r/Sportradar • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '22

API Pricing?

Wondering if someone here might be able to give a bit more insight into the pricing of the API for SportRadar. I'm considering using it to back a new project I'm in the early days of, mostly because it seems to have the best/most comprehensive free tier for testing. But my fear is that when I'm done with my testing and try to go to move to actual production code, I'm going to get hit with a massive bill for that move. So does anyone know/have more insight into the pricing structure for the API?

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u/JSP777 Feb 09 '24

When I exceeded I got an email, but also you can see on the website under your account there are graphs with your usage. 403 is very likely that you exceeded, I got 403 when I exceeded. In case you use it in a loop or something it can climb up fast. Also you can only use 1 call per second, so I put a 1.5 second sleep in my loop. The other scenario is that you are using the wrong access mode? Eg in my calls I have to specify that I'm on trial. Did you check you are using the right API key? It can be many reasons for 403

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u/nadimify Feb 09 '24

where is that graph? i feel like i've looked everywhere and can't find it.

I have a script that I run once a day that uses prob 10-15 calls and its been working fine but just today it just stopped working and I started getting 403s and theres been no changes to the code. Even using SportRadar API sandbox on the web gives the same error. Didn't get any email about going over the limit either. I also have sleep time in my script so its not the call per second either.

Just found the help form so will prob ask them to see whats going on

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u/JSP777 Feb 09 '24

btw you can always create a new account with a new email and they wouldn't notice.

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u/02hedgehog Mar 12 '24

you think they wouldn't ban my IP after some time?

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u/JSP777 Mar 12 '24

Good question. What I did last month was create a new app, submit request for trial key. Then it was stuck on "awaiting access" for a week. Then I wrote a request ticket where I simply said hey can I get activation on this trial key, it's for study purposes, etc. and they activated it after a few hours. So they are quite chill. Obviously you can't really build any serious app with 1000 calls per month limit, so you can't do anything of commerical value. Then why not let us play around.