The Betting Tools You Get Built In (and the Ones You Still Need)
Every broker says its platform comes loaded with tools. Once you are actually inside BLACK, Edge, Asianodds88 or the Sportmarket platform, the four screens do not offer the same things, and not one of them hands you a stake calculator.
Every broker on this page bundles at least one platform into the account you fund: BetInAsia's BLACK, AsianConnect's Asianodds88 and Piwi247, MadMarket's Edge, and Sportmarket's own platform (once marketed as Pro). All four give you a screen that pulls several bookmakers or exchanges into one view. From there they part ways. MadMarket's Edge documents the most detail: price history, a probability tracker, orders that fire automatically at a target price. AsianConnect's Asianodds88 is the only one with a public, documented API built for your own software. BetInAsia's BLACK offers a sanctioned route to a bot too, on request. None of the four sizes a stake for you, and MadMarket's own terms explicitly forbid the kind of automated tool a bot needs. Check the current terms before you rely on any one feature staying exactly as described here.
What "built in" actually means once you're logged in
Four brokers, four marketing pages, four different claims about what their software does for you. Here is what each one actually says about itself, in its own words (lightly trimmed, never invented):
- BetInAsia describes BLACK as "free to use", with no platform fee stated anywhere on its own pages.
- MadMarket says Edge lets you "combine liquidity across different Asian bookies in one bet" rather than placing three separate slips.
- Sportmarket states plainly that its own platform "does not charge any additional commissions", unlike its separate FairExchange exchange account; the cost sits inside the odds you see, not on top of them.
Three sentences, three different pitches. None of them tells you whether the tool behind the pitch actually has a price alert, a cash-out button or a way to plug in your own code, which is the part that matters once you are past the sign-up page.
Seven tools, one comparison table
Strip away the marketing copy and each broker's software is really a handful of separate features stitched together. Below is what this site could confirm on each broker's own pages for BLACK, Sharp Exchange, Asianodds88, Piwi247, Edge, the Sportmarket platform and FairExchange, the seven tools named in this page's own research brief (not Orbit, not Probet42 or PS3838, which get their own coverage elsewhere on this site). A blank cell does not prove a feature is missing, only that neither this site nor the broker's own pages could confirm it, so check the current terms of the one you actually use.
| Tool | BetInAsia (BLACK / Sharp Exchange) | AsianConnect (Asianodds88 / Piwi247) | MadMarket (Edge / Sharp Exchange) | Sportmarket (platform / FairExchange) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds screen across several venues | Yes, BLACK | Yes, Asianodds88 | Yes, Edge (11 named screen elements) | Yes, Trade view |
| Order that fires at a target price | Not confirmed on the pages we could read | Not confirmed on the pages we could read | Yes, Timeout, up to 72 hours | Yes, Future Fulfilment, up to 72 hours on football |
| Cash out (full or partial) | Yes, on Sharp Exchange only; not documented on BLACK itself | Not confirmed on the pages we could read | Yes, on Edge and on Sharp Exchange | Yes, on selected events on the main platform |
| A sanctioned API for your own bot | Yes, the BLACK API, on request | Yes, the Asianodds88 API, publicly documented | No; terms bar scraping and "any automated mechanism" | No public API; FairExchange states it cannot be used with API bots |
| Free built-in calculators | Arbitrage and EV calculator pages exist | Not confirmed on the pages we could read | Nine, including arbitrage, margin, Asian handicap and Poisson | One, an arbitrage calculator for hedging a bet placed elsewhere |
| Demo or test account | Yes, free test accounts | Yes, a demo account | Not confirmed on the pages we could read | No demo; an unregistered preview of football full-time markets only |
Three of the four run on the same underlying engine (a detail almost nobody mentions in the marketing copy). BetInAsia calls BLACK "powered by Mollybet", MadMarket calls Edge "this Mollybet whitelabel", and Sportmarket calls its own platform "powered by Mollybet" too. Only AsianConnect's Asianodds88 is built independently, which may be part of why its screen behaves differently and why it is the one with a public API instead of an on-request one.
