We checked the licence claim of every major offshore sportsbook against the register that supposedly issued it. Not one produced a verifiable licence number. Then we checked which books are actually the same company, and fourteen names collapsed into about six.
Two things have to be said before any ranking is worth reading.
The first is that we are an affiliate site and we earn on referrals. We have ranked this page on evidence anyway, which means the book most of our readers want sits at number five and a book we earn nothing extra from sits at number one. If that reads oddly, it is because most pages in this category are ordered by commission rate and this one is not.
The second is that every book here is unlicensed in every US state, several have been fined by Tennessee, and several have been ordered to cease by Michigan, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts and Washington. That is the category. Nothing below changes it.
On this page
Fourteen books, six companies
The standard advice is to spread your money across several offshore books so that no single failure takes all of it. That advice is sound. Almost nobody applying it is actually doing it, because the brands are not separate companies.
We established the groupings three ways: what US regulators name in enforcement filings, what the operators’ own affiliate programmes publish, and shared mail server infrastructure. Website addresses are hidden behind Cloudflare and prove nothing, but mail exchangers almost never are.
| One counterparty | Brands | How we know |
|---|---|---|
| Chico network, Panama | BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag, TigerGaming, Wild Casino, Super Slots | Michigan’s regulator lists both BetOnline.ag and SportsBetting.ag as “(Chico Poker Network)” in its 7 April 2026 order. Their shared affiliate programme names all five. Every one of those domains routes mail through the same two Panama servers. |
| WebPartners, Costa Rica | MyBookie, Xbet, BUSR, Love2Play | Their shared affiliate site lists exactly these four brands. All four, plus the affiliate site itself, resolve mail to a single Costa Rican IP address using the same non-standard hostname convention. |
| Harp Media B.V. | Bovada, Bodog, Ignition, Cafe Casino | Four separate US regulators name Harp Media as Bovada’s operator. Bovada and Ignition share a web server IP and private nameservers. All four publish an identical and unusual mail configuration. |
| Reported merged, June 2026 | Bookmaker.eu, BetDSI | Trade press reported a merger announced 23 June 2026, with BetDSI customers told they would be served through Bookmaker.eu. Their mail infrastructure has not converged, so treat this as reported rather than confirmed. |
| One group | JazzSports, Loose Lines, ABC Islands | Named together in the reporting on the 2025 account closures. |
If you hold funds at BetOnline and SportsBetting.ag, you have one counterparty. Same for MyBookie and Xbet, or Bovada and Ignition. If that company has a problem, both accounts have the same problem at the same moment. Genuine diversification across this list means picking from different rows of that table, and there are only about six rows.
Two things we looked for and did not find, which matter because both circulate widely. There is no evidence linking BetOnline to WagerWeb, and the infrastructure points the other way, so we are not repeating that claim. And an allegation that a named handicapping operation is connected to MyBookie rests on a single anonymously sourced sentence in a gossip outlet and is contradicted by everything we could measure.
The licence check, and what it found
We took each book’s licensing claim and tried to verify it against the authority that supposedly issued it. Curacao publishes a register. Kahnawake publishes a permit holder list. Panama has no public register we could reach. Costa Rica issues no gambling licence at all, only a business registration.
Not one of these books publishes a licence number on its own site. Not one publishes a registered company name. Not one publishes a registered address. Every corporate identity we know of, including Harp Media B.V., Gaming Services Provider N.V., Milvus Ltc and CitoPedia N.V., came from a US regulator’s enforcement filing rather than from the operator.
Look at what the sites actually say. BetOnline’s has no legal footer of any kind. MyBookie’s reads “© 2026 MyBookie. All Rights Reserved,” followed by a line telling you it is your responsibility to determine whether gambling is legal where you live. Bookmaker.eu, BetDSI, Everygame, JazzSports, Heritage, Xbet and BUSR publish nothing beyond a copyright line.
This is a directly checkable standard and everybody fails it. That is worth knowing before any conversation about which one is best, because it means there is no authority anywhere that you can appeal to, and no company you could name in a filing if you wanted to.
