BMBets: the payout on the best price, surebets behind a login

Verdict: 3.5 out of 5. The odds table is the best we have seen in this category: 24 bookmakers on one match, 69 markets, payout on every row and on the best-price row. Around it the site is weak. Free surebets exist in two sports only. The price history is a tooltip for one day. No owner is named, and the site and its reviewers give seven different bookmaker counts.

BMBets, or BookMaker's Bets: since 2010, owner unknown

The full name on the page is “BookMaker's Bets”, and some reviews write it as BM Bets. It is an odds comparison site with a surebet scanner attached. An odds comparison site lets you compare odds from many bookmakers on one match, side by side, so you can pick the highest one. A surebet scanner looks for matches where two bookmakers disagree so much that you can bet on every outcome and make a small profit whatever the result.

The copyright line runs from 2010.

Every source we found agrees the site started that year, and the layout has not changed much since. The site runs on two domains: bmbets.com in English and bmbets.ru in Russian. Russian-language review sites say the .ru version is blocked in Russia by the regulator, which is why most of them describe mirror addresses.

Who runs it is not written anywhere.

The About link opens a page called Disclaimer. The Contact page has a form and one address, support@bmbets.com. No company name, no country, no registration number, and the domain's ownership record is hidden behind a privacy service.

The Disclaimer does say two things that matter here: paid services exist and are for registered users only, and the odds “come from the various bookmakers' official web sites and updated on regular basis”, with a warning to check the price at the bookmaker before you bet.

What BMBets is for, in plain words

You already know which match you want to bet on.

BMBets tells you which bookmaker pays the most for that bet. For most visitors this is the only use. Open the match, read the “Highest” row, go to that bookmaker. The difference between the best price and an average one on our match was 2.36 against 2.27 on the home win: four percent more money on every winning bet, for the same risk.

The second use is to see how much the bookmakers keep. The payout column shows it per bookmaker, and the “Highest” row shows it for the best prices together. A bettor who always takes the best price on every outcome is paying about 1% on this match. A bettor who stays with one bookmaker at 93% payout is paying seven percent, more than five times as much.

The third use is for people who bet on price differences rather than on teams.

Surebets, middles and value bets are all ways to profit from two bookmakers disagreeing. BMBets finds those pairs.

Without paid filters it finds them in two sports, and the profit per pair is small, one to four percent. It takes time every day for a small return, and the account-limit warning below applies. The fourth use is a check before a bet. Blocked Matches shows when several bookmakers have pulled a market. If the match you want is on that list, something has happened that the open prices may not reflect yet.

Counting the BMBets 1X2 table on one Premier League match

1X2 is the basic football market: 1 for a home win, X for a draw, 2 for an away win. We opened Aston Villa against Nottingham Forest and counted every row of that table.

Twenty-four rows. Two of them, BWin and Dafabet, were struck through with their prices withdrawn, so 22 live prices. The list runs from 1xBet to William Hill, and Pinnacle is in the middle of it.

Pinnacle is a bookmaker that welcomes winning bettors, so its prices are treated as the most accurate in the market. Neither OddsPortal nor BetExplorer showed it on the matches we counted there.

The best prices were 2.36 for the home win, 3.50 for the draw and 3.30 for the away win. A price of 2.36 means you get 2.36 back for every 1 you stake, if the bet wins. The 2.36 was at 1xBet. The 3.50 was shared by 1xBet, Bet City and Betfred, and all three cells were highlighted. The 3.30 was at Coolbet.

That is a count from one connection, and the rows change with the country you open the site from, as they do on every site in this category.

Each row of the BMBets table has the bookmaker logo and name, three live odds, and a green or red arrow for the last move. In the odds table, the name links to the bookmaker's own page on BMBets, and the outside link is one more click away. A coloured bar runs down the right edge of the table, green on most rows, yellow or red on a few, and it is not labelled anywhere. We could not find out what it means.

Above the table there are tabs for Full Time, 1st Half and 2nd Half, and above those, the market tabs.

Twenty-four rows on one Premier League match, twenty-two of them live. Pinnacle is in the list. On the other sites it was not.

