Betting and casino platforms ranked: every brand we have tested

One league table, one formula. Every platform below was opened, funded, played and cashed out by a CasinoTrust tester, then scored on the same six dimensions.

By CasinoTrust Editorial TeamUpdated 27 August 20266 min readFact-checked against the Ranking Protocol

This is the master ranking. The category pages under Reviews cut the same scores by product, while the Compare section lines the raw facts up in columns. Here every platform appears in a single order, so a crypto casino and a regulated European sportsbook sit on one scale and you can weigh them against each other before you fund an account from Nigeria.

Brand page or category review: which one do you need?

A brand page — say Stake or bet365 — is the complete guide to one platform: company and licence, every product it carries, payment methods and measured payout times, bonus structure and wagering logic, support results, and a verdict on who it suits. Read it before you open an account and before you send the first naira.

A category review answers a tighter question: which of these platforms is best for this product? The poker review, for example, ignores slot catalogues and weights traffic and rake instead, so the same brand can sit third overall and first in its category. The compare tables give you the third view: no prose, just facts in columns you can filter on minimum deposit, KYC policy or licence.

How the ranking is built

Each platform earns six sub-scores from 0 to 10: trust and licensing, games and markets, payments and payouts, bonuses and value, customer support and mobile experience. Trust carries the heaviest weight, then payments and games; bonuses deliberately carry the least, because a fat welcome offer tells you nothing about whether your withdrawal will land. The weighted average is the overall score on every card below. Full weightings, test scripts and the re-test schedule live in the Ranking Protocol, and the wall between advertising and scoring is set out in our Editorial Policy.

• Licence confirmed on the regulator's public register before any testing begins, including NLRC or state lotteries board permits where an operator is licensed locally.
• Deposits and withdrawals made with our own money through the rails Nigerians use — bank transfer, USSD, cards via Paystack or Flutterwave, OPay and PalmPay, and crypto — with payout speed timed from request to arrival.
• Support tested on live chat and email with the same three scripted questions on every platform, including one about verification.
• Scores carry a last-tested date and are revised out of cycle whenever something material changes.

Browse by category

A bookmaker that scores 9 for markets can be a very ordinary casino, and a crypto casino with instant payouts may run no poker room at all. If you already know what you want to play — EPL accumulators, NPFL markets, live blackjack or tournament poker — the category reviews re-rank these brands on the criteria that matter for that product.

What pushes a score up or down

Scores are not fixed. Between scheduled re-tests, the following events trigger a review and usually a change:

• Licence changes. A new licence from a stricter regulator lifts the trust score; a suspended or lapsed licence pulls the platform out of the ranking until it is sorted.
• Payout performance. Measured withdrawal times are re-sampled at every re-test. A sustained slowdown, or a pattern of unexplained verification requests before a cash-out, lowers the payments score.
• Terms and conditions. Retroactive changes to bonus terms, new maximum-win caps or fresh restrictions on winning players count against the bonuses and trust scores.
• Verified complaints. Player reports sent to contact@casinotrust.org are checked against the operator's response; confirmed non-payment can move a brand to the blacklist.
• Product launches. New poker software, added payment rails or a native Android app raise the relevant sub-score only after we have tested them ourselves.

We never adjust a score for commercial reasons. Some links on brand pages are affiliate links, disclosed on every page; a platform cannot buy a better position, and operators we have no commercial relationship with are scored by the same protocol. Whatever the score says, fix your budget first with the bankroll management guide and look up the house edge of your game in the wiki.