How we rank sports betting sites in Canada

What we rank

Our ranking of the best sports betting sites in Canada compares sportsbooks that Canadians can legally use. Private sportsbooks are only regulated in two provinces: Ontario, where they register with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) and operate as agents of iGaming Ontario, and Alberta, where they register with Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) and sign an agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation. Provincial sportsbooks are eligible too, and scored the same way.

The six criteria

Each criterion gets a rating from 0 to 10; the overall score is the weighted average, rounded to one decimal, and the ranking follows it.

How we judge odds without scraping them

Price matters more than anything else to a regular bettor, because the margin a book builds into its odds is what betting costs you. But several sportsbooks’ terms prohibit automated collection of their odds: Pinnacle’s Ontario terms bar automated access to “odds, prices, lines, markets”, bet365’s ban “screen scraping” of odds and betting figures, and theScore Bet’s ban bots and similar tools. We don’t break those terms, so the odds criterion scores what each book publishes:

• A published margin. Pinnacle is the only book in our ranking that publishes one: an average of 2%, against an industry average it puts at about 6%. That earns it the top odds score.
• Maximum payouts. Higher caps let winning bets pay in full: theScore Bet’s $2.5 million per bet and bet365’s $1 million a day on major North American markets score well; Sports Interaction’s $20,000 per single bet doesn’t.
• Minimum stakes, such as bet365’s $0.20.

For context we use iGaming Ontario’s market data: Ontario’s sportsbooks kept 6.81% of cash wagers in 2025–26. And because you can compare prices yourself, our sportsbook margin calculator works out the margin on any market and shows which of two books pays more.

How we rate the other criteria

• Licensing & safety: a clean registration starts near the top; each AGCO penalty costs points, more for recent ones and those about player protection, such as theScore’s 2025 and 2026 penalties.
• Markets & features: the number of sports, Canadian leagues, live betting, streaming, same-game parlays and cash out, from each book’s rules and help pages.
• Payments & payouts: published withdrawal times count most, then fees, Interac support and review periods before payout.
• App & experience: ratings on Canada’s App Store and Google Play on the date checked, weighted by how many Canadians rated them. A book without a native app scores low.
• Support & responsible gambling: live chat and phone availability, complaint handling, the range of limits and breaks, and links to BetGuard or provincial programs.

What we leave out

Bonuses, odds boosts and promotions. Ontario’s Registrar’s Standard 2.05 prohibits advertising that communicates gambling inducements, bonuses and credits outside an operator’s own site and direct marketing to players who’ve consented, and operators answer for their affiliates under Standard 1.19. We don’t list or score them anywhere in Canada.

Where our facts come from

Regulators’ lists (iGaming Ontario, the Alberta iGaming Corporation, AGLC), the AGCO’s enforcement news, each sportsbook’s terms, house rules and help centre, and Canada’s App Store and Google Play, each dated on the page. Where a live page couldn’t be read, we used the Internet Archive’s dated copy and say so.

Independence

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