Coolbet publishes 1 to 5 days for card withdrawals and paid ours in 18 hours, one of the few operators that beat its own estimate rather than missing it.
By Sigríður Björnsdóttir · Measured with our own money · No affiliate links on this page
| Tested | Method | Amount | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Visa | not recorded | 18 hr |
The operator publishes cards 1–5 days, e-wallets 0–1 hr, no withdrawals at weekends. We measured 18 hr. A published time usually covers the payment step only — the queue before approval is where the hours accumulate, and it is the part you actually wait through.
This is one withdrawal on one date. Speed varies with the amount, the method, the day of the week, whether verification is finished and how busy the operator is. Treat it as evidence, not a guarantee — and the fact that we publish the date and method is what lets you judge how close our test is to your situation.
Every test we have run, across all operators, is in the full dataset with a CSV download. Our Icelandic review of Coolbet is at umsagnir/coolbet.
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In our test in October 2026 it took 18 hr by Visa. That is one measurement, not an average, and your own wait will depend on the amount, the payment method and whether your identity verification is already complete.
Coolbet publishes "cards 1–5 days, e-wallets 0–1 hr, no withdrawals at weekends". We measured 18 hr. Operators usually quote how long the payment rail takes after approval, not the approval queue in front of it, which is where most of the waiting happens.
coolbet.com is registered to Polar Limited according to the Malta Gaming Authority's own URL checker at mga.org.mt, which we ran on 12 October 2026. The licence number MGA/CRP/1681/2019 is the one printed in Coolbet's footer.
A tester opens an ordinary account, deposits their own money, completes identity verification where required, requests a withdrawal and records the time until the money arrives. The operator is not told a test is running. We take commission from some of the casinos we cover; it does not change what we publish.