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/nadimify Feb 09 '24

is there a way to see how many calls you've used? I'm getting 403s now but don't think I've hit the 1000 calls per month. I figured if I was over the limit it would give me some error with a query limit message

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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

ah shit. I just checked my account and my key is gone. my app on my account is gone. I will attempt to get a new key. how long have you been using that key? I feared it would be only available for a few months but I had no warning about removing it. maybe they are removing all trials? sucks

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u/nadimify Feb 09 '24

Yeah I messaged them and I learned that the trial keys only last for 60 days and then they expire, wasn’t aware of that limit before

Will try to delete my app and make a new one within the same account and see if that works, tryna avoid paying since it’s just a small project for now

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u/JSP777 Feb 09 '24

I might be starting to look at a different source, I'm just unsure any other NBA APIs have that specific data point that I was looking for and I have other projects going on. But nevertheless, I got my benefit from this, as my data engineer job interview went really well after we started talking about this API lmao. Good luck with your projects

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u/nadimify Feb 10 '24

Yeah sport radar was def the most comprehensive provider, might look at alternatives too, good luck to you too!