ComplyRemit vs Western Union

Western Union is built on a network of agent locations, so money can be handed over a counter in one country and collected in cash in another, as well as sent online. ComplyRemit has no counters. It is online only, from a US bank account to an Indian bank account or UPI ID.

No. ComplyRemit pays out only to an Indian bank account or a UPI ID, so the recipient needs one of the two. In return the recipient does not visit an agent or quote a reference number at a counter. The rupees are credited straight to the account.

Compare the same kind of transfer. A network that offers cash, card and bank options can price each differently, so take its online quote for a bank-account-to-bank-account transfer, enter the same dollar amount on both sites at the same moment, and compare the rupees each says will arrive.

No. Every transfer is paid for from a US bank account you have linked to your ComplyRemit account, and the whole process happens on the web or in the mobile app. If you need to hand over cash to send money, use an agent network. We cannot take cash.

If the recipient has no bank account, or needs to collect cash in person, Western Union's agent network does what we cannot.

We publish no exchange rate or fee figures for Western Union on this page. We have no way to source their live pricing, keep it current or date it, and an out-of-date number about a competitor, published by a money transmitter, is worse than no number. Compare the two live quotes instead; our five checks for comparing any two providers take about two minutes.