eSIM Price Statistics
18750 plans from 16 providers across 239 countries, repriced every day and measured against the official local price.
Key findings
That's the share of countries — 64 of 192 — where a travel eSIM already beats the local plan.
That's the gap between a country's cheapest and median travel eSIM plan.
That's the price gap between the world's cheapest and priciest country.
The tourist premium
We compare the travel eSIM market's daily median price per gigabyte with the ITU official basket for local mobile data (2025 edition), across 192 matched countries.
The two measures are built differently. The ITU basket is the cheapest non-promotional 5 GB monthly plan from the country's largest operator; our figure is a median across every travel eSIM provider. The ratio therefore overstates the premium by construction, which is why we publish the low bound against our own cheapest plan alongside it.
Where travellers pay most
View all 192 ranked countries
Country | Travel eSIM | Local (ITU 2025) | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
 Ethiopia | $11.43 | $0.43 | 26.8× |
 Nigeria | $5.01 | $0.20 | 25.3× |
 Namibia | $38.26 | $1.94 | 19.7× |
 Rwanda | $5.09 | $0.29 | 17.8× |
 Bhutan | $12.78 | $0.87 | 14.6× |
 Haiti | $7.32 | $0.61 | 12.0× |
 Cambodia | $2.15 | $0.20 | 10.7× |
 Nepal | $4.59 | $0.43 | 10.6× |
 Mauritania | $10.14 | $1.00 | 10.1× |
 Indonesia | $1.79 | $0.18 | 9.74× |
 Mozambique | $5.23 | $0.61 | 8.51× |
 Zambia | $4.78 | $0.57 | 8.44× |
 Laos | $2.97 | $0.37 | 8.07× |
 Angola | $8.65 | $1.10 | 7.89× |
 Sierra Leone | $6.56 | $0.85 | 7.70× |
 Gambia | $9.23 | $1.23 | 7.53× |
 South Sudan | $8.87 | $1.21 | 7.31× |
 Cape Verde | $9.44 | $1.33 | 7.08× |
 French Polynesia | $12.19 | $1.76 | 6.91× |
 Timor-Leste | $6.89 | $1.00 | 6.89× |
 Togo | $9.69 | $1.60 | 6.04× |
 Uzbekistan | $2.11 | $0.39 | 5.47× |
 Falkland Islands | $68.33 | $12.59 | 5.43× |
 Sri Lanka | $1.81 | $0.35 | 5.21× |
 Cuba | $17.05 | $3.33 | 5.11× |
 Venezuela | $6.83 | $1.34 | 5.10× |
 India | $2.06 | $0.40 | 5.09× |
 Lebanon | $9.56 | $1.89 | 5.07× |
 Bangladesh | $1.74 | $0.34 | 5.06× |
 Mongolia | $4.09 | $0.81 | 5.05× |
 Côte d'Ivoire | $6.15 | $1.28 | 4.79× |
 Algeria | $2.10 | $0.45 | 4.70× |
 Uganda | $5.01 | $1.09 | 4.61× |
 Madagascar | $4.74 | $1.07 | 4.44× |
 Guinea | $5.96 | $1.34 | 4.44× |
 Pakistan | $1.84 | $0.43 | 4.32× |
 Senegal | $5.53 | $1.28 | 4.31× |
 Kyrgyzstan | $2.46 | $0.57 | 4.28× |
 Mali | $6.86 | $1.60 | 4.27× |
 Vanuatu | $7.11 | $1.66 | 4.27× |
 Afghanistan | $5.79 | $1.39 | 4.15× |
 Egypt | $2.46 | $0.59 | 4.14× |
 Bolivia | $5.86 | $1.45 | 4.05× |
 Botswana | $6.89 | $1.74 | 3.97× |
 Moldova | $2.56 | $0.65 | 3.94× |
 Burkina Faso | $5.17 | $1.35 | 3.84× |
 Niger | $6.03 | $1.60 | 3.76× |
 China | $2.05 | $0.55 | 3.72× |
 Azerbaijan | $3.79 | $1.02 | 3.70× |
 Malaysia | $1.66 | $0.45 | 3.70× |
 Liberia | $5.89 | $1.60 | 3.68× |
 Mauritius | $4.30 | $1.18 | 3.65× |
 Lesotho | $5.79 | $1.60 | 3.62× |
 Tanzania | $3.41 | $0.94 | 3.62× |
 Benin | $5.79 | $1.64 | 3.53× |
 Guinea-Bissau | $5.47 | $1.60 | 3.41× |
 Cameroon | $5.43 | $1.60 | 3.38× |
 Paraguay | $4.68 | $1.39 | 3.37× |
 Ghana | $3.69 | $1.10 | 3.35× |
 Belize | $11.57 | $3.50 | 3.31× |
 Guam | $6.61 | $2.00 | 3.30× |
 Slovenia | $1.70 | $0.53 | 3.23× |
 Congo | $6.53 | $2.04 | 3.20× |
 Morocco | $3.07 | $0.99 | 3.10× |
 Belarus | $2.79 | $0.90 | 3.09× |
 Suriname | $6.15 | $2.06 | 2.98× |
 Georgia | $2.51 | $0.85 | 2.94× |
