Oddschecker review: OC+ went free in late October, so the old £9.99 and £29.99 tiers no longer matter
Oddschecker compared prices long before apps copied it. With OC+ now free, we looked at what you get without paying, what the old tiers cost, and how affiliate offers shape the page you start from.
Our score
7.9/10Rated 7.9 out of 10
Verdict
Oddschecker is the sensible first tab for any UK bettor, because it lines up prices across bookmakers for football, racing and more, and OC+ is now free. It is funded by the bookmakers it links to, so the offers beside the odds are advertising, and the tools find prices, not winners. Use it to shop lines, and ignore the bonus banners until you have read the terms.
Best for
UK bettors who want to compare bookmaker prices before every bet
Compares prices across many UK bookmakers on football, racing and other sports
OC+ tools became free from late October 2026, per Oddschecker and SBC News
Market Movers, TV listings and calculators sit in the main menu
No account needed to see most of the odds grid
What held it back
Funded by affiliate commission, so promoted offers are paid placements
The old paid tiers cost £9.99 and £29.99 a month, so free is a recent change
Value-bet and trend tools show prices, not guaranteed profit
Listed odds can change before you place a bet at the bookmaker
Every bettor has had the same small regret: the price they took at one bookmaker was longer at another, and they only noticed after the race. Oddschecker exists to remove that regret. It lists what each bookmaker is offering on the same selection, so the best number is the first thing you see. For years, the better tools sat behind a monthly fee. In late October 2026 that changed, which is why we are looking again.
The part that changed: OC+ is free
Oddschecker's own announcement, headed "Oddschecker+ Is Now Free: Unlimited Odds Comparison & Expert Betting Tips Return," puts the date at 28 October. SBC News, a trade outlet, reported the move a few days earlier and dated it to 27 October. We treat the one-day gap as a reporting difference.
Oddschecker's announcement page: OC+ is free, and expert tips return.
Before then, the support FAQ listed two tiers: Essential at £9.99 a month and Premium at £29.99. Essential covered the full odds grid, price history and market movers. Premium added tipster columns plus AI-led tools: Value Bets, Trends and Public Betting Splits. An older FAQ in the same results showed £19.99, so prices moved over time. The point for you is simple: those tools used to cost up to £360 a year, and now cost nothing, so there is no reason to pay anyone for a plain odds comparison.
We could not retrieve the full announcement text, so we cannot say which Premium tools carried over unchanged. Check the OC+ page before you assume a specific tool is free.
What the grid does well
Open the football page and you get leagues and cups ranked by popularity. The racing page is organised by UK and Irish meetings, with a section for big events.
Oddschecker's football page: leagues and cups first, with a Free Bets offer box beside them.
Price history and Market Movers are the features that earn the visit. A selection that shortens sharply over an hour tells you where money is going, which is information, not advice. Racing bettors get the most from it: with a field of a dozen horses and bookmakers moving by a tick, a grid beats opening six apps.
The horse racing page groups UK and Ireland meetings, with Big Events below.
The same menu carries a Bet Basket, an Exchange link, TV listings, a calendar, a time-zone setting and betting calculators. We judged the page from captures, not a long test, and on a phone the home screen leads with the next racing cards.
On a phone, Next Up Racing leads: Doncaster, Gowran Park and Uttoxeter on the day we looked.
The match centre
Oddschecker's OC+ area also contains a Match Centre, with filters and a date picker for browsing fixtures.
The OC+ Match Centre, with filters and date controls for fixtures.
We only saw the page layout, and we did not run the value tools through enough markets to give you a hit rate. Distrust anyone who claims one.
The catch you should keep in mind
Oddschecker is free to you because bookmakers pay it. The tops of its pages carry offers: on our football and racing captures, "Bet £10, Get £40 in Free Bets" and "Bet £20, Get £60 in Free Bets". One review we read says the bookmakers promoted in those slots, and the offers shown first, are influenced by commission rates. The odds are pulled live, but the layout is a sales page.
That does not make the product bad. It means you should read the grid and skip the banner. Offers carry minimum odds, expiry dates and wagering terms you must read before depositing. With free bets the stake is usually not returned, so the real value is lower than the headline.
Two practical limits. Prices can lapse between the grid and the bookmaker's bet slip, so confirm the price there before you stake. And some bookmakers on the grid will limit accounts that win, which no comparison site can fix.
Who should use it
The question we ask of any comparison tool is whether it changes what you do at the till. This one does, but only if you act on it: the saving is real when you place the same bet at the longer price, and zero when you read the grid and then use your usual app out of habit. A point or two of price on a typical £10 stake is small in pounds and large over a season, which is the whole argument for the habit. Use it every time you bet, if you bet at more than one UK bookmaker. Skip the paid-tier idea altogether now that it is gone, and pair it with a tracker if you want records. If you only ever use one bookmaker, you will use maybe a tenth of it.
Gambling can lead to loss, and nothing on a comparison page is financial advice. You must be 18 or over; the National Gambling Helpline is 0808 8020 133.
