Transfer Costs by Corridor

Plexo Institute's transfer-cost dataset covers 348 consumer remittance corridors from 46 sending to 97 receiving countries, built from 6,470 World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide observations (Q3 2025 release). Sending $200 costs 7.25% on average across tracked corridors; 75 corridors average above 8% while 35 stay under 3%. Last verified: 28 July 2026.

Page Scope

Transfer Costs by Corridor is a data map page in the data console surface. Compare consumer remittance costs and cross-border payment friction by corridor — observed pricing signals that show where stablecoin settlement wins.

The Transfer Costs route frames consumer remittance cost signals as corridor evidence, not as a complete business-payment pricing map. It gives readers a crawlable summary of where payment friction appears in public cost data and how those signals relate to cross-border settlement research.

Use this page as a companion to the jurisdiction and data-console routes. It helps separate observed remittance-cost benchmarks from broader liquidity, compliance, and settlement questions that require separate source review.

For citation and retrieval, the route keeps the claim boundary narrow: transfer-cost rows are evidence about observed corridors, not proof that every settlement path, stablecoin rail, bank route, or business payment has the same economics. Related links connect the page back to jurisdiction, entity, and research context.

How much does it cost to send money across borders?

Across the 348 consumer remittance corridors tracked by Plexo Institute from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide Q3 2025 data, sending $200 costs 7.25% on average. 75 corridors average above 8%, and 35 corridors come in under the 3% UN SDG 10.c target.

What data does the transfer-cost explorer use?

The World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide Q3 2025 release: 6,470 priced observations aggregated into 348 corridor summaries and 97 receiving-country profiles. Figures are observed consumer remittance prices — not business, interbank, or real-time pricing.

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