Send Money from Spain to Romania

Measured on the full cost — the transfer fee plus the exchange-rate margin — Wise is cheapest on this corridor at €1,000, across the 4 providers we hold checked figures for. The cheapest provider also changes with the amount you send, so compare the final sum that arrives in Romanian leus rather than the headline fee.

At €1,000, Wise is the cheapest of the 4 providers priced at that amount on this corridor: about €6.26 all in, or 0.63% of the amount sent. Remitly is next at about €7.59. That is the fee plus the exchange-rate margin that applied to a transfer of that size — priced at €1,000 specifically, not worked out from a measurement taken at some other amount. It covers a bank transfer; cash pickup and mobile wallet payouts are priced separately. The margins were measured by Wise's comparison service rather than published by the providers themselves, and other providers here may be cheaper and are not priced this way.

Yes. Up to €100, Remitly costs least on this corridor; from €250 upwards, Wise does. The change happens somewhere between those two amounts — they are the amounts actually priced, so naming a precise crossing point would be a guess dressed as a figure. This happens because a transfer costs a flat fee plus a percentage of the amount, and those two scale in opposite directions: on a small transfer the fee dominates, on a large one the exchange-rate margin does. It is why a comparison taken at a single amount can point you at the wrong provider for yours.

Delivery ranges from minutes to a few business days depending on the provider and payout method. Paysend and TransferGo can deliver within minutes when you pay by debit card. Bank-funded and economy transfers typically take one to three business days but usually cost less. Transfers sent outside banking hours or over a weekend may not settle until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are bank deposit, cash pickup, card payout and mobile wallet. The most widely used options in Romania are bank deposit to a mature banking network, plus cash pickup including the post office. Romania is in the EU but not the eurozone — sending euros instead of lei usually triggers a second conversion at the recipient's bank. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly, Ria Money Transfer, Western Union and Xoom offer cash pickup in Romania, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, bank deposit to a mature banking network, plus cash pickup including the post office generally cost less than cash collection.

Providers rarely give you the mid-market rate — the reference rate you see on Google or Reuters. Instead they add a margin, typically between 0.4% and 4%, and keep the difference. That margin is often larger than the visible transfer fee, which is why a "no fee" service can still be more expensive overall. For EUR to RON, compare the quoted rate against the mid-market rate to see the real spread you are paying.

Yes, provided you use a licensed provider. Every service listed on this page is regulated in Spain under the Bank of Spain (Banco de España), which requires safeguarding of customer funds and identity verification. Send only to people you know personally, keep your transfer reference private, and be sceptical of anyone pressuring you to send money urgently to someone you have not met.

Yes. Each provider sets its own transfer limits, which vary by how much identity verification you have completed and how you pay. Larger transfers may require additional documentation such as proof of source of funds. For transfers above roughly €10,000, a specialist foreign-exchange broker will often beat an app on rate.

Romania is in the European Union but not in the euro area, so this is a euro to lei conversion and not a SEPA payment. A free SEPA transfer from a Spanish bank does not deliver lei to a Romanian account, which is the whole reason the corridor is worth comparing. Because the cost sits in the conversion rather than in a transfer charge, the published fee alone does not describe what a transfer costs here. Wise and Revolut publish their rate policy separately from the fee, and Xoom states outright that it earns on the exchange rate. Cash payout in Romania runs through retail networks rather than bank branches: Ria publishes Posta Romana, Smith&Smith and Speed Amanet, and Xoom routes its cash pickup through Ria partner locations, so several providers reach the same counters.