Send Money from the USA to Mauritius
Fees and exchange-rate margins from the USA to Mauritius vary widely. Compare what your recipient actually receives, not the advertised fee.
What does your recipient in Mauritius actually get?
MURThe one amount we checked · on $1,000MUR 46,328
At the mid-market rate · $1,000MUR 47,347.19
Wise · fee $1 · checked October 2026
1 USD = 47.3472 MUR
30-day range47.23 – 48.45 MUR
Every provider pays your recipient less than the benchmark. The gap is the rate margin, and it is usually larger than the transfer fee. How the margin worksUSD→MUR reference rate for Oct 21, 2026, updated automatically · Rates By Exchange Rate API · 30-day series: Exchange Rate API (daily series)
Compare 8 ways to send money to Mauritius
Checked recipient amounts cover 1 of 8 providers here, collected from the Wise Comparison API — which quotes its own operator among them. The rest show each provider's published terms, and are ordered by payout coverage rather than by amount.
Recipient amounts collected and stored, not fetched as this page loads. Exchange rates move daily.
| Provider | Recipient getsby bank transfer | What it costs | Arrives | Payout | Open provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Most ways to receive Widest range of payout methods published for this corridor, including mobile wallet | Check provider | Low feeRate not published — confirm before sending | Minutes | Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout | Go to Western Union |
XE | Check provider | Flat $0Rate not published — confirm before sending | Minutes to days | Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup | Go to Xe Money Transfer |
 Fastest delivery Card-to-card delivery for senders whose recipient holds a Mastercard or Visa card | Check provider | Flat $18.00Rate not published — confirm before sending | Minutes | Payout methods: Bank deposit, Card payout | Go to Paysend |
 Best for cash pickup Named cash-pickup partner (Mauritius Post) for senders who want cash pickup specifically | Check provider | VariesRate not published — confirm before sending | Minutes | Payout methods: Cash pickup | Go to Xoom |
 First-transfer exchange-rate promotion on transfers up to $3,000 | Check provider | VariesRate not published — confirm before sending | Minutes to days | Payout methods: Bank deposit | Go to Instarem |
 Fastest published delivery time and the only provider itemizing fees by payment method | MUR 46,328 | $21.35payout currency unconfirmed0.00% rate margin, measured | Minutes to days | Payout methods: Bank deposit | Go to Wise |
 Highest published welcome rate among providers checked for new customers | Check provider | VariesRate not published — confirm before sending | Varies | Payout methods: Cash pickup | Go to Remitly |
MG No published corridor detail to compare on beyond cash pickup availability | Check provider | VariesRate not published — confirm before sending | Varies | Check provider | Go to MoneyGram |
- Most ways to receive
Widest range of payout methods published for this corridor, including mobile wallet
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- Low feeRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Minutes
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout
- XELowest advertised fee
No additional fee on bank-transfer-funded payments
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- Flat $0Rate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Minutes to days
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup
- Fastest delivery
Card-to-card delivery for senders whose recipient holds a Mastercard or Visa card
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- Flat $18.00Rate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Minutes
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit, Card payout
- Best for cash pickup
Named cash-pickup partner (Mauritius Post) for senders who want cash pickup specifically
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- VariesRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Minutes
- Payout
- Payout methods: Cash pickup
First-transfer exchange-rate promotion on transfers up to $3,000
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- VariesRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Minutes to days
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit
Fastest published delivery time and the only provider itemizing fees by payment method
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- MUR 46,328
- Cost
- $21.35payout currency unconfirmed0.00% rate margin, measured
- Arrives
- Minutes to days
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit
Highest published welcome rate among providers checked for new customers
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- VariesRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Varies
- Payout
- Payout methods: Cash pickup
No published corridor detail to compare on beyond cash pickup availability
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- VariesRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Varies
- Payout
- Check provider
What it costs has two parts: the advertised fee, and the exchange-rate margin kept by paying your recipient less than the mid-market rate. The margin is usually the larger, and is never labelled as a fee. Figures are each provider’s published terms, plus bank-transfer quotes from the Wise Comparison API, a source operated by a company this site also ranks — open a provider for a live quote. Recipient amounts are shown only for the providers we hold a checked figure for, which is some of those listed here rather than all of them.
