puntersedge-mcp

Live Australian racing and sports odds inside your AI assistant.

An MCP server for the PuntersEdge AU Odds API. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-capable client what's racing next and get real prices from 12 Australian sources — 11 bookmakers plus the Betfair Exchange — side by side, with each price's own age attached.

You: What's the next race at Randwick and who's favourite?

→ racing_next_to_go(num_races=3, country="AU")
← Wiesners Maiden Plate R1 — 11 runners, 8 bookmakers, data 38s old
  Favourite: <runner> at $2.40 (sportsbet) / $2.55 (tab) / $2.35 (neds)

Install

npm install -g puntersedge-mcp

You need an API key. The free tier is 1,500 credits/month with no card required — get one here.

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "puntersedge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "puntersedge-mcp"],
      "env": { "PUNTERSEDGE_API_KEY": "your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / other MCP clients

Same shape — command npx, args ["-y", "puntersedge-mcp"], and PUNTERSEDGE_API_KEY in the env.

Related MCP server: sportsdata-mcp

Tools

Racing — the core of the feed

Sports

Account

What comes back

Racing responses carry the full market per runner:

{
  "race_name": "Wiesners Maiden Plate", "race_number": 1, "venue": "...",
  "category": "horse", "country": "AU", "distance_m": 1200,
  "track_condition": "...", "weather": "...", "places_paid": 3,
  "data_age_seconds": 38, "stale": false, "stale_bookmakers": [],
  "scratchings": [],
  "runners": [{
    "name": "...", "number": 1, "barrier": 4,
    "jockey": "...", "trainer": "...", "weight": 58.0, "form": "11521",
    "bookmakers": [
      { "key": "tabtouch", "win_price": 126.0, "place_price": 12.0,
        "tote_win": {"PROV": 60.6}, "last_update": "2026-08-17T02:55:3...",
        "source_url": "https://www.tabtouch.com.au/racing/..." }
    ]
  }]
}

Every response tells you its own age. data_age_seconds is race-level, each bookmaker entry carries its own last_update, and stale_bookmakers names the specific legs that have gone quiet rather than condemning the whole race. That matters when an assistant is about to state a price as fact — it can say how fresh the number is instead of implying it is live to the second.

Coverage, stated honestly

Racing: 12 sources — 11 bookmakers plus the Betfair Exchange: BetRight, Sportsbet, Betr, TAB, Ladbrokes, Neds, Unibet, PointsBet, PlayUp, TABtouch, Palmerbet and Betfair.

Depth is uneven, and it matters more than the headline count. Measured on Australian races within two hours of jumping: Betfair, BetRight, Sportsbet and Betr quote essentially every race; TAB about four in five; Ladbrokes and Neds roughly two thirds; then it thins — PointsBet and Unibet near two in five, TABtouch about one in five, Palmerbet under one in ten. Books also publish markets at different times, so a race six hours out often carries only two or three prices where more appear closer to the jump. Every response names the books that actually quoted, so you can see the real depth per race rather than trusting an average.

Sports: fewer again. At most 5 bookmakers on AFL and NRL, 3 on NBA and ATP, and as few as 1 on some competitions. That is a connector-coverage limit, not an outage. Racing is where this feed is strongest, and the tools say so rather than implying a uniform market.

Pass country=AU for racing. About one upcoming race in five is foreign or unlabelled, and those carry a median of one bookmaker — price comparison on them is meaningless. Australian races carry a median of four.

Notes

• Not exposed: arbitrage and exchange endpoints. Some are withheld pending a Betfair licence and return 410 to customer keys, so shipping tools for them would only produce errors.

• This is data, not advice. Prices are what bookmakers published; nothing here predicts outcomes. Gamble responsibly — Gambling Help Online, 1800 858 858.

• Credit costs ride on every response in X-Credits-* headers and are surfaced in each tool result, so an assistant can see the remaining balance without spending a call to find out.

Links

• API documentation

• Pricing — free tier 1,500 credits/month

• Python SDK

• Postman collection — all 36 endpoints; import into Postman via Import → Link

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