What does a travel eSIM cost in 222 countries?
A 10 GB eSIM is available from $1.78 in Taiwan. In Syria the cheapest one costs $111.89: 63 times as much for the same amount of data.
This index compares what a travel eSIM costs across 222 countries and 7 regions, in 11 categories, and shows how far above or below an average country each one sits.
Cheapest and most expensive
The overall index across the whole basket. 100 is a middling country, so 40 means a traveller pays roughly 60 percent less there than in an average country.
Cheapest countries
- 1
United Kingdom 21 - 2
Singapore 24 - 3
Taiwan 26 - 4
South Korea 27 - 5
Thailand 27 - 6
Vietnam 27 - 7
Montenegro 28 - 8
Turkey 29 - 9
Malaysia 30 - 10
France 31
Most expensive countries Only countries with enough supply to say something general: every basket item needs at least three providers. A single expensive listing does not put a country on this list.
- 194
Cape Verde 384 - 193
Mauritania 366 - 192
Ethiopia 306 - 191
Zimbabwe 275 - 190
Greenland 271 - 189
Bonaire 270 - 188
Eswatini 268 - 187
Haiti 256 - 186
Suriname 248 - 185
Guyana 248
How to read this index
Four columns, that is all. Every price is in USD.
Available from
The lowest price in that country. This is the leading figure: what you pay if you pick the cheapest option.
Typical price
The middle of the market: every provider's cheapest plan, and then the middle amount. A wide gap means shopping around pays off.
vs. average
How far the from-price sits above or below an average country. Minus 60 percent means a traveller pays roughly 60 percent less there.
Providers
How many providers have supply there. At 1 or 2 the price is a single listing, not a market.
The overall index
One figure per destination, so you can rank them without picking a category first. Every country is charged for the same basket, with the sizes travellers buy most weighing heaviest.
How it is weighted
- 4 10 GB
- 3 Best price per GB
- 2 5 GB
- 2 Unlimited, 3 GB/day
- 1 1 GB
Each item is compared with the world median and the ratios are combined, the way a statistics office builds a price index. 100 is an average country. 194 countries are ranked. The rest either lack one of the basket items, or have fewer than three providers for one of them.
| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 21 | $3.12 | $0.03 | 22 |
| 2 | Singapore | 24 | $3.12 | $0.04 | 22 |
| 3 | Taiwan | 26 | $1.78 | $0.09 | 17 |
| 4 | South Korea | 27 | $3.12 | $0.06 | 21 |
| 5 | Thailand | 27 | $3.09 | $0.06 | 23 |
| 6 | Vietnam | 27 | $3.28 | $0.06 | 23 |
| 7 | Montenegro | 28 | $4.74 | $0.03 | 16 |
| 8 | Turkey | 29 | $1.96 | $0.20 | 22 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 30 | $3.12 | $0.08 | 22 |
| 10 | France | 31 | $3.01 | $0.12 | 22 |
| 11 |  Indonesia | 31 | $3.09 | $0.08 | 20 |
| 12 |  Italy | 31 | $3.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 13 |  Spain | 31 | $3.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 14 |  Hong Kong | 32 | $3.12 | $0.08 | 21 |
| 15 |  United States | 33 | $4.29 | $0.06 | 24 |
| 16 |  Finland | 34 | $3.12 | $0.16 | 19 |
| 17 |  Germany | 34 | $3.12 | $0.16 | 22 |
| 18 |  Norway | 34 | $3.12 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 19 |  Poland | 34 | $3.33 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 20 |  Switzerland | 34 | $3.12 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 21 |  Ukraine | 34 | $3.12 | $0.16 | 17 |
| 22 |  Japan | 35 | $4.09 | $0.09 | 23 |
| 23 |  Netherlands | 35 | $3.33 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 24 |  Vatican City | 36 | $2.82 | $0.24 | 14 |
| 25 |  Romania | 36 | $3.69 | $0.16 | 19 |
| 26 |  Austria | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 27 |  Belgium | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 28 |  Bulgaria | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 29 |  Croatia | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 30 |  Cyprus | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 31 |  Czechia | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 32 |  Denmark | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 33 |  Estonia | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 34 |  Greece | 37 | $3.97 | $0.16 | 20 |
