Comparisons · Betfair Exchange API
These are different things. The Betfair Exchange API is the exchange itself: back and lay prices, traded volume and Betfair's starting price, and you can bet through it. PuntersEdge is the bookmakers: each Australian bookmaker's fixed win and place price on every race, kept as a closing-line archive and joined to results. Betfair's exchange prices are not in any PuntersEdge response. If you need exchange prices, use Betfair.
Betfair pages opened 6 October 2026; each figure links to the page it came from. PuntersEdge figures are measured from the live feed (6 Oct 2026 04:30 UTC), not typed.
| Betfair Exchange API | PuntersEdge | |
|---|---|---|
| Price type | Exchange back and lay, traded volume, last traded price and BSP (their docs) | Each bookmaker's fixed win and place price per runner, from 15 Australian bookmakers |
| Read-only use | "Read only Betfair API access using the live application key is not permitted." (their docs) | Read-only is the product, no betting and no bookmaker account |
| Key cost | Delayed key free, live key a one-off £499 activation fee once approved (their docs) | 3,000 credits a month, 30 requests a minute, no card, paid plans from A$9 (pricing) |
| Australian and NZ accounts | Betfair Australia asks for an application form and at least one bet through the key before a live key is considered (their site) | Sign up with an email address |
| Delay | Delayed key 1 to 180 seconds behind, live key none (their docs) | Every quote carries its own age in seconds, and through the card the median time since each book was last read was 8–17s (freshness) |
| Codes in Australia and NZ | Thoroughbred, harness and greyhound markets (their site) | Australian thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing, and New Zealand thoroughbred and harness |
| History | Basic free at one-minute intervals with last traded price only, Advanced and Pro paid with prices not published (their site) | Every race's opening and closing price at every served book, and its full price path, from 4 August 2026. Plus and above read all of it; Standard reads the last 90 days (docs) |
| Results | Settlement status only, each runner WINNER or LOSER once the market settles (their docs) | Finishing order, dividends, scratchings and deductions, a median of 4.4 to 7.7 minutes after the scheduled start, by code and country over the last 7 days (data quality) |
| Form | Runner metadata only, a recent-form string with jockey, trainer, weight and barrier (their docs) | Recent runs from our own results, and one horse's Racing Australia form page per call (docs) |
| Licence | Keys are for personal betting, and any commercial use of the data needs Betfair's approval (their docs) | What you may do with the data follows your plan: personal use on Free, Hobby and Standard; display with attribution on Plus; commercial use on Business and Scale; redistribution on Platform (terms) |
| Betfair prices in PuntersEdge | The product itself | Not served. Ingested for internal reference only; withheld from customer responses pending a Betfair data licence. |
A serious racing operation often runs both. Use Betfair under your own account for what only an exchange gives you: lay prices, traded volume, BSP and your own bets. Use PuntersEdge for what the bookmakers did: which book had the top price on each runner, where each one closed, and whether the bets you placed with them beat the close.
Keep the two feeds apart in anything you publish. Betfair's data stays under Betfair's terms, and Betfair Australia's terms require its written consent before its price data is used commercially (their terms). Comparing a bookmaker's price with the exchange is something to build on your side, for your own use.
One request with a free key returns the next race with every served book's price per runner.
curl 'https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/racing/next-to-go?num_races=1&country=AU' \
-H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_FREE_KEY'
# → JSON: the next race, with every served book's price per runner
[{
"venue": "Hobart", "race_number": 2, "category": "greyhound",
"start_time": "2026-08-10T09:40:00Z", "country": "AU",
"runners": [{
"name": "Indy Gia", "number": 1,
"bookmakers": [
{"key": "sportsbet", "win_price": 5.5},
{"key": "tab", "win_price": 5.5, "place_price": 1.9},
{"key": "ladbrokes", "win_price": 7.0, "place_price": 2.1}
]
}]
}]
No. Ingested for internal reference only; withheld from customer responses pending a Betfair data licence.
No. Betfair's developer support site says read-only access with a live application key is not permitted (their docs). PuntersEdge is read-only by design, for bookmaker prices.
Checked 6 October 2026. Every figure for Betfair is read from the linked pages, which are theirs to change: if one has changed, tell us and this page will be corrected. These pages are re-checked every quarter. The PuntersEdge column renders from the same measurements as data quality and the coverage report. All comparisons.
18+ only. The API provides odds data for lawful informational and analytical use. Not financial advice.