Cloudbet Esports Review: Markets, Licence and Integrity Reviews

Cloudbet is a licensed operator with a long track record. It took its first bet in October 2013, it holds a Curaçao licence through Halcyon Super Holdings B.V., and it has one regulator action on record, a 2022 warning in Australia. What a winning bettor most needs to know about it is its account-review practice, which the payouts section below explains.

Cloudbet's licence is Curaçao Gaming Authority licence OGL/2024/328/0599, held by Halcyon Super Holdings B.V., company number 148526, and first entered on the register on 23 May 2025. Licences in this format are issued directly by the authority under Curaçao's new gaming law, which ended the old system of master licences and sublicences. The register the authority published on 2 October 2026 lists the licence with a term of 23 November 2025 to 23 May 2026 and the status assessment in progress, so its renewal has not been confirmed. The certificate linked from Cloudbet's footer confirms the operator and licence number.

Australia's communications regulator, ACMA, issued a formal warning to Halcyon Super Holdings in July 2022 after finding that Cloudbet had provided prohibited and unlicensed online gambling to people in Australia, and it later asked Australian internet providers to block the site. Cloudbet now lists Australia as restricted. We found no action in published decisions from Spelinspektionen, the Dutch KSA, the MGA, Italy's ADM, the UK Gambling Commission or France's ANJ, though a search of published decisions cannot prove that none exists.

On custody, Cloudbet states that deposits move straight to offline cold wallets, whatever their size, and that withdrawals are paid from hot wallets holding only a small amount. That limits how much sits exposed to an online attack at any one time. It is a custody model the operator describes rather than an audited guarantee, and we found no proof-of-reserves report.

Under a Curaçao licence, Cloudbet answers to a regulator with fewer tools for individual disputes than a tier-one authority such as the UK Gambling Commission, which backs players with approved dispute resolution and public enforcement. Your first recourse is Cloudbet's own complaints route. Its terms send unresolved disputes to CADRE, an independent dispute resolution service whose final decision binds both sides.

Another book in this segment whose Curaçao licence is listed in assessment is covered in our Pinnacle review.

For what a hot-wallet loss looks like in practice, read the 2023 breach section of the Stake review.

Cloudbet is a crypto sportsbook first. It launched taking bets on football, it prices a wide range of sports alongside esports, both before and during matches, and a single account balance funds everything on the site.

That shared wallet matters more than it sounds, because the terms are not shared. A welcome credit, a promotion or a withdrawal condition can apply to one part of the site and not another, and the account-level checks described further down apply to the whole balance. Read the sportsbook terms on their own rather than assuming a headline offer carries over to sports bets. Cloudbet also runs a casino, which this review does not cover.

Cloudbet is crypto-first. Its terms list 29 cryptocurrencies alongside fiat currencies, and its help pages describe cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay mainly as a way to buy crypto through a third-party service before it reaches the account. If you want to bet from a card-funded balance in your own currency, check what the cashier offers in your country before you register.

Cloudbet prices Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends and Valorant alongside Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Siege, StarCraft, Overwatch, Rocket League and sports titles such as EA Sports FC and NBA 2K, with in-play betting as well as pre-match.

Its strength is the depth of the menu inside each title rather than the number of titles. Three market types show it. A total kills market is a line on the combined kills in a Dota 2 map, so you are backing a fast, bloody game or a slow one rather than a winner. A map duration market asks whether a map ends before or after a stated time. A map handicap gives the underdog a head start of maps, so the favourite has to win by more than the margin. Counter-Strike adds total rounds and pistol-round markets.

Coverage thins below the main circuits. The deepest menus sit on top events, so a regional qualifier may carry little more than a match line. Some of Cloudbet's title pages are several years old, so read the market list as what Cloudbet has offered rather than a promise for every fixture, and check the event you want before you deposit. BO5 holds its own match data on the four main titles, which the corroborated column below records.

Every market type is defined in full in our guide to the esports betting sites we cover.

To see how today's prices compare across books, open the live esports odds.

Counter-Strike prices from the books BO5 tracks sit on the CS2 odds board.

The fixtures behind the Counter-Strike row are on CS2 matches today.

Dota 2 fixtures, where the kills and duration markets matter most, are under Dota 2 matches.

For the shooter on the Riot circuit, open Valorant matches.

Leagues and internationals for Riot's MOBA are on League of Legends matches.

Before backing a map handicap in Counter-Strike, compare the two sides in the CS2 team rankings.

Cloudbet's welcome package is a single offer covering the sportsbook and the casino together, and according to Cloudbet's help page on how it works, it starts automatically on your first deposit with no code to enter.

The sportsbook part is a weekly sports cash drop, worked out from your settled sports bets in the previous week. Part of each drop is credited when you claim it and the rest goes into a separate rewards balance. The headline amount Cloudbet advertises includes casino play, so it is not the figure a sports bettor should plan around, and the casino terms differ from the sportsbook's.

One clause matters more than the offer. Clause 8.8 of Cloudbet's terms says you must wager at least the total of your deposits before you withdraw, a 100% playthrough that Cloudbet may reduce at its discretion. The terms do not say whether it is applied to every account or only alongside the package, so ask support in writing before you deposit.

Cloudbet pays out in the coin you hold. Its terms say crypto withdrawals are typically processed within 24 hours of approval, subject to identity checks, with minimums that vary by coin. Verification becomes mandatory once your deposits reach USD 2,200 in total.

For the opposite account policy, a book that says it never limits winning customers, see the Pinnacle review.

A tier-one licensed book takes a third approach, with restrictions on defined grounds, set out in the Betway review.

A fourth approach, limiting how much an account can stake, is explained in the bet365 review.

A US state-licensed book that takes the same line as bet365 is covered in the DraftKings review.

FanDuel follows the same mainstream pattern, as the FanDuel review explains.

Whatever the book, deposit limits and self-exclusion are covered under betting responsibly below.

Cloudbet does not accept players from the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia, or from a substantial list of European markets including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, and it names Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk among the restricted regions of Ukraine. Japan and Turkey are on the list too.

The countries below are the ones that map to BO5's country selector, and the note under them lists the rest with where the list came from. Cloudbet's terms and its support page give the same list, and the registration form on the day is the final test.

Canada is not on the restricted list we read, and we found no statement from Cloudbet about Ontario, which licenses online betting through its own regulated market. Check the rules where you live before you register.

The payout criterion is capped at 2.5 because the integrity-review and withdrawal-delay pattern on AskGamblers spans more than twelve months. The licence criterion scores 3.0 on a licence first granted on 23 May 2025, which the October 2026 register lists as assessment in progress. Odds value is not yet assessed, so its weight is spread across the other five criteria. Cloudbet sits below Thunderpick mainly because Thunderpick's esports coverage scores 5.0 against Cloudbet's 3.5, while both carry the same payout cap.

If you bet to win over the long run and want no account reviews, read the Pinnacle review.

For a tier-one licence and card payments instead, read the Betway review.

For esports-native depth in a crypto book, read the Thunderpick review.

To set Cloudbet against another esports-first book, read the GG.BET review.

Each criterion, weight and cap behind the score is published in how we rate operators.