How we make money — and how it shapes the order.
Most comparison sites bury this. We lead with it, because you should be able to see the commercial shape of the page you are reading before you act on it.
We earn a commission when a reader signs up through one of our links, and that shapes the order. Operators we have a paid arrangement with, and that accept visitors from most of the countries we serve, come first, ordered by what the programme pays. Paid arrangements with narrow country coverage follow. The ProvenPayouts Score orders everyone else and breaks ties. Operators we cannot monetise stay listed. Commission decides the order; it does not touch the Score, which is computed the same way for every operator we score and shown on every review.
The order, step by step
- Paid and broadly available. We have a working affiliate link, and the operator's own terms accept visitors from at least half of the countries we serve. Ordered by the commission rate the programme pays us, highest first. Where we have not yet recorded a programme's rate, it sorts last in this group.
- Paid, narrow coverage. We have a working link, but the operator's own terms exclude most of the countries we serve, so most readers could not sign up. Same ordering by rate.
- Everyone else. No link, or a programme we refuse to monetise. Ordered by the Score alone, and still reviewed.
Within any group, a tie goes to the higher Score. The best-of shortlists are the exception: they keep the order they name (payout speed, or the Score), and any sign-up block under them is labelled as commercial.
US sweepstakes casinos
We link to no crypto casino anywhere in the United States. The one product we can link to there is the sweepstakes casino, which has its own page: US sweepstakes casinos. Those brands are listed alphabetically, with no Score and no ranking. When one of their affiliate programmes approves us, its link opens only in the US states on our list, and only where the brand does not exclude the state; until then the page says there is no link.
Brazil
Our Brazilian section is suspended following Medida Provisória 1.394/2026, which on 25 September 2026 prohibited the operation, offer and advertising of fixed-odds betting throughout Brazil. Its rankings, reviews and sign-up links are withdrawn while the measure is in force. We link to no operator from Brazil, and our gate sends every sign-up click from a Brazilian connection back to the homepage.
The programme terms, as they affect us
These are the terms each affiliate programme sets for us, not for you as a player, which is why they live here and not in the reviews. NGR is net gaming revenue, the base a revenue share is paid on; negative carryover means a month in which players win is deducted from our future commission; an admin fee is a cut the programme takes out of NGR before our share is worked out.
- Vavada — no negative carryover and no admin fee; the cleanest affiliate-payment record of the programmes we have read.
- BitStarz — no negative carryover; a 25% admin fee is taken inside NGR.
- mBit — no negative carryover; an admin fee is taken inside NGR. We hold no mBit link.
- Gamdom — a revenue share on NGR with a 0% admin fee, but negative balances carry over.
- Stake — no negative carryover; the rest of its affiliate terms are opaque. We hold no Stake link.
- Rollbit — no negative carryover, but commission is a share of house edge rather than NGR, a thin base, and affiliate support is reported patchy. We do not monetise Rollbit (see below).
None of this enters the Score. It affects what a programme is worth to us, and so the order described above, and nothing else.
What we still refuse
Rollbit is listed editorially and ranked, but carries no affiliate link — its programme's exclusivity terms are incompatible with an independent comparison, so we don't monetise it and say so on the page. It earns us nothing and it is still reviewed and still in the list, at the bottom band with everything else we cannot monetise, because deleting it would be its own claim about it. Our outbound links are also geo-gated on our server, and they fail closed: a link opens only in a market on our own allowlist for that operator, narrowed further by the operator's own restricted-country list, and anywhere else it sends you back to our home page. That allowlist is our choice of markets, not a legal finding. We have not verified any country as lawful for offshore casino promotion, and Cyprus is on it by the owner's decision even though Cypriot law restricts the advertising of online casinos. Whether you may play is a question of your own law. The gate still means we routinely show reviews we can't earn from at all.
What we do — and don't — claim
Our rankings are editorial assessments from public data, licence records and player reputation — not first-hand withdrawal tests. Figures like typical payout time come from operator terms and player reports, not our own timed cashouts. Where we can verify a fact against a primary source — a licence number against the official register — we cite it and date it. We would rather under-claim and be right than over-claim and be caught.
Research & references
The primary sources and standards bodies our assessments lean on.
Brazil's federal list of licensed betting operators (.bet.br), the source of truth for our Brazilian section, which is suspended following Medida Provisória 1.394/2026.
Independent testing of RNG fairness and game certification referenced in our game/fairness assessments.
Player-protection and fair-play certification body used as a trust signal where operators carry it.
18+ only. Gambling involves risk and is not a source of income. Availability depends on your jurisdiction.