You've opened twelve tabs. Close eleven. Every eSIM store sells some version of country × GB × expiry. We sell the landing: the two hours that actually scare you. Here are the six axes that matter: on every one, the category's answer and ours.
“Typical eSIM store” is deliberately not one logo. The named specifics (current prices, refund policies) are footnoted below, because they change weekly. The model is what loses, and the model doesn't change.
The reason this table exists: everyone in the category is priced against each other. We're priced against the thing you're actually afraid of: your home carrier's roaming bill.
Day passes run $10-25 for 24 hours. Leave data roaming on without one and it's billed by the megabyte: the $180 surprise. Either way you're paying for a month-shaped product to cover a 2-hour window, and nobody checks your settings before you fly.
One price for the landing, quoted by destination before you pay. The T-3h checklist text (add your number at checkout) so the $180 bill can't happen. Offline 30 minutes after wheels-down? Refunded: cash within 5 business days or 100% as wallet credit. Need the whole week? Top up the wallet: 1GB $1.99 · 3GB $3.50 · 5GB $5 in Europe, bigger = cheaper per GB, never expires.
Wholesale eSIM data is a commodity: resellers push bundles at pennies per gigabyte, and the floor only falls. The moment we led with a GB bucket, we'd be a worse version of a dozen stores. So we lead with the landing: the price is set by where you land, and wallet credit you keep for later never expires.
We sell certainty at wheels-down: a named network before you land, a settings checklist to help avoid home-roaming charges, and automatic refund approval after you file one line from your order page. The wallet exists only so the trip's leftovers are yours: never-expire credit that gets cheaper per GB as it grows. Choose fixed-data landing cover, a bigger pack, or unlimited daily where offered on the home widget. Daily plans disclose their high-speed allowance and reduced-speed terms before you pay. Wallet credit and the fixed-data family pack remain available.
Prices move weekly; refund policies don't. These are the published entry prices as of 13 September 2026: check them, we'll wait.
Entry prices checked 13 September 2026 against each store's published entry plan: Airalo €4.50/1GB/3d · Saily $4.99/1GB/7d · Nomad $5.50/1GB/7d · Holafly $11.90/3d unlimited · eSIMPal ~$20/15GB. We don't benchmark against their sales, but against their defaults.
From $1.99 is the lowest entry price of every store on this page. Single-country sellers do list some destinations below that. What none of them carries is the landing cover: installed at home on WiFi, the flight watched, and a full refund if you are offline 30 minutes after wheels-down. If all you want is data, buy the cheapest data. If you want the landing covered, buy ours.
Because the behavior is the point: every GB-bucket store: Airalo, Saily, Nomad, Holafly, eSIMPal, and dozens of white-label resellers on the same wholesale: sells country × GB with expiry and a support queue when it fails. Brands change prices weekly; the model is what to compare. The named specifics are in the footnote table above.
You pay for the two hours that scare you: wheels-down, arrivals, the ride. Not for GB × days. A week of real tourist use runs to megabytes, not gigabytes, and hotel WiFi carries the rest. If you need more later, the wallet top-up is never-expire credit, and bigger top-ups get cheaper per GB.
$1.99 is the EU·UK floor. Landing cover is priced by destination, and the live quote before you pay is the price: US $2, Bangkok $1.99, Cancún $3.50. No fees are added at checkout: local taxes are, at the rate your country charges, because our payment partner collects them. The refund guarantee is included in every corridor.
Top up the wallet: 1GB $1.99, 3GB $3.50, 5GB $5 for Europe: bigger top-ups get cheaper per GB, credit never expires, and the family shares one balance. Only the wallet credit never expires; data packs and daily plans have their own stated validity.
Where available, the home widget offers unlimited daily alongside fixed-data packs. Choose days and see the live total, high-speed allowance, reduced-speed terms, coverage and validity before paying. Landing cover is included. Daily allowance resets follow the carrier schedule.
A US day pass runs $10-25 for 24 hours, Europe similar. The landing needs about 2 hours of data. Pay for the landing, not the month, and if you're offline 30 minutes after wheels-down, it's refunded. The day pass has never offered you that.
