💰 Sports Odds Arbitrage & Value Bet Finder

Compare live and pre-match odds across Pinnacle, Bovada, BetRivers and Unibet in one run. Every row is one game, matched across the books, with the best price for every outcome, Pinnacle fair odds with the margin taken out, every arbitrage (surebet) with the stake split, and every value bet priced above fair odds. Moneylines, 1X2, spreads and totals for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, tennis, UFC and boxing. About 1,900 matched games in under 15 seconds, no proxy.

🎯 Who uses it?

💸 Arbitrage bettors

Find surebets across four books in seconds, with the profit and the exact stake on each leg already worked out.

📈 Value bettors

Spot prices that beat Pinnacle's no-vig fair odds, the sharpest reference in the market, and bet only where you have an edge.

🤖 Model builders and quants

Feed a model with clean, matched odds from a sharp book and three recreational books, and record closing lines over time.

📰 Odds comparison sites and tipsters

Show the best line per outcome next to your previews, or alert your audience the moment an arbitrage opens.

✨ What it does

• Four books, matched game by game: Pinnacle (the sharp reference), Bovada, BetRivers and Unibet. Team and player names are matched across books even when they're spelled differently ("Man Utd" and "Manchester United", "LA Clippers" and "Los Angeles Clippers").
• 8 sports: American football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, soccer, tennis, MMA and boxing.
• Best price per outcome: home, draw and away as columns, with the book that pays the most.
• Fair odds: Pinnacle's price with its margin removed, for every market Pinnacle prices.
• Arbitrage finder: every market where backing all outcomes at the best books guarantees a profit, with profit %, each leg's book and odds, and the share of your bankroll to stake on each.
• Value bet finder: every price at least N% above fair odds, with the edge.
• Every market by book: moneyline (2-way and 3-way), spread and total, main and alternate lines, with each book's decimal and American odds and the market margin.
• Correct periods: soccer 1X2 is 90 minutes, hockey 3-way is regulation time, the rest include overtime. Markets are only compared when they settle the same way.
• Live or upcoming: games in play, upcoming games, or both, plus games starting within the next N hours.
• Filters: sports, leagues, teams or players, market types, minimum books per game, only arbitrage, only value bets, sort by start time, arbitrage profit or value edge.
• Direct links to the game page at every book.

🏆 Why this scraper

• Arbitrage and value done for you. Not just raw odds: the matching, margins, fair odds, surebets and stakes are computed on every row.
• A sharp reference built in. Pinnacle's no-vig line is the industry's benchmark for what a price is really worth.
• Fast. All four books, all eight sports, about 1,900 games matched in under 15 seconds in our tests, with no browser and no proxy.
• Careful about false positives. Live spreads and totals are not compared (books settle them differently in play), and stale or impossible arbitrages are dropped.
• Pay per game, not per book. One row holds every book's prices for that game.

⚖️ How it compares

Capability	This actor	Single-book odds scrapers	Odds API aggregators
Pinnacle, Bovada, BetRivers, Unibet in one row	yes	one book	some of them
Games matched across books	yes	no	yes
Arbitrage with stake split	yes	no	paid add-on, if any
Value bets vs Pinnacle fair odds	yes	no	rarely
Alternate lines compared	yes	varies	rarely
Live and upcoming	yes	varies	yes
Price	$0.02 per game, every book included	per event per book	monthly plan
Proxy	none needed	varies	n/a

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
gameId	Stable ID: sport, date and both teams, e.g. basketball-2026-10-03-lakers-vs-celtics.
sport, league	Sport and league or tournament.
eventName, homeTeam, awayTeam	Game and teams or players.
startTime, status	Start time (UTC, ISO 8601) and upcoming or live.
bookmakerCount, bookmakers	The books that price this game.
bestHomeOdds, bestDrawOdds, bestAwayOdds + ...Bookmaker	Best moneyline price per outcome and where (1X2 for soccer).
fairHomeOdds, fairDrawOdds, fairAwayOdds	Pinnacle's no-vig moneyline.
hasArbitrage, bestArbitrageProfitPercent, arbitrageCount	Whether any market on this game is an arbitrage, and the best profit.
arbitrages	Each arbitrage: market, period, line, profit %, and every leg with outcome, book, odds and stake %.
bestValueEdgePercent, valueBetCount, valueBets	Each value bet: market, outcome, book, odds, fair odds and edge %.
marketCount, markets	Every market: type, period, line, number of books, margin, and every outcome with the best price, fair odds, edge and each book's odds.
links	The game page at each book.
scrapedAt	When the odds were read.

