Index last measured 24 July 2026. Cheapest book this week: Playabets at 6.00 percent. Edges takes no bets and never holds your money. Over 18s only.

EDGES

Not measured

Betway

We can send you to Betway, and we have measured nothing about them. No ranking, no value claim, and no opinion on their prices until we have read them.

Stated plainly

Where this stands

The most visible sportsbook in the country and the title sponsor of the South African top flight. Visibility is not the same as price, and until we have measured it we will not tell you whether it is cheap or dear.

Why they are not in the table

Betway builds its price board in the browser rather than serving it in the page, and our generic reader pulled promotional widgets instead of match prices, and it returned a negative margin, which is arithmetically impossible and told us the reading was wrong. Rather than publish a number we could not stand behind, we left Betway out. A dedicated adapter is the next one on the list.

Licence

Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board

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We can open this one

Betway pays us a commission. We have measured nothing about them, so this is a link, not a recommendation.

Go to Betway

Sponsored · 18+ · Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board · gamble responsibly, 0800 006 008. How we make money.

Compare them against the field

One book's number means little on its own. The weekly index puts every book we read side by side. This week's index →

In context

Where they sit this week

SA Bookmaker Margin Index

Measured 24 JUL 2026 · 204 MATCH MARKETS · 4 BOOKS
South African bookmaker margins, cheapest first
Pos Bookmaker Their cut Payout Markets Open an account
1 Playabets Cheapest 6.00% 94.34% 48 Best value
2 Hollywoodbets 8.92% 91.81% 107 Link pending
3 ApexBets 9.08% 91.68% 37 Link being fixed
4 Supabets in-play slate No partnership 10.41% 90.57% 12 No partnership

Each figure is that book's own average across its own three-way board, measured 24 July 2026. Cheapest comparable book: Playabets at 6.00%. Dearest: ApexBets at 9.08%.

Straight answers

Betway questions

Why is Betway not in the Edges index?
Betway builds its price board in the browser rather than serving it in the page, and our generic reader pulled promotional widgets instead of match prices, and it returned a negative margin, which is arithmetically impossible and told us the reading was wrong. Rather than publish a number we could not stand behind, we left Betway out. A dedicated adapter is the next one on the list.
Does that mean Betway is expensive?
No. It means we have no measurement, and we will not guess. A book is only ever called cheap or dear here after we have read its prices ourselves.
Why is there a link to Betway if you have not measured them?
Because they pay us and we would rather say so than hide it. The link sits on its own, marked unmeasured, with no ranking and no value claim attached. If that reads as an advert rather than a recommendation, that is exactly the distinction we are drawing.