20 real travel eSIM providers, compared, us included

How this page was made, and why it exists

Every row below was read from that provider's own public page, mostly its homepage or a pricing page, on 23 September 2026, except the first four (Airalo, Holafly, Nomad, Ubigi), which reuse a check from 13 September 2026 that was still recent enough to stand, with the original source links carried over. We received no payment or benefit from any provider named here for being included, excluded, or placed anywhere in this table, and this page is not sponsored content.

Prices and terms on any seller's site can change without notice. The figures on this page are only what we saw on the stated date. Before buying from any provider, including us, follow the link and read that provider's current page directly.

Why no provider is crowned a winner

We sell eSIMs too, so any ranking we produced ourselves would carry our own interest in it. What we can do honestly is record what each provider states, date every figure, and let the reader match a shape of product to their own trip. The "best for" column in the table below is not "best overall" — it names the kind of trip that provider's own published terms fit, nothing more.

The 20 providers, side by side

Best for, based on what each one publishes

• Airalo: best for travelers who want a well-known single app that already lists plans for most popular destinations.
• Holafly: best for travelers who want one flat price for a whole trip and do not want to track a data allowance.
• Nomad: best for travelers who want to compare a metered bucket and an unlimited-by-day option from the same seller.
• Ubigi: best for travelers who prefer buying a defined amount of data and topping up the same profile if they run low.
• Saily: best for a short trip where one small, low-cost bucket is enough (read the fair-use terms before treating any plan labeled unlimited as uncapped).
• GigSky: best for travelers who want a wide range of bucket sizes, including very large ones for a longer stay, from one storefront.
• aloSIM: best for travelers who want a bundled second phone number alongside their data plan.
• Maya Mobile: best for a multi-country trip where one flat unlimited-by-day rate is simpler than shopping per country.
• Truphone: currently in transition after its assets were acquired by 1GLOBAL; not evaluated here as a new-purchase option, since no independently published pricing exists on truphone.com as of our check.
• Flexiroam: best for travelers who also want an in-flight data plan alongside on-the-ground coverage.
• Simify: best for a longer trip (plans run up to 180 days) where a clearly stated money-back guarantee matters.
• Yoho Mobile: best for travelers who want plans framed around one specific destination and trip length rather than a single global bucket.
• Instabridge: best for travelers who want free crowd-sourced WiFi hotspot access bundled as a fallback alongside their paid eSIM data.
• KnowRoaming: best for travelers who want to choose between a small fixed bucket and a daily-reset allowance from the same seller.
• Jetpac: best for travelers who want to see the actual carrier name before buying, not only a country name — Jetpac names several, including Vodafone, AT&T and SoftBank, for some destinations.
• Orange Holiday (Orange Travel): best for travelers to Europe who want calls and texts bundled with data, from a network operator rather than a reseller.
• Yesim: best for travelers who prefer pay-as-you-go per-gigabyte billing over committing to a fixed bucket upfront.
• Betterroaming: best for light data users on a short trip who want the smallest, cheapest possible starting bucket.
• Mobimatter: best for travelers who want to compare listings from many different eSIM issuers for the same destination in one place, rather than buying direct from a single brand.
• BNESIM: best for travelers who want a choice between local, regional and unlimited-labeled plans from one account.
• eSIMonline (us): best for travelers who want trilingual (Thai/English/Chinese) support and a self-service refund before installing.

Refund and support terms we found clearly published

Some providers state their refund terms and support channels clearly on the pages we checked; others do not show them on that same page, which does not mean no such policy exists — it may sit on a page we did not open. The list below is only what we found and could actually read.

• Airalo: its Terms of Use state a 14-day withdrawal right, plus a refund or replacement where an activated service is unusable through Airalo's own error (2026-09-13).
• Holafly: a full refund if not yet activated within 6 months; connection-issue refunds are partial or full minus a US$3.50 fee (2026-09-13).
• Nomad: a refund or change is allowed before install/activation, or for a known Nomad-side technical fault after activation (2026-09-13).
• Ubigi: a profile can be refunded within 14 business days if the QR was never scanned; a recharge already in use cannot be refunded (2026-09-13).
• aloSIM: its own homepage states a full refund if the device is incompatible or the connection has a problem, plus 24-hour live chat.
• Simify: its own homepage states a "100% money back guarantee" covering trip cancellation/delay, device incompatibility, and connection issues from poor coverage, plus a 24/7 support team.
• Jetpac: its own homepage states a "100% Moneyback Guarantee" with a linked flexible refund policy, plus 24/7 support.
• Orange Holiday: its own Europe offer page states a full refund for an unused eSIM, plus 24/7 human support.
• Yesim: its own site states refunds within 30 days of purchase for plans/top-ups not yet used or expired, plus 24/7 support with a stated average response time of about 5 minutes.
• eSIMonline (us): a self-service refund from the order page within 14 days while the profile is still uninstalled, no form and no fee; support via LINE, Messenger, email and phone, around the clock every day.

The remaining providers in the table — Saily, GigSky, Maya Mobile, Truphone, Flexiroam, Yoho Mobile, Instabridge, KnowRoaming, Betterroaming, Mobimatter and BNESIM — did not show a specific refund policy on the pages we checked. Two of them (Flexiroam, Mobimatter) link out to a separate refund policy document that we did not open in full, so we are not restating its terms here.

How to evaluate any eSIM provider yourself

• If you see the word "unlimited," find the fair-use terms first. As the table above shows, several plans labeled unlimited actually carry a stated daily or period high-speed cap in their documentation.
• Check who the actual network operator is, not just the country name. A minority of providers in this table (Jetpac, for example) name a carrier partner for some destinations, which lets you check that carrier's own coverage map.
• Work out whether a provider is itself the eSIM issuer, or a marketplace/reseller aggregating several issuers, since the two carry different accountability for network quality (Mobimatter, in this table, is a marketplace).
• Always check the date on any coverage or pricing figure. The country count a provider states changes often, and some show different numbers on different pages of their own site (as the Yesim row above shows).
• Compare the window a refund policy actually covers with the window you can still change your mind. A policy that only refunds "before install" or "before the QR is scanned" is useful only in the short window before your trip starts.

What we could not verify, and why

All 20 candidate providers made it into this table; none was dropped. Three (Saily, GigSky, Maya Mobile) had sites that blocked our automated fetch or did not return readable content on the day we checked. Their figures come from what search engines had indexed of those same pages — reliable enough, in our judgment, to include with a disclosure, rather than leaving three real, operating brands out entirely, but not equivalent to a direct fetch. If you are considering any of those three, open their own site and read the current price before deciding.

Where eSIMonline sits in this table

Our own row above is pulled from our own catalog, not marketing copy. As of writing, we have 210 sellable destinations out of 231 we track in our system, operate in three languages — Thai, English and Chinese — sell gigabyte buckets with a stated validity, and also offer per-day plans on some destinations. While a profile is still uninstalled, you can refund it yourself from the order page within 14 days, with no form and no fee, and our support runs on LINE, Messenger, email and phone, around the clock every day. We are not claiming any of this is better than what is in this table — only that it is real, and that you can check it yourself against our order pages and destination pages.

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