
MoneyGram vs Ria Money Transfer
Both are compared on 65 of the same corridors on this site, sending from the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia. This page sets the two side by side on every one of them — what each pays out to, how fast, and where a like-for-like amount was checked, which one actually delivered more.
There is no score here and no overall winner. Every line is read from the corridor page it came from, where the row was checked against the provider's own page for that route. Nothing on this page was written by hand, which is why none of it can go quietly out of date: when the research behind a figure lapses, the figure disappears rather than ageing in place.
At a glance
- Corridors on this site
- 109
- Shared with Ria Money Transfer
- 65
- Routes the other has no row on
- 44
- Pays out to, across shared routes
- Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card
- Documented as not serving a route
- 9
- Corridors on this site
- 131
- Shared with MoneyGram
- 65
- Routes the other has no row on
- 66
- Pays out to, across shared routes
- Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card · Doorstep
- Documented as not serving a route
- 37
The last row of each card is the one most easily misread. A longer list of documented absences is not a worse provider — it records how thoroughly that provider's own coverage has been swept here. A provider whose destination list has been checked route by route accumulates absences in writing; one that has not been swept simply has fewer written down. Read each line as a fact about that route, never the two totals against each other.
Where both were priced at the same amount
No corridor here currently carries a checked recipient amount for both MoneyGram and Ria Money Transfer at the same moment, so this page states no measured difference between them. That is the honest position rather than a gap: the quotes feed prices a limited set of providers, and a figure older than thirty days is dropped rather than shown stale. The comparison below is each provider's published terms, which is what the research holds for these two.
From the USA — 50 shared corridors
| Destination | MoneyGram | Ria Money Transfer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pays out to | Speed | Gets per $1,000 | Pays out to | Speed | Gets per $1,000 | |
| Albania | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Algeria | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Argentina | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Armenia | Bank · Cash · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Card | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Austria | Bank · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Bangladesh | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card | Minutes | Not checked |
| Benin | Bank · Cash · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Burkina Faso | Bank | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Canada | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Comoros | Bank | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Costa Rica | Bank · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| France | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Gabon | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Germany | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Greece | Bank · Cash · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Guinea | Bank | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bank | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Hong Kong | Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank | Varies | Not checked |
| India | Bank · Cash · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked |
| Ireland | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Laos | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Lebanon | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Lesotho | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Liberia | Bank · Cash | Within hours | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Madagascar | Bank | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Mauritania | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Namibia | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Nepal | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| New Zealand | Bank · Cash · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Niger | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| Pakistan | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| Panama | Bank · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Poland | Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Portugal | Bank · Cash · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked |
| Romania | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Serbia | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Sierra Leone | Bank · Wallet | Within hours | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| Slovakia | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Slovenia | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Sri Lanka | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Sweden | Bank · Cash · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Switzerland | Bank · Cash · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Thailand | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Togo | Bank · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Varies | Not checked |
| Tunisia | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| United Arab Emirates | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Same day | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| United Kingdom | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Venezuela | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Zimbabwe | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
From the UK — 10 shared corridors
| Destination | MoneyGram | Ria Money Transfer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pays out to | Speed | Gets per £1,000 | Pays out to | Speed | Gets per £1,000 | |
| Bangladesh | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card | Minutes | Not checked |
| France | Bank · Cash | Varies | EUR 1,171 | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Germany | Bank · Cash | Varies | EUR 1,171 | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked |
| Ghana | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Wallet | Varies | Not checked |
| India | Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked |
| Jamaica | Bank · Cash · Card | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Card | Varies | Not checked |
| Nigeria | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Same day | Not checked |
| Pakistan | Cash | Minutes | PKR 371,595 | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Sri Lanka | Bank · Cash | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes to days | Not checked |
| Zimbabwe | Bank · Cash | Varies | USD 1,324 | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes to days | Not checked |
From Canada — 3 shared corridors
| Destination | MoneyGram | Ria Money Transfer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pays out to | Speed | Gets per C$1,000 | Pays out to | Speed | Gets per C$1,000 | |
| Haiti | Cash | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| India | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash | Minutes | Not checked |
| Philippines | Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card | Minutes | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet · Doorstep | Minutes | Not checked |
From Australia — 2 shared corridors
| Destination | MoneyGram | Ria Money Transfer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pays out to | Speed | Gets per A$1,000 | Pays out to | Speed | Gets per A$1,000 | |
| India | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet | Minutes | Not checked |
| Philippines | Not recorded | Varies | Not checked | Bank · Cash · Wallet · Doorstep | Minutes | Not checked |
Where only one of them is compared
44 routes where only MoneyGram is compared
Ria Money Transfer carries no row on these corridors — which means this site holds no researched entry for it there, not that it does not operate. Documented non-coverage is the section below this one.
