Is Online Gambling Legal in Alberta?

Alberta online gambling runs on Play Alberta plus the 51 private sites that we mark below as open. There are 8 more registered sites, but Albertans cannot play on them yet. The name of any site with a page here links to that page.

These names come from what people search for. We found no registrant running them on AGLC's register. A brand's operator may be registered under a different company name, so check the register yourself before you sign up. A name that registers at a later point ends up in the register table here.

Registration information comes from AGLC's register of gaming registrants. Open status comes from a second source, the Alberta iGaming Corporation's list of registered iGaming sites. Only a site that appears on that list is treated as open. Names and web addresses get typed many different ways, so our comparison treats "bet365", "bet365.ca" and "bet 365" as a single site.

That pattern does not cover Play Alberta. Because AGLC runs it for the province, it sits outside the private registered operators and is not counted among the private sites. Failing to find a name there does not settle the question. The company may be on the register under a different name, so check there yourself before you sign up.

On 13 July 2026, the Government of Alberta admitted private sites to the market, and more have kept opening since. We review both official lists every week and update the table each time they change. The copy we hold right now names 51 private sites open to Albertans.

For a side-by-side look at Alberta's rules and Ontario's, read Alberta and Ontario compared.

Whether a brand is legal in Alberta depends on two lists. AGLC's register of licensed iGaming operators is the first, and it names the company behind each brand. The Alberta iGaming Corporation's open-site list is the second one. From it you learn whether an operator is registered only, or is truly taking players yet.

Look for the brand name in the register. If the name is missing, nothing else matters: the site runs outside Alberta's rules. If you find it, write down the company name, then confirm the site's own terms name that company too. If a brand's terms name another company, the operator listed on the register is not that brand.

The Alberta iGaming Corporation's list is the next thing to check. A brand may be registered yet still closed, so even with a licence in place, you cannot play there today. What the two lists do is set out in our guide to the Alberta iGaming Corporation.

The register confirms that a brand may lawfully take your money. How fast the site pays, how large the game library is, and how well the app is built are things it does not tell you. Such things are business choices, and the regulator has nothing to say about them.

So a brand may be fully legal yet still be a bad choice for you. Suppose a registered site pays out in 72 hours and requires a $20 minimum deposit. It is legal and safe, yet a competitor nearby is quicker and cheaper to open.

Treat the register as a first check, not the final word. Knowing a brand is legal is step one. Whether you want to use it is decided by the figures on its own help pages.

A site missing from AGLC's register is operating outside Alberta's rules. First, your funds sit with the company's money rather than apart. Second, a refused withdrawal gives you no provincial place to complain. Third, the self-exclusion tools at registered sites do not apply.

Arrest is not the practical risk here. For the player, using an unregistered site is no criminal offence. What you risk is unprotected deposited money and a dispute with no regulator behind it.

Heavy advertising in Alberta does not make a brand registered. Several well-known brands stay closed to Alberta players, holding their licences in other provinces or other countries. Only sites on the register appear in our Alberta comparison.

Deposit limits and self-exclusion must be offered by every site on AGLC's register, and honoured once you set them. That is what separates a legal site from an unregistered one in practice: at a legal site, the tools exist and they work.

The figures for money in and out differ from brand to brand. Minimum deposits fall between $1 and $20. Cash-outs take anywhere from under 30 minutes up to 72 hours. The leading method at most brands is Interac e-Transfer, listed by most for deposits and for withdrawals.

If your goal is to stop playing on all of Alberta's legal sites at once, asking AGLC to block you is an option. Every registered operator is covered, not just the one where you made the request. How to do it is explained in our self-exclusion guide.

The regulator is AGLC, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Licensed iGaming operators are listed on its register, and it sets the rules they follow. A separate body, the Alberta iGaming Corporation, holds the operating agreements and manages the commercial side of the market.

When you check a brand, each one matters. You can see from AGLC's register that a licence is in place. The Alberta iGaming Corporation's site list shows you that the operator has opened. A brand may show up on the first without being on the second.

AGLC runs Play Alberta, the site owned by the province itself. It alone also sells lottery tickets, and the province, not a company, receives its profits.

Playing there from inside Alberta is legal if the brand sits on AGLC's register and the Alberta iGaming Corporation's open-site list. If it appears on neither, it is not.