🇲🇿 Send MT500 in Mozambique: fees by provider

MT500 is a small everyday sum in Mozambique — roughly a chapa ride and airtime. Mozambique is led by M-Pesa (Vodacom), with e-Mola and mKesh, in the metical.

M-Pesa dominates receiving, especially outside the big cities; the band tariff and agent presence along the Maputo corridor matter most. The cheapest (M-Pesa, e-Mola and mKesh) works out at 0%; a flat fee, where it applies, still counts at this size.

At MT500, this amount falls in a pricing band where no fee applies at the reference provider. The next band starts at MT500.01, 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 Mozambique send tariff is banded by amount: free MT1–MT500; flat MT8 MT500.01–MT2,500; flat MT20 MT2,500.01–MT10,000; flat MT40 MT10,000.01–MT25,000; flat MT65 MT25,000.01–MT50,000. That is why the cost depends as much on the amount as on the provider.