The short version
Every operator is placed on four things that can be read off a public document.
| Criterion | Weight | Where the data comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Licence, verified in a public register | 35% | The regulator's own register, searched by licence number or domain |
| Verification terms read in the operator's own document, with the clause number | 30% | The operator's terms and conditions |
| Withdrawal ceiling written in the terms, with the clause number | 25% | The operator's terms and conditions |
| Cashier breadth: coins and networks | 10% | The cashier itself |
A missing figure never scores as a good figure. Where an operator does not publish something, it scores as unpublished — worse than a modest published number, because an unpublished policy can be applied to you in any way at any time.
The second row used to read "published limit before an ID check", and it was rewritten on 2 September 2026 because no operator on this list publishes one. Two figures that stood in that column came from third-party review sites rather than from the operators, and both were removed.
The third row used to measure advertised withdrawal times. It was replaced on 17 September 2026. A time on a casino homepage is not tied to a clause, cannot be enforced by a player and was, for most operators here, copied from other review sites. A written ceiling can be quoted with its clause, so that is what the row now measures. On that measure one operator scores fully, Wild.io with US$100,000 a week under clause 9.6, and Vave scores partly for its instalment rule above 50,000 USDT under clause 8.8.
What does not count
- Bonus size. A large welcome percentage with an unpublished wagering multiple is a marketing number, not a fact about the site. Bonuses are listed on the operator pages; they do not move the ranking.
- Game count. Ten thousand games from eighty studios and five thousand from fifty are much the same experience. The number counts aggregator inventory, not curation.
- Advertised withdrawal speed. No operator ties it to a clause, so it cannot be checked.
- Ratings on other review sites. A figure that is not in a document a reader can open does not go on this site.
- Anything we were told in an email. Same rule.
That arrangement has an obvious failure mode: the partner ends up on top and the rules get written backwards to justify it. Two things make that checkable. The inputs above are public documents you can open yourself. And the Vave page says plainly where it comes off worse — the smallest game catalogue in the table, no provably fair originals, an unpublished wagering multiple and a licence number that has to be found in the register because the operator does not print it.
Our own money
Two operators on this list have had our own money through the cashier. At Vave, a balance of roughly 5,000 USDT was withdrawn on 28 August 2026 without a document request. At TrustDice, our account was used in May 2026, and what it showed is described on its page as practical steps rather than figures. Neither experience is a guarantee for another account, and neither changes a score: the ranking uses documents only.
What we could not verify
Honest gaps, listed rather than papered over:
- Whether each operator accepts New Zealand residents has not been individually confirmed against each site's current restricted-country list. Terms change without notice, so check them before you deposit.
- NZD display in the cashier is unconfirmed for the same reason.
- Eight of the ten operators' own terms have not been read in full. Coin counts and game counts for those eight come from their public cashier and lobby pages. Where a figure would have to come from a contract — a verification threshold, a withdrawal ceiling — this site prints nothing for them rather than borrowing a number from another review site.
Corrections
If a figure here is out of date or wrong, the fix is to change it, not to argue about it. Operator terms change constantly; the date at the top of every page is the last time the page was read against them.
Related: about this site, the comparison table, and the two columns that carry most of the weight — licence checks and what ID-check clauses allow.