| 35 |  Hungary | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 19 |
| 36 |  Iceland | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 19 |
| 37 |  Ireland | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 38 |  Latvia | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 39 |  Liechtenstein | 37 | $3.69 | $0.16 | 18 |
| 40 |  Lithuania | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 41 |  Luxembourg | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 42 |  Malta | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 22 |
| 43 |  Portugal | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 44 |  Slovenia | 37 | $4.01 | $0.16 | 19 |
| 45 |  Sweden | 37 | $3.97 | $0.16 | 21 |
| 46 |  Jersey | 40 | $3.69 | $0.16 | 15 |
| 47 |  San Marino | 40 | $2.82 | $0.24 | 13 |
| 48 |  Serbia | 40 | $5.41 | $0.06 | 17 |
| 49 |  Slovakia | 40 | $4.01 | $0.22 | 19 |
| 50 |  Australia | 41 | $3.12 | $0.24 | 20 |
| 51 |  Macau | 42 | $3.12 | $0.24 | 20 |
| 52 |  Moldova | 42 | $3.33 | $0.24 | 17 |
| 53 |  Russia | 42 | $6.69 | $0.04 | 6 |
| 54 |  Mayotte | 43 | $2.82 | $0.28 | 10 |
| 55 |  St. Barthélemy | 43 | $2.82 | $0.28 | 11 |
| 56 |  Saint Martin (French part) | 43 | $2.82 | $0.28 | 11 |
| 57 |  Gibraltar | 44 | $4.18 | $0.16 | 11 |
| 58 |  Martinique | 44 | $2.82 | $0.28 | 12 |
| 59 |  China | 45 | $4.29 | $0.24 | 21 |
| 60 |  French Guiana | 53 | $5.43 | $0.16 | 12 |
| 61 |  Guadeloupe | 53 | $5.43 | $0.29 | 16 |
| 62 |  Albania | 54 | $4.65 | $0.24 | 18 |
| 63 |  Sri Lanka | 54 | $4.50 | $0.23 | 19 |
| 64 |  Kyrgyzstan | 58 | $4.31 | $0.38 | 15 |
| 65 |  Réunion | 58 | $4.80 | $0.31 | 14 |
| 66 |  Kazakhstan | 59 | $4.45 | $0.39 | 19 |
| 67 |  Isle of Man | 62 | $5.48 | $0.24 | 6 |
| 68 |  Cambodia | 65 | $6.33 | $0.30 | 20 |
| 69 |  Pakistan | 65 | $5.33 | $0.50 | 18 |
| 70 |  Laos | 66 | $6.50 | $0.22 | 15 |
| 71 |  Faroe Islands | 67 | $6.18 | $0.24 | 14 |
| 72 |  North Macedonia | 68 | $6.73 | $0.24 | 14 |
| 73 |  Mexico | 69 | $5.67 | $0.41 | 21 |
| 74 |  New Zealand | 69 | $6.02 | $0.34 | 19 |
| 75 |  Algeria | 70 | $5.48 | $0.40 | 15 |
| 76 |  Belarus | 70 | $7.77 | $0.24 | 13 |
| 77 |  Canada | 70 | $6.91 | $0.28 | 19 |
| 78 |  Monaco | 70 | $6.99 | $0.22 | 7 |
| 79 |  Israel | 71 | $6.90 | $0.47 | 17 |
| 80 |  Åland Islands | 72 | $7.77 | $0.24 | 6 |
| 81 |  Georgia | 72 | $8.19 | $0.24 | 16 |
| 82 |  Guernsey | 73 | $8.57 | $0.16 | 6 |
| 83 |  Philippines | 75 | $6.47 | $0.48 | 21 |
| 84 |  Tunisia | 75 | $6.99 | $0.38 | 16 |
| 85 |  Bosnia & Herzegovina | 77 | $6.55 | $0.50 | 13 |
| 86 |  Bangladesh | 81 | $6.91 | $0.55 | 16 |
| 87 |  Uzbekistan | 81 | $6.91 | $0.49 | 17 |
| 88 |  Armenia | 83 | $9.50 | $0.24 | 15 |
| 89 |  Morocco | 83 | $6.91 | $0.45 | 15 |
| 90 |  Oman | 83 | $6.72 | $0.49 | 17 |
| 91 |  Andorra | 86 | $10.00 | $0.22 | 15 |
| 92 |  India | 86 | $7.99 | $0.55 | 18 |
| 93 |  Jordan | 93 | $8.47 | $0.52 | 11 |
| 94 |  Mongolia | 94 | $7.99 | $0.60 | 13 |
| 95 |  Egypt | 96 | $9.07 | $0.48 | 17 |
| 96 |  Kuwait | 96 | $8.21 | $0.64 | 16 |
| 97 |  Brazil | 97 | $10.61 | $0.42 | 18 |
| 98 |  Saudi Arabia | 103 | $8.52 | $0.71 | 19 |
| 99 |  Honduras | 106 | $9.60 | $0.64 | 15 |
| 100 |  Nicaragua | 106 | $9.60 | $0.64 | 16 |
| 101 |  Dominican Republic | 108 | $11.04 | $0.56 | 16 |
| 102 |  Peru | 108 | $11.99 | $0.41 | 17 |
| 103 |  Fiji | 110 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 14 |
| 104 |  Guatemala | 110 | $10.53 | $0.64 | 17 |
| 105 |  Qatar | 110 | $9.65 | $0.81 | 16 |
| 106 |  Paraguay | 111 | $10.99 | $0.64 | 14 |
| 107 |  Colombia | 112 | $12.99 | $0.36 | 17 |
| 108 |  United Arab Emirates | 112 | $10.55 | $0.76 | 19 |
| 109 |  Tonga | 113 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 9 |
| 110 |  Vanuatu | 113 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 10 |
| 111 |  Nauru | 113 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 8 |
| 112 |  Papua New Guinea | 113 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 8 |
| 113 |  Puerto Rico | 113 | $9.99 | $0.65 | 15 |
| 114 |  Samoa | 113 | $8.99 | $0.70 | 9 |
| 115 |  South Africa | 115 | $11.27 | $0.65 | 17 |
| 116 |  Bahrain | 117 | $10.91 | $0.73 | 16 |
