The best Thailand visa for your budget
Three honest budget tiers — under ฿20k/year, under ฿100k/year, under ฿500k/year. Each page totals the realistic annual cost including renewals, fees, agent fees where required, mandatory insurance, and the unavoidable extras most blogs hide.
Pick your budget tier
We exclude rent, food, and personal living costs from these pages — those are cost of living, not visa cost. What you see here is the actual annual price of your Thai visa status.
Under ฿20,000 / year
DTV at ฿2k/yr amortised. Marriage Non-O ฿1,900. Retirement Non-O ฿1,900. Education ED. Real total disclosed.
Under ฿100,000 / year
Retirement O-A with insurance. SMART. Education ED at premium school. DTV with insurance ride-along.
Under ฿500,000 / year
Privilege Diamond / Reserve. LTR Wealthy Global Citizen with tax exemption. Privilege + Thai company hybrid.
What we mean by "budget"
Most "Thailand visa cost" comparisons online are misleading because they include only the application fee. A retirement O-A "costs ฿5,000" by that math — even though the mandatory THB 3M insurance adds ฿40-80k/year and is the actual budget impact. Our pages total the real annual outflow.
If you would prefer to plug your own numbers in, our cost calculator handles all 12 visa types with your specific situation toggled in.
Tax-engineering note
For premium budgets (LTR-eligible), the visa "cost" can be net-negative — meaning the tax savings from Royal Decree 743 exemption exceed the visa investment within months. We work that math through on the under-฿500k page.
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