The Bovada problem
Bovada is the book most Americans use and the one most often recommended. Its evidence is the worst of any book here except one, and we would be doing you a disservice to soften it.
- It has been unlicensed since 2 September 2016. That date comes from the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission’s own published list of voluntarily terminated authorisations, which names Bovada directly. Ten years, no regulator.
- Its current licensing claim cannot be verified. The site states it is “licensed and regulated by the Union of the Comoros and the Central Reserve Authority of Western Sahara.” No licence number is given. Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory without an internationally recognised government, and neither named body operates a public gaming register we could search.
- AskGamblers has blacklisted it, rating it 1 out of 10, explicitly because it is operating without a valid licence. It holds 514 complaints on file, of which 177 are unresolved.
- Its Trustpilot distribution is 54 percent one star, despite Bovada soliciting reviews and replying to 100 percent of negative ones within 24 hours. More than half its lifetime reviews arrived in the past twelve months, so that is a current signal rather than old damage.
- Washington State issued two cease and desist notices, in January and September 2025, and Bovada responded to neither. The state’s own warning to residents was that money at the book “could be withheld or disappear without a way to recover it.”
- It publishes no telephone number, no live chat and no support hours. Its contact page offers a form.
The counterweight, stated as honestly as the charge. Bovada does engage with mediated disputes: 65 percent of those 514 complaints resolved, at an average response time of two days. Its app is the best in the offshore category. Its payout cap of $1,000,000 is the highest of any book here. And it has never been documented failing to pay a customer who cleared verification.
The pattern in the complaints is specific and worth naming, because it tells you where the risk actually sits. Across roughly 400 recent posts on the Bovada subreddit we found about 32 complaint threads in under three months, and they cluster on one moment: the account is disabled or the funds are frozen at withdrawal verification. Not at deposit, not during play. At the point of getting money out.
The one that took the money
In March 2025, JazzSports and its sister brands closed a set of customer accounts and kept the balances.
Bookmakers Review suspended its rating on 15 April 2025, citing “slow-pays, unexplained account closures and lack of communication,” and told players to avoid the brands. A JazzSports support agent, on a transcript that was published, stated that the closed accounts belonged to “non recreational players,” and could not define what that meant beyond gesturing at percentages. Forum tallies put it at roughly $348,000 across about 19 accounts, with individual losses of $75,000 and $12,500. AskGamblers removed the profile entirely.
As of March 2026, a year later, affected customers were still locked out and still unpaid, and were being told their accounts were “not carried over” in an ownership transition.
In January 2025 JazzSports had a clean rating from the main watchdog, an active complaints profile, and almost no negative volume anywhere. Six weeks later it had taken roughly $348,000. A clean record in this sector describes the past and predicts nothing.
Why a clean record means almost nothing here
Six of the books we looked at have no documented problem at all in the 2020 to 2026 window: Heritage Sports, BetAnySports, Everygame, Bookmaker.eu, Xbet and BUSR. We want to be precise about what that is worth, because it is the most likely place this page could mislead you.
It is overwhelmingly a function of nobody watching.
- The two watchdogs people still cite stopped covering this sector. Sportsbook Review discontinued offshore ratings in 2022 after an ownership change, on the stated basis that rating licensed and unlicensed books together does not work because the licensed ones object. ThePogg no longer exists as an independent register.
- The surviving complaint registers do not cover these books. None of those six has an AskGamblers profile. None has a meaningful BBB file.
- Their review samples are too small to detect anything. Heritage Sports has three lifetime Trustpilot reviews. BUSR has twelve. Xbet has twenty-five. A book with three reviews cannot produce a documented complaint pattern regardless of how it behaves.
- Five of the six do not even claim their review profile and answer zero percent of negative reviews, which means there is no channel through which a complaint would become public.
- What little signal exists on them is negative. Their Trustpilot scores are 1.9, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.7, with one-star shares between 67 and 80 percent. Worse than most of the books that do have documented problems.
