Anticitizen vs Expat Money
Expat Money is a personality-led consulting brand with a popular podcast and summit. Anticitizen is a structured membership with playbooks and named caseworkers. Here's how they actually stack up.
Expat Money, led by Mikkel Thorup, is best known for its podcast, the annual Expat Money Summit, and a personal consulting offer for clients looking to relocate, restructure taxes and obtain second residencies. It is largely a one-man brand with a supporting team.
Anticitizen is structurally different: a membership platform with country-by-country playbooks, weekly briefings on legislative change, and named caseworkers who handle file review across a team. It is built to scale guidance across many members at a low monthly price.
Pricing
- Expat Money: Free podcast and summit content (summit tickets paid). Personal consulting engagements are quoted bespoke and typically run into the four to low five figures depending on scope.
- Anticitizen: Flat ~$33/month. Includes playbooks, caseworker access, and briefings — no per-engagement uplift.
Delivery
Expat Money sells personal access. You get Mikkel and his team's recommendations, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction, on a paid call basis. The work product is largely advice and referral; execution is on you and the recommended local professionals.
Anticitizen sells structured guidance at scale. The playbooks are written by people who have walked dozens of members through the same process. Your named caseworker reviews your specific documents. The membership model means you can ask a new question every week without re-engaging on a per-hour basis.
Coverage
Expat Money leans heavily into Latin America (Panama in particular, also Paraguay, Mexico, Caribbean), in line with Mikkel's personal network. European descent routes, UAE freezones, offshore banking outside the Americas, and detailed Asian options are lighter.
Anticitizen covers Latin America at comparable depth and adds Italian / Polish / Irish descent, Spain / Portugal / Greece residencies, UAE freezones with substance, Caribbean CBI, and offshore banking across Georgia, Singapore and Liechtenstein.
Who each is for
Expat Money appeals to people who like personality-led brands, want to talk directly to a named host, and are happy to pay consulting rates for that access — usually focused on Latin America.
Anticitizen suits people who prefer structured process over personality, want global coverage rather than a regional focus, and want a predictable monthly fee rather than per-engagement quotes.
Reviewer feedback
Expat Money clients generally rate the personal access highly, with the common caveat that the cost-per-question is meaningful once you're beyond the free podcast content.
Anticitizen reviewers consistently note the value-per-dollar of the membership model — a year of caseworker-backed guidance for less than a single Expat Money consulting engagement, with broader geographic coverage to boot.
Bottom line
Expat Money is a strong personality-led brand, particularly for Latin American moves. Anticitizen is a structured, lower-cost, broader-coverage execution membership. For most people running the numbers, Anticitizen delivers more guidance, across more jurisdictions, for materially less money.