Anjouan Gaming License: What Is Actually on Record in 2026
Anjouan is the cheapest widely marketed gaming license and one of the fastest growing, with about 1,300 licensees claimed as of June 2026. It is also the only jurisdiction in this directory where the licensing operation itself, not a government body, publishes the prices.
Most licenses come with machinery around them, a law, a fee gazette, a register you can open. Anjouan has the law, from 2005, and not much of the rest.
Every figure on this page names its publisher, because no official schedule exists. Last verified July 13, 2026.
The licensing operationAnjouan Gaminganjouangaming.comOur verdict
The Anjouan license is a real market product with real adoption, and it is sold outside the infrastructure a license normally implies. The visible licensing operation is a website registered in May 2023 that first described itself as a private administrator, Anjouan Licensing Services Inc., and later as the designated regulatory authority. The statute behind it, the Computer Gaming Licensing Act of 2005, prescribes fee publication through the Official Gazette, which has never happened, and its text has been removed from the live licensing site. The Union of the Comoros, on the record of its 2024 international AML evaluation, prohibits gambling under its Penal Code. None of this has stopped operators from buying the license for speed and price. It does mean the license carries the lowest verification weight of anything sold as a license in this directory, and banks and payment providers price that in.
What the license costs
The 2005 act says fees are set by ministerial order published in the Official Gazette or on the official government website, and no such publication exists. Every price below comes from the licensing operation or from agencies reselling it.
| Fee | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| License issuance, operator or supplier | EUR 17,828 | One time |
| Annual renewal | EUR 17,828 | Annually |
| Additional domain | EUR 500 | Per domain, per cycle |
| Administrative services | Unspecified | At the operation's discretion |
| Typical agency first-year package | ≈ EUR 22,000 | License plus company setup and services |
Source: anjouangaming.com fee page (the licensing site's own price list, July 2026)
The first-year math
At the published prices a first year is EUR 17,828 plus company formation and any agency fee, which is why packaged offers cluster around EUR 22,000. There is no official schedule to check any of it against, so the meaningful comparison is not against a gazette but against Curacao, where EUR 52,300 in first-year fees buys a license from a regulator with a public register and an enforcement record.
Requirements
What the 2005 act establishes
The Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005 creates an Anjouan Computer Gaming Licensing Board composed of state officials, with licenses issued by a Board Secretary. No public evidence exists that this board has ever met or issued anything, and no instrument appoints the current licensing operation to act for it.
The act is also not the Betting and Gaming Act that marketing materials cite. That statute appears on no record at all.
What the licensing site requires
The published process asks for corporate documents, UBO identification, and since July 2025 an RNG test certificate. The RNG requirement appears only on the licensing site and in agency guides, not in any statute or gazette.
Substance
No local company, director, office, or staff requirements are published anywhere. That is a large part of the appeal. It also sets how much weight a bank or platform partner gives the license.
What Comoros national law says
The 2024 GIABA mutual evaluation of the Comoros records that gambling is prohibited on the Union's territory under the Penal Code, and assessed casino AML rules as not applicable for that reason. In 2022 the central bank named the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority, the body gaming sites cite as the parent authority, among fictitious structures in the financial licensing context, with referrals to prosecutors.
How the application runs
No statutory procedure is on record beyond the 2005 act's general provisions. The flow that exists is the one the licensing site itself publishes.
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Apply through the site or an agent
Corporate documents, UBO identification, and the game supplier list go to the licensing operation, directly or through one of the agencies that resell the license.
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Review
About 2 weeksEarlier materials advertised issuance typically within two weeks, and no current timeline is published.
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Issuance and renewal
The license issues for one year and renews annually at the same price. Since July 2025 an RNG certificate is requested per the site's process page.
Licensing timeline
The dates that define this regime come from domain registrations and public documents rather than gazettes.
The act
The Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005 enters into force, creating a state licensing board and a gazette-based fee mechanism that was never used.
Central bank communiqué
The Banque Centrale des Comores names the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority and Anjouan Corporate Services among fictitious structures in financial licensing and reports referrals to three prosecutors.