 Nicaragua | $5.01 | $1.75 | 2.87× |
 Brunei | $5.50 | $1.93 | 2.85× |
 Kenya | $4.40 | $1.55 | 2.85× |
 Tajikistan | $4.09 | $1.45 | 2.83× |
 Vietnam | $1.60 | $0.57 | 2.81× |
 Argentina | $3.07 | $1.11 | 2.77× |
 Chile | $2.87 | $1.04 | 2.76× |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo | $5.37 | $2.00 | 2.69× |
 Armenia | $2.97 | $1.11 | 2.67× |
 Chad | $5.12 | $1.92 | 2.66× |
 Eswatini | $7.17 | $2.70 | 2.65× |
 New Caledonia | $13.31 | $5.23 | 2.54× |
 Brazil | $2.46 | $0.99 | 2.48× |
 Iraq | $3.38 | $1.54 | 2.20× |
 Colombia | $3.02 | $1.38 | 2.19× |
 Tunisia | $2.03 | $0.95 | 2.14× |
 Tonga | $5.09 | $2.47 | 2.06× |
 Peru | $2.87 | $1.51 | 1.90× |
 Maldives | $7.97 | $4.20 | 1.89× |
 South Africa | $2.41 | $1.29 | 1.87× |
 Palestine | $5.05 | $2.71 | 1.87× |
 Sint Maarten | $6.15 | $3.35 | 1.83× |
 Oman | $2.66 | $1.46 | 1.83× |
 Fiji | $4.75 | $2.74 | 1.74× |
 Ecuador | $3.57 | $2.10 | 1.70× |
 Samoa | $6.24 | $3.67 | 1.70× |
 Hong Kong | $1.43 | $0.85 | 1.69× |
 Croatia | $1.42 | $0.84 | 1.69× |
 Guyana | $6.30 | $3.80 | 1.66× |
 Gabon | $5.12 | $3.21 | 1.60× |
 Seychelles | $6.31 | $4.05 | 1.56× |
 Guatemala | $4.62 | $2.98 | 1.55× |
 Central African Republic | $7.16 | $4.76 | 1.50× |
 Thailand | $1.13 | $0.75 | 1.49× |
 Trinidad and Tobago | $7.15 | $4.84 | 1.48× |
 El Salvador | $3.50 | $2.40 | 1.46× |
 Jordan | $3.69 | $2.61 | 1.41× |
 Costa Rica | $3.28 | $2.34 | 1.40× |
 Ukraine | $1.67 | $1.20 | 1.39× |
 Philippines | $1.71 | $1.24 | 1.39× |
 Macao | $1.64 | $1.20 | 1.37× |
 Dominican Republic | $3.79 | $2.89 | 1.31× |
 British Virgin Islands | $6.40 | $5.00 | 1.28× |
 Papua New Guinea | $7.13 | $5.60 | 1.27× |
 Finland | $1.42 | $1.11 | 1.27× |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | $2.14 | $1.69 | 1.27× |
 Uruguay | $3.50 | $2.81 | 1.25× |
 Panama | $5.26 | $4.28 | 1.23× |
 Romania | $1.54 | $1.25 | 1.23× |
 Bulgaria | $1.30 | $1.08 | 1.21× |
 Aruba | $6.66 | $5.59 | 1.19× |
 Lithuania | $1.66 | $1.45 | 1.15× |
 Russia | $1.71 | $1.49 | 1.14× |
 North Macedonia | $2.14 | $1.87 | 1.14× |
 Turkey | $1.41 | $1.27 | 1.11× |
 Jamaica | $5.48 | $5.09 | 1.08× |
 Andorra | $2.44 | $2.31 | 1.05× |
 Hungary | $1.64 | $1.55 | 1.05× |
 Mexico | $2.56 | $2.44 | 1.05× |
 San Marino | $2.20 | $2.10 | 1.05× |
 Bahrain | $2.74 | $2.66 | 1.03× |
 Montenegro | $2.06 | $2.10 | 0.98× |
 Estonia | $1.43 | $1.47 | 0.97× |
 Qatar | $2.66 | $2.75 | 0.97× |
 Puerto Rico | $3.14 | $3.35 | 0.94× |
 Honduras | $3.19 | $3.45 | 0.93× |
 Greenland | $9.37 | $10.13 | 0.93× |
 Serbia | $1.82 | $1.97 | 0.92× |
 Curaçao | $6.66 | $7.26 | 0.92× |
 Barbados | $6.15 | $7.00 | 0.88× |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | $6.22 | $7.41 | 0.84× |
 Bahamas | $6.67 | $8.00 | 0.83× |
 Anguilla | $6.15 | $7.41 | 0.83× |
 Portugal | $1.38 | $1.68 | 0.82× |
 Poland | $1.23 | $1.50 | 0.82× |
 Austria | $1.37 | $1.68 | 0.82× |
 Malta | $1.64 | $2.10 | 0.78× |
 Latvia | $1.63 | $2.10 | 0.78× |
 Albania | $2.15 | $2.77 | 0.78× |
 Greece | $1.59 | $2.06 | 0.77× |
 Kuwait | $2.46 | $3.24 | 0.76× |
 Liechtenstein | $1.67 | $2.20 | 0.76× |
 Italy | $1.58 | $2.10 | 0.75× |
 Luxembourg | $1.73 | $2.31 | 0.75× |
 Kazakhstan | $1.74 | $2.35 | 0.74× |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | $6.15 | $8.40 | 0.73× |
 Gibraltar | $2.76 | $3.78 | 0.73× |
 Antigua and Barbuda | $6.15 | $8.52 | 0.72× |
 Saint Lucia | $6.48 | $9.11 | 0.71× |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | $6.18 | $8.88 | 0.70× |
