Thrill affiliate program review: 25% standard share, 15% admin fee and a carryover escape clause

Thrill’s affiliate contract sets a standard 25% share of net gaming revenue and takes a 15% administrative fee off every commission calculation. Its recruitment page leads with “up to 50%” and promises that a losing month never rolls into the next one; the affiliate agreement, version 1, last updated 10 July 2025, reserves the right to introduce negative carryover at any time. We read both on 26 September 2026, checked the operator against the Anjouan and Curaçao licence records, and followed the payment clauses through to termination. Our score is 5.5/10.

Who runs the program

The affiliate agreement is made with Gravity Unleashed Limitada, incorporated in Costa Rica under registration 3-102-923055, at Barrio Dent, San Pedro, Ofident Building, Office 3, San José. The casino’s footer names the same company as operator of thrill.com and its mirrors. The agreement is version 1, effective 1 January 2025 and last updated 10 July 2025. It defines “Company” to include any parent or subsidiary in the group (clause 1.9), and “Property Sites” as thrill.com plus any site the company adds “at its sole discretion”, including sites owned by third parties under commercial arrangements (clause 1.19). No separate payment entity is named, so the company that owes you money is the one that runs the casino.

The Anjouan Gaming Authority’s public register lists Gravity Unleashed Limitada with B2C licence ALSI-202506019-FI1 for thrill.com: status valid, issued 19 June 2025, expiring 18 June 2027. The number matches the one in the casino footer, which is the only cross-check available; the register publishes nothing about owners or directors.

There is a second licence for the same domain under a different company. A Curaçao Gaming Authority certificate states that thrill.com is operated by Gravity Unleashed B.V., company number 165275, under licence OGL/2024/1052/0508, granted on 2 September 2025 and Active when we read it. Thrill’s player terms exist in two versions, both dated 16 September 2026: one for the Limitada under Anjouan law, one for the B.V. under Curaçao law. The Curaçao version still describes the company as authorised “until the process of the application (OGL/2024/1052/0508) has concluded”, a year after the authority’s certificate says the licence was granted. Neither the second company nor the second licence changes the affiliate counterparty. The agreement names the Limitada, and only the Limitada.

Commission structure

The landing page sells revenue share “up to 50%”, negotiated CPA and hybrid deals, and a multi-tier sub-affiliate program. The agreement supplies the default and the deductions.

Item	What the public pages say, 26 September 2026
Standard revenue share	25% of NGR from casino and sportsbook (section 7)
Advertised maximum	“Up to 50%”; no tier ladder, increases by written approval only
Administrative fee	15%, “applied to all commission calculations”
CPA / hybrid	Offered on the landing page; no amount or qualifying event published
Sub-affiliate share	Offered; no percentage published
Negative carryover	Landing page: “losses reset and never roll into the next cycle”; contract: policy may be implemented or removed at any time

Clause 1.15 defines NGR as bets placed by referred players less winnings returned, issued bonuses, net balance corrections, “administration fees”, and fraud costs and chargebacks. Deposits are not revenue. Section 7 then adds: “A standard administrative fee of 15% is applied to all commission calculations.” The agreement does not say whether that is the administration fee already deducted inside NGR or a second one taken from the commission, and it publishes no worked statement. Read the plain way, $1,000 of NGR after the listed deductions becomes $250 of commission and $212.50 after the fee, an effective 21.25%. That is our arithmetic on the contract’s wording, not a Thrill settlement; ask for a sample statement before you treat 25% as your rate.

Casino and sportsbook results are pooled. Section 7 pays one rate on NGR “from both sportsbook and casino activity”, and nothing separates the two, or one property site from another. A monthly reset, where it applies, does not stop one player’s winnings offsetting another’s losses inside the month; that is how NGR works everywhere, and it is why a high-roller policy is worth asking about. The agreement has none.

The retail scheme is a different animal. Thrill’s referral guide of 1 August 2025 pays every user 10% of the house edge on referred players’ eligible wagers, credited in real time, with referrals “linked for life”. It is not a bonus on top of the professional deal, and the base is different: house edge on turnover rather than net revenue after bonuses.

Attribution and cookies

The agreement publishes no cookie duration, no first-click or last-click rule and no lifetime clause. Referrals must come through the affiliate links Thrill provides, unmasked (clause 2.7). A “New Customer” is a first-time customer who makes at least the applicable minimum deposit, and the definition excludes the affiliate, its employees, relatives “and friends” (clause 1.16). Referred players later found to be bonus abusers or fraudsters do not count, and commission already paid on them is repayable on request (clauses 2.5 and 2.17).

The landing page says tracking runs on SoftSwiss, whose Affilka platform advertises configurable commission and payment settings. What a vendor’s software can do says nothing about what Thrill has set for your account; the setting is the question to put to the affiliate manager in writing.

