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Online Casinos in Paraguay

Latin America · PY · Reviewed 12 Oct 2026

Online casino play became a licensable category in Paraguay in January 2025. Ley N 7438/2025, amending and extending Ley N 1016/1997, defines Casino Online as exploitation through an internet platform offering games similar to those of a physical casino - slots, roulette, blackjack, poker, baccarat and other online card and table games - played within the Republic of Paraguay. The same statute closes the list of permitted games, so anything not enumerated may not be exploited. Casino online is among the games that must be conceded by public tender and is authorised for exploitation nationwide, with awards of national games requiring Executive approval by Decree. Regulation is exercised by the Comisión Nacional de Juegos de Azar, a decentralised organ of the Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios, working through its Dirección General de Juegos de Azar. The original Ley 1016/1997 addressed only physical electronic gaming machines and did not mention the internet.

Paraguay created a statutory category for online casino play in January 2025. Ley N 7438/2025, which amends and extends Ley N 1016/1997, defines it in terms: "Casino Online: es una forma de explotación a través de una plataforma en internet donde se pueden jugar una variedad de juegos similares a los de un casino físico, los cuales pueden ser tragamonedas, ruleta, blackjack, póker, baccarat y otros juegos, de cartas de mesas u otros en línea, siempre dentro de la República del Paraguay." The last clause matters: the category is for play within Paraguayan territory.

The statute works as a closed list. Having enumerated the permitted games, it adds "Está prohibida la explotación de juegos de azar no incluidos en la enumeración precedente, sin perjuicio de que la Comisión Nacional de Juegos de Azar establezca nuevas modalidades de juegos de azar y autorice su explotación" - exploitation of games of chance not included in the preceding list is prohibited, without prejudice to the regulator establishing and authorising new forms. Casino online appears on two of those lists: under "Art. 20.- Los juegos cuya explotación debe ser necesariamente concedida por licitación pública son los siguientes:", the games that must be conceded by public tender, and under "Art. 21.- Los tipos de juegos de azar autorizados para su explotación en todo el país son:", the types authorised for exploitation throughout the country. A new form is first granted provisionally and must go to public tender three years after exploitation begins, and awards of national games "requerirán la aprobación del Poder Ejecutivo, mediante Decreto".

The Regulator

Ley N 7438/2025 states that "La regulación de los juegos de azar será ejercida por la Comisión Nacional de Juegos de Azar, que será un órgano desconcentrado de la Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios, con autonomía funcional y administrativa". The statute also creates the operating directorate, and the implementing instrument is published by the tax administration as the decree "POR EL CUAL SE REGLAMENTA LA LEY N° 7438/2025". On the Dirección General de Juegos de Azar's own page, the directorate's work is described as "la elaboración y aprobación de los pliegos de bases y condiciones, para los juegos de carácter nacional, el llamado a licitación pública para la concesión de los juegos, la adjudicación de los juegos licitados". Among the regulator's duties the statute lists "Autorizar los llamados a licitación pública para la explotación de juegos de azar de carácter nacional" and the maintenance of national registers, "entre los que se incluirá cuanto menos: el Registro Nacional de Concesionarios de Juegos de Azar, el Registro Nacional de Inhabilitados para ejercer actividades de Juegos de Azar, Registro de Laboratorios Certificadores y el Registro Nacional de Máquinas Electrónicas de Juegos de Azar, y otros."

What Changed, and What Has Not Yet

The 1997 statute did not address internet play at all. Its only electronic category is physical machines: "Juegos electrónicos de azar: son aparatos manuales o automáticos, eléctricos o electrónicos, que habilitan el juego con fichas o monedas adquiridas por un precio". So online casino play moved from unaddressed to expressly licensable in a single step. The regime is new, and as at 12 October 2026 no online casino concession appeared as tendered or awarded on the regulator's own tender pages, so this page names no Paraguayan online casino licensee.

Responsible Gambling

Among the regulator's statutory duties is to "Impulsar programas de concienciación acerca del juego responsable y la prevención de la ludopatía" - promote awareness programmes on responsible gambling and the prevention of problem gambling. The regulator's own Juego Responsable page publishes its resolutions on the subject but prints no telephone number, and no Paraguayan problem-gambling helpline was found on any operating body's own site, so none is given here.

Paraguay at a Glance

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Why No Casinos Are Listed for Paraguay

No operator on this site has been confirmed as licensed for online casino play in Paraguay by the Comisión Nacional de Juegos de Azar (CONAJZAR) - Dirección General de Juegos de Azar, Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios.

Responsible gambling

Support in Paraguay

If gambling is causing you harm, there is help you can reach today. Paraguay has no national gambling helpline to call. Gambling Therapy offers support to people anywhere rather than in one country, and it is reached online rather than by phone: its own site at https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/ sets out how to get in touch. Two national lines also take calls, and both are in the footer of every page here: the National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, on 0808 8020 133 in the United Kingdom, and the National Problem Gambling Helpline on 1-800-MY-RESET in the United States, which the National Council on Problem Gambling publishes at https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/, read on 21 October 2026. Each is a national line for its own country and may not connect from Paraguay at all; Gambling Therapy is reached online and from anywhere.