- What is sold
- Immediate entry to a bonus round
- Price basis
- Multiple of current stake, not cash
- Return figure
- Often stated separately from base game
- Availability
- Set by build, operator and market
What a feature buy is, and what is printed on the button
A feature buy is a wager, not a product. You pay a stated multiple of your current stake and the game puts you straight into its bonus round instead of waiting for scatter symbols. It travels under half a dozen labels — Buy Feature, Bonus Buy, Feature Buy, Buy Free Spins, Feature Purchase — and lobbies tag the whole family as Bonus Buy. The mechanism is the same either way: turnover in, one bonus round out.
The price is a multiple of the stake currently selected, not a cash figure, and that is the most misread detail of the mechanic. A one-dollar stake against a buy priced at a hundred times reads one hundred dollars; at twenty cents the same button reads twenty. Change the stake and watch it move, because a figure glanced at in a video or another lobby belongs to that build and that stake.
Many builds sell more than one entry: a cheap buy into the plain round and a dearer one into an enhanced version with a bigger multiplier pool, more spins or a guaranteed symbol in play. The prices are not interchangeable and neither are the rounds they open, so read every rung before taking the first.
A feature buy is part of the game's designed return and sits inside the percentage the panel states. A casino's promotional bonus is an account condition outside the game, with its own eligible-title list, contribution percentages, maximum stake while wagering and withdrawal conditions. They share a word and nothing else, and which operator's terms are worth anything is a ranking question for pokiesledger.com.
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A buy price against its expected return
The only honest comparison between a buy and ordinary play is the one the game provides: the return percentage stated for the purchase route against the figure stated for the base game. Many builds publish both on the same panel screen, and the gap is the designed price of skipping the wait. Where the purchase figure sits lower the premium is explicit; where it sits higher it is funded by the narrower distribution a purchase-only session produces.
The arithmetic is one line. Take a buy at a hundred times stake with a stated purchase return of ninety-six per cent: a hundred units of turnover in, ninety-six back on average, so one buy costs four units. Twenty buys is two thousand units of turnover and eighty units of average cost. Two thousand single-unit spins at a base figure of ninety-six and a half cost seventy. The difference between the routes is the half-point between the published numbers.
Those figures are worked arithmetic, not a quotation. This site publishes no per-title percentages, because studios licence one title at several return settings and let the operator choose which to integrate, so any number here would be right for some readers and silently wrong for others.
The maximum-win rule is the second figure a buyer needs, and its stake basis is what surprises people. A ceiling of five thousand times the base stake, on a round that cost a hundred times, caps that round at fifty times what you paid; measured against the purchase amount, the same headline means something else.
Ante bets and the other routes in
An ante bet is the cheaper half-measure and the closest alternative to buying. Switch it on and every spin costs a stated percentage more — commonly a quarter or a fifth above base stake, set per build — in exchange for a stated improvement in trigger frequency. You pay a premium per spin to shorten the expected wait rather than paying once to end it.
An ante quietly shrinks the number of spins a budget buys. At a twenty-five per cent ante each one-unit spin costs 1.25, so two thousand units buys sixteen hundred ante spins instead of two thousand plain ones — four hundred spins surrendered for a better trigger rate across the rest.
Many builds state a separate return percentage for the ante mode too, so three figures can sit on one panel: base, ante-on and purchase route. They can differ in either direction, and choosing between routes without reading all three is choosing blind. Bonus-chance and double-chance toggles are the same idea renamed, and a few substitute a different trigger condition for the scatter path rather than improving it.
Both collide badly with promotional wagering. Promotions commonly exclude feature purchases outright and some exclude ante-raised spins, so turnover through either route may contribute nothing. Where they are not excluded, the full amount staked is assessed against a maximum-bet-while-wagering rule. This site's Gates of Olympus 1000 page covers an ante in context, and its Tombstone R.I.P. page a purchase button.
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The purchase terms that change what a buy delivers
Price is not the whole contract. The first term to settle is whether a buy enters the same round an ordinary trigger enters or a different configuration of it; both designs are common. A buy into a modified round — different spin count, different symbol pool, a multiplier starting above one — is a different product at a different price.
Second, trigger-count effects. On many titles, landing more than the minimum number of bonus symbols sets the round's starting state rather than merely opening it: more of the grid active, a richer modifier pool, a symbol already locked in. The buyer's question is which level the purchase enters, and whether a dearer rung is simply buying a higher trigger count.
Third, retriggers: whether further bonus symbols inside a bought round add spins, raise a level or do nothing, since builds exist in which a purchased round cannot extend itself though a triggered one can. Fourth, the click itself — the buy control sits close to the spin control, very close on a handset, priced at a large multiple beside a button priced at one, so check for a confirmation step and leave it on.
