Welcome bonuses for new players 2026

What a welcome bonus gives a new player

The same offer carries many names. You will see welcome bonus, sign-up bonus, registration bonus, joining offer, new customer bonus and first deposit bonus on different sites. They all mean one thing: extra money for opening an account and depositing for the first time.

Three shapes cover almost everything on this page.

• Deposit match. The bookmaker adds a percentage of what you pay in. A 100% match means you deposit $50 and get $50 in bonus money. Every offer in this catalog is built this way.
• Free bet. A stake the bookmaker pays for. If it wins you keep the profit, not the stake. Pin-Up adds one to its sports offer.
• No deposit bonus. Money for signing up alone, with no payment. These are a separate type, they are rare, and they are far smaller than a first deposit bonus.

Whatever the shape, the money does not arrive as cash. It sits on a separate bonus balance until you bet it a set number of times.

Where the biggest registration bonus amounts come from

A figure like $5000 is almost never a match on one normal deposit. Bookmakers build these numbers in two ways.

The first is a package. The card shows several matches added together, and you reach the total only if every deposit is the maximum size. The second is a tiered first deposit bonus, where the match percentage grows with the deposit, so the headline needs one very large payment.

Three rows explain the whole table. Marathon reaches $5000 through five matches of 100%, each capped at $1000. Pin-Up reaches $5300 from a single deposit of $4240 at its top 125% tier. Mostbet does neither: its $300 is the cap on each deposit, not the total of the package.

Sports sign-up bonuses are usually smaller, because most of them cover the first deposit only. Mostbet and 1xBet are the exceptions, and both run their sports welcome as a multi-deposit package.

So compare the first-deposit match. That number tells you what your own money will get on day one.

Sports welcome offers and casino packages side by side

Most bookmakers here run both tracks, you take one, and the choice locks once you deposit. They do not stack.

A sports registration bonus is cleared with bets. Melbet and Linebet want accumulators of three or more selections at short odds. Marathon counts LIVE bets only. Pin-Up also allows singles, which makes it the easiest of the three to plan around.

A casino package is cleared on slots, at a far higher multiplier, and it usually arrives in stages. Free spins come with it, and they have their own rules: at Betwinner and 1xBet each batch unlocks only after you have cleared the matching deposit bonus.

Sports offers are lighter to clear. Casino offers are larger on paper. That trade sits behind almost every choice on this page.

Wagering, playthrough and rollover: three names for one rule

Sites use all three words, and they mean the same thing: how many times you must bet the bonus before it becomes money you can withdraw. Wagering is the word this page uses. The sum is simple. Bonus amount, multiplied by the number on the card, equals the turnover you owe.

Check what the multiplier applies to. Marathon counts the deposit and the bonus together, while the others count the bonus alone.

Two rows look alike and are not. A $100 sports bonus at Melbet needs $500 of qualifying accumulators. A $250 sports bonus at Marathon needs $2500, because the deposit counts as well.

The multiplier can also change inside one package. Mostbet asks 5x on the first sports deposit and 15x on the later ones, and raises the minimum odds along with it.

Watch the clock as well as the number. Melbet and Betwinner both start their 30 days at registration, not at your deposit.

What a casino bonus really costs

Here is the calculation most bonus pages leave out.

A $100 casino bonus at 35x needs $3500 in spins. Slots return about 96% of the money staked on them, so $3500 of turnover costs about $140 on average. That is more than the bonus. At Pin-Up's 50x, a $500 bonus means $25,000 of turnover inside 72 hours.

Which games you play changes the size of that bill. Linebet counts most eligible bets twice, so its 35x costs about half what the number suggests. Mostbet counts Live Casino and Virtual Sports at 10%, which turns a $7500 requirement into $75,000 in those rooms. 1xBet counts its 1xGames section twice, and Melbet does the same with Fast Games. Every offer page lists the titles that are excluded outright.

So a casino welcome bonus buys longer playing time and a chance at a good run. Treat it as entertainment rather than expected profit, and the offer makes sense. Treat it as free money and it will not.

Maximum cashout and stake limits

Two limits sit behind the wagering, and neither appears on the front of the offer card.

A stake cap holds your bet size down while you clear the bonus. Pin-Up and Linebet allow $6, Melbet and 1xBet allow $5. Large bets cannot speed the turnover up.

