Missouri sports betting apps: the licensed books and the rules
Missouri has had legal sports betting on a phone since 12:00 a.m. on 1 December 2025. You have to be 21 and inside the state, and the books are licensed by the Missouri Gaming Commission. Here's what the commission's own records show, and how I'd pick between the apps.
How Missouri got here
Missouri voters approved Amendment 2 on 5 November 2024. It put sports wagering into the state constitution as Article III, section 39(g), and told the commission to start it no later than 1 December 2025. The commission took the whole runway. Its launch release says legal sports wagering opened at 12:00 a.m. on 1 December 2025.
The Missouri Gaming Commission regulates it, the same body that licenses the state's casinos. The constitution allows one retail and one mobile license for each qualified applicant, plus two mobile licenses for sports wagering operators who come in on their own. The tax is 10 percent of what the books keep.
The rules for a bettor
The commission's release states three. You must be at least 21 to open an account and bet. You must be physically in Missouri when you place the bet, so the app checks your location, and a bet from across the river in Kansas or Illinois won't go in. And every licensee has to offer responsible gaming rules and self-exclusion tools.
College games carry one limit worth knowing. The constitution keeps out bets on how an individual athlete performs in a single college game involving a Missouri team, and it bans betting on high school and youth events. In January 2026 the NCAA asked the commission to go further and drop bets on individual college players and first-half spreads in college basketball; the commission took public comment on the request. I didn't find a final ruling on the commission's site, so check the app before you build a card around a college prop.
The licensed mobile books
The commission publishes a list of approved mobile licensees, but its report viewer wouldn't load for me when I checked. Its monthly sports wagering revenue report for August 2026 names eight mobile licensees, the same eight that reported in December 2025:
| Mobile licensee, as the commission names it |
|---|
| bet365 |
| BetMGM |
| Caesars Sportsbook |
| Circa Sports |
| DraftKings |
| Fanatics |
| FanDuel |
| Penn Sports Interactive |
If an app isn't on the commission's list, it isn't licensed in Missouri, whatever its ads say.
How I'd pick between them
They're all held to the same rules, so the license doesn't separate them. Price does. Eight licensed books on the same game won't all deal the same number, and over a season the difference between -110 and -105 is the difference between needing 52.38 percent winners and 51.22. I'd keep two or three accounts and shop the line before every bet. After price I'd look at how fast each one pays and how it treats a winning player's limits, and the betting apps page covers what makes the app itself good or bad.
The offshore books didn't go away when Missouri went live. They aren't licensed by the state, and the commission can't make one of them pay you. A Missouri-licensed book can be held to account by the people who licensed it. The offshore sportsbooks page sets out the trade, and the Missouri question page gives the short legal answer.
Set a deposit limit in the app before your first bet. For free help, the commission names 1-888-BETSOFF, and it runs a voluntary self-exclusion list that bars you from every licensed book in the state. Our responsible gambling page covers the rest.
*Checked against the Missouri Gaming Commission and the Missouri Constitution, Article III, section 39(g) on 28 October 2026. Laws change; this page is re-checked every quarter. This is not legal advice.*