How We Rate

Every score on this site comes out of the same process, run in the same order, on every brand. This page describes that process step by step, then gives the weights it produces. Nothing here is a slogan: if a criterion is worth 30 per cent of the score, that is what it is worth when the ranking is built.

Step One: The Shortlist

A brand only enters the process if it does three things. It takes players from the market the page is written for, it has a licence we can read in the footer and check against a register, and it shows a mobile wallet in its cashier for that market rather than in a global marketing list. Most candidates fall at the third hurdle, because a payment logo on a landing page is not the same as a live tile at the checkout.

Step Two: The Cashier

The banking page gets read before anything else, in both directions. Deposit methods are the easy half. The half that decides the score is the withdrawal list: which methods can actually send money out, what the minimum cashout is, whether it is higher than the minimum deposit, what the daily and monthly ceilings look like, and whether any fee appears on either leg. Where an operator publishes processing times, those go in the notes; where independent payout logs exist, they carry more weight than the operator's own promise.

Step Three: The Terms

Bonus terms are read in full, and the numbers that matter are rarely in the headline. Playthrough multiple, what it applies to, maximum bet while a bonus is live, game weighting, expiry, and the cap on what can be converted to cash. A 350 per cent package with a three-times-bonus cashout cap is a smaller prize than a flat match with no cap, and the rubric treats it that way.

Step Four: The Market Layer

This is the part a single global template cannot handle, so each market gets checked against its own rules. For British players that means the things a UK Gambling Commission licence does and does not bring: a 10x ceiling on bonus wagering, debit cards only because credit card gambling has been prohibited since 2020, affordability checks as stakes climb, and GAMSTOP, which covers Commission-licensed operators and no others. Where a brand is licensed elsewhere, the page says so plainly and names the actual licence rather than implying a British one. Accounts held in euros get flagged for the conversion spread a sterling card pays twice.

Step Five: The Rest

Game libraries, studios, live tables, mobile behaviour and support hours are checked last and count least, because they are the easiest things to find elsewhere and the least likely to cost anyone money. A lobby of 8,000 titles beats one of 2,000 only if the search can tell them apart.

The Weights That Come Out of It

Those five passes produce five numbers, and they are combined in this proportion. Payments lead because this is a site about paying in and getting paid.

What Keeps a Brand Off the List

A licence we cannot verify, a withdrawal page that contradicts the deposit page, a bonus whose maximum cashout is buried three clicks from the offer, or a pattern of complaints about payouts that the operator has not answered. Brands also come off the list when they stop accepting a market, which happens more often than anyone advertises.

The Limits of This Method

Two honest caveats. First, terms change without notice and a score is a snapshot of what was verified, not a guarantee about tomorrow - if a page and a cashier disagree, the cashier is right and we want to hear about it. Second, payout speed depends as much on your own verification status and chosen method as on the casino, so treat every published window as the best case rather than the promise.

Who Writes This

Harvey Linton runs the English-language reviews and applies the rubric above. Some operators listed here pay commission when a reader registers through a link, and that never moves a score or a position - the rubric produces the order, and brands that pay us nothing sit in it too, without a button underneath. That is the same commitment made in the disclosure on every page, worded the same way on purpose.