How We Rate Casinos

A ranked list is only worth as much as the method behind it. This page sets out ours in full, as a set of questions, because those are the questions readers send us.

What Do You Actually Score?

Five criteria, weighted. They total one hundred, and the weighting is not decorative: it is the reason the order on this site differs from other comparison pages covering the same casinos.

Why Do Payments Carry Half the Score?

Because this site exists for players who care how money moves. A casino with a thin cashier is a worse experience than a casino with a thin lobby, and the gap shows up immediately rather than after a month. Splitting that half into deposits and withdrawals separately is deliberate too. Plenty of sites make paying in effortless and then take five working days to pay out, and a single combined payments score would hide exactly that.

The remaining half is not filler. A bonus that cannot be cleared is worth nothing whatever its headline number says, so we score value after wagering rather than the percentage on the banner.

What Keeps a Casino Off the List?

Some things end the assessment before scoring starts. A withdrawal request that goes unanswered, terms that let the operator void winnings without a stated reason, a cashier that advertises a method it does not actually process, or support that cannot answer a direct question about limits. We also drop operators whose ownership we cannot establish at all, and any site that turns out to be running on a domain it does not control.

A weak score and a disqualification are different outcomes. Slow payouts lose points. Refusing to pay ends the conversation.

What Gets Checked for Each Country?

This domain serves eight markets, and the checks change with the border. For the United Kingdom we state licence status plainly, note that GAMSTOP binds Gambling Commission licensees rather than every site on the internet, and confirm that accounts and payouts run in pounds. Irish readers get the same treatment against the Gambling Regulatory Authority framework now being rolled out.

In Canada the question is provincial rather than national, so we look at whether a site is open to players in Ontario and Alberta, whether Interac is in the cashier, and which minimum age applies where you live, since it is nineteen in most provinces and eighteen in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. German and Austrian readers get the GGL and concession position stated honestly, including the fact that a site outside that framework is outside OASIS too. For the Netherlands we do the same with the KSA and CRUKS, and we check iDEAL. Swedish pages state Spelinspektionen status and whether the account runs in kronor, and Polish ones cover zloty accounts and BLIK availability.

We never describe a casino as holding a local licence it does not hold. If an operator is licensed offshore, the page says so and names the jurisdiction it actually operates under.

Do Operators Pay for a Better Score?

No. Some of the casinos listed here have a commercial arrangement with us and some do not, and you can tell which is which by the absence of a link rather than by the tone of the write-up. Commission funds the accounts and the deposits. It does not move a number in the table, and no operator sees a score before it is published.

How Often Are Scores Revisited?

Each casino gets a full pass once a review cycle, and cashier changes get picked up between cycles because they are what readers write in about. Terms change without notice, so a score is a snapshot of what was verified rather than a permanent verdict. The date stamp at the top of each page tells you when it was last refreshed.

What Can This Method Not Tell You?

Quite a lot, honestly. Payout speed varies with your own verification state, so an account with documents already approved will beat the timings here and a brand new one may not match them. Limits differ by payment method and sometimes by country within the same brand. And a single reviewer running a handful of transactions cannot see what a thousand players see over a year, which is why complaint history informs the licence and security score rather than being treated as an anecdote.

Ratings are written by Liam Prescott. Questions about a specific score are welcome at [email protected].