Send Money from Sweden to Philippines

There is no single cheapest provider on this corridor — it depends on how much you send and how your recipient is paid. Compare the total amount received in Philippine pesos rather than the advertised fee, since the exchange rate margin is usually the larger cost. Bank deposit is typically cheaper than cash pickup.

Most transfers on this corridor arrive within one to three business days. Paying by debit card is generally faster than a bank transfer, and transfers initiated outside banking hours may not begin processing until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are GCash, Maya, bank deposit, cash pickup, mobile wallet and card payout. The most widely used options in the Philippines are GCash and Maya wallets, bank deposit and cash pickup. GCash has become the default way to receive remittances in the Philippines, with instant delivery to a mobile number. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly and Western Union offer cash pickup in the Philippines, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, GCash and Maya wallets, bank deposit and cash pickup 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 SEK to PHP, 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 Sweden under Finansinspektionen, 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 kr10,000, a specialist foreign-exchange broker will often beat an app on rate.

All eight of Wise's funding rows held identical across two independent reads here, so all eight are published — the only corridor on this site where that many figures survive the check at once. Wise's Swedish tables carry eight funding rows, more than any other market on this site, and two of them are open-banking bank payments: a generic one and Trustly, named separately. They are not priced alike. Trustly costs 71.55 SEK where the generic option costs 66.98 SEK, for what is functionally the same thing — paying from your own bank account. Trustly is the familiar Swedish brand, and on this corridor picking it by name costs you about 4.57 SEK more than picking the unbranded option beside it. The generic open-banking option and an ordinary bank transfer are priced identically here, both at 66.98 SEK. That is different from the euro markets on this site, where open banking is consistently cheaper than a manual transfer. In Sweden it saves you the typing, not the money. The debit card costs 174.42 SEK against 65.02 from a balance — more than two and a half times the cheapest method, and this figure held on both reads. Paying by card is the expensive convenience here, not the middle option. Mobile wallet payout in the Philippines can attract cash-out charges applied by the wallet operator rather than the transfer service. Those sit outside every comparison including this one. Wise quotes its Swedish tables at 10,000 SEK, not the 1,000 of the local unit it uses on most markets — roughly 900 euro. That is a fourth distinct basis on this site, after the 1,000 default, Switzerland's 2,000 and Norway's 8,000. A krona figure cannot be read against a euro or pound figure elsewhere without converting first.