A rebate is not a bonus
Cashback returns a percentage of losses over a period. Where it carries no wagering requirement — which is common — it is worth its face value, and that makes a ten-per-cent cashback more valuable than a bonus several times its size.
It never appears at the top of a best-bonus list, because it has no headline percentage to lead with and no cap to sound impressive. That absence is informative about the lists rather than about cashback.
Behind the buttons
Where every button on this site leads
A cashier in six settlement assets, a licence that resolves in the regulator's own certificate portal, and bonus terms that state the wagering multiple as a figure rather than as a sentence.
- Wagering as a numbernot as a paragraph
- Six settlement assetsno card at the cashier
- Licence in a public registernumber and reading date printed
18+ · a bonus is turnover, not money. Read the multiple before the headline
Why cashback suits some players better
It requires nothing. There is no turnover to clear, no maximum bet to breach, no window to race, and no excluded-games list to read. For anyone who plays occasionally, or who plays live tables, or who wants to be able to withdraw at any moment, those absences are worth more than a headline percentage.
It is also the only common offer that pays out when things go badly, which is when money is most useful. A bonus rewards depositing; cashback softens losing. Those are different products aimed at different people, and the industry advertises only the first.
The arithmetic, such as it is
Ten per cent cashback on losses is worth ten per cent of what you lose, paid after the fact. If it arrives as cash it is worth exactly that; if it arrives as bonus funds with a multiple attached, it is a bonus wearing the word cashback and should be priced like one. That single distinction decides most of its value.
What to check on a cashback scheme
- Whether it is paid on losses or on turnover — very different bases.
- Whether it arrives as cash or as bonus funds, because bonus funds carry a requirement.
- The period it is calculated over, and whether it expires.
- The rate at the tier you would realistically reach, not the top one in the table.
The other deposit offers
Alongside this page in the same section: online casino deposit bonus, match deposit bonus and reload bonus. Each one asks a different question of the same register, priced the same way.
Further out: every offer, priced, wagering requirements and welcome bonuses. Every figure on this site comes out of the same multiplication, which is why the numbers on one page never contradict the numbers on another.
This page belongs to deposit bonuses. The whole register with every offer priced is on the register page, and the front page carries the short list of crypto casino signup bonuses by what they cost to clear.