All of this lives in the information panel inside the game frame, not the casino page around it, and on a handset behind a menu inside that frame. If a line comes back empty the game is unread rather than fine, and because every term is set per release and per integration the answers do not travel: the same title elsewhere can carry a different price, a different return configuration, or no button at all.
Figures differ between builds and lobbies. Read the live game's information panel before you rely on any of them.
Play here →Converting a buy into spins, and what that does to a session
A buy becomes comparable with ordinary play the moment it is expressed in spins. A buy at fifty times stake costs the same turnover as fifty paid spins at that stake; at seventy-five times, seventy-five spins; at a hundred, two hundred or five hundred times, the same again.
Run a budget through the ladder and the session's shape falls out. Two thousand units at a one-unit stake is two thousand paid spins, or forty buys at fifty times, twenty-six at seventy-five, twenty at a hundred, ten at two hundred, four at five hundred. Same money and same turnover, with four events instead of two thousand at the extreme. Where a game's trigger frequency is low, twenty buys may deliver more bonus rounds than two thousand base spins.
What changes is the spread. Two thousand spins is two thousand draws from a distribution full of small outcomes; twenty buys is twenty draws from one with almost none, because the cheap part is exactly what you paid to skip. A stated return describes an enormous number of rounds rather than twenty: most bought rounds pay back less than entry cost, and four or ten such in sequence is ordinary rather than unlucky.
Dividing a budget into fewer, larger events reduces the number of attempts at a large result rather than raising its probability, and no sequencing of purchases produces an edge. Divide the budget by the buy price before the game is open, and set a buy count alongside the dollar limit.
When a bought round is interrupted, and what the history shows
A purchase is settled as a wager the instant it is taken, and that is what makes an interrupted bought round a different problem from an interrupted spin. The money has already left the balance and the round is owed to you, so the question is no longer whether you paid but whether the build can hand back what you paid for. Many builds hold an unfinished round server-side and return the player to it on reopening the game rather than restarting it, usually behind a control labelled as resuming or continuing an incomplete game; others settle the outstanding round automatically and credit the result. Which behaviour a given build implements is stated in the game's own information panel, not on the lobby page around it, and a buyer paying a large multiple has more riding on the answer than a player spinning at one.
The check is quick and belongs before the first purchase rather than after an awkward one. Open the game's round history or game log, confirm it exists at all, and see what it records. A history inside a build typically lists recent rounds with the stake and the outcome, and the detail to look for is whether a bought round is logged with the purchase amount as its stake or with the base stake instead. If it shows the base stake, you have lost the ability to tell a bought round from a triggered one when reviewing a session afterwards, which matters because the two routes carry different expected costs and reviewing them as one average tells you nothing about either.
Caps and interruptions interact, and the interaction is the last thing a buyer reads about and the first thing that bites. Where a maximum-win rule is reached part way through a round, builds differ on whether the remaining spins play out as display only with nothing further credited, or whether the round stops at the point the ceiling is hit; both designs exist and both are disclosed in the same panel. On a round entered by purchase this is not an abstract question, because the ceiling is expressed against the base stake while the entry cost was a large multiple of it, so the gap between a headline cap and what the round can actually return to you is widest on exactly the rounds that cost most to enter.
None of this is a payments question, and the boundary is worth keeping clean. How a settled balance then leaves the account — the methods, the verification, the timings — belongs on pokiescashout.com rather than here. The distinction to hold is between the game's own settlement of a round you bought, which is set by the build and documented inside it, and the operator's handling of the balance afterwards, which is set by the account and documented in its terms. Reading the first carefully is the part that is available to you before you pay.
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Which studios build buys, and how the catalogues differ
Feature purchase is a studio decision before it is an operator one, and house styles differ in ways that matter when comparing prices across a lobby. Some studios ship a single buy at one multiple on nearly every release; others build ladders of three or four rungs into enhanced configurations; others pair a buy with an ante toggle.
The names that recur at the buy-heavy end of a lobby are the names in both operators' provider lists. WinCrown's listed providers include Pragmatic Play, BGaming, Playson, Booming Games, Hacksaw Gaming, Nolimit City, Yggdrasil, Betsoft, Spinomenal, Endorphina, Evoplay, Relax Gaming and Red Tiger. Safe Casino's confirmed providers include Pragmatic Play, Playson, BGaming, Nolimit City, Betsoft, Playtech, Endorphina, Play'n GO and Spinomenal, out of more than a hundred. Both lists are reported rather than counted here.
The almanac's studio pages unpack the house styles, because the round a buy opens is studio-specific: Nolimit City on enhancer symbols and nudging wild multipliers, Pragmatic Play on ante bets and tumbling multiplier rounds, Hacksaw Gaming and Push Gaming on the structures their buys lead into.
