Supplier licence fees are published by every regulator that charges them, and almost nobody puts them side by side. We keep them as structured data, so here they are — twelve jurisdictions, in the currency each regulator actually charges.
- Annual fees run from about €3,000 to over €50,000 for the same broad activity.
- The application fee is rarely the expensive part. The recurring fee is.
- Licence terms differ by a factor of two, which changes the real annual cost.
- Several major markets publish no supplier fee at all, which is its own signal.
The published fees
| Jurisdiction | Licence | Application | Annual | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta | Critical gaming software supply (back office) | €5,000 | €3,000 | 10 yrs |
| United Kingdom | Remote casino game host | £3,168 | £3,142 | — |
| Michigan | Internet gaming supplier | — | $2,500 | 5 yrs |
| Ontario | Gaming-related supplier (other) | — | CA$3,000 | — |
| South Africa | Manufacturer / supplier | R15,096 | R6,043 | — |
| Malta | Critical gaming supply (game providers) | €5,000 | €10,000 | 10 yrs |
| Ontario | Gaming-related supplier (manufacturer) | — | CA$15,000 | — |
| Gibraltar | B2B gambling operator (remote) | £10,000 | £20,000 | — |
| Curaçao | Supplier licence (critical services) | €4,592 | €24,490 | — |
| Greece | Manufacturer suitability, category A.1 | €5,000 | €25,000 | 7 yrs |
| Isle of Man | Software supplier | £5,250 | £36,750 | 5 yrs |
| Denmark | Game supplier | DKK 67,600 | DKK 45,100 | 5 yrs |
| Isle of Man | Token / blockchain software supplier | £5,250 | £52,500 | 5 yrs |
How to read this
Three things stand out.
The application fee is not the barrier. It clusters between €3,000 and €10,000 almost everywhere. Companies budgeting for market entry routinely quote it as the cost of a licence, and it is the smaller half of the equation in every jurisdiction here except South Africa.
The annual fee is where markets diverge. Malta's back-office class at €3,000 and the Isle of Man's blockchain supplier licence at £52,500 are the same kind of permission by broad description. Seventeen times the price.
The term changes the arithmetic. Malta's ten-year term means one application per decade. Denmark and the Isle of Man run five-year terms, so the application cost recurs twice as often, and each renewal is a fresh review rather than a rubber stamp.
What is not in the table, and why
Several significant markets appear in our data with no supplier fee published: New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Peru among them. That is not an omission on our side.
Some jurisdictions charge on a cost-recovery basis — the applicant pays for the investigation, and the bill depends on how long it takes. US states often work this way, which is why a Pennsylvania or New Jersey supplier licence has no headline number and can cost far more than a European one once the investigative costs are settled. Others fold supplier registration into a wider process with no separate charge.
What this means for a market-entry budget
If you are planning entry into several markets, rank them by annual fee rather than by application fee, and multiply by the number of years you expect to hold the licence. On that basis Malta and the UK are cheap to hold, Greece and Curaçao are mid-range, and the Isle of Man and Denmark are expensive — a ranking that does not match the order most entry plans are written in.
Then add what the table does not carry: certification per product, local entity and directors where required, annual audits where the regime demands them, and the internal compliance time that none of these numbers capture. The licence fee is the part you can look up. It is rarely the part that decides the budget.
Current fees for every jurisdiction we track sit on the compliance pages, each with the date we last checked it.
- Gamitas supplier and compliance data