“50+”, “more than 70”, “Bookmakers (35)”

Those are three counts from the site itself. The meta description says “50+ major bookmakers”. The home page text says “more than 70 world bookmakers”. The Bookmakers page prints “Bookmakers (35)” in its own heading. Outside the site, one review counted 59 this year, another counted 63 last year, and a review from 2018 found three different numbers on the site back then: 70, 51 and 63.

Our table had 24.

None of these numbers is a lie on its own, because a site can hold 70 bookmakers in its database and show 24 on one match in one country. But seven numbers for one list means the site does not know, or does not say, which number is the real one. Our Oddspedia review found the same thing with four counts. BMBets has the most of any site in this section.

Fifty plus, more than seventy, thirty-five, fifty-nine, sixty-three, fifty-one, and twenty-four in our table. Seven numbers for one list of bookmakers.

The Highest row: payout on the best odds

Every row prints a payout. Payout is the share of all stakes a bookmaker gives back on one market; a payout of 96% means the bookmaker keeps 4%, and that 4% is the margin. On our match the payouts ran from 90.76% at Coral to 98.50% at 1xBet.

Under the table there are two rows that the other sites in this section do not have. “Average” prints the average odds per outcome and the average payout: 2.27, 3.41, 3.18 and 95.27%. “Highest” prints the highest odds per outcome and the payout you get if you take all three: 2.36, 3.50, 3.30 and 98.77%.

That last number is the useful one, because it tells you how much margin is left after you shop for the best price on every outcome. Here it is 1.23%. OddsPortal prints the payout per row but never for the best-price set, Oddspedia has a payout switch, and BetExplorer has no payout at all. Our odds converter does the same sum if you want to check it.

One small thing: the two struck-through rows still print their payouts, 94.47% and 96.37%, for prices that are no longer offered.

Take the best price on all three outcomes and the payout is 98.77%. The site prints that figure. Nobody else in this category does.

From corners to hat-trick: the market list

Click the arrow at the end of the market tabs and a list opens. We counted 69 entries on the Aston Villa match: 1x2, Asian handicap, European handicap, corners, totals, odd or even, double chance, yellow cards, red cards, penalty, shots, throw-ins, goal kicks, hit the woodwork, tackles, fouls, offsides, shots on target, race to, correct score, half time/full time, winning margin, exact goals, hat-trick and more.

BetExplorer has six markets on the same kind of match, OddsPortal eleven or more, so on markets BMBets is far ahead.

How many bookmakers price each of those markets is another question, since throw-ins and goal kicks are not markets every bookmaker offers, and we opened only the 1X2 table for the count above.

Price history: one day of moves in a small box

Put the mouse on a price and a box appears with the recent changes. On the 1xBet home price it listed eight entries over one day, each with the time, the price and the size of the move: 2.36, 2.37, 2.36, 2.35, 2.34 and so on.

There is no line marked “opening odds”. There is no chart. The first line in the box is the earliest change it kept, and nothing marks it as a start.

OddsPortal and BetExplorer both print the opening price and keep a longer history. For the closing line, the last price before kick-off, this box is not enough, and our closing line value guide explains why that price matters.

BMBets surebets for free: volleyball and table tennis only

A surebet, also written as sure bet or arbitrage bet, is a set of bets on every outcome of one match at different bookmakers, sized so that you make a small profit whichever outcome wins. It works when two bookmakers disagree enough about the prices.

The Surebets page opens without an account. A dark banner at the top reads: “Login to be able to see more profitable surebets”, “Login to be able to use Dark Mode”, “Login and buy filters to be able to see surebets of all our sports”. The sports filter under it is locked to “Volleyball, Table Tennis”, and those are the only two sports where a visitor sees surebets. We then registered a free account and opened the page again. The filter was still locked to the same two sports, the header read “Access: No”, and the banner had changed to “Buy and use BMpoints to be able to activate filters”. A free account changes nothing on this page.

Football, tennis and basketball are behind the paid filters.

The free rows on the day we looked were an Argentine women's volleyball match at 3.52% profit, priced at Pinnacle and 1xBet, and a Japan against India volleyball match at 2.88%. Both are small and both are real. Each row has a link to more combinations.

We did not buy the filters, so the paid list itself is not covered here. The price is in the next section.

