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How Every Casino Here Is Rated: Method, Sources, Editorial Policy
Every score here comes from five published measures, applied identically to all ten operators, with no pay-to-rank and no measure that cannot be checked by a reader. Here is exactly how the ratings are built, and what they deliberately leave out.
The Five Checks Behind Every Score
A rating is only useful when you know what it measures. Each score out of five combines five weighted checks, and every one of them rests on something the operator has already published about itself. No check involves a promotion, because promotions cannot lawfully appear here.
1. Licence transparency
Every brand is looked up in the iGaming Ontario operator directory before anything is written about it, because a brand name is not a licence and brand names are reused across markets. An operator that also publishes its registration number on its own pages scores higher, since a number can be checked against the register in seconds and a logo cannot. Where one company holds the registration for several brands on this site, that is disclosed and it costs a fraction of a point, because three products from one registrant are not three independent choices.
2. Banking range
The number of deposit and withdrawal methods an account actually runs, which spans from three to fourteen across this roster. Breadth matters more than it looks: a narrow menu decides whether money can travel comfortably in both directions, and at least one operator here accepts methods that cannot be used to withdraw at all. That asymmetry is scored as a fault.
3. Published payout window
Whether the operator states a processing time, how tight that range is, and how far the fast and slow paths sit apart. An operator publishing a range in plain figures can be held to it; one publishing nothing cannot be held to anything, however fast it may actually be. A window that stretches to ten days on one rail is marked down even when another rail is quick.
4. Game library
The size of the catalogue where the operator publishes it, and the number of named studios behind it. Supplier breadth is weighted alongside raw title count, because a lobby assembled from eight studios ages better than one built on two: a single supplier's quiet release year does not empty the shelf. Where sources disagree on a count, the lower figure is used.
5. Mobile and support
Whether a dedicated app exists for both platforms or play runs in a browser, and how many ways an operator can be reached. A published phone line counts for more than another chat window, and several brands here publish none. Responsible-gambling tooling is common to all registered operators and so does not separate them, but its absence would remove a brand from the list entirely.
Where the Facts Come From
The regulatory line comes from the iGaming Ontario operator directory, which lists the legal entity behind every registered gaming site in the province. That directory is the first stop for each brand here and the reason ten operators appear rather than any wider selection.
Operational facts come from the operators' own published pages wherever those pages are reachable, and from corroborated public sources where they are not. Two rules govern the result. Where sources disagree on a figure, the lower one is used and phrased as a floor rather than a precise count. Where a claim appears in one place and nowhere else, it is dropped rather than published. Library sizes in this market vary wildly between sources because nobody counts them the same way, which is why several entries here describe a lobby instead of numbering it.
Payout Claims, and What This Site Does Not Do
No withdrawal has been timed by this site. Every payout figure on every page is the operator's own published processing window, attributed as such. That distinction matters because the alternative is common and unverifiable: a review claiming a cashout landed in six hours is asking a reader to trust an unrepeatable private test, and there is no way to check it.
Published windows are still worth comparing, precisely because they are commitments. An operator that states one to three business days has told every player what to expect and can be measured against it. An operator that states only that timing depends on approval and the payment provider has been honest and has committed to nothing, and both facts are recorded in its entry. The variable that most often pushes a real payout outside its window is verification, which is usually completed at first withdrawal rather than at sign-up.
The Rating Scale
Scores run from 1 to 5. A 4.5 or above marks an operator with no significant weakness across the five checks. From 4.0 to 4.4 marks a solid operator with one or two clear trade-offs. Below 4.0 signals real compromises a player should weigh: a narrow cashier, a high withdrawal floor, a small catalogue or a payout window that stretches. An operator without a valid AGCO registration and iGaming Ontario agreement is not listed here at any score.
Editorial Policy
The editorial team writes independently of any commercial relationship. Scores are set from published facts before any commercial terms are discussed, and no operator can pay to change one, move up a list or have a stated shortcoming removed. When an operator changes its banking, its published window or its support hours, the entry is updated and the score re-checked. Mistakes are corrected openly. Operators change terms without notice, so confirming the current details on the operator's own site before depositing is always worthwhile.
Affiliate Disclosure
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Rating Method FAQ
Can an operator pay for a higher rating?
No. Scores are set from published facts before any commercial terms are discussed, and no operator can pay to change one, move up a list or remove a stated shortcoming. Commercial arrangements and editorial scoring are kept strictly separate, as the editorial policy below sets out.
Why are no bonus amounts used in the ratings?
Because they cannot lawfully be published here. AGCO Standard 2.05 prohibits publicly available advertising of bonuses, inducements and credits, including in affiliate content, and Standard 1.19 makes the operator answerable for its affiliates. Every measure in the five checks is therefore something an operator has published about itself rather than something it is offering.
Where do the facts behind a score come from?
The regulatory line comes from the iGaming Ontario operator directory, which lists the registered entity behind each site. Operational facts come from the operators' own published pages wherever they are reachable, and from corroborated public sources otherwise. Where sources disagree, the lower figure is used and phrased as a floor, as the sources section explains.
Has this site timed its own withdrawals?
No, and no page here claims otherwise. Every payout figure quoted on this site is the operator's own published processing window. A page that claims to have measured a withdrawal for you is describing something it did not do, which is why payout claims here are always attributed rather than asserted. The reasoning is set out under payout claims.
What makes a casino score below 4.0?
Real trade-offs on the five-point scale: a narrow banking menu, a withdrawal floor well above the market, published payout windows that stretch into double-digit days, a small library, or no dedicated app. An operator without a valid AGCO registration is not listed at all, whatever else it offers.
Do affiliate links change where a casino ranks?
No. Some links are affiliate links, as the affiliate disclosure below states, but they never change a rating or the order of a list. Ranking is decided by the five published measures alone. The same order appears on the ranked board for every reader, whatever route they arrived by.
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