MoneyGram vs Xoom

Both are compared on 64 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 Nothing on this page was written by hand, which is why none of it can go quietly out of date: when the research behind a figure lapses, the figure disappears rather than ageing in place.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 Xoom
64
Routes the other has no row on
45
Pays out to, across shared routes
Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card
Documented as not serving a route
9
Corridors on this site
146
Shared with MoneyGram
64
Routes the other has no row on
82
Pays out to, across shared routes
Bank · Cash · Wallet · Card · Doorstep · Airtime
Documented as not serving a route
33

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

On 1 of the 64 shared corridors, both providers were quoted at the same send amount on the same day. MoneyGram delivered more on 1, Xoom on 0.

That is a count of corridors where a measurement exists, not a ranking of the two companies. It covers a bank transfer at the site benchmark of $1,000 and says nothing about cash pickup or wallet payouts, which are priced differently. The figures come from the Wise Comparison API, a source operated by a company this site also ranks. Rates move daily; open a provider for a live quote before sending.

From the USA — 57 shared corridors

DestinationMoneyGramXoom
Pays out toSpeedGets per $1,000Pays out toSpeedGets per $1,000
AlbaniaBank · Cash · WalletMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesNot checked
AlgeriaBank · CashVariesNot checkedCardMinutesNot checked
Antigua and BarbudaBank · Cash · CardVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
ArgentinaBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashVariesNot checked
ArmeniaBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checked
AustriaBank · CardVariesNot checkedBank · CardMinutesEUR 860
BangladeshBank · Cash · WalletMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesBDT 119,687
BelizeCashVariesNot checkedCardMinutesNot checked
BeninBank · Cash · CardVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutes to daysNot checked
BhutanBank · Cash · CardVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesNot checked
Burkina FasoBankVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNot checked
BurundiBankVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
CameroonBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutes to daysNot checked
CanadaBank · CashMinutesNot checkedBankDaysCAD 1,356
ComorosBankVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
Costa RicaBank · CardVariesNot checkedBank · CashVariesNot checked
CyprusBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
Democratic Republic of the CongoCash · WalletMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesNot checked
GabonNot recordedVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNot checked
GreeceBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
GuineaBankVariesNot checkedCash · WalletMinutesNot checked
Guinea-BissauBankVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
Hong KongCashVariesNot checkedBank · CashDaysHKD 7,620
IndiaBank · Cash · CardVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesINR 94,796
IrelandBank · CashMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysEUR 860
JordanBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CardVariesNot checked
KyrgyzstanBankVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checked
LatviaCashVariesNot checkedBankMinutesEUR 860
LiberiaBank · CashWithin hoursNot checkedBank · CashVariesNot checked
LuxembourgBank · CardVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
MadagascarBankVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · Wallet · CardMinutesNot checked
MauritiusNot recordedVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
MontenegroNot recordedVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
NepalBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutes to daysNPR 147,088
NetherlandsBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
New ZealandBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNZD 1,740
NigerBank · CashVariesNot checkedCash · WalletMinutesNot checked
NorwayBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNOK 9,222
OmanCashVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
PakistanBank · Cash · WalletMinutes to daysNot checkedBank · Cash · Wallet · CardMinutes to daysPKR 272,282
PolandCashVariesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesPLN 3,800
PortugalBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesEUR 860
RomaniaBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · Card · AirtimeDaysRON 4,662
Saint Kitts and NevisCashVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
SerbiaBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashVariesNot checked
SeychellesBank · CashVariesNot checkedCashMinutesNot checked
SlovakiaNot recordedVariesNot checkedBank · CardMinutesEUR 860
SloveniaNot recordedVariesNot checkedBank · CardMinutesEUR 860
South KoreaBankMinutesNot checkedBankMinutesKRW 1,307,324
Sri LankaBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesLKR 322,501
SwedenBank · Cash · CardVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · CardMinutesSEK 9,715
SwitzerlandBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysCHF 807
ThailandBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · CashVariesTHB 31,919
TogoBank · WalletMinutes to daysNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNot checked
United Arab EmiratesBank · Cash · WalletSame dayNot checkedBank · CashMinutes to daysNot checked
United KingdomBank · CashMinutesNot checkedBank · CashMinutesNot checked
UzbekistanBank · CashVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · CardMinutesNot checked

From the UK — 3 shared corridors

DestinationMoneyGramXoom
Pays out toSpeedGets per £1,000Pays out toSpeedGets per £1,000
BangladeshBank · Cash · WalletMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesBDT 159,602
IndiaCashVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesINR 124,530
PakistanCashMinutesPKR 371,595Bank · Cash · Wallet · CardMinutesPKR 359,134

A highlighted figure is the larger of the two on that corridor, at the same send amount on the same day. Both figures are bank-transfer quotes.

From Canada — 3 shared corridors

DestinationMoneyGramXoom
Pays out toSpeedGets per C$1,000Pays out toSpeedGets per C$1,000
HaitiCashMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · Wallet · CardMinutesNot checked
IndiaBank · CashMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · WalletMinutesINR 65,998
PhilippinesBank · Cash · Wallet · CardMinutesNot checkedBank · Cash · Wallet · Card · DoorstepMinutesPHP 43,378

From Australia — 1 shared corridor

DestinationMoneyGramXoom
Pays out toSpeedGets per A$1,000Pays out toSpeedGets per A$1,000
PhilippinesNot recordedVariesNot checkedBank · Cash · Wallet · DoorstepMinutesPHP 43,987

Where only one of them is compared

82 routes where only Xoom 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.

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

Xoom — 33 recorded

Payout methods and delivery speeds are each provider's published terms as read on the corridor pages; recipient amounts are like-for-like quotes checked in October 2026 for a bank transfer at $1,000. Fees and rates change without notice — confirm the final quote with the provider before sending. Full pages: MoneyGram · Xoom · how this site compares providers · all comparisons