The retail guide gives the only durations on the site: a referral code can be applied within 24 hours of registration and only before a first deposit or bet, referrals then “stay linked” with no expiry, and self-referral is blocked. That is a code-entry deadline for the player, not a cookie window for the affiliate. Thrill’s registration help says no identity documents are needed to sign up and that checks may follow; the affiliate agreement names no verification milestone for commission, so a CPA deal needs its own qualifying event written down.

Payouts

The recruitment page carries three timetables. A feature panel says “Instant Payouts, no delayed payments”; the onboarding steps promise “weekly and monthly options”; the commission plan says commissions are “paid during the first week of each month”. The contract has one. Clause 6.2 calculates commission at month-end and pays “not later than the 15th of the following calendar month”. Plan on the contract: September earnings are due in the wallet by 15 October 2026.

Payment goes to an affiliate wallet on the platform, from which a minimum of $100 can be withdrawn at a time (clause 6.4), after identity verification where regulations require it (clause 6.3). Settlement currencies, chains, withdrawal fees and processing time are not published anywhere in the affiliate material; the landing page’s “$100+ monthly payouts” is the whole public statement.

Three clauses shape what a balance is worth. Acceptance of a payment is “full and final settlement” for the period, and a dispute must be raised within 14 calendar days or the balance is deemed acknowledged (clause 6.7). Thrill may correct a calculation error “at any time” and reclaim overpayments (clause 6.5). During an investigation of a suspected breach it may suspend the account and every payment with it, with no maximum duration (section 5). The retail scheme, by contrast, credits the player’s account in the cryptocurrency the referred player used, collectable on demand; the same guide still says commissions become claimable “once the feature is fully live”, a sentence its own FAQ contradicts. We have not tested either route.

The terms that bite

“No negative carryover” is a policy, not a promise. Section 7: “The Company reserves the right to implement or remove a negative carryover policy at any time, with prior notice provided where reasonably possible.” The landing page’s “each month starts fresh” therefore describes today’s setting. Clause 6.1 lets Thrill change the commission percentage and the calculation method, and clause 10.9 lets it replace the whole agreement by posting a notice; continued participation is acceptance. Nothing protects players already referred from a future rate change.

Termination ends the book. Either party may terminate on 30 days’ written notice, e-mail included, with no reason required (clause 9.1). Commission on every New Customer referred during the term “shall not be payable to the Affiliate as from the date of termination” (clause 9.3). This is the clause that makes lifetime attribution impossible under this contract: the revenue lasts exactly as long as the relationship. Among the breach remedies, wallet balances not withdrawn within 12 months of a termination may be withheld (section 5e).

Paid traffic needs approval first. Registering domains or search terms that contain Thrill’s marks is prohibited (clause 2.9); every creative must be supplied or approved in writing before launch, and left unmodified (clause 2.10); cash-back or similar incentives need written approval (clause 2.11); e-mail and SMS need Thrill’s permission and the recipient’s consent (clause 2.8). A buyer testing the offer on a crypto ad network such as Coinzilla still needs Thrill’s sign-off on the creative before the first impression.

Two markets are written out by name. Clause 2.13 bans promotion on Swedish-market resources and in Swedish, on pain of immediate account closure, and bans .nl domains, Dutch themes, Dutch translations and any mention of Dutch payment methods. Beyond that, the affiliate may not target any jurisdiction where gambling is illegal, and no list of eligible affiliate countries is published.

For the players you send, the help centre’s restricted list, dated 7 October 2025, names Australia, the British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Cyprus, France, Germany, Iran, North Korea, the Dutch Caribbean islands, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus any embargoed or licence-requiring territory. The Curaçao player terms carry the same list; the Anjouan version drops Australia, France, Germany, Iran and North Korea and adds Anjouan. Access is decided by current location, not account country. Get the applicable list in writing before commissioning regional content.

No governing law. The affiliate agreement names no law and no court; the player terms choose Anjouan or Curaçao respectively, and those choices do not bind the affiliate contract. The company’s database prevails over the affiliate dashboard in any discrepancy (clause 10.1), and the affiliate indemnifies Thrill for breaches, negligence and unauthorised use of creatives (clause 10.2). The player terms also charge dormant accounts 5% a month after 12 idle months, with balances under $5 forfeited; there is no equivalent fee on affiliate wallets, only the 12-month withholding above.

What affiliates report

On 29 May 2026 Affiliate Guard Dog moved Thrill Affiliates to its Certified list. The certification post quotes clauses 6.1, 5(d) and 9.1 as points to be aware of and flags the negative carryover reservation with a warning. Its audit column reads “coming soon”; the certification is a reading of the terms, not a record of payments.