Too few checked amounts on this corridor to rank by money, so the order is payout coverage, delivery speed and published fees — a provider with a checked figure is not placed above one without. Affiliate arrangements never affect this order.
- Most ways to receive — Supports the most payout types on this corridor.
- Lowest advertised fee — Lowest advertised transfer fee where a specific figure is published.
- Fastest delivery — Quotes the fastest delivery tier published on this corridor. Where several providers quote it, the one with the widest payout coverage among them carries the badge, and the others are named alongside it.
- Best for cash pickup — Offers cash pickup, with the widest payout coverage among those that do.
Where two providers tie, the one supporting more payout types is listed first, then the faster one, then alphabetically. A label is left unawarded whenever the data we hold cannot support it — we would rather show fewer claims than invented ones. We hold a checked amount for too few of the providers here to call any of them best on it, so no Best value is named — naming one would rank a field too small to be a comparison. The amounts we do hold are still shown. Those amounts cover some of the providers listed, not all of them, and the set is chosen by the source that supplies them rather than by us. Full methodology
What these figures are
- What the recipient gets
- Collected from the Wise Comparison API at a send amount of $1,000, October 2026. These price a bank transfer. Cash pickup and mobile wallets are priced differently and are not covered by these figures. Not a live quote — rates move daily.
- Markup against mid-market
- Measured against the row the Wise Comparison API flagged as being at the mid-market rate — Wise’s, October 2026. That is a provider listed in this table, which is why it is named, and why its own row shows no markup figure.
- Fees
- As each provider publishes them, via the Wise Comparison API, October 2026. A provider that does not publish a fee for this corridor shows none rather than a guess.
- Payout methods, delivery speed, promotions
- Read from each provider’s own pages for this corridor and last reviewed September 2026. Where a provider’s own sources disagree, the disagreement is printed rather than resolved.
Independent — providers cannot pay for placement or ranking · Consistent — every checked amount measured on the same corridor at the same send amount, and any fee quoted on a different basis says so on its own row · Transparent — the advertised fee kept separate from the rate margin
Quick verdict: the best way to send money to Mauritius
Each line names the provider that leads on one specific need, and why. There is no single winner because there is no single question — the lowest fee and the fastest delivery are rarely the same provider.
- If you are not sure how they will collect itWestern UnionMost ways to receivePays out 4 ways — bank deposit, cash pickup, mobile wallet, card payout.
- If you want the lowest advertised feeXEXe Money TransferLowest advertised feeFlat $0 advertised.
- If it needs to arrive todayPaysendFastest deliveryPaysend states funds are usually transferred the same day, often within a few minutes
- If they will collect it in cashXoomBest for cash pickupCash Pickup only - named partner is Mauritius Post Foreign Exchange Co Ltd
Chosen by the same rules that order the table, from each provider’s published terms. A need with no clear leader is left out rather than handed to whoever happens to be first.
How much you send changes which provider is cheapest
A transfer costs two things: a fee you can see, and a cut of the exchange rate you cannot. They scale in opposite directions, so the best provider for $200 to Mauritius is often not the best provider for $5,000.
The flat fee is most of what you pay
On a small transfer a $5 fee is a real percentage of the money. A rate margin of half a percent on $200 is one dollar — small enough to ignore. Sort by the fee and take the lowest one you trust.
The exchange rate is most of what you pay
The fee stops mattering and the rate takes over. Half a percent on $5,000 is $25 — five times a typical fee, and no provider calls it a charge. A zero-fee offer on a large transfer is the one most worth checking.
USD to MUR at common amounts
| You send | Mid-market value | Load into calculator |
|---|---|---|
| $100.00 | MUR 4,735 | |
| $250.00 | MUR 11,837 | |
| $500.00 | MUR 23,674 | |
| $1,000 | MUR 47,347 | |
| $2,500 | MUR 118,368 | |
| $5,000 | MUR 236,736 |
Pick a row to load that amount into the calculator at the top of the page. These are mid-market values, not provider quotes — every service pays your recipient somewhat less, so use them as the figure to measure an offer against.
What is the cheapest way to send money to Mauritius?
Xe Money Transfer publishes the lowest transfer fee on this corridor, at Flat $0. Lowest fee is not the same as cheapest — the exchange rate a provider gives you can cost more than the fee it charges — so treat this as one of two numbers, not the answer.