Example row (trimmed):

{
  "gameId": "tennis-2026-10-03-ashton-bowers-vs-astra-sharma",
  "sport": "Tennis",
  "league": "ITF Women Nashville - SF",
  "eventName": "Ashton Bowers vs Astra Sharma",
  "startTime": "2026-10-03T18:00:00.000Z",
  "status": "upcoming",
  "bookmakerCount": 3,
  "bookmakers": ["Pinnacle", "BetRivers", "Unibet"],
  "bestHomeOdds": 5.99,
  "bestHomeBookmaker": "Pinnacle",
  "bestAwayOdds": 1.22,
  "bestAwayBookmaker": "BetRivers",
  "fairHomeOdds": 6.367,
  "fairAwayOdds": 1.186,
  "hasArbitrage": true,
  "bestArbitrageProfitPercent": 1.36,
  "arbitrages": [
    {
      "market": "moneyline",
      "period": "Match",
      "line": null,
      "profitPercent": 1.36,
      "legs": [
        { "outcome": "home", "name": "Ashton Bowers", "bookmaker": "Pinnacle", "odds": 5.99, "oddsAmerican": "+499", "stakePercent": 16.92 },
        { "outcome": "away", "name": "Astra Sharma", "bookmaker": "BetRivers", "odds": 1.22, "oddsAmerican": "-455", "stakePercent": 83.08 }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "bestValueEdgePercent": 2.87,
  "valueBets": [
    { "market": "moneyline", "period": "Match", "outcome": "away", "name": "Astra Sharma", "bookmaker": "BetRivers", "odds": 1.22, "fairOdds": 1.186, "edgePercent": 2.87 }
  ],
  "marketCount": 1,
  "markets": [
    {
      "market": "moneyline",
      "period": "Match",
      "line": null,
      "bookmakerCount": 3,
      "margin": -1.34,
      "isArbitrage": true,
      "outcomes": [
        {
          "outcome": "home",
          "name": "Ashton Bowers",
          "bestOdds": 5.99,
          "bestBookmaker": "Pinnacle",
          "prices": [
            { "bookmaker": "Pinnacle", "odds": 5.99, "oddsAmerican": "+499" },
            { "bookmaker": "BetRivers", "odds": 3.85, "oddsAmerican": "+285" },
            { "bookmaker": "Unibet", "odds": 3.85, "oddsAmerican": "+285" }
          ],
          "fairOdds": 6.367,
          "edgePercent": -5.92
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "links": [{ "bookmaker": "Pinnacle", "url": "https://www.pinnacle.com/en/tennis/..." }],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T12:41:10.512Z"
}

A stake split reads like this: with $1,000, put $169.20 on Bowers at Pinnacle and $830.80 on Sharma at BetRivers. Either way you get back about $1,013.60.

💡 Use cases

💸 Every arbitrage right now, best first

{ "onlyArbitrage": true, "sortBy": "arbitrage" }

📈 Value bets of 3% or more on the NFL

{ "leagues": ["NFL"], "onlyValueBets": true, "minValueEdge": 3, "sortBy": "value" }

⚽ Best 1X2 prices for Premier League games

{ "maxItems": 50, "sports": ["soccer"], "leagues": ["Premier League"], "markets": ["moneyline_3way"] }

🔴 Live moneylines on games all four books price

{ "eventStatus": "live", "markets": ["moneyline", "moneyline_3way"], "minBookmakers": 4 }

