The trusted online casino database and casino comparison guide

What the comparison guide records

The same facts are recorded for every operator, chosen because they change slowly enough to stay true between checks. Each entry names who licenses it and the withdrawal window it states. It also records whether live tables are available, and whether a sportsbook runs on the same account.

Where a figure could not be confirmed in the operator's own published terms, it is left out rather than estimated. That is the difference between an online casino database and a list of adverts, and it is why some fields here are blank. One entry carries no catalogue size for exactly that reason, and one carries no score at all.

What this site does not do is rank by the size of a welcome offer. An offer's headline number says nothing about the turnover condition attached to it, and the condition is where the cost sits. Every offer in the register is therefore recorded as published, and then priced. That is a less flattering presentation than the operators use, and a more useful one.

Using the online casino database

If you want recourse close to home, start with the Kahnawake entries, that commission is based in Canada. If withdrawal speed matters most, filter to the operators stating a 24-hour window. And if you want sports betting in the same account rather than a second one, use the sportsbook filter. It narrows the register to the entries that offer both.

Every payment method in the register

Each method below has its own entry recording deposit speed, whether withdrawals are supported, the fees involved and whether a Canadian player can actually complete the funding step. That last point is the one operators are quietest about: several methods appear in Canadian cashiers while being built for Nordic or CIS banking.

• Bank transfer — 1–3 business days to deposit, withdrawals 3–5 business days
• Credit and debit cards — instant to deposit, deposits only
• Interac — minutes to deposit, withdrawals 1–2 business days
• Klarna — minutes to deposit, deposits only, rarely available from Canada
• Litecoin — minutes to deposit, withdrawals under an hour typically
• MuchBetter — instant to deposit, withdrawals within 24 hours
• Neosurf — instant to deposit, deposits only
• Neteller — instant to deposit, withdrawals within 24 hours
• Paysafecard — instant to deposit, deposits only
• Piastrix — instant to deposit, withdrawals varies by operator, rarely available from Canada
• Ripple (XRP) — seconds to deposit, withdrawals under an hour typically
• Siru Mobile — instant to deposit, deposits only, rarely available from Canada
• Skrill — instant to deposit, withdrawals within 24 hours
• Trustly — minutes to deposit, withdrawals 1–2 business days, rarely available from Canada
• Zimpler — minutes to deposit, withdrawals 1–2 business days, rarely available from Canada

The payment methods overview compares all 15 side by side on speed and Canadian availability.

What makes an operator trusted

We call an operator trusted for reasons you can check, not because we say so. That means a named regulator, terms that state their conditions plainly, and a payout window we have read rather than been told. That is the whole basis of this casino comparison guide. The criteria page publishes the weighting behind every score, so the comparison can be argued with.

A casino comparison guide is only as good as its sources. An online casino database that cannot show its working is just a leaderboard. Being trusted also means saying what you do not know. Where an operator could not be verified, it appears without a score rather than with a guessed one. My Empire is the case in point: the most-searched brand we cover.

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