And there is a related trap in the other direction. The four highest-scoring books on Trustpilot are the only four that solicit reviews, and three of those four pay Trustpilot for features and use AI-assisted replies. On this evidence a high score is a more reliable marker of marketing spend than of conduct.
The ranking
Ordered on published terms, corporate transparency, complaint engagement and documented conduct. Not on reputation, not on bonus size, and not on what we earn.
| # | Book | Why it is here | What is wrong with it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BetOnline | Publishes more than anyone else in the category: a full per-sport wager limit table, a per-coin fee, limit and frequency matrix, and an enumerated list of the KYC documents it will ask for. Bitcoin withdrawals are free, have no maximum and no frequency limit. Seventeen coins. Deposits carry a 1x rollover and that is all. | Its Trustpilot score is partly purchased. It answers 59.8 percent of negative reviews. Of its 38 complaints on AskGamblers, 42 percent are unresolved, a worse proportion than Bovada on a much smaller base. Its network cleared a backlog of outstanding player obligations in 2013. |
| 2 | Heritage Sports | Publishes a complete fee schedule. Free same-day Bitcoin withdrawals. Reduced juice confirmed on its own page, and it publishes the actual number rather than a slogan. No documented problem anywhere. | The reduced juice is -108, not -105, and applies to full game sides and totals only. Three lifetime Trustpilot reviews, so effectively unobserved. Its bonus locks your deposit for 30 days, and doubles the rollover if more than half your action is baseball. |
| 3 | BetAnySports | The highest published parlay payout cap of any book here at $250,000. Publishes a general maximum wager, which almost nobody does. Its -105 pricing is real and confirmed on its own page across seven leagues. | That -105 is capped at $500 a bet, excluded from parlays, teasers and if-bets, and forfeited entirely if you take the deposit bonus. Its non-crypto withdrawal fees are percentages rather than flat, so 4 percent of a $9,500 wire is $380. Bitcoin only on crypto. |
| 4 | Bookmaker.eu | The fastest published crypto payouts here, stated at under twelve hours, with no fees and seven crypto withdrawals a week. Deposits carry a 1x rollover. | Visa deposits carry a 10 percent service fee. The crypto withdrawal cap falls from $25,000 on weekdays to $3,000 at weekends. Only three coins. Trustpilot 1.9. And its long reputation for reduced juice is not supported by anything published on its own site. |
| 5 | Bovada | The best product and app in the category, a $1,000,000 payout cap, and a genuine record of engaging with mediated complaints at 65 percent resolution in two days. | Everything in the section above. Unlicensed for a decade, blacklisted by the largest complaints body, 54 percent one star, two ignored state orders, no published support channel, and a 15.9 percent fee on repeat card deposits. |
| 6 | BetUS | Answers 94.5 percent of its negative reviews, in about a day. That is the best engagement rate of any book here. | 95 BBB complaints in three years, the highest raw volume of any book at any single source, plus a BBB alert for returned mail and no obtainable address. Bonus rollover of 10 to 25 times with a 5x cap on what you can cash out. The lowest grade of the group from the one watchdog still rating them. |
| 7 | Everygame | The only book here with a claimed review profile, a 100 percent reply rate to negatives, no review solicitation, no paid features and no complaints on file. Engagement without a bought score. | A tiny footprint. Crypto limited to Bitcoin, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. One payment per week. Its payment pages would not load for us at all. Three different corporate names attach to the brand and none is disclosed on the site. |
| 8 | MyBookie, Xbet and BUSR | Nothing we could establish that the books above do not do better. | Trustpilot has suppressed MyBookie’s rating entirely under its fabricated reviews designation, the only book here carrying that. The BBB grades it F, specifically for answering none of ten complaints. It answers none of 37 negative reviews and sits at 82 percent one star. Total withdrawals are capped at $10,000 a week. Xbet’s $50,000 daily payout cap is the lowest published anywhere. BUSR charges 6 percent on Visa deposits. |
| – | JazzSports | – | Disqualified. Documented confiscation, still unpaid, rating suspended, profile delisted, and nothing on its site is machine readable. |
Note what put BetOnline first. It is not that we think it will treat you well, because we cannot know that about any book here. It is that it tells you the rules in advance, in numbers, on its own pages. In a sector with no regulator, disclosure is the only accountability mechanism that exists.
