Index last measured 24 July 2026. Cheapest book this week: Playabets at 6.00 percent. Edges takes no bets and never holds your money. Over 18s only.

EDGES

Not in the index

Sportingbet

Sportingbet is not read, by their choice. Their published rules ask us to stay off, and we listen.

Stated plainly

Where this stands

Their site is readable and their price feed sits at a public URL, so this is not a technical barrier. Their own robots.txt carries Disallow: /*/api/ and the prices live under exactly that path, so reading them means going against a published instruction. Rechecked 2026-07-25. We do not.

Licence

Licensed South African bookmaker.

The full method →

No link here

No commercial relationship with this bookmaker. Measured and published anyway.

Compare them against the field

One book's number means little on its own. The weekly index puts every book we read side by side. This week's index →

In context

Where they sit this week

SA Bookmaker Margin Index

Measured 24 JUL 2026 · 204 MATCH MARKETS · 4 BOOKS
South African bookmaker margins, cheapest first
Pos Bookmaker Their cut Payout Markets Open an account
1 Playabets Cheapest 6.00% 94.34% 48 Best value
2 Hollywoodbets 8.92% 91.81% 107 Link pending
3 ApexBets 9.08% 91.68% 37 Link being fixed
4 Supabets in-play slate No partnership 10.41% 90.57% 12 No partnership

Each figure is that book's own average across its own three-way board, measured 24 July 2026. Cheapest comparable book: Playabets at 6.00%. Dearest: ApexBets at 9.08%.

Straight answers

Sportingbet questions

Why is Sportingbet not in the Edges index?
Their site is readable and their price feed sits at a public URL, so this is not a technical barrier. Their own robots.txt carries Disallow: /*/api/ and the prices live under exactly that path, so reading them means going against a published instruction. Rechecked 2026-07-25. We do not.
Does that mean Sportingbet is expensive?
No. It means we have no measurement, and we will not guess. A book is only ever called cheap or dear here after we have read its prices ourselves.