A Bitcointalk thread of 22 March 2026 is the one public dispute we found, and it concerns attribution rather than payment. A player posting as LottoEscoto wrote that Thrill had moved their account from the affiliate they registered under to a third affiliate’s code without consent, citing a dormant duplicate account. A participant posting as that affiliate replied the same day that the player had first joined under the affiliate’s code, alleged leaderboard farming through multiple accounts, and said Thrill had corrected the record. Later replies contested that. We cannot see the account history; the thread shows that Thrill reassigns players between affiliates and that the parties disagree about why, nothing more.

Thrill’s Trustpilot profile, read on 26 September 2026, shows 2.1 out of 5 from 130 reviews, 118 of them in the last 12 months: 65% one-star, 31% five-star and almost nothing between. The one-star reviews are about game outcomes, withdrawals and account restrictions; a 7 July 2026 five-star review describes six test withdrawals arriving within two minutes. One 30 August review discusses a solitaire app of the same name and is not about this casino. These are player accounts, not affiliate statements. We found no report, dated or otherwise, of an affiliate commission going unpaid.

Thrill against the alternatives

Two other crypto casino programs from our queue, checked the same day. The bases differ, so the largest percentage is not the largest cheque.

Program	Published commission	Minimum and timetable	Carryover and deductions
Thrill	25% of NGR standard; “up to 50%” advertised	$100; monthly by the 15th	15% administrative fee; carryover policy changeable at any time
Bitz Partners	15% to 50% of NGR, by monthly first-time depositors	€20; monthly by the 10th	“No Negative Carryover” in the contract
Yeet	14% direct, then 6% / 4% / 2% on three indirect levels	Not stated in the guide	Wagered volume × house edge × rate ÷ 2

Bitz’s contract, version 1 of 17 August 2023, writes “No Negative Carryover” into the terms rather than onto a landing page, and its €20 floor suits small balances; its Russian-language home page promises payment on the 1st to 3rd of the month, ahead of the contract’s 10th, so it has a landing-versus-contract gap of its own. Yeet publishes a formula and pays four levels deep, but the halving in that formula and the absence of a minimum or payment date leave a media buyer with less to model, not more. None of the three has a public record of affiliate payments either way. BlockBet, reviewed since, has a record of one kind: a non-payment thread about its former partner portal, closed unresolved in January 2026; see our BlockBet affiliate program review.

For readers weighing a casino contract against a trading one, our crypto exchange affiliate programs comparison and the Flipster and GRVT reviews apply the same reading to fee-share deals. A share of trading fees and a share of casino NGR need different revenue assumptions and different traffic.

Verdict

5.5/10. Thrill publishes what many casino programs hide: a default rate, an NGR definition, a withdrawal minimum, a contractual payment date and a named counterparty that matches a regulator’s register. A publisher can price a test from those pages, which is more than the “contact us” programs allow.

It stays below the middle of our scale because the contract undoes its own headline on three points. The no-carryover promise can be withdrawn, with notice “where reasonably possible”. The 15% administrative fee is stated but not explained, and on a plain reading takes 25% to 21.25%. And commission on every referred player ends the day a 30-day notice runs out, from either side, so there is no lifetime revenue to build. The $100 minimum is double our threshold. Our casino rubric reserves 5 and below for an Anjouan licence combined with negative carryover and non-payment threads; carryover is not in force today and we found no non-payment reports, so 5.5. Before spending, get four things in writing: the fee calculation on a sample statement, the carryover setting for your account, the country list for the operator you are promoting, and the payout currency and route.

FAQ

What commission does the Thrill affiliate program pay?

The affiliate agreement sets a standard 25% of net gaming revenue from casino and sportsbook, with a 15% administrative fee applied to the calculation. The recruitment page advertises “up to 50%”; any increase requires a review by the affiliate manager and written approval.

When does Thrill pay affiliates?

Monthly in arrears, no later than the 15th of the following month, into an affiliate wallet on the platform. Withdrawals need a $100 balance and may require identity verification. The landing page’s “instant” and “weekly” wording is not in the contract.

Does Thrill have negative carryover?

Not today: the landing page says losses reset each month. The contract reserves the right to introduce a negative carryover policy at any time, with notice “where reasonably possible”, so the setting can change during your deal.

Is the Thrill affiliate program legit?

The counterparty is Gravity Unleashed Limitada of Costa Rica, licensed in Anjouan under ALSI-202506019-FI1, and a Curaçao certificate covers the same domain under a sister company. Affiliate Guard Dog certified the terms in May 2026. That identifies who you are dealing with; it does not verify that commissions are paid on time, and we found no public reports either way.

What is the difference between Thrill’s referral program and its affiliate program?

The referral scheme, open to every player, pays 10% of the house edge on referred wagers and links referrals for life. The affiliate program pays a negotiated share of NGR under a contract that ends commission on termination. They are separate schemes with separate bases; the rates do not stack.

What is Thrill’s affiliate cookie window?

None is published. The affiliate agreement gives no cookie duration or click rule; the referral scheme’s 24-hour deadline is for a player to enter a code after registering, not a tracking window for affiliates.

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