I ran a controlled test on my own 1xBet account to settle an argument I kept having with other bettors: which payout route actually costs less once you count your time. I requested EUR500 twice, once by bank transfer and once by Skrill, and logged every timestamp. The bank transfer charged a flat EUR5 and landed in 26 hours. Skrill charged nothing and took 3 days longer. That single result reframes how I read 1xBet payment system fees, because the fee page tells you the price but not the cost.
Why the 1xBet Fee Page Only Tells Half the Story
Open the cashier on 1xBet and you get a clean grid: method, minimum, maximum, processing time, fee. It looks like a comparison table, and most people treat it like one. The problem is that the columns are not measured in the same unit. A fee is a fixed number you can compare directly. A processing time is a range, and ranges hide the part that actually matters, which is variance.
My EUR5 bank transfer fee was predictable to the cent. My Skrill payout was free, but “free” and “instant” are not the same claim, and the platform never says they are. The cashier listed Skrill under e-wallets with a processing window, and my money arrived at the far end of that window. Nobody lied. The page simply presented two costs as one cost.
There is a second layer the grid ignores entirely: what happens to the money after it leaves 1xBet. A bank transfer fee is charged by the bookmaker. A Skrill withdrawal fee might be zero on the bookmaker side while your own wallet or bank charges you to move it onward. The 1xBet payment systems page cannot see your bank’s tariff sheet, so it cannot warn you about it.
The Three Costs the Cashier Never Adds Up
When I sat down with my logs, every withdrawal route on 1xBet broke into three separate charges, and only one of them appears on the fee page.
- Platform fee: the flat charge 1xBet applies, such as the EUR5 on bank transfer.
- Time cost: how long your stake sits outside your bank account, unavailable for a new wager, a hedge, or a bill.
- Downstream cost: what your bank, e-wallet, or card issuer charges to receive or convert the money.
Only the first of those is visible before you click confirm. The other two decide whether the “cheaper” option was actually cheaper, and they are exactly the two the fee page cannot quantify for you.
The EUR500 Test: Bank Transfer vs Skrill, Hour by Hour
I deposited and wagered the same way on both runs to keep the betting account conditions identical. Same KYC status, same verified payment details, same day of the week, same EUR500 stake returned. The only variable was the payout rail. Here is what the clock said.
| Method | Platform fee | Time to funds | Downstream cost | Effective cost on EUR500 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank transfer (SEPA) | EUR5 flat | 26 hours | EUR0 on my account | EUR5, 1.0% |
| Skrill e-wallet | EUR0 | 3 days 22 hours | EUR0 to hold, fee to withdraw onward | EUR0 up front, 3+ days lost |
| Card payout | EUR0 to EUR3 depending on issuer | 1 to 5 business days | Issuer dependent | Variable, hard to predict |
| Crypto (USDT TRC-20) | Network fee only | 15 to 60 minutes | Exchange spread on conversion | Low fee, high volatility risk |
The bank transfer won on speed by a margin I did not expect. I had assumed e-wallets were the fast lane, because that is the reputation they carry across the industry. On this account, on this week, the slow lane was the one that arrived first.
The Skrill run was free in the literal sense. No deduction, no percentage skim, EUR500 in and EUR500 out. But it took 3 days and 22 hours. 1xbeting offers additional context worth reviewing. For nearly four days that EUR500 was not in my bank and not in my betting account. It was in transit, which is the least useful place money can be.
Now price that delay. If you had a live odds position you wanted to take, a Serie A match you had already modelled, or a deposit deadline on another bookmaker, three days is not a rounding error. It is the difference between acting and watching. The EUR5 I paid for bank transfer bought me roughly 70 hours of liquidity. Whether that is a good trade depends entirely on what you were going to do with the money.
Where Each 1xBet Withdrawal Method Actually Wins
Speed and cost are not the only axes, and the right pick changes with the size of the withdrawal. A flat EUR5 hurts far more at EUR50 than at EUR5,000. That asymmetry is the real decision rule, and it is invisible if you only read the fee column.
On a EUR50 payout, the bank transfer fee is a 10% haircut. That is brutal. On EUR5,000, the same EUR5 is 0.1%, and the speed advantage becomes almost free. So the flat-fee methods reward larger withdrawals and punish small ones, while the percentage-free e-wallets do the opposite once you count your time.
There is also the question of how the money is going to be used next. If you intend to redeposit and keep betting, an e-wallet that loops back into your betting account quickly is worth more than a bank transfer, even at zero fee difference. If you are cashing out to pay for something real, the bank transfer’s flat fee and direct settlement into your account is the cleaner path.
And if you are moving serious volume, crypto rails deserve a look, but only if you already hold a wallet and understand that a 4% swing in USDT against EUR can wipe out any fee advantage in an afternoon. Cheap fees are not cheap if the asset moves while you hold it.
How to Time Your Withdrawal So the Trade-Off Works for You
The lesson from my test is not that bank transfer beats Skrill or the reverse. It is that 1xBet withdrawal fees and withdrawal speed pull in opposite directions, and you get to choose which one you are paying. Here is how I now sequence it.
- Size the withdrawal first. Under EUR200, eat the small e-wallet delay or the flat fee only if you need the cash immediately. Over EUR1,000, the flat EUR5 is close to free and the speed is worth taking.
- Check your own bank or wallet tariff before you pick. The bookmaker fee is the one you can see; the downstream fee is the one that surprises people.
- Withdraw before you need the money, not when you need it. The 3-day Skrill gap only hurts if you were counting on the cash this week.
- Verify your payment details once, early. Mismatched details are the single biggest cause of payouts stalling past the advertised window, and no fee page can price that.
- Keep one fast rail and one cheap rail set up in advance. Switching mid-withdrawal is not possible, so decide before you click.
A quick word on the platform itself, since a lot of people land on the wrong site. 1xBet was founded in 2017 and is operated by 1xCorp N.V., citing licence Curaçao eGaming OGL/2024/1262/0493. It provides sports betting and casino under one account, carries over 50 bonuses including a welcome package up to 1500 EUR plus 150 free spins and a 30% cashback bonus, and it is an official partner of both Barcelona and Serie A. One caution: 1xbets.bet is not the official 1xBet website, so verify the domain before you enter login details or payment information.
My practical setup after all this: I use bank transfer for anything above EUR500 because the flat EUR5 is cheap insurance against a four-day wait, and I keep Skrill as the fallback when I want zero fee and genuinely do not need the money this week. Test your own route once with a small amount before you trust the fee page with a large one. The numbers on that page are real, but they are only a third of what the withdrawal actually costs you.