The best eSIM for Antigua and Barbuda in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Antigua and Barbuda, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $44.99, a month for $86.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Antigua and Barbuda. We priced all six on the same day, for a cruise stop in St John's, a week at a resort, two weeks and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. On two small islands the details matter: two of the six sell no unlimited here at all, and one sells no Antigua and Barbuda plan, only a Caribbean one. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $44.99 or 30 days at $86.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Holafly asks $68.90 for 15 days and $111.90 for 30 days.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $34 and 20 GB at $49, on an Antigua and Barbuda plan on FLOW. Nomad sells no unlimited plan here.
Holafly: Cheapest week of unlimited. 7 days at $36.50 on Digicel, days not gigabytes. Sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $19.50 on its Island Hopper Caribbean plan, 3 GB a day at full speed. Its own Antigua and Barbuda plan on Digicel sells buckets up to 5 GB.
Ubigi: 10 GB at the same $34 as Nomad. On its Caribbean plan, not an Antigua and Barbuda one, on Digicel. 15 days with 30 GB at full speed for $75, then 2 Mbps.
Model: Airalo Antigua and Barbuda buckets up to 5 GB; unlimited only on its Island Hopper Caribbean plan; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only; above 1 GB only on its Caribbean Islands plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi No Antigua and Barbuda plan; Caribbean plan, buckets or a fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo Island Hopper $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo Island Hopper $45; Holafly $36.50; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi Caribbean plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $44; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $44.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo Island Hopper 15 days $99; Holafly 15 days $68.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi Caribbean plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $75; Ringo Light $44.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo Island Hopper $160; Holafly $111.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 30-day Caribbean plan; Best World global plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $86.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not sold for Antigua and Barbuda alone; Island Hopper $48; Holafly No buckets; Saily Caribbean Islands plan $46.99; Nomad $34; Ubigi Caribbean plan $34; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $44.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Discover global plan, 20 GB for 365 days, $66; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad $49; Ubigi Not listed for 30 days; Caribbean plan 20 GB for 7 days, $44; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $86.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi A fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Digicel; Holafly Digicel; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad FLOW; Ubigi Digicel; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi Monthly plans do; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Airalo Yes; Holafly No, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most trips to Antigua are a week or two at a resort on the west coast or round English Harbour, with a day in St John's and perhaps a day trip to Barbuda. For about two weeks of unlimited, Holafly asks $68.90 for 15 days, Ubigi $75 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, and Airalo $99 on its Island Hopper Caribbean plan or $96 on its Discover global plan. For a month, Ubigi's Best World global plan asks $108 for 60 GB at full speed, Holafly $111.90 and Airalo $159 to $160. Ringo Light charges $44.99 for 2 weeks and $86.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited plan for Antigua and Barbuda at all.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ringo Light has no speed cap: the 2 weeks starts with 10 GB and the 30 days with 20 GB, and when you have used 80% we add 10 GB once and charge the $44.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $89.98, more than Holafly's 15 days at $68.90 and Ubigi's at $75, less than Airalo at $96 or $99. A heavy month costs $131.98, more than Ubigi at $108 and Holafly at $111.90, less than Airalo at $159. If you will stream every evening, Holafly is the better buy. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50 on its Island Hopper plan, Holafly 3 days at $19.90 and a week at $36.50.
Antigua and Barbuda has three mobile networks: Digicel, FLOW and APUA, the state utility. Airalo, Holafly and Ubigi ride Digicel; Nomad rides FLOW. Saily does not name its network on its listing. Every plan here covers both islands as one country.
Antigua is low and small, and St John's, the west coast beaches and English Harbour are well covered. Barbuda is flat, lightly populated and a long way from the masts on Antigua: signal is best in and around Codrington and thins along the empty beaches. Download an offline map of both islands before you take the ferry or drive out to the east coast, whichever eSIM you buy.
Nomad, $34 for 10 GB. An Antigua and Barbuda plan on FLOW, with the cheapest 20 GB at $49 and 5 GB at $19, all for 30 days.
Ubigi, $34 for 10 GB. The same price on its Caribbean plan, on Digicel, and it keeps working on many of the other islands.
Airalo, $30 for 5 GB. Its own Antigua and Barbuda plan on Digicel stops at 5 GB for 30 days. For 10 GB you need its Island Hopper plan at $48.
Saily, $46.99 for 10 GB. On its Caribbean Islands plan; its Antigua and Barbuda plan sells only 1 GB. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $44.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $86.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad and Ubigi are cheaper in Antigua and Barbuda. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket.
