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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.

LicensedBets Live odds

Head to head

Sunbet vs Easybet

Sunbet holds licence evidence from 2 provincial regulators against 1 for Easybet, which is the clearest difference between them on paper. Only Easybet publishes a welcome offer we verified, and it is granted only after 4x your deposit at odds of 2.0 or higher on sport, or 15x on slots; Sunbet publishes none, so there is no bonus to weigh between them. On our own price record, Sunbet held the best or joint-best price 38% of the time against 29% for Easybet, measured across 36 528 comparable prices or more on each. We have not opened an account at either and we do not test withdrawals, so nothing here is a recommendation. Both review pages carry the licence number, the issuing board and the date we last checked, which is what you would want if something went wrong.

Measured, not claimed

Which one actually pays more

Across the prices we have recorded from both, Sunbet was best or tied on 38.4% of the outcomes it priced, against 29.1% for Easybet. That is measured over 36 528 and 879 320 comparable prices respectively, not sampled and not supplied by either bookmaker.

Being best is not the whole picture, because a book that is rarely best can still be close. When it was not top, Sunbet paid on average 3.8% below the best price on the board and Easybet 4.7%. Read the two numbers together rather than either alone: how often a book is best decides how often it saves you anything, and the shortfall decides what it costs you the rest of the time.

Weigh those against how much we have on each. Sunbet is measured over roughly 24 times fewer prices than the other, because we see far less of its board, so its figure moves more easily and is the weaker of the two as evidence. It is not wrong, it is thinner.

Both figures come from the same board, read on the same cycles, so they are directly comparable. They describe the outcomes we could compare, which is every market where enough bookmakers priced the same thing at the same time, and they say nothing about the bet you are about to place: check the live board for that.

The offers, side by side

Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board

Sunbet

No welcome offer we could verify.

  • Score: 70/100
  • Payments: Card, Instant EFT / online banking where listed, Voucher or wallet methods where listed

18+. No betting link: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker.

Eastern Cape Gambling Board

Easybet

R5,000 150% match, min R50, wagering comes first

  • Score: 74/100
  • Payments: Card, Instant EFT / bank payment where listed, Voucher methods where listed

18+. No betting link: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker.

Pick by need

Which one fits what you want?

If you want Pick Why
License evidence Verify both Open both review pages and confirm current South African license wording before relying on either operator.
Payment fit Check current cashier Deposit and withdrawal support can change by method, bank, and account-verification status.
Bonus or promotion terms Read current terms Offer value depends on opt-in, wagering, expiry, odds, and product-scope restrictions.

Licence check

Both licences, in full

Sunbet

  • Entity: Sunbet (Pty) Ltd
  • Regulator: Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board · Mpumalanga Economic Regulator
  • Licence: WCGRB Bookmaker Licence 10138713-018, current per the National Gambling Board verified-operators register (17 June 2026). The certificate previously on file was 10138713-017, which ran to 31 March 2025, so the licence has been renewed. The operator footer, captured 5 August 2026, does not display this Western Cape number at all: it names the Mpumalanga Economic Regulator with licence 9-2-1-09789, and a North West licence. Both the register and the footer are shown because they describe different licences held by the same operator, not a disagreement about one.
  • Checked: 2026-08-10

Easybet

  • Entity: Easybet Group EC (Pty) Ltd
  • Regulator: Eastern Cape Gambling Board
  • Licence: Eastern Cape Bookmaker Licence No. ECBM 029
  • Checked: 2026-08-10

Before you deposit

Use this as a shortlist, not a decision. Confirm the current licence wording, the offer terms, identity checks and withdrawal rules on the bookmaker's own site before you fund an account. Gambling can be addictive. Only bet what you can afford to lose.

Sources checked

  • Sunbet Partners Sunbet Partners Last checked 02 May 2026 Affiliate programme existence
  • Sunbet official site (not linked: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker) Sunbet Last checked 10 Aug 2026 Consumer-facing operator page; direct scrape returned access restricted
  • Sunbet Western Cape licence PDF (not linked: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker) Sunbet Last checked 02 May 2026 Superseded WCGRB bookmaker certificate 10138713-017 for Sunbet (Pty) Ltd, which ran to 31 March 2025 and has since been renewed as 10138713-018
  • Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board licence holders register Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board Last checked 04 Aug 2026 Current list of licensed bookmaker operators in the Western Cape, by legal entity
  • Easybet official site (not linked: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker) Easybet Last checked 03 May 2026 Consumer-facing operator page and legal routes
  • Easybet Eastern Cape bookmaker licence certificate Easybet / Eastern Cape Gambling Board Last checked 03 May 2026 Entity, regulator, licence number, issue date, and stated licence period
  • Easybet legal betting page (not linked: we hold no commercial relationship with this bookmaker) Easybet Last checked 03 May 2026 Official legal-betting page that links the licence evidence
  • National Gambling Board FAQ National Gambling Board Last checked 02 May 2026 South African gambling legality and licensed betting context
  • National Gambling Board verified operators portal National Gambling Board Last checked 02 May 2026 Official verified-operators list and licence-checking context
  • National Gambling Board enforcement guide National Gambling Board Last checked 02 May 2026 Online betting legality and illegal online gambling warnings
  • National Gambling Board Annual Report 2023/24 National Gambling Board Last checked 02 May 2026 National gambling-sector context
  • Advertising Regulatory Board Gambling Appendix Advertising Regulatory Board Last checked 02 May 2026 Gambling advertising and responsible-marketing constraints
  • National Responsible Gambling Programme National Responsible Gambling Programme Last checked 10 Aug 2026 Counselling line 0800 006 008 and WhatsApp line 076 675 0710, both read from the programme’s own site