Thailand Privilege visa cost: what you actually pay

The Thailand Privilege visa price is simple at the top and less clear at the edges. The membership fee for each tier is public. Family fees, government fees and agent fees are where people get surprised. This page separates them.

Everything below comes from official pages read on 26 October 2026. We did not find agent or law firm fees on those pages; the end of this page covers what that means.

The membership fee

Tier	One-off fee	Validity
Bronze	650,000 THB	5 years
Gold	900,000 THB	5 years
Platinum	1,500,000 THB	10 years
Diamond	2,500,000 THB	15 years
Reserve	5,000,000 THB	20 years

The programme’s own guide says these are one-time fees “without recurring annual payments”. The official list shows Reserve with a “By invitation only” label.

Our arithmetic, not an official figure: the cheapest cost per covered year is Bronze, at 130,000 THB (650,000 divided by 5). See which tier to choose for the full comparison.

Family and extra members

This is the part where the official pages do not agree with each other.

• The tier data on the Platinum, Diamond and Reserve pages lists an additional card fee of 750,000 THB. The home page also carries a news item titled “Next Member promotion only THB 750,000”. Its text is an image we could not read.
• The programme’s comparison with the LTR visa says a supplementary package is available “for a limited offer of THB 750,000” for Platinum, Diamond and Reserve. The same guide also lists a fee based on the tier: THB 1,000,000 for a Platinum Next Member, THB 1,500,000 for Diamond and THB 2,000,000 for Reserve, with 750,000 as a limited-time offer.
• Two other guides, on family benefits and on the long-stay solution, give THB 500,000 per additional member for the same three tiers. One calls it a promotional rate and the other marks it with an asterisk as a limited offer.

So the figure is 750,000, 500,000, or 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 THB per extra member depending on the page, and the pages call the lower figures a limited offer. We do not pick one. The tier data shows no additional fee for Bronze, and we found no family fee listed for Gold.

Our suggestion: get the family price in writing, with the date, before you pay for the main membership.

Other official fees you may meet

These are not part of the membership fee. They come from the official Living in Thailand page.

Item	Amount	What the page says
Stay extension at immigration	THB 1,900	Paid in cash to the officer. The page says the price can change.
Late 90-day report	THB 2,000 penalty	The page also says a late report must then be done in person at immigration.
Elite Personal Liaison (EPL) service	THB 3,000 per service for quota members	The page says redemption-point members pay in points instead, and that the first use is free. It lists Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Reserve as redemption-point types.

The page says EPL is needed for a Thai driving licence application. We did not check which of these services you will need.

Payment

The official tier pages list these payment options: overseas or local bank transfer, Visa, MasterCard, Alipay, UnionPay and Thai QR Payment. They state the order of events as: documents, approval, payment, then activation. So you pay after approval. How to apply covers the steps.

An older fee notice

The official news list includes an item from September 2024 titled “Exemption of 50,000 Baht Membership Application Fee”. We could not read its text. The programme’s family guide, on the other hand, says the primary member submits the application with a THB 50,000 application fee that is deducted from the total membership fee on approval. The two do not obviously fit together, and we cannot tell which one applies today. The tier pages we read show only the membership fee. If you are quoted an application fee, ask which notice it comes from.

What is not in these prices

• Agent or law firm fees. The programme says applications can go through authorised agents. The official pages we read list no agent fees. We do not state fees for the partner law firm. Ask for a written quote.
• Anything else we did not find. We did not find refund terms in the pages we read, and we do not say anything about refunds.
• Costs of living in Thailand. Rent, health cover and tax are not covered in this article.

Our suggestion

Treat the tier fee as the floor, not the total. Add the family fee, the immigration fees above and any agent fee, then compare with the other routes on our Thailand Privilege page. To get current family figures and the partner law firm’s own terms, send an enquiry.