Pinnacle API Alternative: Backtest on Pinnacle Odds Without Pinnacle API Access

What happened to the Pinnacle API

For a decade the Pinnacle API was the quiet backbone of serious betting tooling: the sharpest prices in the market, low margins, and a feed anyone with an account could poll. Since 23 July 2025 that access is closed to the general public. Pinnacle now serves data to select commercial partners, high-value accounts and academic projects on request, and the old /v1/odds endpoint reached end of life on 1 January 2026.

Third-party feeds have stepped in to relay live Pinnacle prices, which is fine for line shopping or tracking the closing line value of today's bets. Backtesting needs something else: years of opening and closing prices, matched to results, cleaned of duplicates and voids. A live feed you started recording last month cannot give you that, and most relays either have no history or sell short snapshots as an add-on.

Bet2Invest is an official Pinnacle API partner and has been archiving Pinnacle opening and closing odds for years. The Pinnacle historical odds database sits behind a backtesting engine you can drive from the app, from the public REST API, or from the open-source Python client.

What the live relays give you, and what they do not

Services such as OddsPapi, SharpAPI, The Odds API or pinnapi relay Pinnacle-derived prices in real time. They are the right tool for comparing lines this afternoon, feeding a live model, or logging the closing price of the bets you place. They are not a backtest: you get today, not ten seasons, and you still have to write the settlement, the deduplication and the statistics yourself. Where a history is offered it usually starts in 2021 or later and is billed as an extra.

What Bet2Invest exposes instead

1. The archive

Every matchup in the database carries its Pinnacle opening and closing price and its settled result: up to 10 years of soccer, soon 20, and 5 years each of basketball, tennis, American football, baseball, ice hockey, volleyball and esports. Moneyline and 1X2, spreads and Asian handicaps, totals and team totals wherever Pinnacle quoted them. See the sports coverage for the exact depth per sport.

2. The engine

You describe a strategy as a tree of filters and a bet selection, the engine settles every simulated bet at the actual closing price and returns bet count, yield, profit, maximum drawdown, streaks and the cumulative P&L curve. Through the API that is one POST to run the backtest and one GET to collect the result; unchanged strategies are served from cache instantly.

3. The client

The Python client is open source, has no dependencies and fits a backtest in twenty lines:

from pinnaclebacktest import AND, SPORTS, Bet2Invest, league, moneyline, odds_range

api = Bet2Invest()  # reads B2I_API_KEY
strategy = api.create_strategy("EPL home underdogs", SPORTS["soccer"], moneyline("home"))
strategy.set_filters(AND(
    league(api.league_id("Premier League", SPORTS["soccer"])),
    odds_range("home", 2.2, 3.4),
))
print(strategy.backtest().summary())

It lives at github.com/bet2invest/pinnacle-backtest-api, and the full REST reference is published as OpenAPI and Redoc.

4. From backtest to live bets

A strategy that holds up can be saved: it then runs on live Pinnacle prices, delivers picks by email or Telegram, tracks them against the close, and, if you have a Pinnacle account, places them on it through the official Pinnacle API with Pinnacle Automation. Your funds never leave your account.

When you still need the real Pinnacle API

If your use case is a live model that must price thousands of markets a minute, or programmatic placement at scale outside our automation, apply to Pinnacle directly at api{'@'}pinnacle.com and describe the project. Bet2Invest is not a live odds feed and does not resell Pinnacle prices. It replaces the part of the old workflow that individuals actually built: the history and the backtest.

Getting started

1. Create a free account and try the builder in the app on the Explorer plan.
2. Upgrade to Pro or Elite, generate a key under Settings > API.
3. pip install pinnacle-backtest-api, export the key, run the quickstart.
4. Keep the strategies that survive the closing line and follow them live.