The short answer
You have AT&T or Verizon and a flight to Rio, and the choice is to roam or buy an eSIM. I read both carriers' pages on 31 October 2026 and set them against the five travel eSIMs and Ringo Light, priced on 10 November 2026. For a day or two I would roam, and for a long weekend I would buy from Airalo. For a week, two weeks or a month I would buy Ringo Light.
Unlimited data with no speed cap, $37.99 for 2 weeks or $64.99 for 30 days, nothing renews. Airalo and Ubigi ask $46 for 15 days, and Ubigi $69 for the month.
A month at $69 with 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps, on TIM and Vivo. Also the cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, at $19.
10 GB for 30 days at $22 and 20 GB at $35, on TIM. Its unlimited stops at 10 days.
3 days at $12 and 7 days at $25, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, on Vivo.
Prices read on 10 November 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, AT&T, Ringo Light, Verizon on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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The prices, charted
US dollars, 10 November 2026; Saily's figure is from 25 October, its site not readable on 10 November. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks, the others 15 days. Ubigi's 15 days is 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad's unlimited stops at 10 days.
The 30-day plan at each brand, read 10 November 2026; Saily's figure is from 25 October. Ringo Light is the cheapest month. Ubigi's is 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps.
Read 10 November 2026; Saily's and Airalo's figures are from 25 October, not readable on 10 November. Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited, so it lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
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What to see in Brazil, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Rio down to Iguacu and up to Salvador, the Lencois dunes and the Amazon, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Signal is good in the cities and on the coast; on the dunes and the rivers it drops, so offline maps matter.
Roam with your carrier, or buy an eSIM
AT&T's International Day Pass is $12 a day in Brazil, $168 for two weeks and $360 for a month, read 31 October 2026. Verizon TravelPass lists Brazil at the same $12 a day on the same date. Three days is $36 on either, and a week is $84. Ringo Light is $14.99 for 7 days, $37.99 for 2 weeks and $64.99 for 30 days, unlimited data with no speed cap, paid once. It sells no 3-day plan for Brazil.
Against the cheapest rival, the carrier gap stays wide. For about two weeks, Airalo and Ubigi ask $46 for 15 days. For a month, Ubigi asks $69 and Airalo $85. For 3 days Airalo asks $12, and for 7 days $25. On a week Ringo Light is $69.01 under either day pass, on two weeks $130.01 under, and on a month $295.01 under.
The carrier wins where a phone does more than data. Your own number keeps ringing, calls and texts are included, and there is nothing to install. Both bill only for days the phone is used in Brazil, so a day or two costs $12 or $24. For one or two days I would roam. For a long weekend, Airalo's $12 undercuts the pass. From a week, I would buy Ringo Light, $14.99 against $84 on the pass.
AT&T adds $6 a day for each additional line used on the same day. Two phones on one account is $18 a day, $252 over two weeks, against $75.98 for two Ringo Light eSIMs.
Networks in Brazil, and what changes for a visitor from the United States
Brazil has three national networks: Vivo, Claro and TIM. All three cover Rio, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Foz do Iguacu and most of the coast, and coverage thins in the Amazon, on the Maranhao dunes and on long interior roads whichever one you are on. In the table, Airalo rides Vivo, Nomad TIM, Ubigi TIM and Vivo, Holafly lists Claro, TIM and Vivo, and Saily does not name its network. Ringo Light rides a local partner network. For the cities and the beaches I would not pick on the network.
For a visitor, the real difference is how the data is billed. AT&T and Verizon charge per day of use on the line you already pay for. Verizon's page gives 5 GB of high-speed data in each 24-hour session, then unlimited data at 3G speeds. AT&T describes unlimited high-speed data when the pass is added to an eligible Unlimited plan, with speed varying by destination. A travel eSIM is bought ahead and runs for a set number of days.
I found no monthly plan for Brazil on the AT&T page, so I count a month as thirty days at $12, and I do the same for Verizon. One note for Iguacu: a Brazil-only eSIM stops at the Argentine border, so if you cross to see the falls from the other side, I would check what your plan covers first.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB I found, on TIM and Vivo, installed by QR code. Its 20 GB is a monthly plan at $19 that renews.
- Nomad, $22 for 10 GB. The cheapest one-off 20 GB I found, at $35, on TIM.
- Airalo, $23 for 10 GB. Its Maneiro plan: 20 GB for $36, with buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
- Saily, $24.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $39.99, read on saily.com on 25 October 2026.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $37.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $64.99. For a fixed amount of data, the four rivals above are all cheaper in Brazil. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is Ringo's own data eSIM, and I write for Ringo, so weigh my verdict with that in mind. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Brazil it sells three trips, all unlimited data with no speed cap: 7 days at $14.99, 2 weeks at $37.99 and 30 days at $64.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email and installs in one scan, no app.
In Brazil it is the cheapest two weeks of unlimited and the cheapest month, $4.01 under Ubigi. Ringo also sells a Latin America trip that covers Brazil, at $47.99 for 2 weeks and $65.99 for 30 days. If Brazil is your only stop, I would buy the Brazil plan.
The eSIM sits next to your own SIM, so your number can still ring for calls and texts if you leave roaming on, which both carriers include. Mind the billing: AT&T starts a day pass the first time the phone uses data, sends a text or takes a call, so a day with a call on it is a $12 day. I would keep roaming off except on the days a call matters. The card to buy Ringo Light is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
I would roam for one or two days, $12 or $24. For all 3 days, Airalo unlimited at $12 beats the $36 pass. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 7 days, $14.99, against $84 on the day pass and $25 at Airalo.
I would buy Ringo Light, $37.99, against $168 on either day pass and $46 to $51.50 at the rivals.
I would buy Ringo Light, $64.99. The carriers come to $360, and the cheapest rival month is Ubigi at $69.
My pick is Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $19, or Nomad at $22, if you will mostly use maps and messages.
I would keep the carrier SIM in the phone and put the data on Ringo Light. Roaming on that line costs $12 on any day it is used.
Frequently asked questions
How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, AT&T, Ringo Light, Verizon, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Brazil on 10 November 2026, all on the same day, in US dollars. Each rival's price comes from its own website where it showed dollars, otherwise from an esimdb.com listing, and every source and its date is listed below. Ringo Light's prices come from the catalogue our checkout charges.
We compare the trips people actually book: a week, two weeks and a month of unlimited data, and a 10 GB bucket. We read each brand's fair use and speed rules and quote them as the brands state them. We did not run speed tests, so this page makes no speed claims for any brand.
Ringo Light is our own product. We put it in the table on the same terms as everyone else, and where a rival is the better buy the page says so.
Left out: Maya Mobile. We could not read its own prices for this country on the day, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/brazil-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, read 10 November 2026; buckets from esimdb.com/brazil/airalo, read 25 October 2026, not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-brazil/, read on holafly.com, 10 November 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-brazil/, prices in dollars on saily.com, read 25 October 2026; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/brazil-esim, prices in dollars on the site, read 10 November 2026; network from the same page
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/brazil/ubigi, esimdb listing read 10 November 2026 (page dated 5 November); networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com
- AT&T: www.att.com/international/day-pass/, International Day Pass price, additional lines and what it includes, with the destination list at att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1395068/ naming Brazil, read 31 October 2026
- Ringo Light: ringoesim.com/brazil, the catalogue the checkout charges, read the same day
- Verizon: www.verizon.com/support/travelpass-faqs/, TravelPass FAQ for the daily price, the 5 GB allowance and billing on days used, and the TravelPass countries list at verizon.com/plans/travelpass-countries/ for Brazil at $12 per day, read 31 October 2026
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 10 November 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