Where the built-in kit helps, and where it stops
Strengths
- Already paid for. The tool sits inside the account you funded; there is no separate subscription or download to add.
- MadMarket's Edge shows price history and a probability tracker, work most bettors would otherwise have to build themselves in a spreadsheet.
- Two of the four, BetInAsia's BLACK and AsianConnect's Asianodds88, give you a sanctioned way to connect your own code, rather than a grey area you have to argue about later.
Limits
- None of the four sizes a stake for you. A Kelly or EV calculator is not part of any of these accounts, on any of the pages this site could read.
- MadMarket's own terms forbid the kind of automated tool a bot needs, so Edge is not the platform to pair with software of your own.
- Sportmarket's FairExchange states outright that it cannot be used with API bots, and neither Piwi247 nor the Sportmarket platform publishes a public API at all.
What's actually sitting behind each login
Four accounts, four different toolkits (this is not a ranking of the brokers themselves; the full four-way comparison, fees and countries included, lives on the site's fuller broker comparison). Here is what the tool named against each one is actually for, and where it stops.
BetInAsia: BLACK, and Sharp Exchange for the exchange side
Tool. BLACK aggregates several Asian bookmakers into one screen and places your stake automatically at whichever books it, splitting a large bet across bookmakers if one alone cannot fill it. Best for. Someone who wants the sanctioned bot route (the BLACK API) without waiting on a different broker to open one. Not for you if. You want a stated commission number on Sharp Exchange before you fund it, BetInAsia's live pages carry none; the last figure on record was 2.5%, from an older page, so check the current terms. Both BetInAsia and MadMarket sell a tool called Sharp Exchange under the same name (BetInAsia calls it exclusive to itself; MadMarket sells it too, so read "exclusive" as marketing rather than fact).
AsianConnect: Asianodds88, and Piwi247 for the exchange side
Tool. Asianodds88 aggregates roughly six bookmakers, shows a combined limit across them and exposes a documented, rate-limited API (as fast as every five seconds on live markets) for genuinely automated betting. Best for. Bettors who actually want to write code against a betting feed rather than click through a web screen. Not for you if. You need lay betting on horse racing, Piwi247's own FAQ states plainly that its exchange, PIWIX, does not offer it, or you want the broker's own documentation to say "cash out" anywhere on the Piwi247 pages, because it does not.
MadMarket: Edge, and Sharp Exchange for the exchange side
Tool. Edge is the most documented screen on this page: eleven named elements including Price History, a Probability Tracker, an Average and Best odds view, and a Timeout order that fires within a window of up to 72 hours. Nine free calculators sit on MadMarket's own homepage too. Best for. Someone who wants the deepest built-in research screen without writing a line of code themselves. Not for you if. Code is exactly the plan. MadMarket's terms explicitly prohibit scraping odds and "any software that intercepts or collects information from or through the Service", so Edge is the wrong account to pair with a bot of your own, whatever Edge's own marketing says about combining "APIs, data, and analytics".
Sportmarket: its own platform (once called Pro), and FairExchange for the exchange side
Tool. The Sportmarket platform splits a bet across bookmakers automatically, runs a Sportsbook view and a Trade view side by side, and adds Future Fulfilment, an order that places itself when a target price appears, plus Tradeball, a football-only bot builder Sportmarket itself hosts inside the account (it needs at least EUR 100 funded and activation by chat). Best for. Someone who wants a pre-built, single-sport automation tool without touching an API at all. Not for you if. You bet on anything other than football and want the same kind of automation, Tradeball does not cover it, or you want FairExchange to work with API bots, its own help article rules that out by name.
None of that is a claim about what this hypothetical bettor actually earns.