The costs nobody quotes
The headline bonus is not where the money goes. These are.
| Book | Card fee | On $500 | On $2,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bovada, repeat deposits | 15.9% or higher | $79.50 | $318.00 |
| Bookmaker.eu, Visa | 10% | $50.00 | $200.00 |
| BUSR, Visa | 6% | $30.00 | $120.00 |
| BUSR, Mastercard | 4.9% | $24.50 | $98.00 |
| BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag, MyBookie, Xbet, BetUS, BetAnySports | Not disclosed | – | – |
A standard -110 market holds 4.55 percent, so a book expects to keep about $22.75 if you turn $500 over once. A 15.9 percent card deposit fee on that same $500 is $79.50, which is three and a half times what the betting itself was expected to cost you. Fund with crypto and that entire number disappears. Note also that six books here disclose no card fee at all, which is not the same as charging none.
Rollover is the other one. What matters is not the multiple but what it is applied to and what you have to turn over to release the money.
| Offer | Must turn over | To release | Expected cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| BetOnline welcome bonus | No rollover | $250 in free bets | Restrictions on qualifying odds instead |
| Bovada, 50% to $250 at 5x on deposit and bonus | $3,750 | $250 | $171 |
| MyBookie, $200 deposit plus $40 at 9x | $2,160 | $40 | $98 |
| Heritage, $1,000 plus $100 at 10x | $11,000 | $100 | $500 |
| BetUS free play at 25x | $18,750 | $250 | $853 |
Read the bottom row. Turning over $18,750 at a normal hold costs you about $853 in expectation to release $250. That is not a bonus, it is a fee with a bow on it. We went through the general case in why rollover kills most bonuses.
One genuinely useful detail: BetOnline’s headline offer has no rollover at all. It restricts which bets qualify instead, capping baseball and hockey moneylines at +125 and MMA between -200 and +125. That is a far more honest structure than a 25x multiple, and it is the only one of its kind here.
How fast you can actually get paid
Headline payout caps are close to meaningless. What binds is throughput: how much you can move out per week, using what, and how often.
| Book | The constraint | Effective weekly ceiling |
|---|---|---|
| BetOnline | No maximum on Bitcoin, unlimited frequency, free | Unbounded |
| Bovada, Litecoin | $9,500 per 15 minutes, $180,000 weekly cap | $180,000 |
| Bovada, Ethereum or Tether | $2,500 weekly cap | $2,500 |
| Bookmaker.eu | $25,000 weekdays, $3,000 weekends, seven a week | Up to $125,000 |
| BetUS | $5,000 a day | $35,000 |
| Heritage Sports | $3,000 per transaction, $500 to $1,000 at weekends | About $15,000 |
| MyBookie | $10,000 total per week across all methods | $10,000 |
| Xbet | One payout per method per week | One payout |
Bovada advertises a $1,000,000 payout cap and will let you take $2,500 a week out in Tether. The same account will move $180,000 a week in Litecoin. Which coin you pick at that book matters seventy times more than the headline number.
We go through the payout picture in full in fastest payout sportsbooks and the coin-by-coin detail in bitcoin sportsbooks.
What we would and would not do
- Never hold more at any of these books than you would be willing to lose entirely. Two state regulators have told residents in writing to withdraw their balances. That is the correct instinct even if you disagree with the politics.
- Withdraw on a schedule, not when you feel like it. The documented failures cluster at withdrawal, and a smaller withdrawal that clears is worth more than a larger one that triggers a review.
- Fund with crypto, and pick the coin on the fee and the cap, not on the brand. Card fees here run to 15.9 percent.
