foot.io, compared.

How we write these

Comparison pages are usually written to win, which is why nobody believes them. These are written to be checkable instead. The rules we hold ourselves to:

• Every foot.io number is measured, dated and reproducible. Coverage claims come from a public, unauthenticated endpoint; each page shows the exact curl that would catch us exaggerating.
• Competitor facts are attributed and dated to their own published pricing and docs, never to a claim we invented about them. Their products move faster than this page; go and check.
• Where they are better, we say so in the same table, not in a footnote. Live latency, licensed depth, price and company maturity are all rows where somebody else wins.
• We tell readers not to switch when their current provider already covers the job. That happens most often on the football-data.org page.
• Corrections are public. Get something changed by emailing hello@foot.io; the fix is logged in the erratum, ours or theirs.

Before you believe any of it

foot.io is a closed beta. Self-serve checkout is not open, there is no SLA on the self-serve tiers, live fixtures are polled on a five-minute cycle from a single machine, and current-season depth is partial — roughly half of played current-season matches carry events and roughly a third carry lineups, 40,775 and 26,123 of 79,698, measured on 6 August 2026. Player market values and injury records came off the API surface entirely on 28 Jul 2026 because we could not defend our right to re-serve them, and they have not come back. Since 29 Jul 2026 a licence gate has enforced the same rule everywhere: every tier, Enterprise included, reads only the rows we hold an explicit right to redistribute. We hold 1,177,209 matches; every tier reads 733,863 of them (62.3%). Of the events we hold, every tier reads 42.9%; of lineups, 32.9% — measured on 10 August 2026, and growing as clearances land. The top five leagues' event and lineup layer, transfers and all shot-level data are still not part of it.

None of that is in the comparisons to look humble. It is there because this market's buyers run the query, and a claim that dies on first contact with a curl costs more than the sale was worth.

Start with the methodology or pricing.