🇹🇿 Send TSh500,000 in Tanzania: fees by provider
To send TSh500,000 in Tanzania, Mixx by Yas and Halo are free, while the others charge up to TSh3,717.00. So the cheapest is Free and the most expensive TSh3,717.00.
TSh500,000 is a substantial sum in Tanzania — roughly a rent instalment or stock for a kiosk. Tanzania has a genuinely competitive field — Vodacom M-Pesa, Airtel Money and Mixx by Yas (rebranded from Tigo Pesa in 2024) — landing money in Dar es Salaam and upcountry, with LUKU TANESCO as the dominant bill-pay use case.
At this size it's treasury: the wallet-to-bank route into CRDB / NMB / Stanbic / Equity Tanzania beats the agent withdraw — instant, no fiscal stack applied to the amount. The cheapest (Mixx by Yas and Halo) is only 0% at this size — low in percentage terms, but the absolute amount makes the choice worth getting right.
At TSh500,000, this amount falls in a pricing band where a flat TSh3717 fee applies at the reference provider. The next band starts at TSh600,000, where pricing changes — worth knowing if your amount is near that threshold. At this scale (TSh 500,000), this is a treasury function: the clean route is wallet-to-bank into CRDB, NMB, Stanbic or Equity Tanzania (instant), which sidesteps the withdrawal operator fee + the excise/VAT layer and leaves a bank trail.
This size sits in the flat TSh3717 TSh500,000–TSh599,999 band; the adjacent band is flat TSh4817 TSh600,000–TSh699,999. Full table on the Tanzania send charges page.
Compare all providers for TSh500,000
| Provider | Fee | Levy | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
MXXMixx by YasCheapest | Free | None | Free |
HALHaloCheapest | Free | None | Free |
AIRAirtel | TSh1,500.00 | None | TSh1,500.00 |
MPSM-Pesa | TSh3,717.00 | None | TSh3,717.00 |
Indicative verified fees; any applicable government levy is included in the total.
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