Send Money from the USA to Solomon Islands
Two providers serve this route from the USA to the Solomon Islands, as far as we could verify; Wise, WorldRemit and Xe Money Transfer were checked and do not. Fees and exchange-rate margins from the USA to the Solomon Islands vary widely. Compare what your recipient actually receives, not the advertised fee.
What does your recipient in Solomon Islands actually get?
SBDThe one amount we checked · on $1,000SBD 7,893.96
At the mid-market rate · $1,000SBD 7,951.38
Western Union · fee varies · checked October 2026
1 USD = 7.9514 SBD
30-day range8 – 8.08 SBD
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→SBD reference rate for Oct 25, 2026, updated automatically · Rates By Exchange Rate API · 30-day series: Exchange Rate API (daily series)
Compare 2 ways to send money to Solomon Islands
Checked recipient amounts cover 1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Only provider on this corridor to publish a specific USD-to-SBD exchange rate | Check provider | VariesRate not published — confirm before sending | Varies | Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout, Home delivery | Go to Remitly |
 Widest published mix of payout rails on this thinly-covered corridor | SBD 7,893.96 | $1.99bank transfer at 1000 USD1.17% rate margin, measured | Minutes | Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout | Go to Western Union |
Only provider on this corridor to publish a specific USD-to-SBD exchange rate
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- Check provider
- Cost
- VariesRate not published — confirm before sending
- Arrives
- Varies
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout, Home delivery
Widest published mix of payout rails on this thinly-covered corridor
- Recipient gets (bank transfer)
- SBD 7,893.96
- Cost
- $1.99bank transfer at 1000 USD1.17% rate margin, measured
- Arrives
- Minutes
- Payout
- Payout methods: Bank deposit, Cash pickup, Mobile wallet, Card payout
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.
No labels are awarded on this corridor. With 2 providers the table is the comparison, and calling one of them best of 2 would dress a short list up as a finding.
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.
- 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
Not available on this corridor
- Wise — Wise's own Solomon Islands page states it does not yet support sending SLB to Solomon Islands from the US and offers a waiting list instead of a working transfer flow. Source
- WorldRemit — Solomon Islands is absent from WorldRemit's own destination-country list, and its dedicated country page (worldremit.com/en/solomon-islands) returns a 404. Source
- Xe Money Transfer — Xe's dedicated Solomon Islands corridor page (xe.com/en-us/send-money/send-money-to-solomon-islands/) returns a 404, unlike the working pages Xe publishes for other corridors checked in this research pass. Source
- Xoom — Xoom's dedicated Solomon Islands corridor page (xoom.com/solomon-islands/send-money) returns a 404. Source
- Ria Money Transfer — Ria's dedicated Solomon Islands corridor page (riamoneytransfer.com/en-us/send-money-to-solomon-islands/) returns a 404. Source
- Paysend — Paysend's own country coverage page lists 170+ supported destinations and Solomon Islands does not appear among them. Source
- Instarem — Instarem's own destinations page lists its 60+ supported countries and states any country not listed is not currently supported; Solomon Islands is not among them. Source
- Revolut — Revolut's US international-transfer hub lists all of its 140+ supported destination countries by name, including several other Pacific nations (Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Samoa, Tuvalu); Solomon Islands is not among them. Source
USD to SBD at common amounts
| You send | Mid-market value | Load into calculator |
|---|---|---|
| $100.00 | SBD 795.14 | |
| $250.00 | SBD 1,988 | |
| $500.00 | SBD 3,976 | |
| $1,000 | SBD 7,951 | |
| $2,500 | SBD 19,878 | |
| $5,000 | SBD 39,757 |
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 fastest way to send money to Solomon Islands?
Western Union quotes the fastest delivery on this corridor at minutes. 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.
Solomon Islands at a glance
- Currency
- SBD · Solomon Islands dollar
- Payout methods
- Bank deposit · Cash pickup · Mobile wallet · Card payout
- Typical delivery
- Minutes
- Cash pickup
- Available from 2 of 2 providers
- 1 of the 2 providers can deliver within minutes, including Western Union.
- Cash pickup is available through Remitly and Western Union — no bank account needed.
Before you send to Solomon Islands
- Coverage on this corridor is genuinely thin. Of the major US-outbound providers checked, only Remitly and Western Union publish a working Solomon Islands corridor page; Wise, WorldRemit, Xe, Xoom, Ria, Paysend, Instarem and Revolut do not serve this corridor from the US as of September 2026.
- Wise explicitly states it does not yet support this route: its Solomon Islands page reads, "We're working hard to allow customers to send SLB to Solomon Islands from the US - but we're not quite there yet," and offers a waiting list instead.
- The Solomon Islands dollar (SBD) is a thinly-traded currency; only Remitly publishes an explicit USD-to-SBD rate among the providers confirmed to serve this corridor.
- 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 Solomon Islands
Sending money from the USA to the Solomon Islands converts US dollars (USD) into Solomon Islands dollars (SBD). 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.
Provider coverage here is thin; few major transfer apps publish a dedicated Solomon Islands payout.
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 the Solomon Islands actually receives in Solomon Islands dollars. That one number folds the fee and the rate margin together.
Match the payout method to your recipient
In the Solomon Islands 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 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
Remitly and Western Union offer cash pickup in the Solomon Islands. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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