No-deposit codes: fifty, one hundred, and forty-five times

Four documents in this set describe what happens when a customer who has paid nothing wins something, and the numbers they print are small: 50 EUR at Bitkingz, PlayAmo and Slotum, and 100 EUR at BitStarz under clause 1.1. Everything else in a no-deposit clause — the multiple, the clock, the game weighting — is machinery attached to a prize that has already been fixed at those figures.

The ceiling comes first

A deposit bonus and a no-deposit bonus look alike on a promotions page and behave nothing alike in a contract. With a deposit bonus the operator is matching money it has already received, and the payout is generally limited by the size of the match. With a no-deposit bonus it is giving credit to a stranger, and the protection it writes into the clause is a hard ceiling on what can leave.

So the ordering of terms on this kind of offer runs backwards from the usual. The first question is what the maximum withdrawal is; the second is how much play stands between the credit and that maximum. Read in that order, a headline figure of forty free spins and a headline figure of 20 EUR in chips often turn out to describe the same thing.

Fifty, three times over, and one hundred once

Bitkingz, PlayAmo and Slotum all cap a non-depositing customer at 50 EUR or the currency equivalent. Three separate documents, three separate operators, one figure — which is worth noticing, because it suggests a market convention rather than three independent judgements.

BitStarz sets 100 EUR at clause 1.1, double the convention, and it is the operator this site was built to read. Its no-deposit ceiling sits in the same document as the 40 times requirement at clause 3.4, the 5 EUR bet ceiling at clause 3.10 and the seven-day window, and clause 3.26 describes how a code behaves without naming one. The full sequence is quoted on the clause-by-clause reading.

Bitkingz prints a second no-deposit figure alongside the first: ten times the bonus for a customer who has already deposited. Two ceilings under one heading, governing two different people, and a summary that reports only the larger of them would describe an offer nobody in the first category can obtain.

Forty-five times, applied to all of them

The Bitkingz bonus terms state the requirement for no-deposit bonuses as a general rule rather than per promotion: forty-five times the bonus sum awarded, unless an individual promotion says otherwise. Forty-five is the second-highest multiple recorded here, behind the fifty that PlayAmo and Slotum apply generally, and it is being applied to the smallest prize in the set.

The arithmetic is worth performing rather than gesturing at. A 20 EUR no-deposit credit at forty-five times is 900 EUR of turnover. Against the 5 EUR bet ceiling that the same clause imposes, that is a minimum of 180 rounds, every one of them at the maximum permitted stake, to reach a payout that cannot exceed 50 EUR. Where the eight multiples in this set sit relative to one another, and why the lowest of them can cost the most, is set out on the comparison of wagering multiples.

Most published codes are deposit codes

Thirty-six strings cleared the source rule for this site, drawn from five operators. Almost all of them are bound to a payment. The Bitkingz six arrive inside one repeated sentence about using the code while placing a deposit, and the pattern holds across the rest of the set: an operator that publishes a string generally publishes it against a first, second or third deposit.

That leaves a gap between what people search for and what the documents contain. No-deposit rules are common in these contracts; no-deposit strings published by the operator itself are not. Where a document sets out the rules without naming a code, this site records the rules and leaves the string absent, rather than borrowing one from somewhere it can vouch for nothing. The reasoning, and the four weak spots in it, are on one rule for printing a code.

The clock is the term most often left out of a no-deposit comparison, and it varies more than the ceilings do: five days at Oshi, seven at BitStarz, fourteen at Mirax, a month at Bitkingz. Where a no-deposit offer arrives as spins rather than chips, a shorter clock again applies, and that arrangement is taken apart under free spins codes. The set carrying the oldest date stamp is at Bitkingz.