BetExplorer: the odds archive behind an OddsPortal feed

Verdict: 4.0 out of 5. A free odds comparison site. On the match we counted it listed seven bookmakers that OddsPortal did not, and nothing in its table is locked behind an account. Its archive still shows twelve bookmakers after two seasons. Its ticket tool, My Selections, has no rival on the other sites. It has no payout column, only six markets, and its tool pages explain very little.

What is BetExplorer?

A statistics site first. Its own page title reads “Football Stats, Results, Tables & H2H stats”, and on a match page the odds table comes second, under the head-to-head block.

If you have never used an odds comparison site: it lets you compare odds from many bookmakers on one match, side by side, and pick the highest one. That is the whole idea, and everything else on these sites is built around it.

The footer says the site compares odds from 20+ bookmakers. The body text says “leading bookmakers in your regions”. Both lines matter, because the number of bookmakers you see depends on the country you open the site from, and BetExplorer admits that in its own words.

The copyright line starts in 2003, five years before OddsPortal's. The footer credits Opta for data, the same credit OddsPortal carries; the odds themselves come through OddsPortal. Seven sports in the top bar, three languages, no login wall.

Who runs BetExplorer?

Livesport s.r.o., a company in Prague. The terms of service name it as the operator, with company number 274 33 722 and a registered office at Bucharova 2928/14a, Prague 5. Registration in the Czech commercial register dates from 2006, so the site is older than the company that runs it today.

Livesport is the company behind Flashscore. It also runs OddsPortal, Soccerway and Tribal Football, and its own press page says OddsPortal supplies the odds data to BetExplorer and Flashscore. So the “in cooperation with OddsPortal” line under the table is one company talking about itself. The BETEXPLORER trademark was filed in the United States in February 2025 by the same company.

Contact is by email only: info@livesport.eu for general questions, privacy@livesport.eu and dpo@livesport.eu for personal data. There is no phone number and no contact form on the site. Livesport is listed as a member of the GPWA, the affiliate trade body, with BetExplorer among its sites.

How many bookmakers does BetExplorer show on one match?

We opened Fenerbahce against AS Roma in the Champions League and counted every row of the 1X2 table. 1X2 is the basic football market: 1 is a home win, X is a draw, 2 is an away win.

Twenty rows.

One of them, N1 Bet, was struck through with its prices withdrawn, so nineteen live prices. The list runs from 1xBet at the top to Betfair Exchange at the bottom, with 888sport, bet365, Betfair, BetInAsia, Bets.io, Betsson, Betway, bwin, Cloudbet, Duelbits, Megapari, Mozzartbet, Rainbet, Roobet, Stake.com, Unibet and William Hill in between.

The best prices were 3.54, 3.66 and 2.18. A price of 3.54 means you get 3.54 back for every 1 you stake, if the bet wins. Two rows carried all three best prices, 1xBet and Megapari, and their numbers matched to the second decimal on every outcome. Our OddsPortal review found the same pair on a different match. Open the site from another country and the rows change. The site's own “in your regions” line is the reason, and the count above is from one connection only.

Twenty rows on one match, nineteen live. The two best rows matched to the second decimal on every outcome.

The same feed as OddsPortal, a different list

Under the odds table there is one line in small print: “Betting odds service provided in cooperation with OddsPortal.com”. The OddsPortal logo is next to it.

One company, two sites, one feed. So we opened the same match on OddsPortal, in the same session, also without an account. Nineteen rows there against twenty here, and only thirteen bookmakers on both.

Seven were on BetExplorer only: Betfair, Betway, bwin, Duelbits, Unibet, William Hill and Betfair Exchange. Six were on OddsPortal only: 22Bet, bet-at-home, Bet105, Betfury, GGBET and Melbet. Twenty-six different bookmakers across the two sites, and neither one shows all of them. The prices for the shared bookmakers were the same, or one step apart where some minutes had passed between the two screenshots. The best prices were identical on both sites: 3.54, 3.66 and 2.18.

One feed, two lists. If you use OddsPortal and want Betway, bwin, Unibet or William Hill in the table, they are here.

The small print says the odds come in cooperation with OddsPortal. Thirteen bookmakers are on both sites. Thirteen are not.

What the odds comparison table shows and leaves out

Each row has three live odds, a green or red arrow for the last move and a link icon that goes to the bookmaker. The best price in each column is marked in yellow. Under the table there is an “Add to My Selections” row with one plus button per outcome, and that is the whole table.

There is no payout column.

Payout is the share of all stakes that a bookmaker gives back on one market. A payout of 96% means the bookmaker keeps 4%, and that 4% is the margin. OddsPortal prints the payout on every row. Oddspedia has a switch for it. BetExplorer does not show it anywhere. If you want to know which of two bookmakers is cheaper on a match, our odds converter can work it out from the three prices.

