🇧🇯 Send FCFA500 in Benin: fees by provider
To send FCFA500 in Benin, MTN is free, while the others charge up to FCFA50.00. So the cheapest is Free and the most expensive FCFA50.00.
FCFA500 is one of the smallest amounts people move in Benin — roughly a zem ride and airtime. Benin runs on MTN MoMo and Moov Money, with mobile money now an everyday payment channel.
Benin digitised quickly around two operators; at a given amount the band tariffs are close, and agent access is the tie-breaker. At an effective 0% on the cheapest option (MTN), the fixed part bites hardest here — batching small sends or keeping the balance on the wallet saves the most.
At FCFA500, this amount falls in a pricing band where no fee applies at the reference provider. The next band starts at FCFA1,000, where pricing changes — worth knowing if your amount is near that threshold. Keeping money on the wallet to pay avoids any cash-out fee.
The Benin send tariff is banded by amount: free FCFA1–FCFA999; flat FCFA50 above FCFA1,000. That is why the cost depends as much on the amount as on the provider.
Compare all providers for FCFA500
| Provider | Fee | Levy | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
MTNMTNCheapest | Free | None | Free |
WVWave | FCFA5.00 | None | FCFA5.00 |
MOMoov | FCFA50.00 | None | FCFA50.00 |
Indicative verified fees; any applicable government levy is included in the total.
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