The tools none of the four hand you
Strip out the marketing and the gap is consistent across every broker on this page: none of them prices your own edge, sizes your own stake, or lets you see your own history of prices over time. That work sits outside the account, and this site publishes its own free versions of most of it.
- Sizing a stake against your edge, rather than betting the same amount every time (yes, even on a good week): a Kelly stake calculator does that sum for you, something none of BLACK, Edge, Asianodds88 or the Sportmarket platform builds in on its own account.
- Checking whether a gap between two prices is actually worth taking once fees are counted: this site's own arbitrage calculator runs two or three outcomes at once, a step up from Sportmarket's single-purpose Arb Calculator, which only hedges a bet you already placed elsewhere.
- Working out an exchange's real margin rather than trusting a headline commission number: a margin and overround calculator does that, useful given that BetInAsia's own current pages state no commission figure for Sharp Exchange at all.
- Settling an Asian handicap bet by hand instead of waiting for a bookmaker's grading screen: an Asian handicap settlement calculator covers the quarter-line and push cases none of the four brokers explains on its own help pages.
- Holding a bet to the final whistle is not the only option: moving a position in and out of a market before the result is known is exchange trading proper, not aggregation, and none of the seven tools above is built for it.
- Relying on whichever broker happens to sanction one has its limits: writing your own automation instead is the route only BetInAsia and AsianConnect publish a sanctioned path for, and that page covers both the route and the brokers that flatly forbid it.
- Trusting one broker's screen to have caught every price worth seeing has a ceiling too: building a price feed of your own is the next logical step once a single aggregator stops being enough.
Reading this against the rest of the site
This page sits inside the wider set of professional betting guides this site publishes, past the one paragraph that hub gives tools on their own. If arbitrage is the actual plan rather than a side calculation, the full arbitrage page works through the maths, the minimum stakes and the turnover rules in far more depth than a comparison of screens can. Software is only half of what a broker gives you: BetInAsia's account in full covers Sharp Exchange's limits and BLACK's bookmaker list beyond what this page has room for, and the tools above assume you already have somewhere to run them, which for most people outside a directly served country means going through a broker in the first place; what an Asian bookmaker broker actually gives you explains that mechanism on its own.
Questions people ask
Is there value betting software built into a broker account?
Not directly. None of BLACK, Edge, Asianodds88 or the Sportmarket platform calculates your own edge for you. They compare and display prices, sometimes quickly, but deciding whether a price is actually worth taking is still down to your own maths (or a calculator built for the job) rather than anything built into these four accounts.
What betting software actually comes with these accounts?
BetInAsia gives you BLACK for bookmakers and Sharp Exchange for the exchange side. AsianConnect gives you Asianodds88 and Piwi247. MadMarket gives you Edge and its own Sharp Exchange. Sportmarket gives you its own platform, once called Pro, and a separate exchange account called FairExchange. Three of the four run on the same underlying Mollybet engine; Asianodds88 does not.
Which broker has the best odds screen?
Depends what you actually need from it. MadMarket's Edge documents the most detail (price history, a probability tracker, orders that fire at a target price). AsianConnect's Asianodds88 is the only one with a documented, public API for your own software. BetInAsia's BLACK adds a sanctioned bot route on request, and Sportmarket's platform adds Future Fulfilment and a football-only bot builder. No single screen wins on every point.
Do any of these tools include a native mobile app?
No native app was confirmed on the official pages of any of the four for BLACK, Edge, Piwi247, Asianodds88 or the Sportmarket platform. All four run as mobile-optimised web pages instead, so there is nothing to download from an app store.
Can I automate bets through any of these tools?
Only two of the four sanction it in writing. BetInAsia's BLACK API is pitched explicitly for building a trading bot, on request. AsianConnect's Asianodds88 API is publicly documented with stated rate limits. MadMarket's terms forbid scraping and automated mechanisms outright, and Sportmarket's FairExchange states it cannot be used with API bots at all.
A screen compares prices. It does not decide your stake.