
Comparisons
Kalshi vs Polymarket vs Novig for NFL Betting in 2026
Kalshi vs Polymarket vs Novig for NFL bettors: pre-game and live fees, maker costs, CFTC status, state orders, age limits, NFL markets and withdrawals.
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Five NFL arbitrage betting tools ranked on U.S. coverage, live scanning and price, plus the fee math that decides what an NFL arb pays.
Best for most U.S. bettors: OddsJam scans 150+ sportsbooks, and its Platinum plan, which includes arbitrage, costs $499.99 a month in the iPhone app.
Widest feed: BetBurger lists 600+ bookmakers, DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Kalshi and Polymarket among them, at €79.99 per 30 days for prematch and €279.99 for live.
Free route: BettingPros’ free NFL odds page shows the big sportsbooks next to Novig, Kalshi, ProphetX and Polymarket, which is enough to find an arb by hand. BetBurger also has a free plan.
Fees set the margin: on a 2% NFL moneyline arb, a pre-game Novig leg costs nothing beyond the contract price, while Kalshi’s standard taker fee on the same 100 contracts takes about $1.71 of the $2 profit.
Live costs more: BetBurger charges €279.99 per 30 days for live arbs against €79.99 for prematch, and Novig’s live NFL taker fee is $0.75 per 100 contracts at 50 cents.
An arbitrage bet, or arb, splits money across both sides of the same NFL market at two venues whose prices disagree, so the payout beats the combined stake whichever side wins. The gaps are small and they don’t last, which is why arbers use software that watches the board for them. The arbitrage betting guide covers the basics.
Where the second leg goes decides how much of the gap you keep. A sportsbook builds its margin into the odds, and a prediction market charges a posted fee or, on some trades, nothing.
The ranking below weighs which U.S. sportsbooks and prediction markets each tool scans, whether it covers live NFL markets, what it costs and what you can use before paying. Prices are from each vendor’s pricing page or app listing in October 2026.
OddsJam: best for U.S. sportsbook arbs
BetBurger: best for the widest feed and live arbs
ProfitDuel: best for promo bettors adding arbs
Bet Hero: best for a $1 trial
BettingPros: best free way to find NFL arbs by hand
Tool | Covers | Live arbs | Price (Oct. 2026) | Free option | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OddsJam | 150+ sportsbooks | Top web plan | Platinum $499.99/mo in the iPhone app; $20/day on the web | Seven-day trial | U.S. sportsbooks |
BetBurger | 600+ bookmakers | Separate Live plan | Prematch €79.99, Live €279.99, both €319.99 per 30 days | Free-forever plan | Widest feed |
ProfitDuel | U.S. sportsbooks and their promos | Not listed | Elite $99.99/mo or $999.99/yr | Paid trials only | Promo bettors |
Bet Hero | 400+ sportsbooks in 190+ countries | Pro plan only | $34.84 to $139.36/mo, billed yearly | $1 seven-day trial | Low-cost trial |
BettingPros | Big U.S. books plus Novig, Kalshi, ProphetX, Polymarket | Manual only | Odds page is free | Free | Arbs by hand |
OddsJam is built around the books American bettors hold. Its top web plan covers arbitrage, +EV, middles, low holds and the promo converter, and adds live bets with auto refresh.
On the web pricing page that plan is $20 a day billed monthly, with the first month at half price. In the iPhone app, the same five tools come with Platinum at $499.99 a month. A separate Prediction Traders plan, $449.99 a month in the app, sends picks from selected traders on Kalshi, Polymarket, ProphetX and Novig.
Best for: NFL bettors funded at several U.S. sportsbooks
Covers: 150+ sportsbooks
Live arbs: Yes, on the top web plan
Price (Oct. 2026): Platinum at $499.99 a month in the iPhone app, or $20 a day on the web
Free option: Seven-day trial
BetBurger’s feed covers 600+ bookmakers across 40 sports, American football included, and its bookmaker list carries DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Kalshi and Polymarket. Every plan includes surebets, value bets and middles, direct links to the books, bet tracking and profit accounting. Prematch costs €79.99 per 30 days and Live €279.99, or €319.99 for both. Much of that list is international, so a U.S.-only bettor pays for books they can’t open, and Novig isn’t on it. A free-forever plan needs no card.
Best for: High-volume arbers and anyone who wants live NFL arbs
Covers: 600+ bookmakers, 40 sports and 27 esports
Live arbs: Yes, on the Live plan
Price (Oct. 2026): Prematch €79.99, Live €279.99, both €319.99 per 30 days
Free option: Free-forever plan, no card required
ProfitDuel’s lower tiers are built around converting sportsbook offers into cash, and arbitrage doesn’t appear until Elite. That plan costs $99.99 a month or $999.99 a year and includes the Arb Matcher, EV Matcher, Low Holds Matcher and an Odds Screener, plus an Early Payout Matcher and the promo tools from the cheaper plans. A bettor who only wants arbs pays for a lot of promo machinery, and one who already works sportsbook offers each NFL week gets arbs in the same login.