 Dominica | $5.63 | $8.15 | 0.69× |
 Singapore | $1.54 | $2.22 | 0.69× |
 South Korea | $1.54 | $2.27 | 0.68× |
 Spain | $1.42 | $2.10 | 0.67× |
 Germany | $1.41 | $2.10 | 0.67× |
 Saudi Arabia | $2.61 | $3.99 | 0.65× |
 Czechia | $1.43 | $2.22 | 0.64× |
 Cyprus | $1.35 | $2.10 | 0.64× |
 Grenada | $5.63 | $8.88 | 0.63× |
 France | $1.32 | $2.10 | 0.63× |
 United Kingdom | $1.53 | $2.52 | 0.61× |
 Monaco | $5.12 | $8.41 | 0.61× |
 Israel | $1.46 | $2.43 | 0.60× |
 French Guiana | $2.97 | $5.05 | 0.59× |
 Canada | $2.51 | $4.57 | 0.55× |
 Faroe Islands | $2.35 | $4.43 | 0.53× |
 Australia | $1.54 | $3.14 | 0.49× |
 New Zealand | $2.25 | $4.66 | 0.48× |
 Taiwan | $1.57 | $3.24 | 0.48× |
 Iceland | $1.64 | $3.47 | 0.47× |
 Belgium | $1.43 | $3.16 | 0.45× |
 Slovakia | $1.54 | $3.45 | 0.45× |
 Japan | $1.64 | $3.71 | 0.44× |
 U.S. Virgin Islands | $2.56 | $6.00 | 0.43× |
 Denmark | $1.43 | $3.36 | 0.43× |
 Bermuda | $6.71 | $16.00 | 0.42× |
 United Arab Emirates | $2.43 | $5.83 | 0.42× |
 Nauru | $5.09 | $12.42 | 0.41× |
 Sweden | $1.43 | $3.91 | 0.37× |
 Cayman Islands | $5.92 | $16.77 | 0.35× |
 Ireland | $1.43 | $4.21 | 0.34× |
 Netherlands | $1.38 | $4.73 | 0.29× |
 Norway | $1.54 | $5.42 | 0.28× |
 United States | $1.98 | $8.70 | 0.23× |
 Switzerland | $1.53 | $7.77 | 0.20× |
Excluded from this ranking: Burundi, Iran, Malawi, Sudan, Yemen. Each has an ITU basket entry, but its official exchange rate diverges sharply and durably from the market rate (multiple government-quoted rates, a split central bank, or an IMF-documented parallel-market gap), which makes the local price in USD unreliable rather than a real measure of what residents pay. This screen was applied to the countries at the top of the ranking, where the distorted denominator drives the result; lower-ranked countries were not individually reviewed for the same issue.
24 further countries and territories have no ITU basket entry at all and can't be ranked: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, French Southern Territories, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kosovo, Martinique, Mayotte, Montserrat, Norfolk Island, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Vatican City, Wallis & Futuna, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, Åland Islands.
The gap between countries
The cheapest country in the index is 66.8× less expensive than the priciest.
The gap inside a single country
Across countries, the median plan costs 5.06× the cheapest one.
How price varies with plan shape
By plan size
By duration
Unlimited plans are 16% of the market, at a median of $3.50 per day.
How often prices move
87436 plans changed price in the last 7 days, across 324547 recorded changes, with a median move of 0.1%.
Market context
Third-party figures, each with its source and date. Figures we could not verify at a public source are not listed.
Market-size forecasts for travel eSIM differ by more than an order of magnitude depending on the publisher. We list none of them, and treat that divergence as the finding.
How to cite
Simsima eSIM Price Statistics, 8/17/2026. Local price benchmark: ITU ICT Price Baskets 2025.
Our figures are published under CC BY 4.0. ITU figures are cited with attribution, and we show the derived local price per gigabyte for each ranked country; the full ITU basket dataset itself is not redistributed — for that, go to the ITU directly.
ITU, ICT Price Baskets — Data-only mobile broadband 5GB (i271mb_5GB$) — 2026-08-13