What Are Free Spins? How Casino Free Spins Work and What They Pay

A free spin is a round on a slot that the casino pays for. You get a set number of spins on one named game at a fixed stake per spin, and you keep whatever they win, subject to the bonus terms.

Three numbers describe every offer:

• Number of spins, for example 200.
• Value per spin, the stake the casino plays for you. In the reviews we've written it is usually €0.10, sometimes €0.20.
• Wagering on the winnings, the number of times you have to bet what the spins won before you can withdraw it, for example 40x.

Multiply the first two and you get the total stake: 200 spins at €0.10 are €20 of play. That is the most the offer can be "worth" before the slot's return and the wagering take their share, and it is usually much less than the banner suggests.

The term means two different things, and search results mix them up.

Free spins as a slot feature. Most video slots have a bonus round called free spins, triggered by landing scatter symbols. In Book of Dead, for example, three or more book symbols start 10 free spins with an expanding symbol. These spins are part of the game itself, they cost nothing extra, and what they win goes to your balance like any other win. Our slot reviews describe how the feature works in each game.

Free spins as a casino bonus. These are spins the casino gives you for signing up, for a deposit or as a reward later. They come with terms: an expiry date, a slot you must play, wagering on the winnings and often a cap. The rest of this guide is about this second type.

At the casinos we review, free spins come in five forms:

• Welcome free spins with a deposit. The most common type: 33 of our 39 casinos add spins to their first deposit offers. They are usually split over several deposits, and many casinos pay them in daily batches.
• No deposit free spins. Spins for registering, before you pay anything in. They are rare. Vavada gives 100 spins on The Dog House and FieryPlay 70 spins on Candy Craze after phone verification. Our no deposit bonus guide covers these in detail.
• Reload and weekday spins. Spins for a deposit on a set day. Goldex runs a Wednesday offer of 20, 50 or 150 spins for deposits of €30, €50 or €100 with the code WEDNESDAY, at €0.10 per spin.
• Spins for activity. Some casinos pay spins for tasks or results instead of deposits. Winity gives spins for achievements such as verifying the account, and at Thunderpick, according to one source, sports bettors who place €25 in single bets on a Saturday get 25 spins worth €0.10 each on Monday.
• Free spins with no wagering. Spins whose winnings are paid as cash. We haven't found a current one at the casinos we review. More on that below.

Five of the 39 casinos have no free spins in their welcome offer at all: Stake, Thunderpick, PeerGame, Spininio and VegasNova.

Across the 34 casinos with spins in the welcome or sign-up offer, the usual package is 200 free spins, the median in our data. The range runs from 100 to 900:

• 100 spins: Vavada (no deposit), Winity and Booi.
• 150 to 250 spins: most casinos, including Coldbet, V.Vegas, HitnSpin, Legiano, N1Bet, NV Casino, Celsius and Mostbet.
• 300 to 400 spins: Zotabet, WinRolla, FieryPlay, Slot Mafia, BC.GAME, Blitz Bet and FS Casino.
• 500 spins or more: Goldex and RetroBet with 500, Vox Casino with 600 and GG.Bet with up to 900, depending on the country.

The large packages are almost always spread over three to five deposits, each with its own minimum. To get all 900 spins at GG.Bet, or all 500 at Goldex, you need to make every qualifying deposit in the package. Compare offers by what you'd get for the deposit you actually plan to make.

You can estimate the average value of any free spins offer with four numbers: spin count, value per spin, the slot's RTP and the wagering on the winnings.

Take a typical deal: 200 spins at €0.10 on Big Bass Bonanza, which has an RTP of 96.71% according to Pragmatic Play, with 40x wagering on the winnings:

• Average winnings from the spins: 200 × €0.10 × 96.71% = €19.34 in bonus money.
• Amount to bet at 40x: €19.34 × 40 = €774.
• Average cost of that betting: €774 × 3.29% house edge = €25.45.
• Average value left: €19.34 − €25.45 = about −€6.

The same spins with 30x wagering come out at about +€0.25, roughly break-even. On a slot with 96.71% RTP the break-even point is about 30x; on a 96% slot it is 25x. Above that, the average player loses more clearing the winnings than the spins won.

Two more examples with the same slot:

• Vavada: 100 no deposit spins at €0.10 on The Dog House (96.51% RTP) with 20x wagering are worth about €2.90 on average.
• The same 100 spins at €0.20 with 40x would be worth about −€7.60.

An average is not what happens to you. Free spins usually go on high-volatility slots, so most players finish with a small bonus balance and lose it while wagering, and a few hit a bonus round worth many times the average. The free spins value calculator runs these numbers for any offer, and the wagering calculator does the same for bonus money.

Wagering on spin winnings is set separately from the wagering on a deposit bonus, and the figure varies widely at the casinos we review:

• 20x: Vavada, on its no deposit spins.
• 30x: NV Casino, V.Vegas and HitnSpin; GG.Bet 30x to 35x depending on the source.
• 35x: IceCasino.
• 40x: FieryPlay, AllySpin, Wazamba, Legiano, SpinBara, SG Casino and Zotabet.
• 50x: WinRolla, in most of the reviews we checked.

At many other casinos the spins count as part of the welcome bonus and share its wagering, which can reach 50x or, at Mostbet, 60x according to most sources. These figures come from independent sources, as the casinos' own terms often can't be read from outside their markets, so check the current terms before you claim.

Read three more details next to the multiplier:

• Time limit. Spins expire fast: 3 days at Slot Mafia, 7 days at Prestige, and the wagering on the winnings often has to be done within 3 to 10 days.
• Maximum bet. While a bonus balance is active, a stake limit applies, usually €5 per spin. One bet above it can cancel the bonus and its winnings.
• Game contribution. Slots count 100% towards wagering at most casinos. Table games and live casino count little or nothing, and some slots are excluded.

