A monthly hot desk in Vietnam costs about 2,400,000 to 2,500,000 VND in Da Nang and Hanoi — ACE Coworking in Da Nang charges 2,400,000 VND, COGO in Hanoi 2,500,000 VND — and 60 to 150 USD in Ho Chi Minh City. Most spaces collect payment by QR scan or Vietnamese bank transfer rather than card.
2,400,000 VND. That is one month of hot desk access at ACE Coworking in Da Nang, and it sits almost exactly where the rest of the country sits too — Enosta Space in Da Nang and COGO in Hanoi both list hot desks at 2,500,000 VND a month.
The price is the easy part. The awkward part is that a Vietnamese coworking space is set up to be paid the way Vietnamese businesses get paid: a transfer from a domestic bank account, or a scan of the QR code taped to the reception desk. Neither of those is automatic if you arrived three days ago on a 45-day exemption.
The Monthly Hot Desk: 2.4 to 2.5 Million VND
A hot desk — any free seat, no storage, usually 8am to 8pm access — is the default product and the one almost every nomad buys. ACE Coworking in Da Nang lists 2,400,000 VND a month, roughly 91 USD. Enosta Space in Da Nang and COGO in Hanoi both list 2,500,000 VND, roughly 95 USD.
That figure normally includes the desk, fibre internet, air conditioning, and in most places unlimited coffee or tea. What it rarely includes is 24-hour access, a locker, or meeting room hours beyond a small monthly allowance — those are sold as add-ons and quoted separately.
Payment is almost always collected in full on day one, not pro-rated. If you turn up on the 20th, many spaces will either start your month from that date or quietly offer you a two-week rate; ask before you pay rather than after.
Ho Chi Minh City Prices in USD, and the One Place Foreign Cards Genuinely Win
Ho Chi Minh City spaces aimed at startups and corporates — Dreamplex and CirCO among them — quote monthly memberships in the 60 to 150 USD range, a wider spread than Da Nang or Hanoi because the product range is wider. The bottom of that band buys a hot desk in a District 4 or Binh Thanh building; the top buys a dedicated desk in District 1 with meeting room credits.
These are also the spaces most likely to have a real card terminal at reception, because their corporate clients expect one. If you are joining a mid-size or large operator in central Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi and they can run your Visa or Mastercard on an NFC terminal with no surcharge, use it — that is the cleanest payment you will make all month and it leaves a clean statement line for your accountant.
Check the surcharge first, though. Passing on a 2 to 3 percent card fee to the customer is common practice in Vietnam, and on a 150 USD membership that is an extra 3 to 4.50 USD a month you did not budget for.
Day Passes, Week Passes and the Break-Even Point
Day passes in Vietnam typically run 100,000 to 200,000 VND, and week passes usually land somewhere near four to five day passes rather than seven. Run the arithmetic against a 2,500,000 VND monthly membership and the break-even sits at roughly 15 to 20 working days.
So if you are in a city for under three weeks, or you only want a desk two or three days a week, day passes win on cost and you keep the flexibility. If you are staying a month and working most weekdays, the membership is cheaper from about day 16 onwards.
The payment pattern differs too. A monthly membership is one large transaction; day passes are fifteen or twenty small ones, each handled at the counter, and each needing a method that works on the spot.
Cafe-Hybrid Spaces Where the Desk Is a Drinks Tab
Da Nang in particular has a tier of workspaces that sell access rather than membership. Hi4 Workspace, for example, posts day, week and month prices in VND and ties hot desk access to food and drink purchases rather than a subscription.
The sums work out closer than people expect. Two drinks a day at 45,000 VND each, 22 working days a month, is 1,980,000 VND — within a few hundred thousand dong of a standard hot desk membership, with no commitment and no deposit.
What changes is the payment rhythm. Instead of one transfer at the start of the month you are making forty or fifty small payments at a counter, which is exactly the scenario where a method that works on every scan matters more than one that works on a card terminal somewhere.
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Deposits, Dedicated Desks and the VAT Invoice
Move up from a hot desk to a dedicated desk or a private office and a deposit appears. One month's fee is the common ask — so 2,400,000 to 2,500,000 VND on top of your first month, and private offices sometimes two months. That money is held against damage and notice periods and refunded at the end.
Ask how the refund is paid before you hand it over. Many operators will only refund by transfer to a Vietnamese bank account, which is useless to you if you do not have one. Pushing for a cash refund in person on your last day, agreed in writing at signing, saves a genuinely miserable conversation three months later.
