Send money to Kenya
Kenya is compared here from 5 sending markets — the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and the UAE. Recipients are paid in Kenyan shilling (KES), usually by M-Pesa mobile money and bank deposit.
M-Pesa is the dominant way to receive money in Kenya — most transfers arrive on a phone number within minutes.
On 4 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?
Providers that reach Kenya
Each name links to that provider's own page: every corridor it appears on, and every one it is documented as not serving.
Checked and not available
- Revolut from the USA — Kenyan shillings are not on Revolut's US list of supported currencies for outgoing transfers (October 2026), and Revolut's US transfer calculator answered "We don't support this yet" for Kenya in September 2026
- Instarem from the UAE — publishes UAE pages only for money sent into the UAE, with no send-from product page
- Wise from the UAE — the UAE is not on its published list of send-from countries; the dirham appears only as a receive currency within the UAE
- WorldRemit from the UAE — the UAE is not among the supported sending countries on its Middle East send-from page
- Xoom from the UAE — publishes the UAE only as a receiving country
