Send money to India
India is compared here from 16 sending markets — the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, the UAE, Spain, France, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Qatar. Recipients are paid in Indian rupee (INR), usually by IMPS and NEFT bank deposit.
India's IMPS rail settles instantly around the clock, so bank deposits often land within minutes rather than days.
On 7 of these routes a like-for-like recipient amount was checked against the mid-market rate, so the cards below can say what the best provider actually pays.
Where are you sending from?
- From the USA13 providers · best pays INR 94,907 per $1,000
- From the UK10 providers · best pays INR 125,746 per £1,000
- From Canada8 providers · best pays INR 66,674 per C$1,000
- From Australia8 providers · best pays INR 65,650 per A$1,000
- From the UAE4 providers
- From Spain3 providers · best pays INR 106,136 per €1,000
- From France3 providers · best pays INR 106,136 per €1,000
- From Germany8 providers · best pays INR 106,136 per €1,000
- From New Zealand3 providers
- From Singapore4 providers
- From Italy3 providers
- From Ireland3 providers
- From Sweden3 providers
- From Hong Kong3 providers
- From Malaysia3 providers
- From Qatar5 providers
Providers that reach India
Each name links to that provider's own page: every corridor it appears on, and every one it is documented as not serving.
- Western Union · 16 routes
- Wise · 14 routes
- Remitly · 13 routes
- Instarem · 5 routes
- Paysend · 5 routes
- WorldRemit · 5 routes
- MoneyGram · 4 routes
- Ria Money Transfer · 4 routes
- Taptap Send · 3 routes
- Xoom · 3 routes
- Revolut · 2 routes
- Al Zaman Exchange · 1 route
- Careem Pay · 1 route
- Commercial Bank of Qatar · 1 route
- e& money · 1 route
- LemFi · 1 route
- Ooredoo Money · 1 route
- Panda Remit · 1 route
- QNB · 1 route
- TransferGo · 1 route
- Xe Money Transfer · 1 route
Checked and not available
- Wise from the UAE — its UAE-to-India page states it is not yet possible to send INR to India from the United Arab Emirates, and offers a waiting list instead
- Ria Money Transfer from Germany — its German-market site publishes no India destination page
- Remitly from Hong Kong — Remitly does not operate from Hong Kong. Its Hong Kong market root returns a 404, as does every Hong Kong corridor address tested.
- Remitly from Malaysia — Remitly does not operate from Malaysia. Its Malaysian market root returns a 404, as does every Malaysian corridor address tested.
- Instarem from Qatar — Instarem does not serve Qatar outbound. Its Qatari market address redirects to the global home page, which then quotes a euro to rupee transfer — the redirect-to-homepage pattern that looks live to a status check but serves no Qatari product.
- MoneyGram from Qatar — 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.
- Remitly from Qatar — Remitly does not operate from Qatar, or from anywhere in the Gulf except the UAE. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman each return a 404 on the provider's market root.
- Ria Money Transfer from Qatar — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen.
- Wise from Qatar — Wise does not operate from Qatar. Its Qatari send-money address returns the provider's own lost-page screen and redirects to the global home page.
