The Cambodia Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in for US citizens — one flat price, approved in 3 business days, delivered as a printable PDF by email. No flight, no hotel, no bank statement. Here is exactly what that $80 covers, and the one separate cost most Americans miss.
A Cambodia Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in for US citizens. That is one flat price — there are no processing tiers and no rush upsell — and it is approved in 3 business days and delivered as a printable PDF by email. The price covers the visa end to end, including free resubmission if Cambodian Immigration flags a correction and US-timezone support. The one cost that sits outside the visa is the mandatory e-Arrival Card, which is $5 USD verified through us, so a single American traveler should budget $85 USD in total. You do not need a return flight, hotel booking, or bank statement to apply.
A Cambodia Tourist eVisa costs $80 USD all-in for US citizens. That is the whole number for the visa itself — one flat price, no processing tiers, no express upsell, no per-traveler add-ons buried in a final checkout screen. You pay $80 USD, your application is approved in 3 business days, and the approved visa lands in your inbox as a printable PDF. For a category of purchase that usually comes with fine print, the Cambodia Tourist eVisa is refreshingly flat.
Most Americans pricing out a Cambodia trip in 2026 arrive expecting the kind of tiered menu they see on other visa products — a base fee, then a "standard" tier, a "priority" tier, an "express" tier, and a scatter of optional extras that quietly double the number. Cambodia does not work that way for the Tourist eVisa. There is one track, one timeline, and one price. The only cost that genuinely sits outside the visa is the e-Arrival Card, and we will cover that in full below so it never surprises you at the airport.
This guide breaks the $80 USD down line by line — what it includes, the one separate cost most Americans miss, and what your money does NOT have to cover. If you want the visa itself explained, the Cambodia Tourist visa (Type-T) overview covers exactly what the eVisa lets you do before we get into the numbers.
The $80 USD is the price of the Tourist eVisa from the moment you start the form to the moment the approved PDF reaches your inbox. It is not a deposit, not a base rate, and not a "starting from" figure. Here is everything that single number carries for an American applicant in 2026.
The part that matters most for budgeting is the second line. There is one processing track for the Tourist eVisa, full stop. You will sometimes see other products advertise a cheaper "standard" speed and a pricier "rush" speed — that split does not exist here. Every Cambodia Tourist eVisa is worked on the same 3-business-day schedule, which is why the price you see when you start is the price you pay when you finish.
A quick word on the timeline, because it shapes how you should think about the price. Three business days means Monday-to-Friday, excluding weekends and Cambodian public holidays. Apply on a Friday and the clock effectively starts Monday. None of that changes the $80 USD — it just means timing, not money, is the thing to plan around. Our Cambodia eVisa processing time guide for Americans walks through exactly how the 3-business-day window plays out across time zones and holidays.
Here is the single line item that catches US travelers out, and the reason it deserves its own section: the e-Arrival Card. It is not part of the Tourist eVisa, it is not optional, and it is the most common thing Americans forget when they price out the trip. Every air arrival into Cambodia in 2026 has to file one.
The e-Arrival Card is a separate pre-arrival declaration — 14 fields across three short sections — that you submit within the 7 days before your flight. It is $5 USD verified through us, delivered as a ready-to-scan QR code. So the honest, all-in number for a single American traveler is $80 USD for the Tourist eVisa plus $5 USD for the e-Arrival Card: $85 USD total. For a couple, that is $170 USD; for a family of four, $340 USD. Each traveler needs their own visa and their own e-Arrival Card — there is no family bundle.
The reason we flag this so hard is that the visa and the e-Arrival Card are two different forms with two different deadlines. The visa you apply for first, whenever you are ready inside the 3-month validity window. The e-Arrival Card you file last, inside the final week before departure. A single date-format slip on the e-Arrival Card is the most common reason US travelers get sent back at the kiosk — which is exactly why we verify it. The Cambodia e-Arrival Card fee guide for Americans breaks down why it is separate and what the $5 USD covers.