- USA → Angola
- USA → Antigua and Barbuda
- USA → Belize
- USA → Bhutan
- USA → Brunei
- USA → Burundi
- USA → Cameroon
- USA → Cyprus
- USA → Iraq
- USA → Jordan
- USA → Kuwait
- USA → Kyrgyzstan
- USA → Latvia
- USA → Liechtenstein
- USA → Luxembourg
- USA → Maldives
- USA → Mauritius
- USA → Montenegro
- USA → Netherlands
- USA → Norway
- USA → Oman
- USA → Papua New Guinea
- USA → Saint Kitts and Nevis
- USA → Saudi Arabia
- USA → Seychelles
- USA → South Korea
- USA → Suriname
- USA → Uganda
- USA → Uzbekistan
- USA → Vanuatu
- UK → Philippines
- UK → Poland
- Canada → Afghanistan
- Australia → Bangladesh
- Australia → China
- Australia → Nigeria
- Australia → Vietnam
- Switzerland → Brazil
- Switzerland → Kosovo
- Switzerland → Philippines
- Switzerland → Portugal
- Switzerland → Serbia
- Switzerland → Türkiye
- Singapore → Philippines
66 routes where only Ria Money Transfer is compared
MoneyGram carries no row on these corridors — which means this site holds no researched entry for it there, not that it does not operate. Documented non-coverage is the section below this one.
- USA → Afghanistan
- USA → Belgium
- USA → Bolivia
- USA → Bosnia and Herzegovina
- USA → Bulgaria
- USA → Cambodia
- USA → China
- USA → Côte d'Ivoire
- USA → Croatia
- USA → Czechia
- USA → Denmark
- USA → Eritrea
- USA → Estonia
- USA → Eswatini
- USA → Finland
- USA → Gambia
- USA → Georgia
- USA → Haiti
- USA → Iceland
- USA → Indonesia
- USA → Italy
- USA → Kazakhstan
- USA → Kosovo
- USA → Malaysia
- USA → Moldova
- USA → Myanmar
- USA → Paraguay
- USA → Singapore
- USA → Spain
- USA → the Republic of the Congo
- USA → Uruguay
- UK → Belgium
- UK → Ireland
- UK → Italy
- UK → Romania
- UK → Spain
- Canada → Indonesia
- Canada → Pakistan
- Canada → Thailand
- Spain → Argentina
- Spain → Bolivia
- Spain → Brazil
- Spain → Chile
- Spain → Colombia
- Spain → Dominican Republic
- Spain → Ecuador
- Spain → Honduras
- Spain → Morocco
- Spain → Paraguay
- Spain → Peru
- Spain → Romania
- Spain → Senegal
- Spain → Venezuela
- France → Cameroon
- France → Côte d'Ivoire
- France → Mali
- France → Morocco
- France → Senegal
- France → Tunisia
- Germany → Egypt
- Germany → Kosovo
- Germany → Morocco
- Germany → Nigeria
- Germany → Philippines
- Germany → Serbia
- Germany → Türkiye
Where each was checked and found not to serve the route
No provider publishes this about itself. Each line is a route where the provider was checked against its own pages and recorded as not serving it, with the reason found at the time. The counts are not comparable between the two: they measure how much of each provider's coverage has been swept, not how many gaps each one has.
