Betsafe | Details
Betsafe has been running since 2006, when four Norwegians started it, and it has been part of the Betsson group since 2011. What it grew into is a proper all rounder: casino, live casino, sportsbook and a poker room behind one account, rather than a slots site with a betting tab bolted on the side.
It has also spent real money being visible, on Formula One, on a Premier League shirt, and on basketball across the Baltics. That is no reason on its own to play anywhere, but it does tell you this is not a site that appeared last year and might be gone by next.
Casino Welcome Bonuses
The welcome offer changes depending on where you are, and in several markets you choose between a casino version and a sports version rather than taking both.
The card below shows the version available to you, and the terms behind it carry the qualifying deposit, the wagering and how long you have.
The Game Selection
Several thousand games from more than fifty studios, which puts Betsafe in the large category without quite reaching the enormous one. The names are the ones you would expect and want, NetEnt, Play’n GO, Pragmatic Play, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming, Quickspin, Yggdrasil, Relax Gaming, Blueprint, ELK and Thunderkick among them.
The game selection is not identical everywhere, and that catches people out. What a studio is allowed to supply depends on the licence in your country, so a game you found on someone else’s list may simply not be in your version of the site.
Live Casino
Evolution runs most of it, with Ezugi and Pragmatic Play Live filling in around the edges. That means the full spread of blackjack and roulette tables plus the game shows, and it means the streams and the dealers are the same ones you will have seen at any decent competitor, because almost everyone buys from the same supplier.
If you have never played against a real dealer before, it is worth understanding how live dealer games actually work before you sit down at a table, because the pace and the betting windows are nothing like a slot.
The Poker Room
This is the part almost no review mentions. Betsafe’s poker runs on Ongame, a network Betsson owns outright rather than renting from a third party. Nearly every operator with a poker tab is plugged into someone else’s traffic, so a brand that owns its own network is a rarity, and it is the clearest thing separating Betsafe from the identikit casino next door.
Deposits And Withdrawals
Betsafe runs on local rails rather than one global list, which is the right way round. Sweden is Swish and Trustly. Estonia and Latvia go through the Baltic banks, SEB, Swedbank, LHV, Citadele and Luminor. Peru runs on Yape, Plin and PagoEfectivo alongside the local banks.
Money returns to the method it came from, and the first withdrawal takes longer than the ones after it because your documents get checked once. Worth knowing before you claim a bonus: some payment methods are excluded from the welcome offer entirely, so the method you pick can quietly cost you the bonus.
The App
There are apps on both iOS and Android, and Betsafe splits them, one for casino and one for sport, rather than cramming everything into a single build. In Peru, registering through the app is worth extra spins on top of the welcome offer, which is an unusual thing to reward and suggests the app is where they would rather you played.
One Self Exclusion Covers Every Betsson Brand
Most operators let you shut yourself out of their own site. Betsafe lets you do it across the entire group in one go, so the same block covers Betsson, NordicBet and the rest of the family rather than leaving the others open. Deposit limits, time limits and reality checks are all there too, with reality checks switched on by default rather than buried in a settings page.
That is a group level tool rather than a national one. If you want the block to follow you to every operator in your country rather than just this group, that is what a national self exclusion register is for, and the two work perfectly well together.
Who Betsafe Suits
Someone who wants more than slots. The casino on its own is good rather than remarkable, and if slots are the only thing you open there are sharper specialists. The reason to hold an account here is that the sportsbook, the live tables and a poker room you cannot get in many other places all sit behind the same login and the same balance.
One thing to check before you register. Betsafe runs separately licensed sites in several countries and a Malta licensed one everywhere else, and which version you land on decides both your welcome offer and who your account answers to. The licence shown on this page is the one that applies where you are.
Yes, but by different regulators depending on where you are. Sweden is licensed by Spelinspektionen and run by BS Nordic Ltd. Estonia is on the Estonian Tax and Customs Board’s published list under Triogames OÜ. Latvia runs through SIA Latsson Licensing. Peru is licensed by MINCETUR and Ontario is registered with the province. Everywhere else runs on a Malta licence held by Rizk Nordic Limited, which lists betsafe.com among its approved sites.
Fewer than you might expect. Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Peru and Ontario each have their own locally licensed site, and a Malta licensed international site covers what is left. That international site excludes residents of more than 120 countries and territories by name, including most of Western Europe, so the honest answer is that it depends entirely on where you are. The card on this page shows what is actually available to you.
No. Betsafe was rebranded to Betsson in Lithuania in June 2025, and the Lithuanian Basketball League sponsorship moved across with it. Accounts carried over to the new brand. The confusing part is that Betsafe still appears on the Lithuanian regulator’s live permit, so a licence check makes it look as though the brand is still trading when it is not.
Neither. Betsafe closed its Danish site in January 2020, and the Danish regulator’s licence page for the Betsson entity now lists only betsson.dk and nordicbet.dk. Norway followed in 2023, when the Norwegian regulator named Betsafe and NordicBet among the brands withdrawing. A number of Norwegian language review pages still advertise a Betsafe bonus. It is not there.
No. Betsson closed eight UK facing brands in 2020 and consolidated on a single UK brand, and Betsafe was not the one it kept. Any page telling you Betsafe holds a UK Gambling Commission licence is out of date by several years.
They are sibling brands in the same group but they are not the same product, and they are not even the same companies. Each brand sits on its own licence holders, which matters in Sweden, where the one bonus per licence holder rule attaches to the company rather than to the group. Betsafe is also the group’s Baltic brand in a way the other two are not.
Yes, on Ongame, a network Betsson owns outright rather than renting from a third party. That is unusual today, when most operators plug into someone else’s poker traffic, and it is one of the few genuinely distinctive things in the product.