The exchange row is in the table but not in the highlight. Betfair Exchange is a betting exchange: you bet against other users, and the exchange takes a commission from your winnings. On an archived match the draw was marked best at 8.00 with Unibet, while Betfair Exchange printed 8.22 on the row below and got no mark. After commission, 8.22 is less than it looks.

The match list is a different page. Today's matches prints one price per outcome for every game. On our match it read 3.38, 3.57 and 2.11, while the table on the match page went up to 3.54, 3.66 and 2.18. The list figure is lower than the best price and the page does not say how it is built. Compare on the match page, not on the list.

Price history and opening odds on every selection

Click any price and a panel called “Current Odds” opens. Every change is listed with the date, the time, the new price and the size of the move.

On our match the home price in the top row had moved fourteen times in one day. At the bottom the panel prints “Opening Odds” with a date and a time. The opening odds are the first price the bookmaker offered. Here it read 2.66, a week before kick-off, against 3.54 in the table on the day. A rise of 0.88, or 33 percent, in one week. The panel ends with a “Click to BET NOW” button, so the comparison and the link to the bookmaker are one click apart, as on Oddspedia.

The last price before kick-off is called the closing line. Bettors who beat it over many bets tend to be the ones who win, and our closing line value guide explains why in plain words. On BetExplorer the history is there before the match. We did not test whether a finished match prints a line marked closing.

How deep is the BetExplorer odds archive?

The archive of historical odds is the best reason to use this site.

A World Cup qualifier played one year ago still showed a table with seventeen bookmakers. A Premier League match from the 2023/24 season, Arsenal against Everton, showed twelve two seasons on: 1xBet, 888sport, bet365, Betfair, BetInAsia, Betsafe, Betsson, Betway, bwin, Unibet, William Hill and Betfair Exchange. We had opened the same Arsenal match on OddsPortal for our review there, and it kept about seven. The 1xBet row was identical on both sites, 1.24, 7.70 and 10.60. Same feed, and BetExplorer keeps more of it.

So the count falls with time. Twenty on a live match, seventeen after a year, twelve after two seasons, and it falls more slowly here than on the sister site.

The head-to-head block goes further back. Past meetings between the two teams are listed with the 1X2 odds of each game, and on one page we saw odds printed for a match from 2008.

The route is long: All countries, then the country, then the league, then the season selector, then Results, then the match, then the odds table. Six clicks. There is no search for old matches.

Two seasons after the match, the table still shows twelve bookmakers. OddsPortal keeps about seven on the same game.

BetExplorer My Selections: one accumulator across bookmakers

An accumulator is one ticket with several picks. All picks must win. The odds are multiplied, so the payout grows fast and so does the risk.

Press the plus button under any price and the pick goes into My Selections. Up to three tickets can be open at once, and each ticket shows the combined odds at every bookmaker that prices all the picks. We built a three-pick ticket from the match filter. Unibet returned 9.61. Rainbet 9.07, Betfair 8.90, BetInAsia 8.87, Betway 8.83, and 1xBet and Megapari 8.27, the lowest we saw. The price of each pick is printed next to the total, so you can see where the difference comes from: Unibet had 4.00, 1.58 and 1.52, 1xBet had 3.78, 1.54 and 1.42.

That is 16 percent more at Unibet than at 1xBet, on the same three picks. The other two sites in this category do not do this.

The tool also answered a question from our OddsPortal review. On a single pick in a cup match, 1xBet returned 1.45 and Megapari 1.44. So the two bookmakers do not share one price on every market. They match on the main market of big matches and differ on smaller ones.

One thing to watch: the sidebar prints one price per pick, 3.89 for our first one, while the bookmaker table for the same ticket had Unibet at 4.00 on that pick. The sidebar figure is not the best price.

One accumulator, one table of bookmakers. 9.61 at the top, 8.27 lower down. Sixteen percent on the same three picks.

BetExplorer dropping odds

Dropping odds are prices that have fallen. A price falls when bookmakers think the outcome is more likely than before, or when a lot of money comes in on it.

The Dropping Odds page has three filters at the top. The time window: drops in the last 1, 2, 12, 24 or 48 hours, with 12 hours as the default. The match window: today, today and tomorrow, next seven days or any time. And the share of bookmakers that must have dropped, from 30 to 70 percent, with 40 percent as the default. The sister site's default on the same filter is 20 percent, so this list is stricter by default.

Each row prints the drop in percent, and a “B's” column shows the share of bookmakers that moved with the count behind it: 8 of 20 on one match, 25 of 25 on another. Those counts are a second way to see how many bookmakers price a game.

Under the table there is a colour legend, 5 to 9 percent, 10 to 14 percent, over 15 percent, and that is all. OddsPortal has a full explainer and a FAQ under its dropping odds table. BetExplorer has none. A “best bet” column links out to bookmakers.

