COMPARISON
Our position is simple: enterprise-grade data quality, delivered on pure service value. Competition coverage, stability, breadth and real-time speed are all consistently reliable, backed by 1-on-1 technical support — a data foundation you can safely build a real project on.
WHY US
A free API answers “does the data exist?”. We answer “is it good enough to rely on?”. Every item below is a hard requirement for a real project.
Over 1,000 competitions worldwide, from the top five leagues down to lower divisions, cups and youth fixtures. Free APIs usually carry a handful of popular competitions, with unpredictable gaps.
99.9% availability with multi-node failover and quality assurance. Public free APIs rarely commit to any uptime, and their policies can change without notice — a real project needs firmer ground than that.
Scores, events, line-ups, technical statistics, live animations, tables and historical data in one package. Most free APIs offer basic scores only, with the deeper dimensions missing entirely.
Millisecond updates, with scores and events syncing within a second. Free APIs typically poll on a minutes-long delay, which simply does not work for live use cases.
1-on-1 technical support plus end-to-end monitoring and alerting, so someone is watching even during late-night fixtures. With a free API nobody is accountable, and when something breaks you simply wait.
Combine modules flexibly around what you actually need — strong value for money, and every pound you invest buys real certainty and peace of mind.
SIDE BY SIDE
These are the questions customers ask us most often, laid out in a single table.
| Criterion | Free API |
Full Speed Data
Recommended
|
Traditional Enterprise API |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competition Coverage | Mostly a few popular competitions, with limited overall coverage | 1,000+ competitions worldwide | 1,000+ competitions |
| Data Dimensions | Basic scores only | Scores / events / line-ups / stats / animations / tables / history | All dimensions |
| Real-Time Speed | Usually minute-level polling, so real-time use is limited | Millisecond updates | Second-level updates |
| Service Reliability | Generally no uptime commitment; throttling and changes are possible | 99.9% availability with multi-node failover | 99.9% SLA |
| Data Accuracy | Generally no data quality commitment | End-to-end quality checks, anomalies fixed within seconds | Professional QA |
| Historical Data | 10+ years of historical data | ||
| Request Quota | Fixed quotas, with restrictions once you exceed them | Elastic quotas that scale on demand | Elastic quota |
| Technical Support | 1-on-1 Technical Support | Ticket / account response | |
| Docs & Integration | Documentation varies in quality, with sparse field descriptions | Complete documentation with examples; integrate in half a day | Complete docs |
| Commercial Licence | Most impose extra restrictions on commercial use | ||
| Free Trial | — | Sign up and try selected APIs free | Requires negotiation |
| Price Level | Free, but you absorb the reliability and maintenance cost | Great Value, order on demand | Usually annual package contracts, sales negotiation required |
Each option suits a different stage and set of needs, so choose what fits. What we offer is an enterprise data service you can build a long-term project on: enterprise-grade data quality, pragmatic cost logic and on-demand ordering — that is what value for money means to us.
Note: “Free API” and “Traditional Enterprise API” in this table are general descriptions of those categories, compiled from public information and customer feedback. They do not refer to any specific vendor; please refer to each vendor’s own documentation. The “99.9% availability” figure refers to the availability of core APIs within a calendar month; the measurement basis and scope of liability are governed by the service agreement signed by both parties. “Millisecond updates” refers to internal processing latency from the moment the data source receives a change to the push egress, excluding public-network transit and client-side rendering. This page does not compare or evaluate any vendor's price level; for quotes, please refer to each vendor's official information.
FOR WHOM
We would rather nobody paid for something they do not need. Read the scenarios below and you will know in a minute whether we are the right fit.
Real projects that need certainty, where the data has to be dependable
Company projects
Score apps, sports media platforms and analytics products that need a data foundation able to hold up under real traffic.
Serious individual projects
Paid apps and public services from independent developers, where bad data — or an API that vanishes — costs you users.
Analytics and research
Work that needs complete, accurate data with 10+ years of history for match models, quantitative research and deep review.
Teams migrating off a free API
Your project outgrew throttling, latency and missing data. Time for a service willing to put commitments in writing.
Communities and interactive products
Match threads, fan interaction and live score overlays, where millisecond updates keep the room moving with the game.
No need to integrate yet — revisit once your requirements firm up
Throwaway demos
Following a tutorial, a coursework assignment or testing a small idea with no plan to launch. Enterprise data is poor value here — get in touch when there is a real need.
Pure hobby projects
Small personal tools with no hard requirement on reliability or depth, and no budget.
One-off lookups
Occasional single queries that public results pages already answer — no need for an API.
Budget under ¥1,000
There is a gap between that budget and this service. Come back once the project has steady revenue or a defined budget — better use of everyone’s time.
That said, if the budget is there, a hobby project is absolutely welcome — we are all for spending on something you love. After all, we came together over a love of sport ourselves.
Going public and running long term?
Choose Full Speed Data and be done with it
Just practising, with no launch planned?
Hold off, and come back when it takes shape
Spending on a passion, with budget to match?
You are more than welcome
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