Ringo Light is our own data eSIM, sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Antigua and Barbuda it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $44.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $86.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $44.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
Our Caribbean trip costs $44.99 for 2 weeks and $80.99 for 30 days, but it covers seven other countries and not Antigua and Barbuda. For Antigua and Barbuda, buy the Antigua and Barbuda trip.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A cruise stop in St John's. Airalo Island Hopper unlimited, 3 days, $19.50, or Airalo's own 1 GB for 3 days at $7.50 if you only need maps and messages. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week at a resort. Holafly unlimited, 7 days, $36.50. Nomad 5 GB at $19 if the hotel Wi-Fi does the rest.
Two weeks round both islands. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $44.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks. Holafly 15 days at $68.90 if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $34.
A month in Antigua. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $86.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $44.99. Ubigi's Best World plan at $108 for 60 GB at full speed if you use a lot of data.
You need your own number to keep ringing. None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
What to do in Antigua and Barbuda, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from St John's and the west coast beaches to English Harbour, the wild east coast and a day on Barbuda, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Antigua is small and well covered; Barbuda much less so.
St John's and Heritage Quay, St John's. The capital sits round the harbour where the cruise ships dock, with shops on Heritage Quay and Redcliffe Quay and the twin white towers of St John's Cathedral above the town. The public market is busiest on Saturday mornings. Prices are in Eastern Caribbean dollars, fixed at 2.70 to the US dollar, and US dollars are widely taken. A currency app checks the change.
Nelson's Dockyard, English Harbour. A Georgian naval dockyard, restored and still a working marina for yachts, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The old stone stores now hold a museum, inns and restaurants. It is on the far side of the island from St John's. A maps app shows how long the drive really takes on the island's roads.
Shirley Heights Lookout, Above English Harbour. An old military lookout with the view over English and Falmouth Harbours on every Antigua postcard. On Sunday evenings a steel band plays and people come up for the sunset. Taxis charge fixed rates set by the government. Save a driver's number for the ride back down after dark.
Devil's Bridge, East coast, near Willikies. A natural limestone arch cut by the Atlantic, with blowholes that spout when the waves come in. Go on a day with some swell, and stay back from the edge. The east coast roads are small and badly signed. Download the offline map before you drive out.
Half Moon Bay, Southeast coast. A long crescent of pale sand on the Atlantic side, inside a national park, with surf at one end and calmer water for snorkelling at the other when the sea is flat. There is little shade and few services. Check the wind and swell forecast before you choose between the east and west coast beaches.
Dickenson Bay, Northwest coast, near St John's. A calm, shallow bay lined with hotels, beach bars and water sports, and a short ride from St John's. The sunsets are over the open sea. Many beach bars and water sports desks take bookings by WhatsApp. Message ahead for a sunset table.
Betty's Hope, Near Pares, central Antigua. One of the island's first large sugar estates, from the seventeenth century, with the stone towers of its windmills and a small museum on the history of sugar and slavery. Signs are few inland. Search the site by name in maps rather than trusting the road signs.
The beaches of Barbuda, Barbuda. Mile after mile of empty pale pink sand, and the frigate bird colony in Codrington Lagoon. A ferry runs from St John's for a day trip, or you can fly. The crossing depends on the sea. Check the ferry time the day before, and expect weak signal away from Codrington.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Antigua and Barbuda on 28 September 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.
Source for Airalo: https://www.airalo.com/antigua-and-barbuda-esim?currency=USD (Antigua and Barbuda buckets and network in dollars on the site; Island Hopper unlimited from airalo.com/caribbean-islands-esim; other plans from esimdb.com/antigua-and-barbuda/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-antigua-and-barbuda/ (dollar prices from the price table on its own page; network Digicel).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/antigua-and-barbuda/saily (listing dated 14 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/antigua-and-barbuda/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from getnomad.app/antigua-and-barbuda-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/antigua-and-barbuda/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; Caribbean and global plans only, network from the listing).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $44.99 for 2 weeks and $86.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $68.90 for 15 days and $111.90 for 30 days at Holafly. For 3 days, Airalo's Island Hopper plan at $19.50. For a week, Holafly at $36.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad or Ubigi at $34.
Airalo, Holafly and Ubigi ride Digicel, and Nomad rides FLOW. Saily does not name its network on its listing. The towns, the resorts and English Harbour are well covered; signal thins on the far beaches of Barbuda.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited here. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Yes. Antigua and Barbuda is one country and every plan in this comparison covers both islands. Barbuda has far fewer people and masts, so signal is best around Codrington and weaker on the long beaches and out by the lagoon. Save the ferry times and an offline map before you cross.
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