The matches are the usual mix: youth cups and lower divisions, in Europe and South America. In a small league a price can fall because one bookmaker corrected a mistake. It does not always mean the market knows something.

Match filter and popular bets

Match Filter is a price filter for the 1X2 market. Two dropdowns set the range, one sets the window. We set 1.40 to 1.70 for the next day and got matches from Bhutan, Calcutta, the Russian Cup, the UEFA Youth League, Azerbaijan and Egypt. The filter finds prices in a range and nothing more. It does not check whether the match is worth betting on, so use it to build a ticket and then look at each pick.

Popular Bets shows the share of visitors who picked home, draw or away on each match. The site's own banner says the numbers come from how visitors use BetExplorer, and no sample size is printed. Some rows read 100, 0 and 0. That is one visitor.

Streaks is a third tool. It lists teams on a run, for example five wins in a row. We did not test it for this review.

How to find the best odds on BetExplorer

1. Open the match page. Use the search box at the top or the Today's matches list.
2. Scroll past the head-to-head block to “Odds Comparison (1X2)” and pick the market tab you want.
3. Read the yellow cells. They are the best odds per outcome. An exchange row below can be higher.
4. Click the price to open its history. Check the opening odds at the bottom of the panel.
5. Press the plus button to add the pick to My Selections and compare the whole ticket.

If your bookmaker is not in the list, the best price on the page may not be the best price you can get.

BetExplorer football stats: head-to-head, results and standings

Above the odds on every match page there is a head-to-head block with the last six meetings, each with its result and its 1X2 odds. Below the odds there is a league table with Over/Under, HT/FT and Top Scorers tabs, and a last-results list for each team that prints the odds of every match.

For a bettor this means one scroll: the price history, both teams' form and the old odds of every game on one page. If you only want prices, the sister site has more markets on the same page.

Sports, markets and languages covered

Seven sports in the top bar: football, basketball, hockey, tennis, baseball, volleyball and handball. The site's own description claims 1,000+ leagues in football.

Six markets on a football match: 1X2, over/under, Asian handicap, draw no bet, double chance and both teams to score. OddsPortal has eleven or more on the same match and Oddspedia adds player markets. If you bet correct score, half-time/full-time or corners, the table is not here.

Three languages, English, Italian and Portuguese for Brazil. We tested only the English one. The ads change with the country too, as the bookmaker list does.

Using BetExplorer without an account

Everything in this review was done logged out. The odds table, the price history, the archive, My Selections and the tool pages all open without a login.

Registration is free, and its own line says it lets you “see only your favourite bookmakers”. That is the same account-bound list we found on OddsPortal, where the table changed after login. We did not register, so the account side is not covered here. If you need a saved ticket that stays after you close the browser, that is what the account is for.

BetExplorer vs OddsPortal

The two sites use one feed and print different lists, so the comparison is about what each one adds.

Bookmakers on one match: twenty rows here, nineteen there, thirteen on both. Payout: none here, a column there. Markets: six here, eleven or more there. Price history: both, with opening odds printed on both. Closing price: printed and labelled on OddsPortal, not tested here. Archive after two seasons: twelve bookmakers here, about seven there. Accumulator across bookmakers: here only. Dropping odds: both, with the explanation on OddsPortal only. Sure bets and blocked odds: OddsPortal only. Bookmakers you cannot switch off: OddsPortal only, seven of them. Account: optional on both.

Use OddsPortal for the payout column, the closing price and the wider markets. Use BetExplorer for the historical odds, the ticket tool and the extra bookmakers. Both are free.

Our Oddspedia review covers the third site in this category. On a different match, on another day, Oddspedia listed 46 bookmakers. It runs on its own feed.

What the odds comparison does not tell you

The list is a list for your connection. Twenty rows here, a different number from another country, and the site says so in its own words.

The margin is hidden. Two bookmakers with the same best price can have very different payouts on the other outcomes, and this table will not tell you which one is cheaper.

The highlight skipped the exchange on the match we checked, so the best price on the row can be higher than the yellow one.

Two logos can be one price. 1xBet and Megapari matched to the second decimal on the main market.

The tool pages do not explain themselves. Dropping odds has a colour legend, popular bets has no sample size, match filter finds prices in leagues most bettors cannot check.

The exchange row printed 8.22. The yellow mark went to 8.00 one row above it. Exchange prices are left out of the highlight.

A second odds comparison site, and the rating

BetExplorer is a good second odds site. It shows seven bookmakers that OddsPortal does not, and it keeps almost twice as many in its archive. My Selections compares a whole ticket across bookmakers, which nobody else offers for free.

It is a weaker first odds site. No payout, six markets, tool pages with no method. For a match today, the sister site answers more questions on one page. For a match from two seasons ago, or for a three-pick ticket, BetExplorer answers them better.

Rating 4.0 out of 5, half a point above OddsPortal. The list has no locked rows, the archive is deeper, and the ticket tool has no equal on the other two sites.