18+ National Responsible Gambling Programme 0800 006 008. Winners know when to stop. Get help
Demo Still being built, and getting better every day. The odds are real and ours. Still being built. The odds are real and ours. Why?Tell us what is wrong

The prices here are real and they are ours. We read every listed South African bookmaker roughly every four minutes and publish what we actually saw, with the time we saw it. Nothing on this site is estimated, modelled or bought in. We hold no data agreement with any bookmaker, so a price can be a few minutes old and the bookmaker's own price is the one that counts. How live is this?

So why call it a demo? Because we are a data company, and data gets better with time. Every day we run, the price record gets longer, the licence register gets more complete and the ranking rests on more evidence. Some pages are still being written and a few bookmakers are not fully covered yet.

We would rather be useful now than perfect later. What is here already answers the question most punters never get answered: who is actually paying most, right now, and who is actually licensed to take your bet. Waiting another six months to publish that would help nobody.

Where we are unsure, we say so. Where we have not checked something, we do not claim it. If you find something wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say we did.

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Does your gambling advert carry what the law requires?

Paste an advert below. This checks it against the four wording requirements South African gambling advertising has to carry, and tells you which are missing. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you paste is sent anywhere or stored.

What it checks, and why

These four come from the Consolidated National Gambling Regulations, regulation 2(2)(a)(i). They are the same checks that fail this site's own build if any page drops one, so the tool holds you to exactly what we hold ourselves to.

  • The 18+ reference. No persons under 18 may gamble.
  • The programme name, written in full as the National Responsible Gambling Programme.
  • The toll-free number, 0800 006 008.
  • The slogan. "Winners know when to stop." This is the one most often dropped, because it reads as decoration and is not.

What it does not check

Font size. The regulation also requires the warning to be at least the size of your body copy. That cannot be judged from pasted text, because it depends on the rendered page and its stylesheet. This tool will never tell you that part passed. Check it yourself, or it goes unchecked.

It also does not check provincial rules, platform advertising policies, or anything about the offer being advertised.

Terms of use

This tool is provided free and as is. It is not legal advice and it is not a compliance certification. A pass here means the four wording elements above were found in the text you pasted. It does not mean your advert is lawful, and it does not mean it will be accepted by any regulator, platform or publisher.

You remain solely responsible for the compliance of anything you publish. Licensed Bets accepts no liability for any loss, penalty, rejection or damage arising from use of this tool or reliance on its output, whether the result was correct or not. If you need certainty, take proper legal advice.

Nothing you paste leaves your browser. There is no server, no logging and no storage.