niche · -1.8

Live Scores

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Providers using this tag (16)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
5DollarFootballAPIFootballSoccerSportsSports Data1 API58.0
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
SportmonksCricketDataDeveloper-FriendlyFootball1 API50.2iSports APISports APISports DataFootballBasketball15 APIs46.6
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
API FootballSportsFootballSoccer1 API37.8CricAPICricketSportsPlayer Statistics1 API37.6StatoriumSportsSports DataFootballSoccer3 APIs32.7API-SportsSports DataStatisticsFootball12 APIs36.8SportsDataIOSports DataStatisticsFantasy Sports5 APIs36.0Latiyal InfotechCricketSportsSports Data1 API34.1Stats PerformSportsSports DataFootballBaseball1 API33.5HighlightlySportsSports DataOdds1 API26.6
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
GoalServeSports DataOddsFixtures1 API25.4DSG Sports AnalyticsAnalysisInsightsSportsSports Data1 API22.5Cricket APICricketSportsSports Data1 API13.3Entity SportSports DataCricketFantasy1 API22.8
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Soccer APISoccerOddsPredictions1 API8.9

APIs with this tag (21)

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Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Sportmonks Cricket APIREST API for cricket data covering 130+ leagues including IPL, international fixtures, and T20 competitions...50.2Sportmonks Livescores APIReal-time score and match-state feeds.50.2Gracenote Sports MCP ServerA production remote Model Context Protocol server for live, upcoming and recent sports — eleven tools cover...43.8
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
API-FootballAPI-Football provides comprehensive football data including leagues, fixtures, standings, events, line-ups,...37.8API-AFLAPI-AFL provides Australian Football League data including games, live scores, standings and team and playe...36.8API-American-FootballAPI-American-Football provides NFL and NCAA football data including games, live scores, standings, team and...36.8API-BaseballAPI-Baseball provides real-time and historical baseball data including games, standings, team and player st...36.8API-BasketballAPI-Basketball provides real-time and historical basketball data including games, standings, team and playe...36.8API-FootballAPI-Football provides real-time and historical football (soccer) data including fixtures, live scores, stan...36.8API-HandballAPI-Handball provides handball data including games, live scores, standings and team statistics across Euro...36.8API-HockeyAPI-Hockey provides ice hockey data including games, live scores, standings and team statistics across the ...36.8API-NBAAPI-NBA provides NBA-specific data including games, live scores, standings, team and player statistics and ...36.8API-RugbyAPI-Rugby provides rugby union and rugby league data including games, live scores, standings and team stati...36.8API-VolleyballAPI-Volleyball provides volleyball data including games, live scores, standings and team statistics across ...36.8Cricket Live Line APIRead-only real-time cricket data API. 51 operations on the apiv5 tier (30 on apiv3), all reads, served from...34.1TheSportsDB Livescores APIThe Livescores API from TheSportsDB — 1 operation(s) for livescores.30.7
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
GoalServe Livescores APIThe Livescores API from GoalServe — 2 operation(s) for livescores.25.4DSG Sports Data APIThe DSG Sports Data API exposes live scores, statistics, historical data, player and team information, fixt...22.5MLB Stats APIThe MLB Stats API is the modern statistics and game-data service operated by Major League Baseball. It powe...19.5SportsAPISportsAPI.com provides a sports data API marketplace and comparison engine for developers. Browse, filter, ...13.7
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Soccer APIThe advertised live football data API — REST plus a WebSocket stream — covering competitions, fixtures, liv...8.9

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Live Scores” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Gracenote Major League Baseball SportsAPI TheSportsDB

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Sports Data broader

Related tags

Standings 8 co-occurrences Sports Data 18 co-occurrences Odds 12 co-occurrences Soccer 9 co-occurrences Football 8 co-occurrences Cricket 5 co-occurrences Fixtures 5 co-occurrences League 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag16
Api tag21
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag5

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
Football Technology and Sports Data (FIFA Quality Programme)24%

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