Highlightly

Highlightly is a sports data API that combines live scores with video highlights, match statistics, momentum, lineups, standings, transfers and player data. An All Sports API covers nine sports: football (soccer), American football, basketball, hockey, cricket, baseball, rugby, volleyball and handball. Each sport also has its own API with separate documentation.

The API is also listed on RapidAPI, and the site links to a dashboard, a blog and a status page. Pricing is published in dollars by daily request quota, but the home page, the sport API page and the cricket API page show different figures for what looks like the same tiers. The pages we read name no company, registered country or address, only a copyright line and an email contact.

• Video highlights with scores. Video highlights sit alongside live scores and match statistics. This is the distinguishing item: most data feeds give numbers only, and a media site can embed clips without a second vendor.
• All Sports API. One API spans nine sports, from football to handball. Teams covering several sports use one integration, while per-sport APIs with separate documentation remain available for focused builds.
• Cricket detail. The cricket page lists batting and bowling scorecards, fall of wickets, partnerships, head-to-head records for the last ten meetings and standings with net run rate. Coverage is stated as 900+ leagues across 80+ countries.
• Daily request quotas. Plans are sized in requests per day, from 100 on Basic up to 75,000 on Mega, with per-second limits on the paid tiers. Daily caps suit steady apps, and bursty traffic needs checking against them.
• RapidAPI access route. The API is listed on RapidAPI, using x-rapidapi-key and x-rapidapi-host headers. Teams already billing through that marketplace can start there rather than on the vendor's dashboard.
• Momentum and lineups. Match momentum, lineups and transfers are part of the football offer. The pages we read name the data types but do not describe how momentum is calculated.
• Status page. A status page at status.highlightly.net is linked from the cricket page. Cricket uptime is stated as 99.97%, a vendor figure.

• A sports media site adding match clips. Highlights delivered with scores save separate licensing and integration work. The team should confirm clip terms, because the pages we read do not describe usage rights.
• A cricket fan app. Scorecards, partnerships and net run rate standings cover core cricket screens. Formats named include Test, ODI and T20, with competitions such as the IPL and The Ashes.
• A hobby developer testing a multi-sport idea. The Basic tier at $0 gives 100 requests per day with no credit card, enough to try endpoints across sports before choosing a paid quota.

The sport API page says no credit card is required to start on the Basic plan, which costs $0 and allows 100 requests per day with no rate limit. Documentation is available at /sport-api/documentation/ and /cricket-api/documentation/, and the site links to a dashboard for keys.

Alternatively the API can be reached through RapidAPI with the x-rapidapi-key and x-rapidapi-host headers. A sensible first step is to choose between the All Sports API and a single-sport API, since each has separate documentation. The pages we read describe plans and endpoints rather than a numbered setup guide, so the documentation should be opened before estimating effort.

Highlightly bundles video highlights, lineups, momentum and standings with live scores across nine sports in one All Sports API, and each sport also has its own API. The Basic tier allows 100 requests per day.

Pages disagree on price: the home page, sport API page and cricket API page show different figures, so confirm before budgeting. No company, country or address is named.

The sports data apis list places Highlightly 5 of 13: it follows Sportmonks and comes before Entity Sport. From place 4 the established names follow in their ranked order; we publish no numeric score.

The vendor states no country of establishment, so Highlightly is left out of the regional count for this list.

The cricket page adds scorecards, fall of wickets, partnerships and standings with net run rate, and states 900+ leagues and 99.97% uptime.

Access also runs through RapidAPI, and a status page exists.

Pricing as recorded: Published monthly tiers by daily request quota; basic tier at no charge; annual discount.

The sport API page lists Basic at $0 with 100 requests per day, Pro at $12.49 per month (7,500 requests per day, 12 per second), Ultra at $25.99 per month (25,000 per day, 20 per second) and Mega at $57.99 per month (75,000 per day, 100 per second). The cricket API page shows other prices: Pro $9.49, Ultra $20.99 and Mega $45.99, with Mega at 65,000 requests per day. The home page says plans start at $5.99 per month with up to 40% off on annual billing, which matches neither page. All are reported as shown, and none names a currency. Buyers should confirm the current price with the vendor before budgeting.

Checked against highlightly.net for Best Sports Data APIs in 2026, review date 13 November 2026.

The pages we read do not describe encryption, certifications, data residency or a privacy policy. The footer reads Copyright 2023 to 2026 Highlightly with an email contact, and no company name, registered country or address appears.

A status page exists at status.highlightly.net, and the cricket page states 99.97% uptime. Access runs through API keys from the dashboard or through RapidAPI headers. Organisations with procurement requirements would need to ask the vendor who the contracting entity is, because the pages we read do not say.

Integrations the vendor names (9):

• RapidAPI
• Football API
• Cricket API
• Basketball API
• NFL and NCAAF
• Hockey (NHL, NCAAH)
• Baseball (MLB)
• Rugby, volleyball and handball APIs
• Status page

We pick the closest products in the same guide by tags, price model and region.

• BALLDONTLIE (#3 of 13): Multi-sport API with per-league tiers and a plan at no charge. Watch out: per-league billing means a multi-sport product pays once per league until it reaches the all-access tier.
• Sportmonks (#4 of 13): Football, cricket and Formula One APIs from Deventer with published prices. Suits: Football and cricket products wanting a published price and ready-made widgets. (Netherlands)
• Entity Sport (#6 of 13): Cricket-first sports API from Jaipur with published monthly and yearly plans. Watch out: the pricing page lists paid plans only, with the development API terms left unstated. (India)
• Goalserve (#9 of 13): Live scores and odds feeds in XML and JSON, sold by quote.
• Sportbex (#10 of 13): Sports and betting-odds API launched in 2025, priced by custom quote. Suits: Small betting or fantasy projects wanting odds and scores from one vendor.

Read from the vendor’s own pages on 12 November 2026.

• highlightly.net: Sports covered, features, starting price claim, RapidAPI listing, footer and contact
• highlightly.net/sport-api: Basic, Pro, Ultra and Mega prices and quotas, no credit card
• highlightly.net/cricket-api: Cricket features, coverage, uptime, cricket prices, documentation and status page
• highlightly.net/cricket-api: RapidAPI headers and documentation paths

We rank on what separates products after the demo: time to useful, the real price, the exit and who the product is for. Highlightly ends up at #5 among 13. Method and commercial relationships are in our editorial process.