Ontario’s regulated market: 49 operators and 84 sites as of September 2026

Ontario’s regulated online gambling market counted 49 operators running 84 gaming sites as of 1 September 2026, according to the iGaming Ontario operator directory, and the latest iGaming Ontario monthly report shows the market handled C$9.74 billion in cash wagers in August 2026 across 1.208 million active player accounts.

The directory: 49 operators, 84 sites

iGaming Ontario, the provincial agency that contracts with private operators, publishes a directory of every site it has approved. The listing dated 1 September 2026 shows 49 operators and 84 gaming websites across casino, sports betting, poker, bingo and betting exchange. The site count runs higher than the operator count because many operators run several brands, and a few run separate casino and sportsbook domains under the same name.

For comparison, iGaming Ontario’s first quarterly report, released 30 August 2022, counted 18 operators and 31 gaming websites at the end of the launch quarter (4 April to 30 June 2022). Operators have risen by 31 and sites by 53 in a little over four years.

The latest figures: July and August 2026

iGaming Ontario published quarterly market performance reports from April 2022 to December 2024 and then switched to a monthly format, so the most recent official figures are monthly.

• July 2026 (report released 27 August 2026): C$9.88 billion in cash wagers, a record for a single month, C$413.6 million in gaming revenue and 1.365 million active player accounts. Casino play accounted for C$8.78 billion of the wagers, about 89 per cent, with sports betting at C$992 million and peer-to-peer poker at C$116 million.
• August 2026 (report released 23 September 2026): C$9.74 billion in cash wagers, C$396.3 million in gaming revenue and 1.208 million active player accounts. Casino wagers held steady at C$8.78 billion while sports betting fell to C$843 million, down 15 per cent on July.

iGaming Ontario counts accounts, not people, so one person with three accounts shows up three times. The figures cover the private regulated market only and exclude OLG’s own online offering and pari-mutuel horse racing.

The fiscal-year picture confirms the trend. iGaming Ontario’s own summary of fiscal 2024–25 (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025) reported C$82.7 billion in wagers and C$3.2 billion in gaming revenue, up 31 per cent and 32 per cent on the previous year. For the calendar year 2025 the market took almost C$100 billion in wagers and produced just over C$4 billion in gaming revenue, according to iGaming Ontario’s monthly data.

What has changed since April 2022

The launch quarter in 2022 produced C$4.08 billion in wagers and C$162 million in gaming revenue across 492,000 active accounts. August 2026 alone produced more than twice that revenue in a single month. Three structural changes drove the growth. The operator count rose as offshore brands that had served Ontarians without a licence converted to the regulated model. The product mix shifted towards casino play, which now delivers about 75 to 85 per cent of revenue in a typical month. Active accounts, 492,000 in the launch quarter, passed 1.2 million in every month from April to August 2026.

Regulation tightened in the same period. The AGCO’s ban on athletes in gambling advertising, with restrictions on celebrities likely to appeal to minors, has been in force since 28 February 2024, and every regulated site must participate in the province-wide self-exclusion programme. The model itself survived a court test in May 2024, when the Ontario Superior Court dismissed the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke’s challenge to the iGaming Ontario framework.

What it means for players

A larger directory means more choice, but the check is the same: a site is only regulated in Ontario if it appears in the iGaming Ontario directory. The minimum age is 19. Regulated sites must offer deposit limits, time limits and self-exclusion, and unresolved complaints about a regulated site can be raised with the AGCO. Sites that serve Ontarians without an iGaming Ontario agreement offer none of that recourse. Province-by-province counts are kept on our Canada iGaming tracker.

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