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Pinnacle odds API: your options after the 2025 shutdown
Pinnacle’s prices are the reference point for much of the betting industry, but its public API closed in July 2025. Here is what changed, the realistic ways to get Pinnacle odds today, and what our own Pinnacle data looks like.
Published by ValueOddsAPI · Sources reviewed 2 November 2026 · ValueOddsAPI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pinnacle.
What happened to the Pinnacle API?
For years Pinnacle offered a public REST API that any account holder could use to read odds. According to the Pinnacle API documentation on GitHub, access has been closed to the general public since 23 July 2025.
Pinnacle now describes bespoke data services for select high-value bettors and commercial partnerships. Academic researchers and pre-game handicapping projects can still apply by describing their use case to Pinnacle directly. Everyone else needs another route to Pinnacle prices.
Why developers want Pinnacle prices
Low margin. Pinnacle is known for thin margins and high limits, so its prices are widely used as a reference for what an outcome is really worth.
A fair-odds baseline. Removing the margin from Pinnacle’s prices gives an estimate of the fair probability, which other bookmakers can be compared against.
A closing-line benchmark. Pinnacle’s closing price is a common yardstick for judging whether a model or a pricing team is beating the market over time.
Your options after the shutdown
| Option | What you get | Trade-offs |
|---|---|---|
| Apply to Pinnacle | Direct data from the source, if approved. | Selective. Aimed at high-value bettors, commercial partners and some research projects. |
| Build your own collector | Full control over what you capture. | You maintain it when the site changes, handle blocking, and must check the bookmaker’s terms yourself. |
| Third-party odds data provider | Pinnacle alongside other bookmakers in one format. | Data is not an official Pinnacle feed. Freshness, depth and history differ by provider, so compare before you buy. |
See how providers differ on our odds API comparison pages.
What we collect from Pinnacle
Measured in our own pipeline during one hour on 31 October 2026 (12:49–13:49 UTC). Matches listed, average number of individual prices per match, and the median time between two complete reads of the same match.
| Sport | Matches listed | Prices per match (avg.) | Median refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Football | 148 | ≈ 150 | ≈ 60 s |
| Basketball | 112 | ≈ 190 | ≈ 60 s |
| Tennis | 200 | ≈ 33 | ≈ 5 min |
| Ice hockey | 9 | ≈ 240 | ≈ 3 min |
Pinnacle concentrates on main lines and alternative lines, so it carries fewer prices per match than recreational bookmakers. Danske Spil, for comparison, averaged about 1,120 football prices per match in the same hour. See Nordic bookmaker coverage.
Numbers are rounded and come from a single Saturday-afternoon sample. Coverage changes with the fixture list, time of day and season.
Example: Pinnacle as a reference price
Say Pinnacle prices a football match at 2.08 / 3.60 / 3.85 (home / draw / away). The implied probabilities are 48.08%, 27.78% and 25.97%. They add up to 101.83%, so the margin is about 1.8%.
Dividing each by 1.0183 removes the margin proportionally and gives a fair home probability of about 47.21%, or fair odds of about 2.12.
If another bookmaker offers the home win at 2.20, its price is above the fair estimate: 0.4721 × 2.20 − 1 ≈ +3.9% expected value under that assumption. Proportional margin removal is one method among several, and it is an estimate, not the true probability. Read more in our expected value guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Pinnacle API still available?
Not to the general public. Pinnacle’s own documentation says public access closed on 23 July 2025. Pinnacle offers data to selected bettors, commercial partners and some research projects on application.
Is ValueOddsAPI an official Pinnacle data feed?
No. ValueOddsAPI collects Pinnacle prices independently and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pinnacle. Permitted use of the data is agreed per application before activation.
Can I get historical Pinnacle odds and closing lines?
Historical datasets are available on the Data Archive plan. Tell us which sports, markets and period you need, and we confirm what we hold before activation.
Can I place bets through ValueOddsAPI?
No. ValueOddsAPI is a data service. It does not place bets, hold accounts or provide staking recommendations.
Get the data into your product
Data Archive from €149/month, Data Display from €399/month, Data Partner from €999/month, excluding VAT. Coverage and usage rights are confirmed before activation.