Who Can Get Pinnacle Odds Data, and Under Which Terms

What does the Pinnacle API page say you must send?

The page presents a bespoke API product and says API access is permitted for both companies and individual customers. A form goes to a commercial team. The page lists what an application should contain: whether you are an individual or a company that might work with Pinnacle, whether you are currently a Pinnacle betting customer, your country of residence, the sports you want, the latency you need, and an overview of your project and how Pinnacle would be involved. For data partnerships with prediction markets it adds which markets or exchanges are involved, the countries of operation and the expected monthly trading volume. That list comes from the page itself. The interactive form was not opened or submitted for this page, so which fields are mandatory is unknown.

Three answers in the page's own FAQ set the expectation. Regional availability is decided from each customer's use case. Placing bets through the API is described as open to loyal customers, after a review of betting history. Cost is variable with the speed and breadth of access, and the page prints no figure. Academic research is named as a permitted use. A price, an acceptance rate or a waiting time quoted elsewhere does not come from Pinnacle's page. Why bettors want raw prices in the first place is the subject of the sharp betting guide.

A README with a date and no owner on the page

A repository on GitHub carries the API documentation, and its README says access to the API suite "has been closed for the general public since July 23rd, 2025". It adds that bespoke data services are offered to select high value bettors and commercial partnerships, that academics and pregame handicapping projects are supported, and that a funded account is required. Requests go by e-mail with a short description of the use case. The account behind the repository names Pinnacle in its profile and the repository points to Pinnacle's website, but Pinnacle's own API page does not link to it, so its ownership rests on indications.

Two facts keep the date from settling much. Earlier revisions of the README, from 2022 and from early July 2025, already told readers to contact Pinnacle for access, so the closure date does not show what stood open before it. The README and the official page also pull apart in tone, since one says select high value bettors and the other says individual customers, and no criterion is given. The date is best read as the README's own claim, because the official page says nothing about a closure and a dated sentence in a document Pinnacle does not cite is thin support for a sweeping statement. Pages that describe a public API do not cite a source for it.

Ten thousand up front, then a monthly bar

The only numbered condition for a broker-side API comes from BetInAsia's help center, in an article about an API connection on its PS3838 account. BetInAsia calls PS3838 a Pinnacle white label. The article, updated 2026-07-22, is addressed to a professional punter. It states a one-time fee in the form of a deposit of 10,000 USD, access to up to three sports, and a monthly turnover requirement of 100,000 USD per sport. If the requirement is missed, the deposit is forfeited and API access removed. There is no trial, and more than three sports means a form explaining intended commercial use. MadMarket's help center gives the same figures for its Probet42 product, in an article also updated 2026-07-22.

The article leaves gaps. It does not define turnover, so settled stakes, placed stakes, cancelled bets and lay bets are all open questions. It does not say whether exactly 100,000 meets the bar, or whether the 10,000 comes back if you leave. The wording "a fee in the form of a deposit" leaves open which of the two it is. The API guide it links to loads its content by script and could not be read.

Because the bar applies per sport, totals mislead. A punter on three sports at 150,000, 100,000 and 60,000 of monthly turnover totals 310,000, above the 300,000 that three sports call for, yet the third sport is 40,000 short and the 10,000 deposit is what is exposed. Two sports at 80,000 and 120,000 add up to 200,000, exactly twice the bar, and still fail on the first. A single sport at 99,960, from 833 bets averaging 120, misses by 40, and 834 bets would have reached 100,080. That reads as a product for a bettor already staking at that scale and a poor fit for anyone below it, because the forfeiture lands exactly where turnover falls short. This page does not suggest raising stakes to meet it.

A forfeitable deposit raises the stakes of BetInAsia's known weak point: public reviews describe withdrawals held in compliance reviews, with documents requested again and balances frozen meanwhile. MadMarket carries little independent track record and clauses that reserve the right to refuse, limit or cancel bets. Public reports of withdrawals held for weeks at AsianConnect come from a small sample, and Sportmarket is reported to ask for source of funds even after an identity check was accepted.

Where each Pinnacle API route stands, source by source

What do the terms say about automated access to the Pinnacle API?

Every set of terms read points the same way. Pinnacle treats automated access as a matter for a written agreement, and BetInAsia and MadMarket bar scraping of their odds. The clauses below are quoted with their source and version, and methods and legal advice are left out.

Keeping a price log by hand

The record you can source yourself is a log kept at the time of each bet, in a spreadsheet you own, from an account you are entitled to use. One line per bet: when it was placed, the book or account, the event, the market, the selection, the price taken and the stake. Beside it goes the closing price for the same market, copied by hand when the event starts, with the book it came from and the time you noted it. The source matters because two books close at different prices, and a closing figure without its origin cannot be compared later.

What the gap between your price and the close tells you, and what it cannot, is worked through on the page about closing line value, and how a price travelled between your bet and the close has its own page, on line movement. A hand log has limits of its own. It is slow, it records only what you bet, and the closing price depends on your attention at the start time. Exports from a broker help with the stake side and less with the price side, as the third question below shows.