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Airalo eSIM plans, prices and coverage

Airalo eSIM plans, prices and coverage

What Airalo charges against the rest of the market, how far their coverage reaches, and where their traffic comes out — from the monthly snapshot we take of their whole catalogue.

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Airalo's site, captured October 2026

Where Airalo sits against the rest

Typical price per GB
$2.0036 of 44
Countries reached
19429 of 44
Catalogue size
3,29813 of 44

What Airalo charges

The cheaper end of Airalo's catalogue works out at $2.00 a gigabyte. That is well above the $1.35 a gigabyte works out at for the median provider we track. Airalo is one of the pricier catalogues we cover, 36 of 44 counting from the cheapest, though a headline rate is not the whole story on a plan you will actually use.

In September 2026 we started counting a plan sold at several trip lengths as one plan, so the month-by-month line starts again from then — it returns once we hold 4 monthly snapshots.

Each figure is the lower quartile of every plan the provider lists — the cheaper end of their range, not an average — against the same figure for the median provider we track.

  1. Stellar eSIM$0.46
  2. Globie$2.00
  3. Airalo$2.00
  4. ZenSim$2.00
  5. Orbit Mobile$2.90
Typical per GB
$2.00
Airalo$2.00
Median provider$1.35
Typical per day
$1.29
Airalo$1.29
Median provider$0.51

Where you can use Airalo

Airalo sells eSIMs for 194 countries. Open one to see every Airalo plan for it, what it costs and which networks it runs on — most-asked-about destinations first.

Where Airalo puts you on the internet

Airalo does not publish where its traffic reaches the internet, so we cannot tell you. That is a gap in what the provider states rather than a finding about how it routes — a provider that publishes nothing may well come out locally everywhere. We only report exits a provider declares, plan by plan, and we do not infer the rest.

What sort of provider Airalo is

Airalo sells data eSIMs at three scopes: single-country, regional and global, with unlimited-data options on some destinations. Everything is bought and installed through its iOS and Android apps, which support many languages and currencies. A separate Airalo Partners division supplies reseller platforms, API access and corporate arrangements to businesses building on its catalogue.

Voice and SMS are features Airalo explicitly lists, setting it apart from data-only offers. Its reach spans most of the world, but plans are country-specific, so a multi-stop trip may require separate plans rather than one regional or global bundle. Catalogue depth varies by destination: France and Georgia are among its stronger markets, and the country pages show how much choice is available for each stop. Airalo does not say whether plans can be topped up, so check its terms if you may need to extend one.

  • China
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • Hong Kong
  • Armenia

194

Countries

3,298

Plans

4.0

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Providers worth comparing against Airalo

Each of these sells into much the same markets as Airalo. The figures are this month's and state a difference, not a verdict: typical price per gigabyte, and how many countries each reaches.