| 117 |  Virgin Islands (U.S.) | 117 | $9.99 | $0.80 | 8 |
| 118 |  Azerbaijan | 120 | $12.31 | $0.64 | 15 |
| 119 |  Costa Rica | 122 | $10.99 | $0.65 | 17 |
| 120 |  Tanzania | 126 | $11.14 | $1.00 | 14 |
| 121 |  Uruguay | 126 | $12.99 | $0.58 | 16 |
| 122 |  Ecuador | 127 | $12.99 | $0.58 | 17 |
| 123 |  El Salvador | 130 | $12.99 | $0.64 | 18 |
| 124 |  Senegal | 130 | $12.99 | $0.44 | 11 |
| 125 |  Iraq | 133 | $13.07 | $0.82 | 13 |
| 126 |  Chile | 134 | $14.10 | $0.68 | 17 |
| 127 |  Madagascar | 135 | $12.99 | $0.52 | 4 |
| 128 |  Argentina | 136 | $13.81 | $0.76 | 16 |
| 129 |  Tajikistan | 138 | $13.50 | $0.90 | 11 |
| 130 |  Bolivia | 141 | $12.99 | $0.64 | 14 |
| 131 |  Panama | 142 | $12.99 | $0.64 | 12 |
| 132 |  Ghana | 144 | $12.84 | $1.05 | 15 |
| 133 |  Guam | 145 | $14.00 | $0.92 | 7 |
| 134 |  Nepal | 147 | $12.50 | $1.19 | 11 |
| 135 |  Nigeria | 150 | $12.99 | $0.78 | 13 |
| 136 |  Bermuda | 156 | $12.90 | $1.25 | 7 |
| 137 |  Mauritius | 159 | $18.00 | $0.65 | 12 |
| 138 |  Afghanistan | 160 | $15.00 | $0.90 | 6 |
| 139 |  Kosovo | 162 | $14.00 | $1.00 | 8 |
| 140 |  Ivory Coast | 164 | $19.50 | $0.52 | 3 |
| 141 |  Gabon | 172 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 10 |
| 142 |  Gambia | 172 | $12.99 | $0.64 | 3 |
| 143 |  Botswana | 173 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 11 |
| 144 |  Cameroon | 176 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 5 |
| 145 |  Congo - Kinshasa | 176 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 8 |
| 146 |  Benin | 178 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 9 |
| 147 |  Burkina Faso | 178 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 4 |
| 148 |  Mali | 178 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 3 |
| 149 |  Guinea-Bissau | 180 | $21.00 | $0.65 | 5 |
| 150 |  Maldives | 180 | $12.90 | $0.60 | 8 |
| 151 |  Venezuela | 181 | $15.99 | $1.25 | 12 |
| 152 |  Kenya | 190 | $21.46 | $1.00 | 14 |
| 153 |  Seychelles | 191 | $21.00 | $1.00 | 9 |
| 154 |  Zambia | 191 | $21.00 | $1.00 | 11 |
| 155 |  Brunei | 192 | $21.99 | $1.00 | 12 |
| 156 |  Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 195 | $20.00 | $1.00 | 5 |
| 157 |  Uganda | 195 | $21.00 | $1.00 | 11 |
| 158 |  Chad | 197 | $21.00 | $1.00 | 9 |
| 159 |  Bhutan | 199 | $16.13 | $1.50 | 7 |
| 160 |  Liberia | 200 | $21.00 | $1.05 | 3 |
| 161 |  Congo - Brazzaville | 200 | $21.00 | $1.00 | 7 |
| 162 |  Palestine | 216 | $18.99 | $1.55 | 4 |
| 163 |  Malawi | 223 | $24.00 | $1.52 | 9 |
| 164 |  French Polynesia | 226 | $25.99 | $0.65 | 7 |
| 165 |  Rwanda | 227 | $24.00 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 166 |  Curaçao | 229 | $24.97 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 167 |  Niger | 230 | $23.45 | $1.90 | 9 |
| 168 |  Sierra Leone | 230 | $21.00 | $1.05 | 6 |
| 169 |  Anguilla | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 170 |  Antigua & Barbuda | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 171 |  Barbados | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 13 |
| 172 |  Cayman Islands | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 173 |  Dominica | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 174 |  Grenada | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 175 |  Jamaica | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 176 |  Montserrat | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 177 |  Turks & Caicos Islands | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 178 |  St. Kitts & Nevis | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 179 |  St. Lucia | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 10 |
| 180 |  St. Vincent & Grenadines | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 9 |
| 181 |  Virgin Islands (British) | 238 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 9 |
| 182 |  Aruba | 241 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 183 |  Bahamas | 241 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 7 |
| 184 |  Trinidad & Tobago | 241 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 5 |
| 185 | Guyana | 248 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 12 |