A Bonus Buy category is a curated collection assembled by the operator — not a studio taxonomy and not a certified attribute. Titles are tagged by the platform, tags are inherited from feeds that are not always current, and games enter and leave as catalogue deals change. A large tagged count shows how deep the filter goes; it does not guarantee a live buy button at your stake, in your market configuration.
Why the buy button disappears
Three layers decide whether a buy button exists in front of you. The studio decides whether the release ships with a purchase route; the operator decides whether to integrate it, and at which return configuration; the market configuration on your account decides whether the control is rendered at all.
The outer layers move for regulatory as well as commercial reasons. Licensing regimes differ on feature purchase, more than one has restricted or prohibited the sale of bonus entry, and platforms implement that by switching the control off for accounts configured to the market.
None of it is authorised here. The ACMA's position is that online casino services cannot lawfully be provided to people in Australia, so every lobby reachable from an Australian screen is offshore and its market configuration is a commercial choice rather than an Australian rule. Neither the presence nor the absence of a buy button says anything about a lobby's legal standing.
The practical test takes a minute. Open the game, set the stake to the minimum, and look near the spin button and inside the game's own menu, since some builds tuck the control behind a side panel; if it is absent, check at a higher stake, because a few builds gate it by stake band. Demo builds sometimes expose a buy the real-money build does not, so confirm it in the mode you will play in.
Where the deepest tagged buy catalogues sit
Of the two operators this site links, WinCrown is the one that counts its buy collection in public. The operator's own page states 10,651 games from 113 providers, of which 4,712 are tagged Bonus Buy, plus 2,010 High Stakes titles and 2,919 in the jackpot category. Those are the operator's own figures, reported rather than verified here, and tagged counts of the kind described above. Note what the arithmetic of that claim implies before treating it as a buy catalogue: a tag applied to roughly four in every ten titles in the lobby is doing more work than a purchase route genuinely present in four in ten games would, because the tag is inherited from supplier feeds and survives both the market-level removal of the control and builds in which the purchase was never shipped. Read the number as the width of a filter rather than a census of live buttons.
Safe Casino publishes no buy count but is the larger combined catalogue. Regional reviews report between 13,000 and 16,000-plus titles from more than 100 providers, with a live area of more than 1,000 tables from roughly fourteen studios — reported rather than counted here, and none of it broken out by purchase route. For a buyer that absence is the whole finding: a catalogue of that size will carry more buy-enabled builds in absolute terms than a smaller one almost by arithmetic, and there is no published figure to set against WinCrown's, so the comparison cannot be made on counts. The hand-off is therefore a difference in disclosure rather than a verdict. One lobby publishes a buy-tagged count you can test against the games actually in front of you; the other publishes a larger total and leaves the purchase question entirely to the information panel inside each build. Neither is called safe, better value or likely to pay anywhere on this page.
Promotional terms matter more to a buyer than to most readers, for one reason. Safe Casino's package recorded in August 2026 runs across four first deposits at 100% up to €1,000 each — up to €4,000 and up to 1,200 free spins in total, minimum deposit usually €10, wagering 40× the bonus and the free-spin winnings, slots usually counting 100% and live casino and table games 0%. The line to read twice is the maximum bet while wagering of €5: a buy at a hundred times a €1 stake is a €100 wager in one click, breaching that cap twenty times over. Sources disagree on the wagering window — 7 days in some, 30 in others — so read the condition inside your own account.
The structure behind that one cap generalises well past any single package, which is the reason it is worth a buyer's attention at all. A promotional balance is normally spent under a maximum-stake rule, and a feature buy is by definition a single wager of many times stake, so the two mechanisms are close to incompatible by construction: on most builds the cheapest rung on the buy ladder already exceeds the stake ceiling a wagering condition imposes, long before any exclusion list needs consulting. Free spins awarded by an operator are a different instrument again — spins at a fixed stake the operator sets, not credit you can direct at a buy button, and the bonus round they can reach is whichever one the game's own trigger opens. WinCrown's advertised headline is 250% up to €5,000 and 400 free spins, while separate cards simultaneously show first-to-fourth deposit bonuses of 120%, 100%, 50% and 150%; those are advertised figures, dynamic by the operator's own description, so go by the specific card, the currency and the cashier's rules rather than the headline. Whether any of it is worth taking is a valuation question for pokiesledger.com and not an answer this page attempts.
On licensing, neither position is Australian: Safe Casino holds a Curaçao licence and WinCrown is operated by Novatrix SRL in Costa Rica under Tobique Gaming Commission licence №0000002, so a dispute over a bought round escalates to the operator and then to its offshore licensor. Safe Casino's Trustpilot at the time of checking stood at 2.9 out of 5 across 43 reviews, with complaints including reload bonuses not being credited — reported rather than measured here, but the relevant complaint for anyone funding buys out of promotional credit. How money moves in and out belongs on pokiescashout.com.
