One tab for rates, one for safety, one for weather, one that was just a forum argument from 2019. Roamfx.com is what we wished existed instead.
Change $1,000 at a Bangkok airport booth and it arrives worth about $40 to $60 less than the same $1,000 sent through Wise. That's a good dinner in Bangkok, gone before you've left the terminal.
That gap is everywhere once you start looking. It hides in "no fee" transfers, where the markup is baked into the exchange rate. It turns up at airport SIM kiosks and in eSIM plans that throttle the moment you leave the city. We built RoamFX to line all of it up in one place, so the cheaper option is the obvious one.
We earn money through affiliate partnerships. Sign up for Wise or Revolut through our links and we get a commission. When a provider is worse on price or fees, we say so anyway, and we publish the rates so you can check for yourself.
Six things we care about when we publish anything on this site.
Finding the best rate for your specific currency pair is the core of what we do. We compare mid-market rates, transfer fees, and weekend markups across Wise, Remitly, and others so you do not have to run the spreadsheets yourself.
A 0.4% difference on a $3,000 trip is $12. We still track it down, show it, and tell you which provider it applies to.
Currency rates pull from the mid-market rate every 60 seconds. Safety scores update with government advisories. The AI-written parts (destination intros, seasonal summaries) are cached and rotated on a schedule rather than quietly served as live.
AI lets us cover 220+ destinations without a huge writing team. Destination intros, safety summaries, and event write-ups are AI-drafted and labeled as such. We review the output, and we fix what the model gets wrong the moment a reader or our own checks flag it.
We earn a commission when you sign up to Wise or Revolut through our links. We recommend them because their rates usually beat what a high-street bank gives you on the same transfer.
We cover safety scores, best months to visit, crowd data, and destination guides, not just what your money is worth when you land.
Roam grew out of the kind of obsessive tab-opening that happens when you want the real answer. Which transfer service has the best rate today. Whether the Thai baht is near a 12-month high or low. What the rain in Bali actually does in October, versus the wall-to-wall sunshine the booking sites promise.
We use AI to move faster than a team our size otherwise could. It drafts destination guides, refreshes data on a schedule, and lets us ship tools that would take months to build by hand. Every AI-written section is labeled, and we check the output. We're only human too, so tell us when you spot a mistake.
No corporate parent, no investors telling us what to rank, nobody paying for higher placement. That independence is why we can tell you Wise beats PayPal on transfer fees without worrying about who's in the room. We're based wherever we happen to be working from, which changes more often than is probably sensible.
Pick a destination and check today's rates before you book.