Cost to send money from the United States to Vietnam

By Polynopsis team · Last updated 29 October 2026

Every service surveyed, cheapest first

Total cost is the fee plus the FX margin, as a share of USD 200.

How the cost has moved

The average was 5.57% in Q2 2016, the first quarter in this series with data for the corridor, and 5.27% in Q3 2025.

The UN target

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to bring the global average cost of sending remittances below 3% by 2030 and to remove corridors costing more than 5%. The World Bank measures the 5% test on the average of the three cheapest qualifying services in each corridor, not on the corridor average. source In this corridor the three cheapest services surveyed averaged 1.23% (a plain average, without the World Bank's qualifying rules).

Related

• The United States to Vietnam payments stack
• Paying out in Vietnam: the stack
• Prefunding payouts in Vietnam
• United States bank holidays
• Vietnam bank holidays
• Every corridor from the United States
• Every corridor to Vietnam

Where Polynopsis fits

The companies surveyed here move money across borders every day, and many of them prefund payout partners in the receiving country. Polynopsis is liquidity software for those companies: one live position across their banks, payout partners and wallets, with a warning before a corridor runs dry.

Data: World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide (complete dataset, licensed CC BY 4.0). Averages and charts are worked out by Polynopsis from that dataset. Services without a US$200 quote are left out of the averages, so a few corridors differ slightly from the World Bank site. Each corridor uses the local send amount the World Bank set as the equivalent of US$200; where that amount is now worth much less than US$200, fixed fees make the percentage cost higher.