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Best online casinos in Germany

Germany licenses online casinos through the Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder. Locally licensed casinos are listed first and marked; every entry shows its licence and whether it accepts players from Germany.

Regulated market 18+ 170 casinos By the Gambling Hero editorial team · Checked October 25, 2026

Short answer

170 casinos in our database accept players from Germany, 5 of them with a local licence. The minimum age to gamble is 18.

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The market in numbers

The 170 casinos listed for Germany hold mainly these licences: Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission (52), Malta Gaming Authority (40), Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority (gaming licences) (40). The payment methods they name most often are Visa (117), Mastercard (111), Skrill (96), Bank Transfer (SEPA / SWIFT) (89), Neteller (83). Live dealer games: 152 casinos. Crypto payments: 101 casinos. Their average score in our ratings is 6.9 out of 10. 5 hold the local licence required in Germany.

Legal situation in Germany

Germany regulates gambling through a treaty concluded by all sixteen federal states, the Interstate Treaty on Gambling 2021 (GlüStV 2021). It created a nationwide licensing system for online sports betting, virtual slot machines and online poker, supervised by the Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States (GGL) in Halle. Licensed providers are listed on the GGL's official whitelist, which can be filtered by game type and shows the responsible authority, permitted websites and licence dates. Licensed sites must state on their homepage that they hold a state permit and name the issuing authority.

Online casino table games such as roulette or blackjack are treated separately. Under Section 22c of the treaty, each state may either offer them itself, through a public body or a company controlled by the state, or grant a limited number of concessions, capped at the number of land-based casino concessions it could issue. Such offers are valid only for players in that state. Lotteries remain largely with the state lottery companies.

Online slots and poker are legal for players in Germany only at GGL-licensed operators on the whitelist, and online table games only where a state offers or has licensed them for its own territory.

Before you register, look the site up on the GGL whitelist and check that the domain is listed. Free and anonymous counselling is available from Check dein Spiel on 0800 1 37 27 00, and self-exclusion through OASIS applies to all licensed operators.

Full legal overview for Germany · Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder

Help and self-exclusion in Germany

Free, confidential support: Check dein Spiel (BIÖG), 0800 1 37 27 00

Self-exclusion: OASIS