Vantage Spread Betting

Updated on 24 Sep 2026: we recomputed every score on the site as the sum of the six criterion marks, each out of 10, divided by 60 and multiplied by 100, rounded half up, with no criterion weighted, and the ranking follows the scores, with brokers on the same score sharing a place. Vantage’s score stays 40/100 and its place moved from fourteenth to thirteenth of 14. The paragraph under the table of marks now states this rule, where it had said the marks do not add up to the score. The comparison with the brokers ranked either side follows the new order.

Updated on 23 Sep 2026: Claims were re-checked against primary sources and a large amount of text was cut: repeated definitions owned by other pages, passages telling you who the account suits, and statements nothing supported. The platform list was expanded to name MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, the Vantage UK App and Vantage Web Trading. A testing log was added, recording four taps from login to a placed order and a 171-minute first response.

Updated on 22 Sep 2026: The FCA register check for Vantage Global Prime LLP was re-read and now shows 22 Sep 2026, as were the demo account terms. The platform list now shows MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, Vantage UK App and Vantage Web Trading, and references to the old average wording now name the averages of the brokers that publish one.

Updated 19 Sep 2026. This review gains a new section answering whether you can trust Vantage, who owns it, what happens to your money if it fails and how long withdrawals took in our test, each with its sources and the date we read them (19 September 2026). The FCA register section now opens with the question of whether Vantage is regulated. The byline now credits David Levy as fact-checker. A sentence notes that Vantage also offers CFDs, with a link to our comparison of the two products. No score, rank or spread figure changed.

Updated 18 Sep 2026. We changed how we read spreads: we now read each broker’s own UK site and record what kind of figure it publishes, average, typical, fixed, target or minimum. The cost section, the verdict and the pros and cons now follow what Vantage publishes. No score or rank changed.

Updated 5 Sep 2026. A section inviting readers who have traded with Vantage to tell us what a new customer should know now sits before the FAQ: a rating, how long they have traded, the markets, one thing to know, and their consent. Submissions are read by the team, only reviews we can verify are ever published, and none are published yet; nothing entered there appears on this page. No figure changed.

Updated 3 Sep 2026. Three changes on the day. First, a cost band now opens the page: what a spread bet costs at your stake and bet count against the brokers’ average, computed from the same harvest as the spread table further down. Second, the FCA register entry for the authorised firm was re-read and captured, and the capture sits under the section on who you contract with, beside the licence list; the rail’s section list was cut to the sections readers use. Third, the page moved onto the new review layout: a head-to-head against the two accounts either side of it in our ranking, a dated testing log built from the August datasets, a licence list, a per-bet cost tool on the spread table, and a section carrying the third-party ratings read from the platforms themselves, each with the date it was captured. No spread figure, score or rank changed.

Updated 30 Aug 2026. Four dated tests were added and none was on the page before: a support question timed to first response, an account opening timed to approval, a withdrawal with its fee and arrival, and both store builds of the app driven on an iPhone and a Pixel. The page also gains Vantage’s own median fill, where it previously pointed at the timed test without a figure, and Vantage’s demo terms. The sentence saying we have published no assessment of how the platform performs is retired, because the app test now measures part of what it disclaimed. No spread figure, score or rank changed.