Aviator vs Crash: What's the Difference?

If you've seen a little red plane climbing while a multiplier ticks up, you've seen Aviator. It made the crash format famous, especially in Africa, India and Latin America, and many people now use 'Aviator' as the name for the whole genre. But Aviator is one game, made by one studio, and crash games existed well before it.

The format they share

Every crash game works the same way at its core. You bet before the round starts. A multiplier climbs from 1.00×. You cash out whenever you choose and win your stake times the multiplier at that moment. At a random point the round crashes, and anyone still in loses their bet. All players watch the same round at the same time.

Where Aviator differs

• Aviator is made by the studio Spribe and licensed to many online casinos, so the same game appears on hundreds of sites under their branding.
• It lets you place two bets on the same round, so you can cash one out early and let the other ride.
• Its fairness seed mixes in client seeds from the first players to bet in the round.
• Spribe publishes a 97% return to player, a 3% house edge.

Where Solacrash's Crash differs

• It runs on its own servers and pays in SOL, so a cash-out lands in your balance instantly and withdrawals go out on the Solana network.
• The house edge is 2%: every cash-out target returns 98% on average. That's a third less house edge than a 97% game.
• Fairness is a pre-committed hash chain: the whole sequence of round seeds is fixed before any of them is played, and its commitment is recorded on the Solana blockchain. Anyone can check any round on the fairness page.
• You can play the real live rounds with play money, no account needed, before deciding to bet SOL.

Does the house edge difference matter?

Over a single round, not really: your result is dominated by luck. Over many rounds it adds up. On 1,000 bets of 0.01 SOL, a 3% edge costs about 0.3 SOL on average and a 2% edge about 0.2 SOL. Neither is a way to win, but the lower edge is a third cheaper to play. The crash odds calculator shows the expected cost for any stake and number of rounds.

Signals and predictors work for neither

Aviator's popularity has created a huge market of 'Aviator signals' and predictor apps. They don't work on Aviator and they don't work on any other crash game, for the reasons in our guide to crash predictors and signals.

Try the format for free

If you know Aviator, Solacrash's Crash will feel familiar within one round. The demo uses the real live rounds with play money, so you can see how the timing and auto cash-out feel before deciding anything.