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Mercury vs Bluevine for international owners
Neither Mercury nor Bluevine for international owners says it needs a US physical address. Mercury and Bluevine for international owners both charge nothing for the first year.
The address rule each bank publishes for owners abroad, then twelve monthly fees plus any fee to open. Every figure this site holds on both products is below, side by side. Of 7, 2 differ; those rows carry a rule and the rest are left quiet.
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US physical address neededidentical
- Bluevine for international owners
- NoCalculated from attributes verified Sep 2026
What it says about the address
- Mercury
- A verifiable home or office address, in the US or abroad; no PO boxes, virtual addresses, mail centres or registered agent addressesVerified against the source Sep 2026
- Bluevine for international owners
- A physical or non-physical US legal business address, plus a physical home address in your countryVerified against the source Sep 2026
Owners living outside the US
- Mercury
- Yes; founders from outside its prohibited countriesVerified against the source Sep 2026
- Bluevine for international owners
- Yes; owners living in 25 listed countriesVerified against the source Sep 2026
Fees, first yearidentical
- Bluevine for international owners
- $0Calculated from attributes verified Sep 2026
Monthly feeidentical
- Mercury
- NoneVerified against the source Sep 2026
- Bluevine for international owners
- NoneVerified against the source Sep 2026
US physical address neededidentical
- Mercury
- NoVerified against the source Sep 2026
- Bluevine for international owners
- NoVerified against the source Sep 2026
One-time fee to openidentical
- Mercury
- $0Verified against the source Sep 2026
- Bluevine for international owners
- $0Verified against the source Sep 2026
Mercury
Mercury
| Criterion | Weight | Score | PointsContribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opens without a US physical address | 70% | 5.00 | 3.50 |
| Fees in the first year | 30% | 5.00 | 1.50 |
| Total | 100% | 5.0 |
Excellent tier. Weights are published on the methodology page; a change to any of them is a rubric version bump, not a silent edit.
Open to founders anywhere outside its prohibited countries, for a US company with existing or planned US operations. The address it asks for is the company's principal place of business, which can be a verifiable home or office abroad; it refuses virtual addresses, mailbox services and registered agent addresses. No monthly fee; ACH, domestic wires and USD international wires are free, and conversions cost 1%.
Who this suits
Nothing in this product's verified data distinguishes it from the rest of this table.
Who it doesn’t
No verified figure in this table counts against this product. We don't manufacture a drawback to balance the page.
Bluevine
Bluevine for international owners
| Criterion | Weight | Score | PointsContribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opens without a US physical address | 70% | 5.00 | 3.50 |
| Fees in the first year | 30% | 5.00 | 1.50 |
| Total | 100% | 5.0 |
Excellent tier. Weights are published on the methodology page; a change to any of them is a rubric version bump, not a silent edit.
A programme for owners living in 25 listed countries, among them the UK, Canada, India, Australia, Germany and Singapore, with a US LLC or corporation, an EIN and a passport. It asks for a US legal business address that may be physical or not, plus your home address abroad. The Standard plan has no monthly fee. Owners outside the listed countries are not covered.
Who this suits
Nothing in this product's verified data distinguishes it from the rest of this table.
Who it doesn’t
No verified figure in this table counts against this product. We don't manufacture a drawback to balance the page.
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Plain text
Points Architect. "Mercury vs Bluevine for international owners: verified comparison." Rubric 2026.1. Verified Sep 2026. https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/mercury-vs-bluevine-international
BibTeX
@misc{pointsarchitect-compare-mercury-vs-bluevine-international,
title = {Mercury vs Bluevine for international owners: verified comparison},
author = {{Points Architect}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/mercury-vs-bluevine-international}},
note = {Verified Sep 2026; rubric 2026.1}
}Canonical URL https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/mercury-vs-bluevine-international. Every row in the attribute table has its own anchor, so a single fee can be cited without citing the whole record.