As you know at Instant Sports Money we like to bring you the best sports betting sites available and our trio of sites, Bet365 Sport, SkyBet and Paddy Power certainly hit the mark when it
That’s why we rate each of these sites so highly and feature them exclusively on our site.
However, one question remains and it is one that is arguably one of the most important questions a punter can have answered; which of the sites offers punters generally the best deal when it comes to odds on a range of sports betting markets?
In an industry where punters will seek every possible edge to allow them to earn more from their successful bets, the odds a company offers is at least equally important, if not more important, than the different promotions, offers and other enticements a site offers to attract new customers in.
Indeed, seasoned sports betting enthusiasts will only consider joining a site if they know that the site in question tends to offer around the industry best prices on key markets at least some of the time, if not for the majority.
Now we know that all our three sports betting sites do tend to offer the best prices in the industry across a wide range of bets every day, but the question remains, which of the three offers best value between them?
In this article, we are going to try and find out.
We’re going to do this by comparing the odds on a number of different sporting markets across a range of sports on the day the article was offered and to ensure fairness, we are not going to include any promotional odds or offers (such as SkyBet’s Price Boost offers) as part of the review.
Let’s begin by looking at how each of the three companies compare to each other, the industry best price and industry worst price for bets across a range of five different sports. Football, Tennis, Formula 1 Motorracing, Horseracing and the National Football League (NFL).
Football betting odds comparison
Bet |
SkyBet |
Bet365 |
Paddy Power |
Best Price |
Worst Price |
Sam Allardyce to be next manager of Sunderland FC |
2/1 |
6/4 |
2/1 |
9/4 |
1/50 |
Scotland to beat Poland 2-1 |
9/1 |
10/1 |
9/1 |
23/2 |
17/2 |
Arsenal to win the Premier League |
5/2 |
11/4 |
11/4 |
11/4 |
9/4 |
Manchester United to win the Capital One Cup (League Cup) |
5/1 |
5/1 |
11/2 |
13/2 |
5/1 |
Raheem Sterling to score first goal in the England v Estonia match |
5/1 |
11/2 |
5/1 |
11/2 |
4/1 |
Tennis betting odds comparison
Bet |
SkyBet |
Bet365 |
Paddy Power |
Best Price |
Worst Price |
Angelique Kerber to beat Caroline Wozniacki |
8/13 |
4/6 |
8/13 |
4/6 |
3/5 |
John Isner to beat John Millman |
1/5 |
2/11 |
1/6 |
1/4 |
2/11 |
Belgium to win the Davis Cup |
2/1 |
9/4 |
9/4 |
9/4 |
9/5 |
Roger Federer to win the Australian Open |
7/1 |
8/1 |
6/1 |
8/1 |
5/1 |
Tomas Berdych to win Wimbledon |
50/1 |
50/1 |
50/1 |
50/1 |
33/1 |
F1 betting odds comparison
Bet |
SkyBet |
Bet365 |
Paddy Power |
Best Price |
Worst Price |
Nico Rosberg to win the Russian Grand Prix |
11/4 |
5/2 |
11/4 |
11/4 |
5/2 |
Valeri Bottas to finish on the podium in the Russian Grand Prix |
7/2 |
10/3 |
7/2 |
7/2 |
3/1 |
Pastor Maldonado to be the first driver to retire in the Russian GP |
7/1 |
13/2 |
6/1 |
7/1 |
6/1 |
Sebastian Vettel to take Pole Position at the Russian GP |
16/1 |
14/1 |
14/1 |
16/1 |
11/1 |
Jenson Button to finish in the points in the Russian GP |
4/1 |
3/1 |
7/2 |
9/2 |
3/1 |
Horse racing betting odds comparison
Bet |
SkyBet |
Bet365 |
Paddy Power |
Best Price |
Worst Price |
Ample to win the 2.30 at Nottingham |
2/1 |
2/1 |
9/4 |
9/4 |
2/1 |
Empty The Tank to win the 5.00 at Ludlow |
4/1 |
7/2 |
10/3 |
4/1 |
10/3 |
Thunder and Roses to win the 2016 Grand National |
33/1 |
33/1 |
33/1 |
33/1 |
25/1 |
Low Key to win the Cesarewitch |
7/1 |
7/1 |
7/1 |
7/1 |
6/1 |
Foundation to win the 2000 Guineas in 2016 |
16/1 |
16/1 |
20/1 |
20/1 |
12/1 |
NFL betting odds comparison
Bet |
SkyBet |
Bet365 |
Paddy Power |
Best Price |
Worst Price |
Buffalo Bills to beat the Tennessee Titans |
4/5 |
20/27 |
10/13 |
4/5 |
20/29 |
Cleveland Browns to beat the Baltimore Ravens |
9/4 |
9/4 |
12/5 |
22/9 |
11/5 |
Pittsburgh Steelers to beat the San Diego Chargers |
3/2 |
6/4 |
6/4 |
17/11 |
11/8 |
Seattle Seahawks to win the Superbowl |
13/2 |
13/2 |
6/1 |
7/1 |
6/1 |
Green Bay Packers to win the Superbowl |
7/2 |
10/3 |
4/1 |
4/1 |
3/1 |
As you can see, the best price offered for each market is highlighted in bold and what is immediately apparent is that each of the three bookmakers offers the best price between each other a roughly similar amount of times, which reflects that we feel punters get excellent value.
What is interesting however is that SkyBet does seem to be the best choice for Formula 1 betting as that site definitely offered best odds on F1 markets consistently. For Tennis and Football, Bet365 was arguably the slightly better choice while on horseracing Paddy Power offered the best odds. On the NFL both Sky and Paddy Power offered the best odds on the same number of events (three).
What this shows is that depending on what type of sports you want to bet on, certain sites generally seem to offer the better odds. However the good news for customers of Bet365 Sport, Paddy Power and SkyBet is that the odds offered by the other companies are often almost as good and it is rare that there is a large discrepancy between the odds offered from one company to the other.
In short, this means that whatever the company you choose to bet with, you are going to get a great deal in terms of odds available. It’s impossible for one betting company to offer the best price on every sporting market all the time, but what you can be sure of is that over the longer term, the three sites above offer its customers a great deal based on odds alone.
Factor in the myriad of offers and promotions available on each of the three sites and that value to the punter only increases.