SABA API for Odds

The Problem: No Public SABA API

How SharpAPI Solves It

What SABA coverage actually gives you

SABA is an international book with global coverage, and it carries both live in-play odds and player prop markets. Its coverage leans toward international football and Asian markets, which makes it a non-US reference you can reach without moving up to the sharp books, when you want to establish whether an American price is genuinely off-market or whether the whole market has moved together.

SABA sits behind a Pro tier gate, so it is not available on Free or Hobby. If you are building cross-region comparison and want prop coverage on the non-US side, SABA is usually the book that justifies the upgrade.

Where it fits in a stack: Pro is a gate almost nothing else in the catalog uses — most books are available from Hobby, and the sharp books are reserved for the Sharp plan — so SABA sits at an unusual point in the ladder. If you are already paying for Pro because of the rate ceiling, this is coverage you own and quite possibly are not querying. Teams that care about football outside North America tend to reach for it before they reach for a second domestic operator.

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More Than Just SABA

SharpAPI delivers every major sportsbook in one API, not just SABA. Compare every betting market, spot +EV opportunities (value betting), and detect arbitrage across all of them.

Plus 8+ additional books. All normalized to the same schema.

How to Access SABA Odds via API

SABA doesn't offer a public API. The fastest way to get SABA odds programmatically is SharpAPI. Here's how to get started in under 5 minutes:

1. 1Create a free SharpAPI account, no credit card required.
2. 2Copy your API key from thedashboard.
3. 3Install the SDK: npm install @sharp-api/client
4. 4Query SABA odds using the code examples below.

import { SharpAPI } from '@sharp-api/client';

const sharp = new SharpAPI({
  apiKey: 'sk_live_your_key'
});

// Get NBA odds from all books
const odds = await sharp.odds.get({
  league: 'NBA',
  sportsbook: 'saba'
});

odds.data.forEach(event => {
  console.log(event.event_name);
  console.log(event.odds_american);
  console.log(`EV: ${event.ev_percent}%`);
});

// Real-time SABA odds via SSE
const url = 'https://api.sharpapi.io'
  + '/api/v1/stream'
  + '?channel=odds&league=NBA'
  + '&sportsbook=saba'
  + '&api_key=sk_live_your_key';

const es = new EventSource(url);

es.addEventListener('odds:update', (e) => {
  const data = JSON.parse(e.data);
  // Fires instantly when SABA
  // lines move
  console.log(data.event_name);
  console.log(data.odds_american);
});

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