Denmark’s Spillemyndigheden licence, costed line by line for 2026

Denmark in one paragraph

Online casino and betting in Denmark require a licence from Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority, which sits under the Ministry of Taxation. The legal basis is the Danish Gambling Act (Lov om spil), in force since 1 January 2012, while the duty is set by a separate statute, the Gambling Duties Act (Lov om afgift af spil).

Denmark was one of the first EU states to open online casino to competition while keeping lotteries under state control. More than a decade later the model is stable: licences are granted for up to five years, fees and duty are indexed and published every year, and technical compliance is enforced through a certification programme rather than case-by-case negotiation.

The licence menu

For a commercial brand, the realistic choice is between a licence for betting, a licence for online casino, or both under one application. The table shows how Spillemyndigheden divides the market.

Licence types relevant to online operators

Applicants established outside the EU/EEA must appoint a representative in Denmark. Owners and management are vetted for fitness and propriety, and the company must show it has the financial capacity to run the licence.

Fees: the fixed and the variable part

The Danish fee model has a fixed entry ticket and a sliding annual charge. Spillemyndigheden lists the 2026 figures below on its fee page for betting and online casino.

Spillemyndigheden fee schedule for betting and online casino, 2026

The application fee is due no later than the day you submit the application. The annual fee is calculated from the calendar year’s duty-liable gross gaming revenue; for existing licensees the authority works out the band at year-end and sends an invoice payable within one month. Between the lowest and top bands sit intermediate steps, so a mid-sized brand should read its band from the current schedule rather than interpolate.

The 28% duty and how to model it

Betting and online casino are taxed at 28% of gross gaming revenue, meaning stakes minus winnings paid out. The rate comes from the Gambling Duties Act and was restated unchanged in the gambling bill that took effect on 1 January 2026.

A simple way to model it: if a brand generates DKK 20 million of GGR in a year, the duty is DKK 5.6 million, and the annual fee is read from the band that DKK 20 million falls into. Bonus costs, payment fees and content fees then come out of the remaining 72%. Because the duty is on GGR rather than turnover, game RTP settings do not change the tax rate itself, which leaves studios free to ship their standard maths models into the Danish market.

Player protection you will build into the product

Danish player protection runs through national systems your platform must connect to. Three of them decide how registration and the cashier work.

• ROFUS: the national register of voluntarily excluded players. A player who registers is blocked from every licensed Danish site at once, so each licensee checks ROFUS at registration and on login. Marketing must show the age limit and a reference to ROFUS.
• MitID and CPR: identity is verified against the Danish national ID and personal number before real-money play.
• Deposit limits: every player must set a daily, weekly or monthly deposit limit before playing.
• Bonus rules: a bonus may be worth at most DKK 1,000, the wagering requirement may not exceed 10 times, and players get at least 60 days to meet it, according to Spillemyndigheden’s guidance on sales promotion.

Certification, the SAFE and what it means for game content

Denmark regulates game content through certification rather than supplier licensing: there is no separate B2B licence, but every game and the gambling system that runs it must be tested by an accredited testing organisation against Spillemyndigheden’s certification programme. Licensees also store gaming data in a secure data vault, the SAFE, that the authority can access.

In practice, the question to ask any content supplier is simple: which titles carry Danish certification, and can the supplier provide the test reports your own certification needs? Well-known studios such as Evolution, Pragmatic Play, Play’n GO, NetEnt and Red Tiger already test for Denmark, and many others follow the same labs, such as GLI, BMM and eCOGRA.

On the integration side, a casino game aggregator API helps because every game arrives with metadata: studio, category, supported currencies and market. Filter on those to publish only Danish-certified titles, pass the player’s country so studio territory rules apply at launch, and keep demo play on its own getGameDemo call. A seamless wallet means the DKK balance, deposit limits and ROFUS status stay in your platform, while live tables come through the same connection as the live casino API.

SoftAggregator offers one API, 40,000+ games from 200+ providers, casino, live casino and sportsbook through a single integration, and wallets per player currency or locked to one currency such as DKK or EUR. Catalogue and currencies change continuously; the live list is in the API.

Timeline from file to first bet

A complete Danish application is typically processed in a matter of months, and the authority does not publish a guaranteed decision time. What slows files down is usually missing documentation, not the review itself.

1. Company, ownership and management documentation, plus proof of financial capacity.
2. Technical documentation of the gambling system, the SAFE set-up and the game list.
3. Certification reports from an accredited testing organisation for the platform and games.
4. AML/KYC and responsible gambling procedures, including ROFUS checks, MitID verification and deposit limits.
5. Payment of the application fee, submission through the Virk self-service portal, then questions and answers until a decision.

This guide is general information, not legal advice; use local counsel when you prepare the file.

Questions operators ask about a Danish licence

Where these figures come from

All amounts are taken from Danish public sources and were checked in September 2026. Fees are indexed every year, so the 2027 schedule will differ.

• Spillemyndigheden, “Gebyr for væddemål og onlinekasino” (fees for betting and online casino), 2026 amounts, checked September 2026
• Spillemyndigheden, revenue-restricted licences page, checked September 2026
• Lov om spil (Danish Gambling Act), in force since 1 January 2012
• Lov om afgift af spil (Gambling Duties Act): 28% duty on GGR for betting and online casino
• Bill amending the Gambling Act, effective 1 January 2026, published on Retsinformation
• Spillemyndigheden, guide on sales promotion (bonus rules), version 4.0

Last reviewed: 24 September 2026.