Two questions hide inside “what does Revolut cost by country,” and most pages answer neither properly. Revolut is a paid plan you might buy (Standard, Plus, Premium, Metal, Ultra). Revolut is also a card people use to pay someone else’s subscription. Mixing the two jobs is how “get Metal cheap, then pay Turkish Spotify” becomes a sentence that fails both checkouts.
Here is what we can say with dates attached, straight from Revolut’s own pages, checked August 2026.
Job one: Revolut as the subscription
Plan prices are set by the country you registered in, not by the currency showing in your app. Holding lira or rupees does not move you to the Turkish or Indian plan menu. KYC decided your product country when you uploaded your passport and address.
We pulled two official menus to show how differently the same plan names price:
| Plan | EEA (Lithuania entity), per month | United States entity |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free | $0.00/month |
| Plus | EUR 3.99 | offered separately |
| Premium | EUR 9.99 | different fee structure |
| Metal | EUR 17.99 | different fee structure |
| Ultra | EUR 50 (introductory) | not listed |
Source: revolut.com/en-LT/pricing and help.revolut.com/en-US, both accessed August 2026. Note that the US help page quotes fair-use limits in dollars with different percentages than the EEA footnotes quote in euros. Same brand, same plan names, genuinely different products. That is why one global “Revolut Premium costs X” answer cannot exist.
A warning about third-party comparison sites: some publish a full country table ranking Brazil or Japan as the “cheapest Revolut Premium country” (one site showed Brazil at roughly four US dollars a month, observed 29 August 2026). The observation may be honest, but the framing is broken — you cannot shop for that price unless you legally live there. Residency is the product key.
Where the country really changes what you pay is the fee schedule, not the sticker:
| Fee | Standard | Plus | Premium | Metal / Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend currency-exchange markup (EEA) | 1% | 1% | 0.5% | none |
| Weekday exchange above fair-use allowance (EEA) | 1% over €1,000/mo | 0.5% over €3,000/mo | unlimited | unlimited |
Source: Revolut EEA plans-comparison page, August 2026. The US entity publishes its own version: a 0.5% fee on exchanges over $1,000/month on Standard, over $10,000/month on Premium, and no extra exchange fees on Metal, with the 1% weekend fee applying to Standard only.
Practical read: if you exchange currencies on weekends, Premium’s 0.5% instead of 1% can save real money — on €2,000 converted that is €10 saved, which already beats the gap between some markets’ monthly plan prices. Convert on a weekday inside your fair-use allowance and the markup drops to zero on every plan.
What to do if you want the cheapest workable setup:
- Open the Revolut app signed into the account you already have.
- Open the plan screen. Read the currency, the billing period, and your exchange allowance.
- Do not try to sign up “in” a cheaper market without living there. That is a failed identity check, not a coupon.
Job two: Revolut as the card in someone else’s checkout
This is the job that lands on our payment guides. People already hold many currencies in Revolut and try to pay a Turkey or India storefront. The merchant does not charge “the currency you selected.” It checks the issuing country of the card number.
Revolut cards are issued in Revolut’s licensed markets. Holding TRY in the app still presents a non-Turkish BIN to Spotify, OpenAI, Netflix, or YouTube. That is why Revolut shows up in decline logs next to Wise. Multi-currency wallets excel at travel spend. They are poor at pretending to be a local bank.
But there is a real job here that competitors skip: Revolut as the funding rail. For Turkish subscriptions the proven path is a Turkish-issued Ininal prepaid card — foreigners can register with a passport and a Turkish address — and the cheap way to load it is converting money inside Revolut on a weekday, inside your fair-use allowance, then topping up Ininal from there. The full playbook is best virtual card for foreign subscriptions, and the head-to-head with Turkish issuers is Ininal vs Ozan vs Revolut. The general matrix is how to pay.
| You want | Revolut can help | Revolut cannot do |
|---|---|---|
| Spend abroad with less conversion pain | Yes, that is the product | Rewrite Spotify’s country |
| Fund a Turkish prepaid card cheaply | Yes, weekday conversions | Be that Turkish card itself |
| Pay a US or EU storefront you already belong to | Often | Replace a missing local method in TR/IN |
| Look like a Turkish or Indian customer | No | Pass a BIN/country gate |
If we place a Revolut referral on this page or a payment page, it is disclosed next to the link. Cookie and payout are not why the issuing-country sentence exists.
Revolut is a good travel card and a bad disguise. We will not rank Metal as a cheaper-Netflix tool.
How the two jobs collide
People upgrade to Premium hoping the metal card “works more often” on foreign storefronts. Card scheme and tier can shift decline rates at the edges. They do not change the issuing country. Upgrading your Revolut plan to reach a cheaper ChatGPT country means buying a second subscription to fail the first.
Auto-renew on Revolut’s own plan is easy to forget because the app is daily infrastructure. Cancel in the plan screen before the period ends if you only needed a trial perk. We have not verified trial lengths or renewal step-ups, so we print none.
One honest caveat on our own table: our Revolut Premium live table stays unpublished until we log dated rows from Revolut’s country pricing pages ourselves — the EEA figures above come from one entity’s page on one day, and Revolut reprices quietly. Methodology: /methodology/.