Our wagering requirement guide explains the calculation step by step.

Most free spin offers limit how much you can withdraw from them. Anything above the cap is removed when you finish wagering.

• Celsius caps winnings from free spins and no deposit offers at €100 in its own terms.
• FieryPlay caps free spin winnings at €100 according to available sources.
• Several casinos cap bonus winnings at a multiple of the bonus or deposit instead: 5x at NV Casino, IceCasino and Winity, 3x at GG.Bet, 10x the deposit at Zotabet.

A cap changes the value of high-volatility slots most. The rare big wins that make an offer worth taking on average are exactly the ones a cap cuts off. A €100 cap on 200 spins at €0.10 means the best possible result is about five times the total stake.

Free spins with no wagering pay their winnings as cash you can withdraw straight away. Players search for them more than for any other kind of spins, and they are the best deal when you find one: 20 spins at €0.10 on a 96% slot are worth about €1.92 on average, all of it withdrawable.

At the 39 casinos we review we found no current free spins with 0x wagering in November 2026. We list an offer as no wagering only when at least two sources confirm real 0x terms, and none of the spin offers passed. What did pass is cashback paid without wagering, shown on our no wagering bonuses page. The no wagering free spins page explains what we checked, and the closest alternatives are on low wagering free spins.

Be careful with pages that promise "no wagering spins" at offshore casinos. They often describe expired offers, another site's code, or spins whose winnings have no wagering but a very low cap.

Free spin winnings become withdrawable in this order:

• Play all the spins on the named slot before they expire. Unused spins disappear.
• Wager the winnings on allowed games, below the maximum bet, within the time limit. The bonus section of your account usually shows how much is left to bet.
• Watch the conversion. When wagering is done, the bonus balance becomes real money, up to the cap.
• Verify your account. Before the first withdrawal every casino asks for ID and proof of address, sometimes proof of the payment method too. Upload them early so the payout isn't held up.
• Withdraw with the method you deposited with, where the casino requires it.

The most common reasons a free spins withdrawal is refused are a bet above the maximum stake, wagering finished after the deadline, playing an excluded game and more than one account per household. Our guide on how to withdraw casino winnings covers verification and payout times.

Usually not. At most of the casinos we review the welcome spins are added after a qualifying deposit or activated in the Bonuses tab. A few casinos use codes for specific deposits, such as Goldex's WEDNESDAY offer, and Spininio and VegasNova run their deposit bonuses on codes.

Exclusive codes published by review sites work only through that site's link, and codes for large no deposit amounts at casinos whose terms show nothing similar are usually fake. Our bonus codes page shows for every casino we review whether a code is needed, what it gives and when we last checked it.

The casino chooses the slot, and you can't move the spins to another game. In our reviews the slots that come up most are Pragmatic Play games such as Big Bass Bonanza, The Dog House, Gates of Olympus and Sweet Bonanza, book slots like Book of Dead, and smaller studios at some casinos, for example Aloha King Elvis from BGaming at RetroBet.

The slot matters for value. A higher RTP leaves more for you on average, and lower volatility makes it likelier that you finish with something to wager. Our highest RTP slots and high volatility slots lists show where each game stands, and every slot review lists the casinos where you can play it.

None of the 39 casinos we review is licensed in Germany, Denmark, France or Bulgaria, and several exclude players from some of these countries. National rules still show what a regulated free spins offer looks like:

• Denmark: under the Executive Order on online casinos (no. 682 of 11 June 2025, § 29), a promotion may be worth no more than DKK 1,000, wagering may be at most 10x, and players get at least 60 days to meet it.
• Germany: licensed online slots are limited to €1 per spin under § 22a of the State Treaty on Gambling 2021, so free spins at a German-licensed site are small by law.
• France: online slots aren't legal. The ANJ licenses only sports betting, horse racing and poker online.
• Bulgaria: gambling is licensed by the National Revenue Agency, which keeps a register of licensed operators and blocks unlicensed sites.

Our safe casino guide explains what an offshore licence means for players in these countries.

Before you claim, find these figures in the bonus terms:

• Value per spin. Multiply by the spin count to get the total stake.
• Wagering on the winnings. Under about 25x to 30x the offer is worth something on average; above it, it costs you on average.
• Cap on winnings. €100 or more leaves room for a good result; a cap of a few times the stake doesn't.
• Time limits for the spins and for the wagering.
• Deposits needed to unlock the whole package, and the minimum for each.

If an offer fails on wagering or caps, playing your own deposit without a bonus is often the better choice, because you can withdraw it at any time with no max bet rules. Set a deposit limit before you start, and if free spins lead you to deposit more than planned, our responsible gambling page lists self-exclusion tools and helplines for our four main countries.

Checked on 10 November 2026. Casino figures come from our review data (welcome offer, free spins, wagering and max cashout facts in each review, plus the bonus codes table), each with its own sources and check date in the review; most are confirmed in two or more independent 2026 sources because the casinos' sites can't be read from outside their markets, and where sources differ the reviews use the stricter figure. Celsius figures come from its official bonus terms, read on 6 November 2026. RTP figures: Pragmatic Play game pages for Big Bass Bonanza (96.71%) and The Dog House (96.51%). Country rules: Bekendtgørelse om onlinekasino no. 682 of 11 June 2025, § 29 (retsinformation.dk); GGL guidance on virtual slot machines under § 22a GlüStV 2021 (gluecksspiel-behoerde.de); ANJ and NRA as summarised in our safe casino guide. Calculations use the formula from our calculators: value = winnings − (amount to wager × house edge).