A maximum cashout limits the money itself, however much you win. Pin-Up moves at most 2x the match to your real balance on the sports offer and caps the casino cashout at 5x. Marathon moves at most $1000 from a bonus and $100 from free spin winnings. 1win sets a x1 withdrawal cap on the first deposit. Melbet and Linebet convert a leftover bonus only up to the size of the original bonus.

One rule applies almost everywhere: a withdrawal requested before the wagering is finished usually cancels the bonus and everything won from it.

Minimum deposit for each first deposit bonus

The minimum deposit and the maximum bonus are two separate numbers. A card can say $2 minimum and $5300 maximum at the same time.

With a match offer your bonus follows your deposit. A $2 deposit at Pin-Up gives $2 in bonus money. To reach a cap you have to pay in what that cap is set at.

Rising percentages inside a package make the later deposits cheaper. Melbet caps each of its three deposits at $390 in bonus money, and the match runs 100%, then 150%, then 200%. So the full $1170 needs deposits of $390, $260 and $195, which is $845 of your own money.

Minimums also split by track. Sports starts at about $1 at 1xBet, Melbet, Betwinner and Linebet, $5 at Marathon and $10 at Mostbet. Casino starts higher at most sites, from $10 to $12, with 1xBet at $2 and Marathon at $2.50.

Deposit an amount you would have played anyway. A larger first deposit raises the bonus, and it raises the turnover you must complete in the same number of days.

Claiming a sign-up bonus step by step

The order below works at every bookmaker in this list. Skipping one step is the usual reason a new player never sees the money.

1. Open the registration form and pick your track. The bonus tiles sit inside the form, and you choose sports, casino, or no bonus before the account exists.
2. Enter a promo code if the offer uses one. The field is on the same form, and most bookmakers here will not accept a code afterwards.
3. Complete every profile field. An unfinished profile is the most common reason the money never arrives.
4. Verify your phone number, and upload identity documents early rather than at your first withdrawal.
5. Switch on bonus offers in Account Settings or on the deposit page if your bookmaker asks for it. Betwinner and Linebet both do, and the toggle is easy to miss.
6. Make your first deposit for your track, using the minimum from the table above.
7. Start the wagering on the day the bonus lands, since several casino windows run for only 72 hours.

How each bookmaker switches the offer on

A code and an offer choice are two separate actions, and new players often treat them as one. Melbet lets you pick the bonus later in your account settings, but the code still goes into the registration form. 1win is the only site here where support can add a missed code after the account exists.

Mostbet uses its code to change the size of the bonus rather than to switch it on. With the code the first deposit pays 150%. Without it you get 125% only if you deposit within 30 minutes of signing up, and 100% after that.

Every code in this catalog sits on the card of the offer it belongs to, and the promo codes section covers each one in detail.

One bonus per person, and how the rules change by country

Every bookmaker here gives one welcome bonus per account, per person and per address, and shared computers and shared IP addresses count as one household. A second account does not earn a second offer, and an existing customer cannot claim a new player bonus later.

Different bookmakers are a different matter. The rule covers one brand, so an account at Melbet takes nothing away from a first deposit bonus at Marathon. That is why players who compare offers usually open more than one.

Country changes the terms behind the same brand. The Melbet sports welcome is 100% with a 5x rollover internationally, while some markets run 200% with 8x. Marathon writes the variation into its rules, setting the minimum deposit, the maximum bonus and the transfer caps per country.

Currency matters too. A €100 cap can show as $116.19 one day and $113.58 the next, and Linebet pays no free spins at all on accounts held in several crypto and Gulf currencies. Check the figure on your own registration form before you plan around it.

Choosing between the welcome offers in this list

The biggest number is rarely the best offer. A five-deposit package costs five deposits. A 50x rollover in three days takes hours of play. Very few new players will pay in $4240 to reach a headline figure.

Pick your track first, then read three things on the offer page: the match on the first deposit, the playthrough multiplier and what it applies to, and the number of days you get. Those three decide almost everything. The stake cap and the maximum cashout decide the rest.

Offer periods end, and they do not end together. One brand can run two clocks at once, so a card that is still live for its sports offer says nothing about the casino one. The end date sits on each card above, and that is the version to trust.

Start with a deposit you are comfortable losing, and open the Details page of the offer you picked before you fund the account. Every card in the list above links to one.