MoneyGram — 9 recorded
- the UK → Afghanistan — its UK-to-Afghanistan page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UAE → Nepal — its UAE presence is agent-based and its UAE pages name no destination countries and publish no fee schedule, so there is nothing corridor-specific to point a reader at Source
- Qatar → Bangladesh — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → Egypt — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → India — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → Nepal — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → Pakistan — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → Philippines — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
- Qatar → Sri Lanka — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront. Source
Ria Money Transfer — 37 recorded
- the USA → Bahamas — Ria publishes no the Bahamas corridor page. The address matching every other Ria corridor on this site returns the provider's own page-not-found screen, so no fee, rate, rail or limit can be sourced from the provider. This records what the provider publishes, not a finding that the service does not exist — Ria's agent network may still reach the Bahamas. Source
- the USA → Barbados — Ria has no Barbados corridor page; the URL returns 404. Source
- the USA → Belize — Belize is absent from Ria's published list of destinations reachable from the United States. Source
- the USA → Brunei — Brunei is absent from Ria's alphabetical list of 200+ supported destination countries on its US site Source
- the USA → Burundi — No dedicated US-to-Burundi corridor page found on Ria's site Source
- the USA → Cape Verde — Ria has no Cape Verde corridor page; the URL returns 404. Source
- the USA → Cyprus — Cyprus is absent from Ria's alphabetical list of 200+ supported destination countries on its US site Source
- the USA → Mali — Ria has no Mali corridor page; the URL returns 404. Xoom does pay cash through Ria's Malian network, so Ria's agents are reachable indirectly. Source
- the USA → Netherlands — Ria publishes no US to Netherlands destination page; both /us/en/send-money-to-netherlands and /en-us/send-money-to-netherlands/ return 404. The row previously here cited riamoneytransfer.com/en-nl/, which is Ria's Dutch site for sending FROM the Netherlands. Source
- the USA → Saint Lucia — Ria has no Saint Lucia corridor page; both its US URL patterns return 404. Source
- the USA → Solomon Islands — Ria's dedicated Solomon Islands corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-solomon-islands/) returns a 404. Source
- the USA → Somalia — Somalia does not appear among the 38 African destinations listed on Ria's US send-to-Africa page, though Ria does serve the corridor from the UK. Source
- the USA → Suriname — Suriname is absent from Ria's published list of destinations reachable from the United States. Source
- the USA → Taiwan — Taiwan is absent from Ria's published destination list. Source
- the USA → Tajikistan — Ria's dedicated Tajikistan corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-tajikistan/) returns a 404. Source
- the USA → Timor-Leste — Ria's dedicated Timor-Leste corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-timor-leste/) returns a 404. Source
- the USA → Trinidad and Tobago — Ria publishes no Trinidad and Tobago corridor page. The address matching every other Ria corridor on this site returns the provider's own page-not-found screen, so no fee, rate, rail or limit can be sourced from the provider. This records what the provider publishes, not a finding that the service does not exist — Ria's agent network may still reach Trinidad and Tobago. Source
- the USA → Turkmenistan — Ria's dedicated Turkmenistan corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-turkmenistan/) returns a 404. Source
- the USA → Vanuatu — Ria's dedicated Vanuatu corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-vanuatu/) returns a 404. Source
- the UK → Canada — its UK-to-Canada page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UK → Greece — its UK-to-Greece page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UK → Netherlands — its UK-to-the Netherlands page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UK → Portugal — its UK-to-Portugal page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UK → United Arab Emirates — its UK-to-the UAE page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- the UK → United States — its UK-to-the United States page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- Canada → Afghanistan — its Canada-to-Afghanistan page could not be freshly verified this session — two independent attempts returned a server error rather than a clean 404, so its status is unresolved rather than confirmed absent Source
- France → Algeria — its French site serves destination pages for Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal but returns nothing for Algeria Source
- France → Democratic Republic of the Congo — its French site publishes country pages for Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Cameroon but none for DR Congo Source
- Germany → India — its German-market site publishes no India destination page Source
- Germany → Romania — its German-market site publishes no Romania destination page Source
- Qatar → Bangladesh — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → Egypt — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → India — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → Nepal — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → Pakistan — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → Philippines — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source
- Qatar → Sri Lanka — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen. Source