The licensing domains appear
anjouangaming.com and anjouangaming.org are registered the same day. The .org redirects to the .com.
The site announces a private administrator
The site carries the footer of Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. and announces that ALSI has taken over administration of all Anjouan gaming licenses. That announcement has since been removed.
GIABA evaluation adopted
The international AML evaluation of the Comoros records gambling as prohibited under the national Penal Code.
The operation responds to criticism
A public statement puts the licensee count at about 1,300 and says the license is not, and has never been presented as, a universal authorization to operate in every country.
The act goes missing
The 2005 act's PDF no longer opens on the live licensing site, and its URL redirects to the homepage. The text survives in the Wayback Machine.
Registers and official documents
There is no official register. In its place sit a handful of primary documents, some of them no longer hosted by the licensing site.
Who can help you get it
4Firms from the catalog that service this jurisdiction, each with a company record in a public business registry. Updated July 13, 2026.
CSB Group
Swatar, Malta · since 1987Malta corporate services group with a licensed CSP core, in the industry since 1987
Three group companies authorized on the MFSA Financial Services Register: CSB International (Class C CSP), CSBL Advisory (Class B CSP), CSB Trustees & Fiduciaries
SiGMA Best Corporate Services Provider 2021, 2023 and 2024, SiGMA Euro-Med 2025 exhibitor
Gofaizen & Sherle
Tallinn, Estonia · since 2021Licensing-focused consultancy covering 30+ gambling jurisdictions
Estonian registry 16295888 since 2021, both name partners on the board, 23 staff and EUR 4.89M revenue in 2024
4H Agency
Limassol, Cyprus · since 2020Gambling-only advisory led by a public industry figure
Cyprus registry HE413554 since 2020, registered at its Limassol office
CEO Ilya Machavariani listed as a speaker at SBC Summit Tbilisi 2024
Frequently asked
What operators ask before picking this jurisdiction, answered from the official record.
How much does an Anjouan gaming license cost?+
EUR 17,828 to issue and the same to renew annually, plus EUR 500 per extra domain. The licensing site is the only place those prices are published. There is no government-gazetted fee schedule. Packaged offers with company formation and agency services cluster around EUR 22,000 for the first year.
Who actually issues the Anjouan license?+
The license comes from a website registered in May 2023, which in 2024 identified itself as Anjouan Licensing Services Inc., a private administrator, and now describes itself as the designated regulatory authority. The state board the 2005 act creates has no public footprint, and no public instrument connects the current operation to it. The current site publishes no company name, address, or registration number.
Is the license recognized by the Comoros government?+
No recognition is on the public record, and the national position runs the other way: the 2024 GIABA evaluation of the Comoros records that gambling is prohibited on the Union's territory under the Penal Code. The licensing operation's own June 2026 statement says the license is not and never was a universal authorization to operate in every country.
Can I verify an Anjouan license?+
Only partially. The register page renders empty, so there is no browsable licensee list, but a verify tool accepts a license number, company name, or domain and confirms whether it matches a record. The claimed total of about 1,300 licensees cannot be checked against anything.
Why do operators still buy it?+
Price and speed. It is the cheapest widely available license, issuance is claimed within about two weeks, there are no substance requirements, and crypto-first operators in particular use it as a fast start. The trade-off shows up with counterparties: banks, payment providers, and B2B suppliers each decide what an Anjouan license is worth to them, and many price it below a Curacao license.
Anjouan or Curacao?+
Anjouan costs about EUR 18,000 a year against Curacao's EUR 47,450, and asks for far less. Curacao buys a public license register, a published enforcement record, a real application review, and a regulator recognized by its own government. If the budget covers roughly EUR 52,300 for the first Curacao year, what the extra buys usually justifies the difference. If it does not, Anjouan is the entry tier and the limits come with the price.
Where to go from here
Anjouan sits at the bottom of the market. The next tiers up start around USD 40,000 and run past EUR 50,000 for the first year.