PROVIDER COMPARISON
ParlayAPI vs DraftKings API
ParlayAPI publishes credit plans and multi-book coverage with long claimed history. This API is DraftKings-only with DFS salaries. A sourced, dated comparison.
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The short version
ParlayAPI is a broad, self-serve odds API with published credit plans. It lists both draftkings and pick6 bookmaker keys, offers WebSocket and SSE streams on higher tiers, and claims history back to 2005. Its stated history and multi-book reach are far larger than this service's. This service is DraftKings-only and adds DFS salaries, contests and slates, which we did not find on ParlayAPI's fetched pages.
Side by side
Competitor facts are paraphrased from the linked pages as they read on 2026-11-03 and may have changed. Treat vendor claims as claims: we have not measured them. This site is not affiliated with any company named here.
| Topic | ParlayAPI, public pages | DraftKings API (this site) |
|---|---|---|
| DraftKings sportsbook | Bookmaker key draftkings source | As of 2026-11-03: native New York NFL, NHL, college basketball and college football game lines, native New York NHL Shots on Goal, points, assists, saves, goalscorers, power-play points and first-period shots, and ESPN-attributed moneyline, spread and total observations. |
| Pick6 | Key pick6, classed as DFS pick'em. Rows expose native directions, selection IDs and payout_multiplier_scope source | Selected category captures with explicit selections, standings multipliers and entity data |
| DFS salaries and contests | Not stated on the pages we fetched | Yes, for selected slates |
| Other books | Multi-book, including underdog and sleeper DFS keys source | None. DraftKings only |
| Billing unit | Credits: odds cost markets times regions, historical odds cost 10 times that, props 3 source | One authenticated call is one request |
| Free tier | $0, 1,000 credits a month, 48-hour lookback source | $0, 500 requests a month at 20/minute |
| Lower paid tiers | Starter $5 (20,000 credits), Pro $20 (100,000), Business $40 (1,000,000) source | Developer $49 (10,000 requests) |
| Upper paid tiers | Enterprise $100 (5,000,000), Scale $200 (50,000,000) source | Production $149 (50,000 requests) |
| Streaming | WebSocket and SSE from Business up, with coalescing by tier source | Pick6 changes: SSE on Developer and Production, signed webhooks on Production. Native sportsbook scopes: WebSocket on paid plans |
| Stated history | "From 2005, depth varies by sport" and 30M+ prop closing lines since 2022 source. Lookback is "an access limit, not a promise of continuous records" source | Recording began around 2026-11-03. Retained history is short, and it is not a complete opening-to-close archive. It does not contain seasons of past lines, and there is no public graded-results endpoint. |
| Rights | Paid self-serve covers limited internal use. Customer-facing products, public display and redistribution need a signed agreement source | Technical access is not a redistribution license |
Where ParlayAPI is stronger
On its stated scope and prices, ParlayAPI is ahead on several points.
- Far more volume per dollar at published list prices, though credits and requests are not the same unit.
- Native sportsbook props and closing lines as claimed products, where this service has only narrow native scopes.
- Long stated history. Ours began around 2026-11-03.
- Multi-book coverage and broader WebSocket delivery.
Where this API may fit better
This service suits work that centers on DraftKings' own DFS and Pick6 records.
- DFS contests, slates and roster-slot salaries, which we did not find on ParlayAPI's fetched pages.
- A flat one-call, one-request billing unit that needs no credit arithmetic.
- Row-level capture clocks, source hashes and provenance, with unknown venue clocks left null.
- Signed webhooks for Pick6 changes. The ParlayAPI pages we read describe streams, not webhooks.
Read the credit math
ParlayAPI's costs vary by call, and its x-requests-last header reports the charge. Out of credits returns HTTP 403 OUT_OF_USAGE_CREDITS, with no automatic overage billing. Estimate your own workload by market, region and history use before comparing list prices. Here each authenticated call counts as one request, including empty results.
Test both on the same market
Do not decide from a table. Spend fifteen minutes on one sport and one market you care about.
- Pick one upcoming game and one Pick6 stat or sportsbook market you know.
- Pull the same market from each provider and record the capture or update time each one states.
- Compare against what the DraftKings surface shows at that moment, by hand.
- Pull history for one line that you watched move.
- Note what happens to paused or removed rows, and read the rights language for your use case.
curl --fail-with-body "https://draftkingsapi.com/api/v1/coverage" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DRAFTKINGS_API_KEY"
curl --fail-with-body "https://draftkingsapi.com/api/v1/pick6/projections?sport=NFL&stat=Receiving%20Yards&limit=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DRAFTKINGS_API_KEY"Try it
Endpoint docs
Check the recorded data
Questions
Does ParlayAPI cover DraftKings Pick6?
Its documentation lists a pick6 bookmaker key classed as DFS pick'em. We have not measured its coverage or freshness.
Is ParlayAPI cheaper?
At published list prices it offers far more credits per dollar. Credits and requests are different units, so compare using your own workload.
Can I show either provider's data publicly?
ParlayAPI's pricing page says public display and redistribution need a signed agreement. On this site, technical access is not a redistribution license either. Establish your rights first.
Sources
- ParlayAPI: home checked 2026-11-03
- ParlayAPI: pricing checked 2026-11-03
- ParlayAPI: documentation checked 2026-11-03
- ParlayAPI: WebSocket documentation checked 2026-11-03
- ParlayAPI: credit costs checked 2026-11-03
- ParlayAPI: terms checked 2026-11-03
Related resources
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When to choose us vs OpticOdds and broad odds APIsFor teams choosing between this API, OpticOdds and broad aggregators. Not for multi-book consensus, where they win. Evaluate us for Pick6 and DFS semantics.
DraftKings DFS contests and salaries APIExplore US-DK sport, contest, slate and draftable observations with selected-slate limits and roster-slot salary semantics.
Independent service operated by DD Inc., not affiliated with or endorsed by DraftKings. Technical access is not a redistribution license. No wagering: this service does not place, recommend or settle entries or bets. Check sources and status for actual capture context.