on Krok Odds; 2,500 objects a month, 10 requests a minute, AFL, NRL, NFL and MLB from Sportsbet, TAB and Ladbrokes; no card, no expiry here. Point both at the same games for a day and compare the named books, the prices and the timestamps.
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