The short version
Every operator is scored on four things that can be read off a public document. Nothing else moves the order.
| 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 |
| Published limit before an ID check | 30% | The operator's terms and conditions |
| Crypto withdrawal window | 25% | The operator's terms, plus the payments page |
| 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 Where an operator does not publish something, it scores as unpublished — which is worse than a mediocre published number, because an unpublished policy can be applied to you in any way at any time.
What does not count
- Bonus size. A 590% welcome offer with an unpublished wagering multiple is a marketing number, not a fact about the site. Bonuses are listed on the operator pages because people want to see them; they do not move the ranking.
- Game count. Ten thousand games from eighty studios and five thousand from fifty are the same experience. The number counts aggregator inventory, not curation.
- How much we are paid. The commission rate differs between operators on this page, and it is not an input to the score. The operator we link with a paid link is disclosed on every page it appears on.
- Anything we were told in an email. If a claim is not in a document a reader can open, it does not go on the site.
Where the commission comes from
One operator on this site is a commercial partner, and links to it are marked rel="sponsored nofollow" in the markup — you can confirm that by viewing the page source. Links to every other operator go to our own notes page, not to the operator, and earn nothing.
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 scoring inputs above are all public documents you can open yourself. And the operator pages say plainly where the partner is beaten — on this list it is beaten on the published ID-check limit, on payout speed, and on game count, and each of those pages says so.
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 and a country can appear in the list in three different spellings. Until that check is run and dated, this site does not claim any operator accepts you — check the terms before you deposit, and if the site is closed to New Zealand, nothing else on this page matters.
- NZD display in the cashier is unconfirmed for the same reason.
- Withdrawal windows are what the operator publishes. They are not stopwatch measurements, and the tail is always longer than the published range when a risk check fires.
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 published ID-check limits.