Review Process

Our review process end to end: what we verify, what we measure ourselves, what we refuse to score, and why nobody can pay for a better rating.

The scoring rubric

Ten weighted categories, identical for every operator, published so any ranking can be recomputed.

Bonus — weight 22%
Measured value per wagered dollar: unconditional rakeback beats large offers locked behind playthrough. The heaviest category, because at equal RTP the rebate is what changes your long-run cost
Analytics — weight 15%
Public data availability: bet feeds, provably-fair verifiers, RTP disclosure, API transparency
Fairness & RTP — weight 15%
Published RTP per game, per-casino RTP variants (does this casino run lower settings?), provably-fair coverage
Financial Transparency — weight 10%
On-chain behavior: payout velocity, hot-wallet reserve trends, withdrawal reliability
Third Party Ratings — weight 9%
Aggregated community and watchdog sentiment
Responsible Gambling — weight 8%
Self-exclusion, loss/wager limits, session stats access
Compliance — weight 7%
License status and verification, geo-blocking enforcement, KYC/AML posture
Customer Support — weight 5%
Live chat availability, response times, language coverage, human vs bot
Games — weight 5%
Catalogue breadth: slots, live casino, game shows, in-house originals
Security — weight 4%
2FA, account notifications, withdrawal confirmations

Provisional scores appear when a category is unassessed; where too little is verified we withhold the score entirely and mark the entry data-limited.

Conflicts of interest, stated plainly

There are no paid placements, no sponsored scores and no affiliate-driven rankings on this site. Outbound links to operators carry nofollow and sponsored attributes. No operator sees a review before publication, and there is no process by which one can request a change to a rating.

That independence is only meaningful if the method is fixed in advance, which is why the ten categories and their weights are published and applied identically to every operator — including the ones whose scores we would rather were higher.

What gets verified, measured, or refused

Verified means we checked a document or a public record: licence, operating company, published terms, security features. Measured means we produced the number ourselves from on-chain flow or settled bets. Everything else is refused — third-party review sentiment is recorded for context and carries no weight, because a metric anyone can buy has no place in a rubric operators cannot buy.

Where fewer than a workable number of categories are verified, the operator is marked data-limited and excluded from rankings rather than scored provisionally. A provisional score reads as more certain than it is, and readers act on it accordingly.

Reviews are dated, not permanent

Operator terms, licences and payout behaviour change without notice, and a review is a snapshot. Each one carries the date of the data behind it, and the on-chain components keep moving underneath it — which is why the live stats page for an operator is often a better guide to this week than the review body is.

Frequently asked

Do you accept payment for reviews or placements?

No. Nothing on this site is for sale, including ranking positions and links.

Why do some casinos have no score at all?

Because too few rubric categories are verified. Those entries are marked data-limited, kept out of rankings and out of the sitemap rather than given a placeholder number.

How often are reviews updated?

The written body is revised when something material changes; the measured components — on-chain flow, payout ratios, RTP builds — update continuously from our own collectors.