🇪🇹 Send Br100 in Ethiopia: fees by provider
Sending Br100 in Ethiopia costs the same Br0.10 at every provider — a regulated/matched tariff, so the choice comes down to the recipient's network and agent availability, not price.
How much does it cost to send Br100 in Ethiopia?
Sending Br100 in Ethiopia costs the same Br0.10 at every provider compared (2). Receiving is free; you pay only the operator's tier fee, with any applicable state taxes included. Verified June 2026.
Br100 is one of the smallest amounts people move in Ethiopia — roughly a bus ride and airtime. Ethiopia's market is young and state-shaped: Telebirr (Ethio Telecom) dominates, with Safaricom's M-Pesa the challenger.
Telebirr digitised payments at huge scale in just a few years; M-Pesa's competition is only beginning to move pricing. At an effective 0.10% on the cheapest option (telebirr), the fixed part bites hardest here — batching small sends or keeping the balance on the wallet saves the most.
At Br100, this amount falls in a pricing band where a percentage fee (0.1%) applies at the reference provider. The next band starts at Br5,001, 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 Ethiopia send tariff is banded by amount: free Br1–Br50; 0.1% Br51–Br5,000; flat Br5 above Br5,001. That is why the cost depends as much on the amount as on the provider.
Compare all providers for Br100
| Provider | Fee | Levy | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
TLBtelebirrCheapest | Br0.10 | None | Br0.10 |
MPSM-PesaCheapest | Br0.10 | None | Br0.10 |
Indicative verified fees; any applicable government levy is included in the total.
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