The short answer
You have AT&T or Verizon and a flight to Santiago, and the question is whether to roam or buy an eSIM. I read both carriers' pages on 1 November 2026 and set them against the five travel eSIMs and Ringo Light, priced on 31 October 2026. For a day or two I would roam. For two weeks or a month I would buy Ringo Light and keep the carrier SIM in the phone for calls.
Unlimited data with no speed cap, $44.99 for 2 weeks or $63.99 for 30 days, nothing renews. Airalo asks $50 and Holafly $51.50 for 15 days, and Ubigi $68 for the month. Saily's Global plan, listed at $59.99 on 5 October, is $4 less.
10 GB for 30 days at $24, and a month with 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps, for $68, on Movistar. A week with 20 GB at full speed is $25.
20 GB for 30 days at $39 and 10 GB at $25, on Movistar. Its unlimited stops at 10 days.
Unlimited for 3 days at $12.50, against $13.50 at Holafly, and 7 days at $27.50 with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, on Movistar and WOM.
Prices read on 31 October 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, 31 October 2026. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks, Airalo and Holafly 15 days. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad's unlimited stops at 10 days, and Saily sells no Chile unlimited at all.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is the cheapest month of the Chile plans, unlimited data at full speed. Ubigi's is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Saily sells unlimited only on its Global plan, $59.99 on a listing of 5 October.
Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
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What to see in Chile, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from the Atacama desert down to Patagonia and out to Rapa Nui, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Signal is good in the cities; in the desert, the parks and on the islands 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 Chile, $168 for two weeks and $360 for a month, read 1 November 2026. Verizon TravelPass lists Chile at the same $12 a day on the same date. Three days is $36 on either. Ringo Light is $44.99 for 2 weeks and $63.99 for 30 days, unlimited data with no speed cap, paid once. It sells no 3-day plan for Chile.
Against the cheapest rival, the gap is still wide. For about two weeks, Nomad asks $45 for 10 days, Ubigi $49 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, and Airalo $50 for 15 days. For a month, Ubigi asks $68 and Airalo $92, while Saily's Global plan was listed at $59.99 on 5 October, $4 under Ringo Light. For 3 days, Airalo asks $12.50. Ringo Light is $123.01 under either day pass on two weeks, and $296.01 under on a month.
The carrier wins on what a phone does beyond 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 Chile, so a day or two costs $12 or $24. For one or two days I would roam. For three days, Airalo's $12.50 is under the $36 pass. From two weeks, I would buy Ringo Light.
AT&T adds $6 a day for each additional line used on the same day. Two people on one account is $18 a day, $252 over two weeks, against $89.98 for two Ringo Light eSIMs.
Networks in Chile, and what changes for a visitor from the United States
Chile has four national networks: Entel, Movistar, Claro and WOM. All four cover Santiago, Valparaiso and the towns of the central valley. Coverage thins on the Atacama roads, the Carretera Austral and inside the Patagonian parks, whichever one you are on. In the table, Airalo rides Movistar and WOM, Holafly, Nomad and Ubigi ride Movistar, and Saily does not name its network. Ringo Light rides a local partner network. For the cities I would not pick on the network.
For a visitor, the difference is how the data is billed. AT&T and Verizon charge per day of use on the line you already pay for. Verizon says each 24-hour session carries 5 GB at high speed, then unlimited data at 3G speeds. AT&T describes unlimited high-speed data when the pass is added to an Unlimited plan, with speed varying by destination. The eSIMs are bought ahead and run for a set number of days.
I found no monthly plan for Chile on the AT&T page, so I count a month as thirty days at $12, and I do the same for Verizon. If your route crosses into Argentina between Torres del Paine and El Calafate, a Chile-only eSIM stops at the border, Ringo Light's included, so I would look at a Latin America plan for that trip.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $24 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB, on Movistar, installed by QR code. For 20 GB it sells 25 GB at $48.
- Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. The cheapest 20 GB at $39, on Movistar.
- Saily, $27.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $48.99, from a listing dated 5 October, because saily.com would not load when I tried.
- Airalo, $28 for 10 GB. Its Altoque plan, on Movistar and WOM: 20 GB for $48, with buckets from $4.50 for 1 GB.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $44.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $63.99. For a fixed amount of data, the four rivals above are all cheaper in Chile. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited, never for a bucket.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is the data eSIM from the company I write for, 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 Chile it sells three trips, all unlimited data with no speed cap: 7 days at $16.99, 2 weeks at $44.99 and 30 days at $63.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email and installs in one scan, no app.
In Chile it is the cheapest two weeks of unlimited of the six, one cent under Nomad's 10 days at $45. It is the cheapest month of the Chile plans, $4.01 under Ubigi. Ringo also sells a Latin America trip that covers Chile, at $47.99 for 2 weeks and $65.99 for 30 days, on one eSIM that also works in Argentina, Peru and Bolivia.
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. Remember how AT&T bills: the pass starts the first time the phone uses data, sends a text or takes a call, so a day with a call on it costs $12. I would turn roaming on only for 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 $12.50 beats the $36 pass. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
I would buy Ringo Light, unlimited data at full speed for 7 days, $16.99, against $25 for Ubigi's 7 days with 20 GB at full speed and $84 on the day pass.
I would buy Ringo Light, $44.99, against $168 on either day pass and $49 to $51.50 at the rivals for 15 days.
I would buy Ringo Light, $63.99. The carriers come to $360, and the cheapest rival month is Ubigi at $68.
My pick is Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $24, 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 Chile on 31 October 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/chile-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, read live 31 October 2026; buckets from esimdb.com/chile/airalo, listing dated 26 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-chile/, prices in dollars and network on its own page, read live 31 October 2026
- Saily: esimdb.com/chile/saily, listing dated 5 October 2026; saily.com refuses the fetch
- Nomad: esimdb.com/chile/nomad, listing dated 26 October 2026; network from nomadesim.com/chile-esim, 28 September 2026 (not re-read)
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/chile/ubigi, listing dated 29 October 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com, read live 31 October 2026
- 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 Chile, read 1 November 2026
- Ringo Light: ringoesim.com/chile, 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 Chile at $12 per day, read 1 November 2026
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 31 October 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.
