We review each cam site on our list every 8-9 months. You can learn more about our testing process below.
The Amateur.tv tipping model is one of the cheapest we've found - a big thumbs up if you enjoy interactive sex shows.
June 6th, 2024
Visit-X competes with MyDirtyHobby for the amateur German market. Solid choice, just don't expect any freebies.
April 14th, 2024
XLoveCam offers excellent model filtering and low-priced private shows, but the platform is still rough around the edges.
April 14th, 2024
CamSoda boasts some major pornstars streaming live, but the platform is let down by sub-standard stream quality.
April 14th, 2024
Run by the same company behind AdultFriendFinder, it's no surprise that the best content on Cams.com is paywalled.
April 13th, 2024
IMLive offers private shows on a budget, but the choice of models is limited - both in quality and quantity.
April 13th, 2024
MyDirtyHobby has some hot German models, but the platform itself is a big disappointment.
April 13th, 2024
Warehouse X is a mash-up of adult reality TV, with highly-interactive audience participation to maximise engagement.
April 13th, 2024
LiveJasmin is the dominant premium cam site of the last 20 years. Only elite models with HD streaming capabilities are accepted.
April 13th, 2024
Cherry.tv is a sleek new platform with a novel take on cam site gamification. One to watch for the future.
April 13th, 2024
Streamate has a large roster of webcam models. Its database powers hundreds of smaller whitelabel cam sites.
April 13th, 2024
SakuraLive is a one trick pony - but if Japanese cuties are your thing, prepare to have your pants blown off.
April 12th, 2024
Cam4 has an even distribution of male to female cams. It's raw, uncensored and brimming with live sex.
April 5th, 2024
MyFreeCams has some of the top performing cam girls in the space, but they are let down by a dated platform.
April 3rd, 2024
Jerkmate is the most famous of the Streamate whitelabels, known for its relentless star-laden advertising campaigns.
April 2nd, 2024
Flirt4Free has a sleek selection of models with a surprising number of male performers. It's more of a high-end camming experience.
April 2nd, 2024
BongaCam is known as the 'Chaturbate of Europe', no spot online provides as many Ukrainian and Russian performers.
March 15th, 2024
StripChat's meteoric rise has seen it become the world's most-visited cam site. This is a seriously glossy platform.
March 15th, 2024
Chaturbate is the OG of free cam sites. If you want to see the Wild West of free sex shows, you can't go wrong.
March 15th, 2024
XCams is famous for its European girls with a large number of non-English speaking beauties.
March 12th, 2024
CamsRank uses three separate scoring systems to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each platform -- not just from our point of view, but from our readers, too.
For each site, we give a weighted score between 0-10 based on performance across eight core metrics:
What is the overall quality of the model roster?
We use different criteria depending on whether the site operates under a freemium, premium or hybrid model.
For freemium sites, we put more weight on the choice offered to the user (body types, nationalities, ethnicities, etc). For premium sites, we look at the professionalism of its models. Are they capable of providing a 'premium' experience?
What is the overall quality of the live streams offered?
Does the site offer a good mix of options for different customer tastes (e.g., private vs. public vs. group shows)?
We sample the resolution, FPS and bitrates from a random selection of streams.
We're not just looking at the headline numbers. We also want to see options for users with poor Internet connections, including the ability to downgrade quality for a better viewing experience.
What is the overall user experience? Does the platform do a good job of surfacing its top performers? How easily can we filter, sort and navigate through the model database?
Similar to Site Design, but with all testing carried out on a mobile phone.
We test the Live Chat UX in addition to basic navigation. We're looking for an interface that puts the performer front and center and makes the options we need easy to access.
What extra features, innovations and added value does the platform offer compared to a traditional cam site?
How much action can you see for free? Are private shows priced fairly?
We specifically grade sites relative to what we can get for our money elsewhere.
Does the site make it easy to buy credits - and does it reward loyalty/bulk buys with discounts?
We're looking at the transparency of the credit value system, flexibility of payment methods, an acceptable refund policy and discreet billing. We also assess whether international customers (paying in non-USD) are charged fairly
Simple - this is the aggregate score given to a platform by our readers.
We always encourage our readers to rate and review sites where they have an experience to share.
Positive, negative, neutral. Doesn't matter.
Your experiences provide enormous value to our readers, and they help us to ensure that our own reviews remain balanced and fair.
We rank each site's performance across ten different genres. These are categories of cam sites that appeal to different users.
Categories include:
Some platforms have a low overall rating but perform very well in a specific genre. For this reason, we track both overall rankings and the rankings of each genre. Our rankings page lets you choose how you want to sort them.
The most important thing we do—and you'd be amazed at how many of our competitors don't—is to extensively test every site that enters the CamsRank system.
We spend 5-6 days thoroughly testing the features you need to know about - both free and paid. That means we spend money on private shows, VIP features, and paid upgrades. We don't just assume they'll be worth your money.
How can it take six days to test a webcam site, you ask?
We typically engage with each platform's support team, seeking verification for any technical claims made ("Check out our 4K cams!"). We also place several card transactions, for example, to ensure that billing is fully discreet on our bank statements.
All of our reviews are checked and verified internally before being sent to our editor for a full write-up.
In instances where we have scored and graded each of the features, but haven't yet processed the final review or verified each factor, the score is marked as Provisional and may change over the coming days.
Each site on CamsRank is reviewed every 8-9 months. This ensures we catch any improvements or deterioration in the service provided.
In some cases, a site's score may drop through inaction -- for example, where rival platforms invest heavily in their streaming and video quality, a lower score may be necessary to reflect a site that is taking no action to improve their own offering.
We also have an internal flagging system that triggers an automatic review whenever our score reaches a statistically significant deviation from the score given by our readers.
This doesn't mean we will update our own score, but it ensures that we are checking the issues (or praise) observed by other active users.
Our user rating system is safeguarded by an algorithm that detects any suspicious voting patterns.
If a user or brand attempts to spam positive (or negative) ratings, we have systems in place to detect, flag and remove the ratings.
All user reviews are moderated to ensure they are legible and free of personally identifiable information (e.g., specific model usernames). This should take no longer than 24 hours.