How We Rate

Our rankings are built from checks that can be verified by anyone with the same account: licensing, the smallest accepted shilling deposit, mobile-money payout speed, the real terms of the welcome offer, the apps that exist, the payment rails supported and how many countries the operator actually serves. Nothing on this page depends on how a site feels to us.

The seven checks

• Licensing. Whether the operator holds a Kenyan licence — and if it does not, which offshore authority it answers to instead.
• Minimum deposit. The smallest shilling amount the cashier will accept, taken from the cashier, not from the marketing page.
• Welcome offer. The maximum, the rollover multiple and the deadline, quoted together or not at all.
• Payout speed. How long an M-Pesa withdrawal takes once the account is verified.
• Apps. Whether a native app exists for the device you are holding, and where it is downloaded from.
• Mobile-money rails. Support for M-Pesa and Airtel Money, plus bank transfer, cards and crypto where they exist.
• Reach. How many countries the operator serves, as a proxy for how long it has been running a real business.

How a ranking is built from them

Each shortlist starts from the operators that pass the check the page is about — a page about small deposits only lists books that take small deposits — and the top of the list goes to the biggest verified offer among the books we have a commercial arrangement with. The filters above every table are the same seven checks, so you can rebuild the order yourself and see which operators drop out of it.

What the number next to each row means

The figure out of ten is a position marker for that shortlist and nothing more: it follows the order of the table you are looking at, so the same operator can carry a different figure on another page whose check suits it better. It is not a test score, it is not an average of the seven checks, and it does not come from an account of ours. Read the row, not the number: the licence, the minimum deposit and the payout window under each brand are the parts that are taken from a source.

What we do not do

We do not state anything about a bookmaker we cannot show you: no invented licence numbers, no borrowed bonus figures, no claim to have deposited or withdrawn money ourselves. Where an operator does not publish a number, the field stays empty on the page rather than being filled with a plausible one. Where a licence number comes from the operator's own page and not from the authority's list, we say which of the two it is. Links to operators are commercial and marked as such, and a commercial arrangement does affect which books reach a shortlist and in what order. What it cannot touch is a fact: a licence, a rollover multiple or a cashier minimum is what the operator publishes, whether or not we are paid for the click.

Who pays for Ke-Bet

Reading Ke-Bet costs nothing, and there is no subscription or paid membership. Our income is commission paid by some of the sportsbooks we list. If a punter clicks through from us, registers and places real-money bets, that bookmaker may owe a fee to the publisher, Catalinth Media Limited. Contracts vary: some pay a flat sum per first-time depositor, others a cut of what the bookmaker earns from that punter in later months, and a few mix the two.

Every bookmaker link here is routed via a /go/ path and carries rel="sponsored" in the HTML. They sit in the “Top bonuses in Kenya” box in the side column, on the buttons inside shortlists and reviews, and occasionally in blog posts that name a partner. Pointers to the Gambling Regulatory Authority, Safaricom, the football federation or a newspaper carry no commission at all.

We say plainly what the money changes and what it does not. A commercial agreement does affect which books appear in the side box and where they sit in a shortlist, as described above. The money never alters what we report as fact: a licence status, a rollover multiple, a minimum deposit or a payout window is copied from the operator or the regulator paid partner or not. A partner that hides a clause in its terms gets the clause quoted, and a partner whose licence lapses loses its commercial link.

The commission is the operator's marketing cost. It is not added to your deposits or taken from your winnings, and the bonus remains identical whether you come via Ke-Bet or reach the bookmaker directly. When you use a /go/ link our domain stores two short-lived technical cookies for the redirect, listed in the Privacy Policy; the operator receives a referral code, and we receive only totals of sign-ups and commission, never your bets or balance.

We do not publish articles written by operators, do not sell positions in reviews and never target under-18s or self-excluded punters. Curious whether a particular bookmaker pays us? Ask at [email protected].

Partnerships end as well as begin. When an agreement lapses, that brand's /go/ link becomes a plain link or disappears, and its review stays online with the same facts. A book that stops paying does not slide down a shortlist for that reason alone, and one that starts paying does not climb past a check it fails. Paid placement in the side box is reviewed every month against the same licence and payout checks as everything else on the site.

Corrections

Terms change without notice, and pages here carry the date they were last checked. If a number on this site is out of date, tell us on the contact page and we will re-check it against the operator's own cashier.