Bet Hero

Bet Hero provides positive value bets (+EV) and arbitrage betting alerts at a reasonable price. They are missing some of the quality-of-life features like automatic bet settlement in the bet tracker and some more advanced users will miss the ability to create multiple filters. But at the same time, Bet Hero is the only service enabling bettors to get their arbitrage and +EV alerts via Discord.

How does Bet Hero determine which odds are +EV? Their system does a weighted average of the market to calculate the true odds, including sharp books and exchanges. According to the developers, sharp bookmakers like Pinnacle are weighted more heavily in the market average calculation.

I find it difficult to rate this product. It is not bad, but the value depends on the payment plan you choose. If you opt for the yearly subscription (recommended if you have friends who can share their bookmaker accounts), which costs around 66 EUR per month, I would rate it an A. Use our link to get an additional 20% off your first order, bringing the cost down to about 53 EUR per month, which is a steal!

However, if you choose the monthly subscription at approximately 100 EUR, it seems a bit overpriced considering that similar alternatives offer more options. In that case, I would give it a solid B+.

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Bet Hero offers a decent coverage of crypto bookmakers and is currently the only service that supports bookmaker.xyz and Dexsports. By displaying true odds for every value bet, Bet Hero can also be used on other sites. However, by combining Bet Hero with SureBet (which offers free value betting but includes a five-minute scanning delay and some missing features), you can achieve exceptional coverage of crypto bookmakers.

The US bookmaker coverage is great, not on the same level as OddsJam, but still, it is an excellent choice for US-based bettors.

For the 100 most popular bookmakers in the world, they support a total of 47, which is not bad. If you want to see how they compare against other betting tools in terms of bookmaker coverage, here is a spreadsheet of 950+ bookmakers.

Bet Hero has 188bet and Cloudbet marked as a sharp bookmakers. While 188bet might have been considered sharp in the past (like SBOBET), I don’t think this is the case anymore. The same with Cloudbet, I don’t really consider them sharp, they restrict value betting accounts in 24 hours, but at least they pay out.

Every +EV bet alert you get has fair odds section, which makes this tool usable on unsupported bookmakers, like in shops or on terminals and with local bookmakers.

The bookmakers are categorised by the owners or odds providers and countries, which makes it easier to find where you can place your bets. They had some unsupported bookmakers listed for my home country, Slovenia, but keep in mind that it is challenging to find a reliable source that provides information about which countries are restricted by bookmakers. Bookmakers themselves often lack accurate list of restricted countries.

Bet Hero supports most of the major markets, including basketball and baseball player props, but the Asian Handicap markets like -/+ 0.75 or 1.25 (where part of your stake would either win or lose and the second part would be void) are not supported. You also can’t add half won/half lost type of bets to the betting tracker.

Bet Hero supports a total of 26 sports, but when I selected table tennis, volleyball, boxing, handball, cricket, darts, esports, futsal, and other minor sports (18 in total, using all 236 bookmakers), their algorithm gets me way less bets that some of the competition, which is a little disappointing. As for arbing, I got similar results.

Using the same filters on Rebelbetting and BetBurger, I get plenty of bets. While you will still get plenty of bets with Bet Hero (no worries here), it might not be the best service for niche sports.

At the same time, I am not saying that you should only bet niche sports, which is actually a nice way to get limited quickly at some sportsbooks, but at the same time, some bookmakers might apply restrictions per sport, for example, you might be stake-limited in tennis, but you can still place full stake bets on darts. It is always good to have options. For almost all people, access to soccer, basketball, american football, baseball value bets is more than enough!

All in all, the market coverage is adequate. The only negative would be that they don’t offer in-play markets and the fact that their filter system is pretty basic.

At first, the main dashboard did not work on mobile, so at the start, you had to set up the filters and alerts on desktop (it could be done on mobile if you load the app in desktop mode, but it is a little clunky). As of now, this is no longer a must, as the dashboard is fully functional on mobile.

To get the most out of the service and access all the guides and Discord channels, you need to connect Discord to your account. I had no idea I had to do that, and it took me quite a while to figure out that there is a setting for this in the user settings. It could be because I haven’t finished high school, but I also didn’t received a welcome email with instructions.

One of the biggest drawbacks of Bet Hero is the fact that you cannot create multiple filters. Right now you only have the ability to customise only the most basic things like the range of EV, market vig, bookmakers, sports, but no ability to exclude certain markets. The most useful example would be that you only want to bet to receive alerts for certain markets at certain bookmakers.

If Bet Hero is your only source of bets, the bet tracker is fine. It looks nice, has most of the essential features, but it is missing the ability to add half win/lost half void types of bets. There is no automatic settlement of results, and there is also no option to export your history.

Still, all this is fine for 90% of users, but if you are looking for something more advanced (and more expensive), the likes of BetBurger or OddsJam might suit you better.

As mentioned in the previous section, I haven’t received a welcome email with any pointers or instructions, which almost made me lose out on the Discord integration. Things like this should be communicated more clearly; a welcome email with all the important links would be very helpful to new users, especially if they are completely new to sports betting. But at the same time, I haven’t received any annoying emails urging me to buy the service, which is a plus in my book.

There is the usual email support, and while there is no live chat on the website itself, the developers are quite active on the Discord server. This makes sense considering how tightly integrated the service is with Discord.