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Sportmonks

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.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Sportmonks the way a machine reads it — 50 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Sportmonks scores 65.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 65.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Sportmonks

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Sportmonks. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 13

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Sportmonks Football API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sportmonks Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 7

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Real-Time Livescores

Sub-15-second push of score and match-event updates across covered competitions.

Filters, Includes, Field Selection

Per-request response shaping to keep payloads small and queries expressive without server-side bespoke endpoints.

Forever-Free Tier

Permanent free access to selected leagues (Danish Superliga, Scottish Premiership) for evaluation and hobby use.

Per-League Pricing

Plans gate the number of leagues a customer can pick rather than charging per-call, making cost predictable for niche regional products.

99.9% Uptime SLA

Published reliability target backed by a public status page.

Human Data Verification

24/7 human-in-the-loop data processing layered on top of automated feeds.

Postman & Widgets

First-party Postman collections and embeddable football widgets reduce time-to-first-render.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sportmonks Context

12 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Sportmonks API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Sportmonks API Rules

9 rules · 2 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Sportmonks Fixture

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sportmonks League

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sportmonks Livescore

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sportmonks Player

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sportmonks Team

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Sportmonks Fixture Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sportmonks Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Sportmonks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sportmonks Agentic Access

17 operations

17 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

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.

Integrations 2

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Postman

Official Sportmonks Cricket Postman collection at cricket-postman.sportmonks.com.

Community SDKs

20+ community-maintained client libraries on GitHub across Python, PHP/Laravel, TypeScript, Go, Java, R, and Ruby.

Solutions 4

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Football API

Core soccer data API covering 2,300+ leagues with tiered league-count pricing.

Cricket API

Cricket data API with ball-by-ball detail across 130+ leagues.

Motorsport API

F1 and broader motorsport data API (v3 successor to the deprecated Formula One v1 API).

Football Widgets

Drop-in embeddable widgets for media and publisher sites.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Sportmonks — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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