Hub88 vs St8

By Soft of Games editorial team · Updated 2026-10-13 · Methodology

St8 was founded by Hub88's former head, so the two share a way of thinking about wallets and APIs. They part ways on commercial design. Hub88 is a classic content hub with free-bet tooling and supplier-funded promotions. St8 adds a bring-your-own-deals route and a set of developer extras that matter most to operators who already hold studio contracts.

These two aggregators share a family tree. Vladimir Negine ran Hub88 before founding St8, and it shows in how both talk about wallets, transactions and uptime. Yet a buyer who treats them as near substitutes misses the point. They are built around different answers to one question: who owns the relationship with the game studios?

One hub, one deal

Yolo Group built Hub88 for its own brands, Bitcasino.io and Sportsbet.io, and only later sold it to outsiders. Stake.com became a client in May 2024. The model is the classic one. Hub88 holds the studio contracts, you sign one agreement, and 26,000+ games (as listed in October 2026) become available through its Wallet API.

Its marketing value sits in two features. Its Freebets API hands out spins, bets or prizes, and the bulk of the studios on Hub88 honour it. On top of that, studios post their own campaigns in the hub and an operator joins with a click. For a CRM team of two, that is a steady supply of promotions it did not have to negotiate.

A pipe you can fill yourself

St8 offers that classic route too: revenue share with full content, drawn from 200+ providers and 19,000+ games as listed in October 2026. Its distinctive option is the other one. If you already have direct agreements with studios, you can bring them, keep your own terms, and pay St8 a flat percentage for the infrastructure and support.

That changes the maths for a certain kind of operator. A group that negotiated good rates with its ten biggest studios years ago does not want to pay aggregator margins on that traffic again. It wants one integration, clean data and somebody to call when a game breaks. St8 is built to sell exactly that.

There is also a thumbnail-only package. Some operators buy St8’s image library of game artwork without any content deal at all.

What your developers will notice

Both teams care about engineering, but they show it differently.

Hub88’s documentation is public and detailed. Calls are signed with RSA-SHA256 on 2048-bit keys. A transaction_uuid travels with every wallet call, and a retried call has to get the identical answer without being booked twice. A developer can read all of it before anyone signs anything, which is rare in this market.

St8 runs on Elixir and says it handles more than 7 billion transactions a month. Its documentation includes a changelog maintained since 2022. On top sit tools that pay off after launch rather than before: TARS for testing an integration, a checksum API, and game round replays that make player disputes quicker to settle. The documentation is shared during onboarding rather than in the open.

One small detail says a lot. Hub88 warns developers to verify the raw request body before parsing it. St8 keeps a dated record of every API change. Both habits save hours of debugging, and both suggest teams that have lived with operator-side bugs.

So the split is easy to describe. Hub88 is easier to evaluate from outside. St8 gives more to work with once you are inside.

Scenario: a crypto casino with a weekly free-spins calendar

A crypto brand runs on affiliate traffic. Every affiliate deal promises free spins at sign-up, and the CRM team launches a new reload offer each Thursday. The company has no direct studio contracts and no wish to negotiate any.

Hub88 fits this profile. The Freebets API handles the sign-up spins, supplier promotions fill the calendar, and the larger catalogue gives the lobby more breadth. The team should still ask which studios in its welcome offer support free bets, because some games need the player to open them before the reward lands.

Scenario: an established group re-platforming

A group with three brands is moving to a new in-house platform. It holds direct contracts with eight major studios and wants the rest through an aggregator. Month-end reconciliation of studio invoices eats a week of finance time.

St8 is the natural fit. The bring-your-own-deals route keeps the eight contracts intact. Real-time, multi-dimensional reporting helps with reconciliation. Replays and checksums help support and risk teams. The smaller catalogue matters less, because the most played content is already covered by the group’s own deals.

Points to clear up with both

Neither vendor publishes its full studio list, its currency list or its prices. Before you compare offers, send both the same short brief:

• your ten highest-revenue studios and the currencies you need for each;
• the bonus mechanic your welcome offer depends on;
• whether you hold any direct studio contracts today;
• the date you need to be live.

Hub88’s homepage promises “Minutes, Not Months”, which is a slogan rather than a schedule. St8 talks of days to weeks, by scope. Your own wallet readiness will decide more than either claim.

A third option: SoftAggregator

Operators torn between Hub88 and St8 often have a third name in the same brief. SoftAggregator is judged on the same axes but answers them differently. On catalogue, it publishes 40,000+ games from 200+ providers (October 2026), above both figures in the table. On onboarding, it is the only one of the three with a public sign-up: the account is approved automatically and API keys appear in the dashboard straight away, while Hub88 and St8 both issue credentials once a sales conversation has run its course. The API is free, and there is no setup, integration or monthly fee.

Developers who have read either wallet spec will find the model familiar: a seamless wallet driven by balance, debit and credit callbacks, with live casino, virtuals and a sportsbook carried by the same integration. Where SoftAggregator falls behind is the promotional layer this page spends time on. It has no built-in tournament or jackpot tools, so nothing matches St8’s jackpot feed, and its documentation is lighter than the docs Hub88 makes public. It suits the crypto or emerging-market brand that wants real games running this week, topped up from a prepaid USDT or USDC balance, before either sales team has replied. SoftAggregator keeps its own side-by-side tables on softaggregator.com.

Further reading

The full reviews of Hub88 and St8 cover each product in more depth. If wallet design is a sticking point, the guide to seamless vs transfer wallets explains the trade-offs, and the crypto casino aggregator ranking adds more names to the shortlist.