One warning that the same reviews repeat, and that applies to every free surebet list: the free rows are seen by thousands of people at once. When many of them bet the same price at the same bookmaker, the bookmaker notices, and accounts get limited. Everyone sees the free rows, so everyone bets them, and that is what the bookmaker sees.

If you want free sure bets in football, our arbitrage scanners section compares the tools that offer them. OddsPortal, reviewed in this section, gives ten free surebets a day in any sport.

Without an account, surebets exist in two sports: volleyball and table tennis. The football list is behind “buy filters”.

BMBets value bets, middles and back/lay

At the bottom of the home page BMBets defines a value bet as “an odd with overvalued likelihood compared to other bookmakers estimates”.

So the site calls a price a value bet when it is higher than what the other bookmakers offer. The comparison is with the market, and a model has no part in it.

The BMBets Value Bets page shows it. Every row on the day we looked was from the Romanian second division, every one at Bet City, on markets like “away team total, first half, over 1.5” at 11.50. The sports filter says “Coming soon”. One bookmaker out of line in a small league is what this list finds.

A handicap bet gives one team a head start in goals or points before the match begins. On BMBets, a middle is a pair of handicap bets at two bookmakers with different head starts; if the result lands between the two numbers, both bets win. The page lists them with the two prices, the two bookmakers and a calculator button, and on our day the rows were NFL and college football. Back/Lay is for people who use a betting exchange, where you can also bet against an outcome. Without an account the page shows filters and no rows.

BMBets Blocked Matches and Moving Margins

It lists matches where bookmakers have pulled their prices, with three numbers: bookmakers that priced the match, bookmakers that closed it, and the share. Levyy Bereg against Polissya in the Ukrainian Premier League read 19, 6 and 32%. An NFL game read 10, 4 and 40%. The filters are “Min bookies”, set to 5, and “Blocking bookies”, set to 25%.

A bookmaker pulls a market when it sees something it does not like: a lineup change, a late injury, or big bets from professional bettors. When several pull at once, the ones still open may not have caught up yet.

OddsPortal has the same tool and calls it blocked odds; our review of it explains how to read that list.

Moving Margins lists markets where a bookmaker changed the number in the market and kept the prices. 1xBet moved a total from 2.75 goals to 3 goals with the prices still at 1.81 and 2.02. Each row is one bookmaker. This is a different list from dropping odds, which tracks prices that fall.

The definitions of all five tools are printed at the bottom of the home page: blocked matches, moving margins, middles, surebets and value bets, each in one paragraph. BetExplorer publishes none. OddsPortal publishes them under each table.

Bookmakers (35): four stars for everyone but one

The Bookmakers page lists 35 bookmakers with a rating, a vote count and a payout figure.

Every bookmaker has four stars except bet365 with five. The vote counts run from 61 to 510. The payout column is strange: 1xBet, 22Bet and Betano all print exactly 97.67, and Betfair prints a dash. The page does not say how the figure is built or how often it updates.

The text above the table says the bookmakers were selected using the Sportsbook Review ranking, odds quality and market range, and that clicking a logo takes you to the bookmaker.

Thirty-four bookmakers on the same four stars tells you which bookmakers the site works with. It does not tell you which one is better.

How to compare odds on BMBets in five steps

1. Open the match from the sport menu on the left or the search box at the top.
2. Read the “Highest” row under the table. It shows the best price per outcome and the bookmaker holding it.
3. Read the payout in the same row. Above 98% means the bookmakers keep less than 2% between them on that match.
4. Switch the market tab if you bet totals, handicaps or corners. Check how many rows the new market has.
5. Put the mouse on the price to see the last day of changes before you go to the bookmaker.

The table is a table for your connection. If your bookmaker is not in it, the best price on the page is not the best price you can get.

For the tools, the order is the same on every page: set the filter at the top, press Apply, read the rows. On Surebets the row gives you the two bookmakers and the two prices; the calculator icon at the end of the row splits your stake between them. On Blocked Matches there is nothing to bet, only a match to avoid or to check again.

Forty sports, two languages, no app

There is no BMBets app for iOS or Android.

We checked both stores. The site has a mobile version that adapts to a phone screen, with the sport menu, the odds table and the tool pages reachable. We did not test it. One thing to expect: the price history opens when the mouse is over a price, and a phone has no mouse.

