# Sportmonks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sportmonks/  
**Website:** https://www.sportmonks.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Sportmonks is a Dutch sports data provider (Deventer, Netherlands) delivering developer-friendly REST APIs for football/soccer, cricket, and motorsport (Formula 1). The platform serves 30,000+ active users and 20,000+ developers building livescore portals, fantasy games, betting platforms, sports media products, and analytics tools. Sportmonks emphasizes fast real-time updates (<15 seconds), 99.9% uptime, transparent per-league pricing, and a forever-free tier covering selected leagues. APIs use JSON over REST with API token authentication via either an Authorization header or an `api_token` query parameter, and support fine-grained response shaping through filters, includes, and field selection.

## Kin Score — 56.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 56.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |
| Access Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 22.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Sportmonks Cricket API** — REST API for cricket data covering 130+ leagues including IPL, international fixtures, and T20 competitions. Provides ball-by-ball commentary, live scoreboards, fixtures, teams,...
- **Sportmonks Motorsport API** — REST API for motorsport data including Formula 1 race results, qualifying, driver and constructor standings, lap times, season schedules, and circuit information. Replaces the d...
- **Sportmonks Football Widgets** — Embeddable JavaScript widgets that render Sportmonks football data as ready-to-use UI components for livescores, league tables, fixtures, and match details. Designed for media s...
- **Sportmonks Fixtures API** — Scheduled and historical match fixtures.
- **Sportmonks Leagues API** — Competition metadata across countries and seasons.
- **Sportmonks Livescores API** — Real-time score and match-state feeds.
- **Sportmonks Odds API** — Pre-match and in-play betting odds.
- **Sportmonks Players API** — Player profiles, attributes, and career data.
- **Sportmonks Predictions API** — Probabilities and predicted outcomes for upcoming fixtures.
- **Sportmonks Schedules API** — Round and stage schedules per season.
- **Sportmonks Seasons API** — Season records and per-season fixture lists.
- **Sportmonks Standings API** — League tables and group standings.
- **Sportmonks Teams API** — Team profiles, squads, and metadata.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sportmonks Agentic Access** — 17 operations

## Security (2)

- **Sportmonks Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Sportmonks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Sportmonks Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Livescore Portals** — Public livescore sites consuming fixtures, livescores, and event feeds.
- **Fantasy Football** — Fantasy game backends consuming player stats, lineups, and event data.
- **Sports Betting** — Sportsbook and trading platforms consuming pre-match and in-play odds.
- **Sports Media** — Editorial sites embedding widgets and pulling structured match data.
- **Football Clubs & Scouting** — Clubs and analysts pulling player and team statistics for performance review.
- **iGaming** — Fantasy, prediction, and casual gaming products powered by live sports state.

## Tags

Cricket, Data, Developer-Friendly, Football, Formula 1, Live Scores, Motorsport, Real-Time, Soccer, Sports, Sports Data, Statistics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sportmonks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.