Head to head
Which venue is currently the cheaper side of the same player props, de-vigged and counted live.
Right now BeatVig prices 422 player props at both. Kalshi is the cheaper side 81% of the time (346 of 422), and DraftKings is cheaper on 72. This is the board as it stands at 31 Oct 16:25 ET, not an average over any period — BeatVig measures live prices and keeps no price history.
This is the comparison the whole category argues about, and almost every page answering it is a frozen snapshot from one afternoon. The two venues are not the same kind of thing: DraftKings sets a price and keeps the margin inside it, while Kalshi runs an exchange where traders set the price and the fee sits outside it. On a straight player prop that usually favours Kalshi. On heavily combined bets it often does not. Below is what the two are actually charging on the same props right now, rather than what either was charging in a screenshot.
Counted above: every prop Kalshi prices lower than DraftKings. Listed below: the ones that also beat a de-vigged fair price, which is the stricter test and the only one worth acting on.
Kalshi
-10851.9%52¢
vs
DraftKings
-11152.6%53¢
· +0.68pp vs DraftKings
fair 54.4% · Pinnacle, multiplicative devig
+2.52pp
was the raw edge before Kalshi's
fee, which takes 2.0 percentage points of it
Kalshi
+15040%40¢
vs
DraftKings
+11047.6%48¢
· +7.62pp vs DraftKings
fair 42.4% · Pinnacle, multiplicative devig
+2.45pp
was the raw edge before Kalshi's
fee, which takes 2.0 percentage points of it
Kalshi
-10851.9%52¢
vs
DraftKings
-14358.8%59¢
· +6.92pp vs DraftKings
fair 54% · Pinnacle, multiplicative devig
+2.12pp
was the raw edge before Kalshi's
fee, which takes 2.0 percentage points of it
Free accounts see a 3-edge sample from below the top of the board. Premium unlocks every prop where Kalshi beats DraftKings, in every sport.
Go PremiumAcross the 422 player props priced at both venues right now, Kalshi is the cheaper side on 346 and DraftKings is cheaper on 72; the rest are priced identically at both. Neither venue is cheaper on everything, and this is a live count of the current boards rather than an average over time.
Every quote from both venues is converted to the implied probability of the same outcome, so a contract price and an American price become the same unit. The cheaper venue is the one implying the lower probability for the side you want.
Kalshi charges a per-contract trading fee instead of building a margin into the line. The fee is a curve, not a flat rake: it peaks at roughly 1.75¢ on a contract priced near 50¢ and shrinks toward zero at both extremes, and maker fees are a quarter of taker fees.
DraftKings' margin is inside the price. You pay it on every bet you place, whether that bet wins or loses.
It is computed from the live board every time the page loads, so it reflects the prices both venues are showing at that moment rather than a snapshot taken on an earlier day.