- Complete verification before you win. Every documented freeze we found happened at the verification step, after a win, not before.
- Spread across different rows of the counterparty table, not different logos.
- Read the correlation and bonus sections of the house rules once. It takes twenty minutes and it is the only contract you have.
- We would not use JazzSports at all, and we would not open an account at MyBookie, Xbet or BUSR while their complaint engagement record looks the way it does.
If you live in one of the 30 states with legal online betting, the honest question is not which offshore book is best. It is whether you need one at all. A regulated book has a regulator who can order it to pay you, and Massachusetts has ordered exactly that. We set the two side by side in best sports betting sites and in is offshore betting safe.
What is the best offshore sportsbook in 2026?
On published evidence, BetOnline, and the reason is disclosure rather than reputation. It publishes a full per-sport wager limit table, a per-coin withdrawal fee and frequency matrix, and an enumerated list of the verification documents it will request, none of which its competitors do. Its Bitcoin withdrawals are free, uncapped and unlimited in frequency. The honest caveat is that its Trustpilot score is partly purchased and 42 percent of its complaints on AskGamblers are unresolved.
Which offshore sportsbooks are the same company?
Fourteen brands reduce to about six companies. BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag, TigerGaming, Wild Casino and Super Slots are one operation, named together by Michigan’s regulator and by their own shared affiliate programme. MyBookie, Xbet, BUSR and Love2Play are another, listed together on their operator’s affiliate site and sharing a single mail server. Bovada, Bodog, Ignition and Cafe Casino are a third. Bookmaker.eu and BetDSI reportedly merged in June 2026. Holding accounts at two brands in the same row is not diversification.
Is Bovada licensed?
Not verifiably, and not since 2 September 2016, when the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission’s own published list records Bovada’s authorisation as voluntarily terminated. The site now claims regulation by “the Union of the Comoros and the Central Reserve Authority of Western Sahara,” gives no licence number, and neither body operates a public gaming register we could search. AskGamblers has blacklisted Bovada and rated it 1 out of 10 explicitly on the basis that it operates without a valid licence.
Has any offshore sportsbook actually refused to pay customers?
Yes. In March 2025 JazzSports and its sister brands closed a set of accounts and kept the balances, roughly $348,000 across about 19 accounts by forum tally. Bookmakers Review suspended its rating on 15 April 2025 citing unexplained account closures, a support agent stated on a published transcript that the closed accounts belonged to “non recreational players,” and AskGamblers removed the profile. Affected customers were still unpaid a year later. We found no comparable documented case against any other book in this group between 2020 and 2026.
Does a book having no complaints mean it is safe?
No, and this is the most important thing on the page. Sportsbook Review stopped rating offshore books in 2022 and ThePogg no longer exists, so two of the bodies people cite are not watching. Heritage Sports has three lifetime Trustpilot reviews, BUSR has twelve and Xbet twenty-five, which is far too little to detect anything. JazzSports had a clean rating in January 2025 and had confiscated roughly $348,000 by March. A clean record here usually means obscurity rather than integrity.
Why do the offshore books have better Trustpilot scores than the regulated ones?
Because they ask for reviews and the regulated books do not. The four highest-scoring books in this group are the only four that solicit reviews, and three of those four pay Trustpilot for features and use AI-assisted replies. Every book that does not solicit sits between 1.4 and 3.0. Note also that Trustpilot has suppressed MyBookie’s rating entirely under its fabricated reviews designation, which is the only platform-issued adverse finding against any book here.
What does an offshore sportsbook actually cost me in fees?
More than the betting does, if you fund by card. Bovada charges 15.9 percent or higher on repeat card deposits, Bookmaker.eu charges 10 percent on Visa and BUSR charges 6 percent on Visa. For comparison, a standard -110 market only holds 4.55 percent, so a 15.9 percent deposit fee on $500 costs $79.50 against an expected $22.75 from the betting itself. Six of the books here disclose no card fee anywhere, which is not the same as charging none. Funding with crypto removes the fee at every book we checked.
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