What this page did not verify
No buy price, buy multiple, return percentage, ante percentage, maximum-win multiple, trigger count, spin count or volatility rating appears above as a fact about any title you can reach. The arithmetic worked through above uses illustrative numbers precisely so the method rather than the number is what transfers.
Nor does it assert that either operator exposes a buy button on any particular title today, at any price. The game counts, provider counts, tagged category counts, live-game counts, promotion terms and the Trustpilot figure are reported — by WinCrown's own page, by regional reviews of Safe Casino, dated to August 2026 where the source dates them — not verified here, and the promotion and tournament line-ups are explicitly dynamic.
Nothing above is a strategy or a claim about winning. A purchase changes how a budget is spent and how widely a session can land; it does not change the designed return of a round, and neither does the order in which buys are taken.
Which leaves the one quantity that can be stated in advance: how many events your money buys. Divide the budget by the buy price before the game is open, keep it well clear of money needed for anything else, and set a buy count as well as a dollar limit. Where a link on this page is sponsored, the publisher may be paid a commission for it; not one line of the arithmetic above moves because of that. If the reason for the next buy has become the last one, read the support guide instead.
Questions people actually ask
What is a bonus buy on a pokie?
A wager that puts you straight into the game's bonus round for a stated multiple of your current stake, instead of waiting for scatter symbols to trigger it. Studios call it Buy Feature, Bonus Buy, Feature Buy or Buy Free Spins; lobbies tag the whole family as Bonus Buy. The price on the button is a multiple rather than a cash amount, so it moves with your stake — change the stake and watch it move before deciding anything.
Is a feature buy worth the price?
That is answered by two lines on the panel rather than by an opinion: the price printed on the button, and the return percentage stated separately for the purchase route where a build provides one. A purchase figure below the base-game figure is charging an explicit premium for immediate entry; one above it is normally funded by the much narrower distribution a purchase-only session produces. Whichever direction it goes, buying changes how a budget is spent, not the designed return of the round.
How many spins does a bonus buy cost in turnover terms?
Exactly its multiple. A buy priced at a hundred times stake costs the same turnover as a hundred paid spins at that stake, so a budget of two thousand times stake buys either two thousand spins or twenty buys. At fifty times it buys forty, at two hundred times ten, at five hundred times four. Read your build's own multiple off the button. The trade is fewer and much larger events from the same money, which widens the spread of plausible outcomes in both directions rather than improving any single round's odds.
Is an ante bet cheaper than buying the feature?
It is a different trade rather than a straightforwardly cheaper one. An ante raises the cost of every spin by a stated percentage in exchange for a better trigger rate, so at a twenty-five per cent ante a two-thousand-unit budget buys sixteen hundred spins instead of two thousand. Many builds state a separate return figure for the ante mode as well as for the base game and the buy, giving three percentages on one panel. Compare all three, because they can differ in either direction.
Why is there no buy button on the game I opened?
Three layers decide it: whether the studio shipped a purchase route, whether the operator integrated it, and whether the market configuration applied to your account renders the control. Licensing regimes differ on feature purchase and more than one has restricted the sale of bonus entry, which platforms implement by switching the control off rather than removing the game. Absence in one lobby is evidence about that lobby only — check at the minimum stake, inside the game's own menu, and in the mode you intend to play in.
Does a max win cap apply differently to a bought round?
It can, and the stake basis is the detail to confirm. A ceiling expressed as a multiple of the base stake means a round bought for a hundred times that stake has a far lower ceiling relative to what it cost — a five-thousand-times cap on a hundred-times buy is fifty times the purchase price. Expressed against the purchase amount instead, the same headline number means something quite different. Also read what happens when a cap bites mid-round, and whether anything still accumulating is settled or discarded.
Can I use a casino bonus to buy features?
Frequently not, and the terms are where it is settled. Promotions commonly exclude feature purchases outright, and where they do not, the full amount staked is normally assessed against a maximum-bet-while-wagering rule. Safe Casino's package recorded in August 2026 sets that cap at €5 against 40× wagering, so a buy at a hundred times a €1 stake breaches it twenty times over in one click. Sources also disagree on that package's wagering window — 7 days in some, 30 in others — so read the condition inside your own account.
Which Australian casinos have the most bonus buy pokies?
None, in the sense the question implies. On the ACMA's stated position, an online casino service cannot lawfully be offered to a person located in Australia, which means any lobby you can open from an Australian screen is an offshore one carrying no Australian authorisation — a Curaçao or Tobique licence is not an Australian one. Of the two this site links, WinCrown's own page states 4,712 titles tagged as Bonus Buy out of 10,651 games, the deeper published count; Safe Casino publishes no buy count but regional reviews report 13,000 to 16,000-plus titles overall. Both are reported rather than verified here, and a tag does not guarantee a live button on any individual title.
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