
IQ Capital review
Dubai-linked CFD, crypto and futures prop firm launched in 2025 with $9 one-step challenges
- CEO
- Christoph Radecker
- Headquarters
- United Arab Emirates
- Founded
- 2025
- In business
- 1 year
- Trustpilot
- 4.7(533)
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Our grade
Good
6.5 / 10 · #5 of 22
4.7
Trustpilot
533 reviews
- 5★90%
- 4★5%
- 3★1%
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- 1★4%
IQ Capital payouts
Payout score 8.9/10
How IQ Capital pays
- Profit split
- 80% – 90%
- Frequency
- Every 10 days (Core/Instant Crypto-CFD), every 1-3 days capped at 5 payouts (Rapid)
- First payout
- After 10 active trading days on Core/Instant accounts; after 1 active trading day on Rapid
- Processing time
- Guaranteed within 48 hours; company says about 3 hours on average, and reviewers generally confirm same-day to two-business-day transfers
- Minimum
- No minimum
- Methods
- Crypto (USDC, ERC-20)
- Bank transfer
- Guarantee
- 48-hour payout guarantee (company claim)
- Paid out (claimed)
- $3,500,000+ paid out (company claim, Trustpilot profile)
Why payouts scored 8.9
- Payout complaints
- 0.6 per 100 reviews
- Positive payout mentions
- 100%
24 of the latest 200 reviews talk about payouts:
Payout track record
Payout sentiment is strongly positive but short-lived: the 200-review recent Trustpilot sample shows 24 positive payout mentions against zero negative, with reviewers citing turnarounds inside 48 hours, a Friday request landing Monday morning, and one long-tenured trader reporting more than 20 payouts in two months. IQ Capital's Trustpilot profile was only claimed in September 2025, though, so none of that spans more than about a year.
The 25-review negative sample contains exactly one payout-specific complaint: a verified reviewer says a roughly $1,500 request was refused and her account marked breached in July 2026 over a Max-Position-Loss read she disputes as retroactive — an isolated case rather than a pattern in the data reviewed. A separate, detailed review documents the discounted $50,000 Core Challenge price roughly doubling to tripling between January and September 2026 even as the advertised '-80%' label stayed the same, a cost-side rather than payout-side concern but worth factoring into any value comparison.