Close to forty sports in the left menu, from football and tennis to chess, armwrestling, surfing and polo. Table tennis and e-sports carry hundreds of events a day, which is why the free surebets appear there. The football tree covers about a hundred countries down to regional leagues.

Two languages on BMBets: English and Russian, the second misspelled in the menu. Three odds formats: EU decimals, UK fractions and the US plus-and-minus format. A time zone setting at the top left, set from your connection.

BMBets registration, BM points and the Standard plan

The betting odds table, the market list, the price tooltip, Blocked Matches, Moving Margins, Middles and the Bookmakers page all work without a login. Surebets show two sports. Value Bets shows its list. Back/Lay shows nothing.

Registration is free.

The form asks for a name, an email, a password and, oddly, a gender, then a User Agreement box and a reCAPTCHA. On our visit the reCAPTCHA box carried a notice that the site had used up its free quota, and the form still went through. A confirmation email follows. Google and Facebook login are offered too.

A free account adds a Favorites menu and a points wallet, and that is all we could find. The surebets page stayed locked to two sports. The header showed “Access: No” and “Points: 0 BM”.

The paid layer is one plan, called Standard.

It is sold by the day: 5 days for 5 points, 10 for 10, 15 for 15, 20 for 20, 30 for 30, and one BM point costs one euro. So the filters cost one euro a day, from five euros for five days to thirty euros for a month. The points page says what the money buys: custom filters on the odds comparison, surebets, back/lay, middles and moving margins pages, deep links into bookmaker bet slips, and extra features in the surebet calculator.

The payment page is titled “Pay by your preferred cryptocurrency”, and the icons under the registration form show what that means: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, DAI, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and USD Coin. No card, no PayPal, no bank transfer. A site that names no owner and takes only crypto is a site where the money goes one way. Five euros is a small test. We did not make it.

BMBets against the two Livesport sites

OddsPortal and BetExplorer belong to one company, Livesport, and share a feed. BMBets is the outsider, so the comparison is about what it adds.

Bookmakers on one match: 24 rows here, 19 on OddsPortal, 20 on BetExplorer, each counted on a different match. Payout: every row plus the best-price row here, every row on OddsPortal, none on BetExplorer. Markets: 69 here, eleven or more on OddsPortal, six on BetExplorer.

Price history: a one-day tooltip here, dated ticks with the opening price on both other sites. Closing price: not here, labelled on OddsPortal. Archive: none here, seasons back on both other sites.

Free surebets: two sports here, with or without an account, ten a day in any sport on OddsPortal, none on BetExplorer. Blocked matches: here and on OddsPortal. Method published: here and on OddsPortal. Owner named: on both Livesport sites, not here.

Use BMBets to compare odds with the payout figure on the best price, for Pinnacle in the table, and for markets the other sites do not carry. Use OddsPortal for the closing price and the free surebets. Use BetExplorer for the archive.

Oddspedia is the fourth site in this section, and the odds comparison hub puts all four side by side.

Is BMBets legit? Seven counts and no owner

The list is a list for your connection.

Twenty-four rows here, another number from another country.

The owner is unknown.

BMBets takes money for filters, in cryptocurrency only, and names no company behind the site. The email address works, and that is all we can say.

The odds may be late. The Disclaimer itself says prices can differ from the bookmaker's site. The price tooltip showed eight changes in a day on a Premier League favourite, which is not many, and a 2026 review of the surebet side calls the updates slow. We did not measure it.

The bookmaker counts do not agree. Seven numbers, from 24 to more than 70. And the value bets are prices that stand out from the other bookmakers, by the site's own definition; the list on our day was one small league at one bookmaker.

A site that sells filters and names no company behind it. The email works. That is what we know about the owner.

Rating 3.5: the table and the tools

BMBets has the best odds table in this section, and the weakest set of tools around it. The table gives you 24 bookmakers, Pinnacle among them, 69 markets, a payout on every row and a payout on the best-price set. No other site here does all of that.

Everything around the table is thinner. The price history is a day. There is no archive.

The surebets you came for are in volleyball and table tennis unless you pay. The value bets are one bookmaker out of line in Romania. And no company name is printed anywhere on BMBets.

Rating 3.5 out of 5. Level with OddsPortal, half a point under BetExplorer. The table alone would score higher, and the tools around it are what lower the score.