Best for: Bettors who convert sportsbook offers and want arbs on the side
Covers: U.S. sportsbooks and their promos
Live arbs: Not listed on the pricing page
Price (Oct. 2026): Elite at $99.99 a month or $999.99 a year
Free option: None; trials are paid
Bet Hero scans 400+ sportsbooks in 190+ countries for arbs and value bets, and its U.S. list shows DraftKings and FanDuel next to Novig, Kalshi, Polymarket and ProphetX. Seven days of full access cost $1. Billed yearly, plans run from $34.84 a month for Starter, which locks bets above 4% profit, to $139.36 for Pro, the only tier with live bets and middles.
Best for: Testing an arb scanner for a week before committing
Covers: 400+ sportsbooks in 190+ countries
Live arbs: Pro plan only
Price (Oct. 2026): $34.84 to $139.36 a month, billed yearly
Free option: $1 seven-day trial
BettingPros doesn’t run an arb scanner. Its free NFL odds page puts DraftKings, FanDuel and the other big books in one row with Novig, Kalshi, ProphetX and Polymarket, which is the pairing a sportsbook-against-prediction-market arb needs. You convert the prices and do the math yourself, as shown below. The paid plans, Plus at $119.99 a year and Elite at $199.99, sell picks and projections rather than arb alerts. The odds comparison sites ranking covers the other free screens.
Best for: Weekend bettors who want to spot an arb without a subscription
Covers: The big U.S. sportsbooks plus Novig, Kalshi, ProphetX and Polymarket
Live arbs: Manual only
Price (Oct. 2026): Free for odds; Plus $119.99 a year, Elite $199.99 a year
Free option: The whole odds page
An arb exists when the implied probabilities of both sides add up to less than 100%. Say an NFL underdog is +150 at a sportsbook, an implied 40%, and the favorite’s contract trades at 58 cents on a prediction market, an implied 58%. Together that’s 98%. Bet $40 on the underdog, which returns $100 if it wins, and buy 100 favorite contracts for $58, which pay $100 if the favorite wins. That’s $98 staked for $100 back either way, a $2 profit. The moneyline guide shows how +150 converts.
That $2 assumes the second leg costs nothing beyond its price. Under Novig’s fee schedule, a pre-game straight trade carries no fee for either side, so the $2 stays $2. Kalshi’s standard taker fee of 0.07 x price x (1 - price) per contract comes to about $1.71 on the same 100 contracts and leaves about $0.29. A sportsbook charges no separate fee, but its margin is already inside the price.
Live arbs carry a cost on Novig too. Its live NFL taker fee is 0.03 x price x (1 - price), about $0.73 on those 100 contracts at 58 cents, and an order that rests on the book and gets filled by someone else pays nothing. An arber who already holds one leg can post the Novig price that completes the arb and wait for a fill, which works better before kickoff than with a line moving every snap. The prediction markets vs. sportsbooks guide compares the fee schedules in full.
Books move main-line NFL sides and totals quickly, so gaps there tend to be thin and brief. They open wider around news, such as a starting quarterback ruled out late in the week or the inactive list 90 minutes before kickoff. Books don’t all react at the same speed, and a prediction market prices off its own traders, so for a few minutes two venues can disagree.
Player props and alternate spreads are posted by fewer books, and a stale number tends to sit longer. Live markets reprice between plays, which is why the scanners charge more for in-game feeds. Whatever the market, check that both legs settle the same way. NFL regular-season games can end in a tie after overtime, and a sportsbook and a prediction market won’t necessarily handle that result the same way.
Most NFL arbers need one scanner and accounts on both kinds of venue.
Accounts: A scanner’s only useful on books and prediction markets you can fund where you live, so match its list to your accounts before paying.
Live or pre-game: Live feeds cost more at BetBurger and sit on Bet Hero’s top tier, and a bettor who arbs Sunday-morning injury news needs only pre-game.
Cost per leg: A pre-game straight trade on Novig costs the contract price and nothing else, while taker fees elsewhere come out of a 1% or 2% margin.
Volume: $10,000 of arbs a month at a 1% average margin returns $100, which a $100 subscription absorbs.
OddsJam, for most U.S. bettors, because it scans 150+ sportsbooks and its top plan covers both pre-match and live arbs. BetBurger has the largest feed, at 600+ bookmakers.
BetBurger has a free-forever plan that needs no card. BettingPros’ free NFL odds page shows sportsbooks and prediction markets side by side, so you can find arbs by hand.
From $34.84 a month for Bet Hero Starter, billed yearly, to $499.99 a month for OddsJam Platinum in the iPhone app. BetBurger Prematch is €79.99 per 30 days, ProfitDuel Elite is $99.99 a month and BetBurger’s Live plan is €279.99.
Yes, and the math doesn’t change. If the implied probabilities of the two sides add up to less than 100% after fees, the arb holds. Novig charges no fee on pre-game straight trades, so its contract price is the whole cost of that leg.
An arb wins the same amount whichever side covers. A middle takes both sides at different numbers, such as an underdog +3.5 at one book and the favorite -2.5 at another, and wins both bets if the favorite wins by exactly three. OddsJam and BetBurger both find middles.
That depends on the venues behind them. Sportsbooks operate only in states that license them, and prediction markets have their own maps; Novig, for example, isn’t offered in Arizona, Michigan or Nevada and requires users to be 21.

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