A real part of the Cambodia Tourist eVisa price story is the costs that simply are not there. Americans coming from a Vietnam, Indonesia, or India process often budget for documents and bookings they assume any visa demands. Cambodia asks for none of them at the application stage, which keeps the true cost of qualifying at zero beyond the visa fee itself.
This matters for the budget because it means the visa price is the visa price. With many destinations, the headline visa fee is the smallest part of a much larger "cost to qualify" — a refundable hotel you book just to satisfy the form, a flight you commit to before you are ready, an insurance policy bought purely as evidence. Cambodia strips all of that out. The $80 USD is the cost of being eligible to enter, not the down payment on a stack of supporting purchases.
A note on payment, since it is the one place a US card can add a small cost of its own. The visa is billed in USD, so most American cards process it cleanly, but some issuers still apply a foreign-transaction fee on a charge that routes through an overseas processor. That is a fee from your bank, not part of the $80 USD. Our guide to Cambodia eVisa foreign transaction fees for Americans explains how to spot it and which cards avoid it entirely.
Cambodia issues two eVisa classes, and the price gap between them is smaller than most US travelers expect — $10 USD. The Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in; the Business eVisa is $90 USD all-in. Both are approved in 3 business days and both arrive as a printable PDF by email. So the question is never really about the money. It is about which visa your trip actually needs.
The Tourist eVisa is the right and cheaper choice for genuine leisure — Angkor Wat, the beaches at Sihanoukville and the islands, a Mekong cruise, visiting family, or any vacation that stays under 30 days and does not touch paid work. For the overwhelming majority of Americans flying to Cambodia, that is the trip, and $80 USD is the number.
The Business eVisa earns its extra $10 USD only when the trip is not pure leisure or runs longer than 30 days — meetings, conferences, supplier visits, freelance gigs, or a stay you intend to extend in-country. The Tourist eVisa caps hard at 30 days, and the old tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025, so there is no way to stretch it. If any of that describes your trip, the $10 is not an upsell — it is buying the correct visa class.
The mistake to avoid is over-buying out of caution. If your trip is a straightforward two-week vacation, the Tourist eVisa at $80 USD is the right call and the extra $10 USD for Business buys you nothing you will use. The Cambodia Tourist vs Business eVisa cost comparison lines the two prices up against the trips they fit, and the which Cambodia visa do I need decision guide walks you to the right class in under a minute.
Pull it together and the entry cost for an American on a standard leisure trip is easy to budget because the numbers are fixed and few. For one traveler: $80 USD for the Tourist eVisa, plus $5 USD for the e-Arrival Card, for $85 USD total. There is no departure tax to add at the airport, no on-arrival visa counter to pay at, and no stamp fee on top.
The only variable worth naming is the one outside the visa entirely: if your US card charges a foreign-transaction fee, that adds a small percentage to the charge — typically a dollar or two on an $85 USD total — and that comes from your bank, not from the visa. Use a card with no foreign-transaction fee and even that disappears. Everything else is the flat $85 USD.
Timing, not money, is the thing to manage. The eVisa is valid for 3 months from issue, so you can apply well ahead without the visa expiring before your trip. The smart sequence for most Americans is to apply for the visa once your dates are roughly set, then file the e-Arrival Card inside the final week before departure. That order keeps both forms inside their windows and means the only thing standing between you and the gate is a printed PDF and a QR code on your phone.
If you are weighing whether to pay extra for a faster turnaround, save your money — there is nothing to buy. Every Tourist eVisa is on the same 3-business-day track. What you can control is when you apply, so the practical move is to apply early rather than pay for speed that does not exist. Our guide on how far in advance to apply for a Cambodia eVisa covers the sweet spot, and the no hidden fees explainer for Americans confirms there is nothing waiting to be added at checkout.
Next steps and related reading for US citizens: apply for your Cambodia Tourist eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa for United States citizens hub as the single canonical reference, see the full Cambodia visa cost for Americans breakdown for both classes, and check what is included in the Cambodia eVisa price if you want the line-by-line detail.
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