| 186 | Suriname | 248 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 11 |
| 187 | Haiti | 256 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 9 |
| 188 | Eswatini | 268 | $24.00 | $1.45 | 7 |
| 189 | Bonaire | 270 | $24.97 | $1.45 | 8 |
| 190 | Greenland | 271 | $25.99 | $1.45 | 3 |
| 191 | Zimbabwe | 275 | $24.20 | $1.90 | 6 |
| 192 | Ethiopia | 306 | $25.99 | $1.60 | 5 |
| 193 | Mauritania | 366 | $39.00 | $1.45 | 7 |
| 194 | Cape Verde | 384 | $25.99 | $1.95 | 6 |
Every category at a glance
The same figures for all 11 categories, so you can see at once where the jumps are. The table above lets you open any of them per country.
| Category | From-price in an average country | Cheapest country | Countries with supply |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB from 7 days | $1.53 | Italy $0.35 | 222 / 222 |
| 5 GB from 7 days | $6.29 | Turkey $1.39 | 219 / 222 |
| 10 GB from 7 days | $10.27 | Taiwan $1.78 | 218 / 222 |
| 50 GB from 7 days | $35.00 | Thailand $6.20 | 214 / 222 |
| Price per GB from 7 days | $0.64 | United Kingdom $0.03 | 222 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 3 GB/day from 7 days | $19.99 | Vietnam $5.80 | 209 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 5 GB/day from 7 days | $19.99 | Vietnam $5.80 | 199 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 10 GB/day from 7 days | $43.99 | Malaysia $8.08 | 169 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 3 GB/day from 30 days | $42.99 | Vietnam $9.80 | 205 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 5 GB/day from 30 days | $49.99 | Vietnam $9.80 | 194 / 222 |
| Unlimited, 10 GB/day from 30 days | $160.78 | Japan $20.95 | 142 / 222 |
- What is in here
- eSIMs aimed at travellers, bought online before you leave. Tourist packages from local providers count too. An ordinary local contract or a prepaid card from a shop on arrival does not.
- Prices without a discount
- These are list prices, without any discount. At many providers a discount code through Find Your eSIM brings the price lower. Read these figures as a ceiling, not as the best deal.
Method
Every one of the 169,049 packages the providers we compare offer is searched. Packages that fit none of the categories below simply do not end up in a figure. This is not the entire market. Measured on September 7, 2026.
What this is and is not about
The index covers products aimed at travellers: eSIM packages bought online in advance. That includes packages from local providers who sell to tourists, so it is not purely about international roaming. What it excludes is the ordinary domestic market: local contracts, prepaid cards you buy in a shop after arriving, and business IoT tariffs.
What counts
- Packages valid for 7 days or longer. Packages without an expiry date count too.
- The unlimited categories appear in two terms, from 7 days and from 30 days, because a week pack and a month pack are different products.
- The fair-use thresholds are lower bounds: a plan with 10 GB a day at full speed also counts towards 5 GB and 3 GB a day.
- Regional and worldwide plans count. If a Europe pack works in Spain, that is a valid Spanish price for a traveller.
- The provider's normal list price in USD, never converted and never the discounted price. Offers that only apply to new customers are excluded.
How a country's price is decided
Per country and category we take each provider's cheapest matching plan. The lowest of those is the from-price, the figure the page leads with. The median of them is the typical price, which sits next to it as a check: it cannot be moved by one provider running a stunt price.
The index number is the from-price divided by the median of all countries' from-prices in the same category, times 100. Numerator and denominator measure the same thing, so a country at 200 really is twice as expensive to buy into as a middling one.
What the index is not
Countries with few providers are simply listed, with the provider count next to them, so you can judge how solid a figure is. Where no plan exists at all the row stays empty; we fill in nothing there. The index says something about prices, not about coverage, speed or network quality.
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