If you need a red invoice — the official VAT invoice, hoa don do — for an employer or your own company accounts, say so at signing. The space needs your company name and tax code up front, and issuing one retrospectively is a favour rather than a right.
Paying 2.5 Million VND a Month With No Vietnamese Bank Account
This is where the price list stops being the problem. A standard Vietnamese bank account requires a long-term visa, a work permit or a Temporary Residence Card, so anyone on a 45-day exemption or a 90-day e-visa is locked out of the transfer method most spaces default to. The domestic e-wallets are no easier: MoMo needs a Vietnamese phone number, ZaloPay needs a Vietnamese ID document, and since Circular 41/2025 new e-wallet registrations in Vietnam require biometric verification.
The usual workaround is the ATM, and it is expensive. Vietnamese ATM withdrawal fees typically run 22,000 to 55,000 VND per transaction, and once your home bank's foreign transaction fee and FX margin are added, total costs of 3 to 8 percent on small withdrawals are normal. Pull 2,500,000 VND for a membership and you may hand over the equivalent of 75,000 to 200,000 VND for the privilege — then walk to reception carrying twenty-five 100,000 VND notes.
The alternative is to pay the way the space already expects to be paid. Reception QR codes run on VietQR, the national standard managed by NAPAS and the State Bank of Vietnam and supported across more than 40 Vietnamese banks; the State Bank reported QR payment adoption up 150 percent in 2025. A foreign Visa or Mastercard cannot connect to that system directly, which is the gap LocalPay fills — a non-custodial wallet you top up with the card you already carry, then use to pay any VietQR merchant, with no Vietnamese bank account, SIM card or residency card involved.
For a monthly membership that means one payment at the counter instead of two ATM trips, and for a cafe-hybrid space it means every coffee goes through the same scan. Funds stay under your control rather than sitting with a custodian, and top-ups also accept Apple Pay, Google Pay or stablecoins such as USDC and USDT if that suits you better. It is on the iOS App Store and Google Play, and LocalPay is backed by Colosseum.
Six Things to Settle Before You Hand Over a Month's Fee
- Ask whether the quoted price includes VAT. A 2,500,000 VND hot desk advertised pre-tax becomes 2,750,000 VND at 10 percent, and operators are inconsistent about which figure they display.
- Get the access hours in writing. Standard hot desk memberships in Da Nang and Hanoi are usually 8am to 8pm on weekdays; 24/7 access and weekend entry are frequently a separate line item.
- Trial the internet before you pay for a month. Run a speed test at 3pm on a Tuesday, not at 8am when the place is empty, and check upload speed specifically if you take video calls.
- Count the power sockets at the desk you would actually use. Plenty of attractive Vietnamese coworking floors have one socket per two seats and a permanent queue for the wall side.
- Confirm how a deposit refund will reach you. If the only mechanism offered is a transfer to a Vietnamese bank account, negotiate a cash refund on your final day and get it noted on the contract.
- Check the surcharge before offering a card. A 2 to 3 percent fee on a 150 USD Ho Chi Minh City membership is standard practice, and paying the counter QR instead usually avoids it.
Budget roughly 2,500,000 VND a month for a hot desk in Da Nang or Hanoi, 60 to 150 USD in Ho Chi Minh City, and add a month's fee again as deposit if you want a dedicated desk. Those numbers are stable across the country and easy to plan around.
The payment method is what to sort out before your first day, not at the counter while someone waits. Install LocalPay, top it up with the card in your wallet, and the reception QR becomes a scan rather than a problem — whether that is one 2,400,000 VND membership payment or fifty coffees at a cafe-hybrid desk.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Vietnamese coworking spaces sell day passes and monthly hot desk memberships to anyone who walks in with a passport, and no Temporary Residence Card, work permit or local ID is required to buy one. The restriction is on payment methods, not membership — a 90-day e-visa holder can buy a 2,500,000 VND membership but cannot open the Vietnamese bank account most spaces expect the transfer to come from.
A monthly hot desk at 2,400,000 to 2,500,000 VND in Da Nang or Hanoi becomes cheaper than day passes at around 15 to 20 working days, assuming day passes in the usual 100,000 to 200,000 VND range. Stay under three weeks or work from the space only two or three days a week and day passes cost less overall.
Larger operators in central Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, such as Dreamplex and CirCO, often have card terminals that accept foreign Visa and Mastercard, frequently with a 2 to 3 percent surcharge passed to the customer. Smaller independent spaces in Da Nang and Hoi An typically have no terminal at all and collect payment by Vietnamese bank transfer or a QR code at reception.