Next lowest published fees:
Fee wording taken from each provider’s published terms. Where a provider does not publish a figure, we say so rather than guess one.
What is the fastest way to send money to Mauritius?
Paysend quotes the fastest delivery on this corridor at minutes, and so do Western Union and Xoom. Published speeds describe the fastest route a provider offers, not every route: paying by card and sending to a wallet is usually near-instant, while a bank transfer funded by direct debit takes longer whoever you send with.
Mauritius at a glance
- Currency
- MUR · Mauritian rupee
- Payout methods
- Bank deposit · Cash pickup · Mobile wallet · Card payout
- Typical delivery
- Minutes to minutes to days
- Cash pickup
- Available from 4 of 8 providers
- 3 of the 8 providers can deliver within minutes, including Western Union, Paysend and Xoom.
- Cash pickup is available from 6 of the 8 providers, including Wise, Remitly and Western Union — no bank account needed.
Before you send to Mauritius
- Treat the Wise row on this page with care. Wise's support centre does not list this destination among the countries it can send to, and answers that gap directly: a recipient in a country off the list can be reached "if their account is denominated in USD, EUR or GBP". Wise's marketing page for this same corridor says the opposite — that the recipient is paid in local currency from a Wise local bank account — but that sentence is templated and appears word for word on destinations that are on the list and destinations that are not. The pricing points the same way as the support centre: across the corridors on this site the median Wise fee is about 1 percent of the amount sent where the currency is on its supported list, against about 4.5 percent where it is missing. The figure shown here is real; what is not settled is whether the money can arrive as local currency. Confirm that with Wise before relying on it.
- Mauritius Post is the recurring cash-pickup partner named across multiple providers (Remitly, Xoom) - it is the closest thing to a standard cash-pickup network on this corridor
- Wise offers bank-account delivery only on this corridor; no cash pickup or mobile wallet option is published on its Mauritius page
- WorldRemit, Ria Money Transfer, Taptap Send, Sendwave, LemFi and Boss Money either do not list Mauritius as a supported destination from the US or could not be confirmed to serve it during this research pass
- The Mauritian rupee (MUR) is the local currency; several providers (MoneyGram, Instarem) publish no rate or fee figure on the corridor page itself, showing pricing only inside the transaction flow
- A 1% US federal excise tax applies to remittance transfers sent from the United States when the sender provides cash, a money order, a cashier's check, or other similar physical instrument, from January 2026. The sender is liable for it and the provider collects it. Funding the same transfer from a bank account, debit card or credit card is outside that description — which can make a digital transfer cheaper than an identical one paid for in cash at a counter.
More on the 1% tax — who owes it, when it applies, and how the funding method changes it: US remittance tax.
What it costs to send money to Mauritius
Sending money from the USA to Mauritius converts US dollars (USD) into Mauritian rupees (MUR). Most of the real cost is not the headline fee — it is the exchange-rate margin, the gap between your quoted rate and the mid-market rate banks use between themselves. Two providers can both advertise "no fees" and still differ by several percent on what actually arrives.
A relatively developed Indian Ocean banking market compared to some of its regional neighbors.
That is why the comparison above leads with how your recipient can be paid rather than with a headline price: match the service to how they actually want the money, then check the final quote.
How to choose the right provider
Compare the amount received, not the fee
Enter the same amount with two or three providers and compare what your recipient in Mauritius actually receives in Mauritian rupees. That one number folds the fee and the rate margin together.
Match the payout method to your recipient
In Mauritius the common rails are bank deposit. A slightly pricier provider paying into the wallet or account they already use beats a cheaper one that means a trip to an agent.
Pay more for speed only when you need it
Western Union, Paysend and Xoom can deliver within minutes, but express usually costs more in fee or margin. If it is not urgent, the economy option on the same platform is often meaningfully cheaper.
Check cash pickup coverage before you send
6 providers offer cash pickup in Mauritius, including Wise, Remitly and Western Union. Check the specific branch is open and stocked before sending, especially outside major cities.
Verify the provider is licensed
Any service moving money out of the USA should be registered with FinCEN and state money-transmitter licences. Everyone we list is — worth checking for any service you find elsewhere.
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