🏀 Main totals only, NBA and NFL, next 24 hours

{ "sports": ["basketball", "american_football"], "markets": ["total"], "alternateLines": false, "startsWithinHours": 24 }

🗺️ BetRivers Pennsylvania and Unibet Sweden links

{ "maxItems": 200, "betriversState": "pa", "unibetCountry": "se" }

⚙️ How the input is organised

Section	What it's for
Maximum games	Always first, caps the whole run. Empty means no limit.
Bookmakers	Which books to compare, your BetRivers state and Unibet country, and the minimum number of books per game.
What to compare	Sports, leagues or countries, teams or players, live or upcoming, how soon games start.
Markets	Moneyline, 1X2, spread, total, and whether to include alternate lines. Empty means all.
Arbitrage and value bets	Keep only games with an arbitrage or a value bet, minimum profit or edge, and the sort order.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time $0.003 when the run starts, plus a price per game saved to your dataset, with every book and every market included. The price depends on your Apify plan tier:

Your Apify plan	Price per game
Free	$0.028
Bronze	$0.025
Silver	$0.022
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.02

Approximate total cost (includes the $0.003 start fee):

Games collected	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
100	$2.80	$2.50	$2.20	$2.00
1,000	$28.00	$25.00	$22.00	$20.00
10,000	$280.00	$250.00	$220.00	$200.00

Tip: "Only games with an arbitrage" and "Only games with a value bet" keep your dataset to the games that matter, so you pay only for those. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 games.

🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Sports Odds Arbitrage & Value Bet Finder.
3. Keep the four books, pick sports or leagues if you want, set Maximum games, then click Start.
4. Open the Arbitrage or Value bets view in the Dataset tab, or export everything as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python, and schedule it every few minutes with Apify's built-in Scheduler to catch arbitrages as they open.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to cross-book odds, arbitrages and value bets through the Model Context Protocol:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/sports-odds-arbitrage-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language, e.g. "find today's NBA value bets of 3% or more".

🔧 Troubleshooting

No arbitrages found. That's normal for a while: arbitrages are rare and close quickly. Add sports, include live games, or schedule the actor every few minutes.

A game is missing a book. Books don't all list the same games: Bovada and BetRivers focus on US sports, Unibet on European soccer, and smaller tennis and soccer leagues are often on one or two books only. Lower "Minimum bookmakers per game" to see those too.

Fewer games than expected. Games priced by fewer books than your minimum are left out, and the log says how many. A league or team filter that matches nothing returns nothing; use the name the books show ("NFL", "Premier League", "Chiefs").

Live spreads and totals have no arbitrage. By design: in play, Pinnacle settles spreads and totals on the rest of the match while other books count the whole game, so only live moneylines are compared.

fairHomeOdds is empty. Pinnacle doesn't price that game or market, so there is no fair line and no value bets on it. Arbitrages are still found.

A "sportsbook asked to slow down" line in the log. The run waits a few seconds and carries on. Nothing is lost.

❓ FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need accounts at these books?	No. Only public odds are read.
Does it need a proxy?	No.
Is there a limit on results?	No. Leave Maximum games empty to get every game your books share.
How fresh are the odds?	Read live on every run. Schedule it every few minutes to track movement.
Why Pinnacle for fair odds?	It takes the sharpest action and has the lowest margins, so its no-vig line is the market's best estimate of the true probability.
Do BetRivers odds differ by state?	In our tests every state had the same prices. The state picks which games are offered and where the links go. The same holds for Unibet countries.
Are player props included?	No. This actor compares moneylines, 1X2, spreads and totals, the markets every book offers.
Is an arbitrage guaranteed?	The math is, the prices aren't: odds move and books limit stakes. Check every leg before you bet.
Can I place bets with it?	No. It only reads odds.

🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public odds that the books show to any visitor. It never signs in and never places bets. Odds change quickly, some books void bets placed on obvious errors, and stake limits apply; always check each price at the book before acting. Use the data in line with the books' terms and the gambling laws where you are. Please gamble responsibly.

📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

🧪 Local development

bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
apify run

Local results are stored in storage/datasets/default.