Pinnacle API alternative · independent
Pinnacle shut its public API in July 2025 and now deals only with selected business partners. If your code still needs those prices, PinnRadar delivers the in-play and pre-game markets through REST, Server-Sent Events, a raw WebSocket and an MCP server, on a self-serve key that needs only an email.
Email only · no Pinnacle account · independent, not affiliated with Pinnacle
01 · Where things stand
Pinnacle took its public API off sale on 23 July 2025. Existing integrations were cut off, and new access now means negotiating a direct commercial deal rather than paying a listed price. Models, alert bots and closing-line checks that read Pinnacle as their reference price lost their source.
That leaves three routes: a deal with Pinnacle, a scraper you keep alive yourself, or an independent feed. PinnRadar is the third. It carries Pinnacle's prices, line depth and market coverage in real time, and you start on a free key with no sales call.
It is a data service only. You read prices; there is nothing to log in to at Pinnacle and nothing that places a bet.
What you get on every plan:
02 · Migration map
Every integration asks the same few questions. Here is where each answer lives now. Send the key as x-portal-apikey, x-api-key or ?key=.
| You need | PinnRadar | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| List of sports | Sport id table | Stable integers: 1 Soccer, 2 Tennis, 3 Basketball, 11 Esports and so on |
| Upcoming fixtures with prices | GET /kit/v1/prematch/fixtures | Every open fixture of one sport with all periods and markets |
| In-play board | GET /kit/v1/markets | event_type=live is the default; the layout matches prematch |
| One event, every market | /kit/v1/details · /kit/v1/prematch/markets | Live and prematch respectively, by event_id |
| One market type | GET /kit/v1/prematch/lines | market_type: money_line, spreads, totals or team_total |
| Only what changed | since= cursor | Pass the last value of your previous reply |
| Props and futures | include_specials=1 | Flat rows linked by parent_id, or nested |
| Push updates | wss://…/ws/feed | Raw upstream frames; $99 / mo add-on |
| Line moves | /odds-drop · /api/drops | SSE alerts, or a pollable buffer of about 3 h |
| Feed health | GET /health | Live and prematch status, write age in ms |
| Bets, balance, history | Not offered | PinnRadar is a data feed only |
03 · First calls
The usual pattern carries over directly. Fetch a sport's whole board once, keep it keyed by event_id, then send the last cursor back as since= so each later reply holds only the events that changed.
A delta reply cannot tell you that an event left the board. Fixtures that kick off move to the live board, and withdrawn ones disappear, so refresh the full response every so often. The delta polling notes spell out each case, and the X-Data-Status header tells an empty board apart from a quiet feed.
Pick a poll interval your plan allows: a Free key has 100 requests a day, REST and Edge 10 a second. Plain HTTP works, or use the optional SDK: pip install pinnradar / npm install pinnradar. Longer walkthroughs: Pinnacle odds in Python and REST vs WebSocket vs SSE.
import os, time, requests
BASE = "https://pinnradar.com"
s = requests.Session()
s.headers["x-portal-apikey"] = os.environ["PINNRADAR_KEY"]
def fixtures(**params):
r = s.get(BASE + "/kit/v1/prematch/fixtures",
params={"sport_id": 1, **params}, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()
board = fixtures() # full board once
book = {ev["event_id"]: ev for ev in board["events"]}
cursor = board["last"]
while True:
time.sleep(60) # fit this to your plan
delta = fixtures(since=cursor) # changed events only
for ev in delta["events"]:
book[ev["event_id"]] = ev
cursor = delta["last"]const BASE = "https://pinnradar.com";
const url = new URL("/kit/v1/markets", BASE);
url.searchParams.set("sport_id", "3");
url.searchParams.set("event_type", "live");
const resp = await fetch(url, {
headers: { "x-portal-apikey": process.env.PINNRADAR_KEY },
});
if (!resp.ok) throw new Error(`markets: HTTP ${resp.status}`);
const { events } = await resp.json();
for (const ev of events) {
const ml = ev.periods?.num_0?.money_line;
if (ml) console.log(ev.league_name, ev.home, "v", ev.away, ml.home, ml.away);
}04 · Fit check
Layout
Events with periods keyed num_0, num_1 and so on; decimal prices, handicaps and totals keyed by line, with a max stake per line.
Depth
Alternate spreads and totals, every team-total line in team_totals, and quarter lines at .25 and .75, on the free key as on Scale.
Specials
Player props, team props, correct scores and futures arrive as their own rows, each pointing back to its match through parent_id.
Not included
There are no betting, balance or account endpoints. PinnRadar reads the market; it never trades on it.
Not included
The service is real time. If you need history, record the stream on your side, and grade bets with your own closing-line store.
Scope
Pinnacle as the sharp reference price, on purpose. Comparing against soft books needs a second source next to it.
05 · Plans
Longer billing terms cut up to about 24%. MCP calls count against the same plan.
| Plan | Price | REST | SSE drop streams | WebSocket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20/min, 100/day | No | No |
| Drops | $99 / mo | Free limits | Yes | No |
| REST | $99 / mo | 10 req/s | No | +$99 / mo add-on |
| Edge | $149 / mo | 10 req/s | Yes | +$99 / mo add-on |
| Scale | $229 / mo | 30 req/s | Yes | +$99 / mo add-on |
Full breakdown, billing terms and payment methods on the Pinnacle API pricing page, with a plain-language guide in choosing a plan. Rate limits are in the docs.
06 · Further reading
07 · Questions
Anything else goes to @PinnRadarSupport on Telegram or info@pinnradar.com, answered by the people who run the feed.
Not through any public sign-up. Pinnacle took its public API off sale on 23 July 2025, and new access now means a direct commercial agreement with Pinnacle. PinnRadar is a separate, independent service that delivers Pinnacle's live and prematch prices to a self-serve key over REST, SSE and WebSocket.
No. An email address gets you a key, and you never sign in to Pinnacle. PinnRadar is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Pinnacle.
The /kit/v1 responses follow the layout of the common third-party Pinnacle price APIs, and the key goes in the x-portal-apikey header those clients already send, so most of them migrate by swapping the base URL and the key. Code built around a different layout maps onto the Event object: periods, then money_line, spreads, totals and team totals.
No. PinnRadar supplies odds data only. It does not take, place or facilitate bets, and it has no balance or bet-history endpoints. Placement stays with whichever account you bet from.
Yes. Live prices come from /kit/v1/markets on every plan, the SSE drop streams are part of Drops, Edge and Scale, and the raw WebSocket feed is a $99 monthly add-on on any plan with REST.
Not from PinnRadar. It is a real-time service with no archive of past prices. Teams that want history record the /ws/feed stream themselves and keep their own store. If you need something specific, ask support.
Yes, and it does not expire. A Free key allows 20 requests a minute and 100 a day over REST, with every sport and full line depth. New accounts also start with a three-day full demo of the push streams. Paid plans are on the pricing page.
The Free key costs nothing and never expires. Swap the base URL and the key, run your parser against a live board, and upgrade only when you need the rate or the streams.