BaliAmsterdam

Cost of living · 2026

Cost of living: Bali vs Amsterdam

We have not published a Bali vs Amsterdam verdict yet: the dataset for this corridor goes live shortly. Until then, treat any single "X% cheaper" figure you read elsewhere with suspicion, because the honest answer swings on rent, tax and schooling.

The dataset is not live yet

Our cost of living pipeline for Bali vs Amsterdam is next. It runs on the same system as the flagship comparison on dubaiamsterdam.com: prices read from the bodies that set or measure them, converted at the ECB rate of the same month, and every value labelled with its source and month. No scraped averages, no recycled 2019 numbers.

Leave your email at the bottom of this page and you will get the first dataset the day it publishes.

The tax gap decides it

Income tax and VAT usually move the total further than any grocery or transport line. Indonesia and Netherlands treat salary, social security and consumption very differently, so compare net salary first and rents second.

We publish corridor-specific rates together with the Bali vs Amsterdam dataset, sourced from the national tax authorities rather than forum posts, and dated so you can tell when a number goes stale.

What banks pay right now

Savings rates move the corridor math as much as rent does. We snapshot them monthly, per bank, on both sides.

🇳🇱 Savings rates in Netherlands

  • bunq

    Savings Account, EUR · Base rate; bonus rate on savings above your 6-month high

    1.51%

    unchanged 2m

  • Rabobank

    Rabo SpaarRekening, EUR · First EUR 10k

    1.50%

    unchanged 2m

  • ING

    Oranje Spaarrekening, EUR · First EUR 10k, without ING Extra

    1.25%

    unchanged 2m

  • ABN AMRO

    Direct Sparen, EUR · Balances up to EUR 500k

    1.25%

    unchanged 2m

🇮🇩 Savings rates in Indonesia

    Updated November 2026. Rates scraped weekly from the banks' own public pages by our tracker (/api/rates), EUR side sanity-checked against the ECB deposit facility rate. Always confirm current conditions with the bank before opening an account.

    How we compute these numbers

    Prices are collected in local currency from the bodies that set or measure them, and converted at the ECB rate of the same month. The first dataset for this corridor publishes shortly.

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