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The prices here are real and they are ours. We read every listed South African bookmaker roughly every four minutes and publish what we actually saw, with the time we saw it. Nothing on this site is estimated, modelled or bought in. We hold no data agreement with any bookmaker, so a price can be a few minutes old and the bookmaker's own price is the one that counts. How live is this?

Why is this a beta? Because we are a data company, and data gets better with time. Every day we run, the price record gets longer, the licence register gets more complete and the ranking rests on more evidence. Some pages are still being written and a few bookmakers are not fully covered yet.

We would rather be useful now than perfect later. What is here already answers the question most punters never get answered: who is actually paying most, right now, and who is actually licensed to take your bet. Waiting another six months to publish that would help nobody.

Where we are unsure, we say so. Where we have not checked something, we do not claim it. If you find something wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say we did.

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What each bookmaker
charges you.

Every bookmaker builds a fee into its odds. We measure it across full fields on the live board and show what it costs you per rand staked. Lower is better for you.

Measured on 20 South African races, across the 3 bookmakers priced on enough races to compare
World Sports Bettingtakes least
23.10%
Easybettakes most
27.53%
On R20 000 of racing bets that 4.43-point gap is about R885 out of your pocket.
How this is measured. A book counts on a race only where it priced every runner, because a partial field understates the take. Racing margins run far higher than football: a nine-runner field at 130% of book is normal for the sport, and is not a sign of a bad bookmaker.

Two numbers, and they are not the same. Costs you is what a punter loses per rand staked, backing the field to that book's own implied chances. Overround is the trade's term for the same book, expressed as a share of the payout, which is why it is the larger figure. A book at 30% overround costs you 23%. We lead with the one that answers what it costs you, and publish the other so you can check us against any trade source.
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Every price here was read from the bookmaker itself · racing covers every South African meeting we can read · football, rugby, tennis, table tennis, cricket, basketball, ice hockey, baseball and darts cover every competition our bookmakers price

Prices last checked Sun, 20 Sept, 09:13 We re-read every bookmaker about every 4 minutes. Odds still move between checks, so the bookmaker's own price is the one that counts. How live is this?