The best eSIM for Asia in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Asia, priced on the same day: 19 countries, two weeks unlimited for $26.99, a month for $47.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell one plan for several Asian countries and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six regional plans on the same day, for a week, two weeks across three or four countries and a month, counted the countries each one covers and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed across 19 countries, 2 weeks at $26.99 or 30 days at $47.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $73.50 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. Asialink, 18 countries: 3 days of unlimited at $11.50, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. APAC plan, 14 countries: 10 GB for 30 days at $21 and 20 GB for 45 days at $35.
Ubigi: Cheapest week, and 20 GB on a monthly plan. Best Asia, 17 countries: 7 days with 25 GB at full speed for $25, then 2 Mbps. 20 GB a month for $19 if you are happy with a plan that renews.
Model: Airalo Asialink: 18 countries, buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Asia: 16 countries, unlimited days only; Saily Asia and Oceania: 22 countries, buckets or unlimited days; Nomad APAC: 14 countries (21 on a second, dearer plan), buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi Best Asia: 17 countries, buckets, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light 19 countries, one eSIM: unlimited trips of 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; 5 days $21.99; Nomad No 3-day plan; 5 days $18; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $26; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad No 7-day plan; Ubigi 25 GB, then 2 Mbps, $25; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $26.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily 15 days $54.99; Nomad No two-week plan; 10 days $29; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $45; Ringo Light $26.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $73.50; Holafly $73.90; Saily $81.99; Nomad No 30-day plan; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $66; Ringo Light $47.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $25; Holafly No buckets; Saily $35.99; Nomad $21; Ubigi $28; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $26.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $39; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; 25 GB for 60 days $48.99; Nomad Not listed on the day; 20 GB for 45 days $35; Ubigi 20 GB a month, renews, $19; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $47.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily 5 GB a day, then slowed; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; 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.
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.
A first trip to Asia is often two weeks and three or four countries: Bangkok, then Bali, then Singapore, or Tokyo and Seoul. A regional eSIM means one install for all of it. For about two weeks of unlimited on a regional plan, Airalo asks $49, Holafly $50.50, Saily $54.99, and Ubigi $45 for a fixed 30 GB at full speed. For a month, $66 to $81.99. Ringo Light charges $26.99 for 2 weeks and $47.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, 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 $25.99 top-up.
So for a heavy user the sums change. A heavy two weeks with us costs $52.98: more than Ubigi's 15 days at $45, Airalo's $49 or Holafly's $50.50, a little under Saily's $54.99. A heavy month costs $73.98: more than Ubigi's $66, level with Airalo at $73.50 and Holafly at $73.90, under Saily at $81.99. If you know you will stream every evening, Ubigi's 60 GB month is the better buy. If you are like most travellers and use maps, messages and photos, you never reach the top-up and pay $26.99 or $47.99.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 and a week at $26; Ubigi sells a week with 25 GB at full speed for $25. Our 2 weeks at $26.99 costs about the same as their week.
Asia plans differ more in their country lists than in their prices, so check yours before you buy. Ringo Light covers 19 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Airalo's Asialink covers 18: the same Asian list plus Laos, without Australia and New Zealand. Holafly's Asia plan covers 16: it includes Laos but not India, Bangladesh, Australia or New Zealand. Saily counts 22 countries in its Asia and Oceania plan, Ubigi 17 in Best Asia, and Nomad 14 in the APAC plan that carries its unlimited days and cheapest buckets. If your trip includes Laos, Nepal or Mongolia, Ringo Light does not cover it; buy a plan that lists it. If it ends in Sydney or Auckland, ours does, on the same eSIM.
Nomad, $21 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB on its 14-country APAC plan, and 20 GB for 45 days at $35.
Airalo, $25 for 10 GB. Asialink, 18 countries, 20 GB for 30 days at $39, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Ubigi, $28 for 10 GB. Best Asia, 17 countries. Its 20 GB for $19 is a monthly plan that renews until you stop it.
Saily, $35.99 for 10 GB. Asia and Oceania, 22 countries, no 20 GB bucket on its listing. The listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $26.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $47.99. For a fixed 10 GB, Nomad and Airalo are cheaper across Asia, and for 20 GB, Nomad, Airalo and Ubigi's monthly plan are all cheaper. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
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 Asia it sells two trips across 19 countries, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $26.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $47.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $25.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Bangkok or Singapore. Airalo Asialink unlimited, 3 days, $11.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks across three or four countries. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $26.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks. Ubigi 15 days at $45 for 30 GB at full speed if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $21, if its 14 countries include yours.
A month of travel or remote work. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $47.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $25.99. Ubigi at $66 for 60 GB at full speed if you know you will use more than 30 GB.
Your trip includes Laos. Airalo Asialink or Holafly Asia; Ringo Light does not cover Laos.
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 Asia, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips to Asia include, from Tokyo to Bali, with the one thing your data does for you at each. All eight are in countries Ringo Light's Asia plan covers, so one eSIM works at every stop.
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, Japan. Up to three thousand people cross at once when the lights change. Watch it from above in the station buildings, then walk it yourself. Tokyo's stations have dozens of exits. Search the exit you need in maps before you surface.
Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, Bangkok, Thailand. A tall central tower covered in porcelain, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river. It is lit at night, and the best view is from the east bank opposite. The cross-river ferry from Tha Tien pier takes a few minutes; for longer rides, Grab works across Bangkok.
Tegallalang rice terraces, Near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Terraced paddies stepping down a valley north of Ubud, watered by Bali's old shared irrigation system. Go early, before the tour vans arrive. Grab and Gojek both run around Ubud; save offline maps for the paths between the paddies.
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Three towers joined by a ship-shaped SkyPark over the bay. In the evening the free light and water show plays on the promenade below. Singapore's trains and buses take a contactless card or the phone wallet at the gate, so you need no transit card.
Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea. The main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty, first built in 1395, with the changing of the guard at its main gate. Visitors wearing hanbok get in free. Google Maps gives poor directions in Korea. Install Naver Map or KakaoMap before you land.
Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh, Vietnam. Thousands of limestone islands rising out of the Gulf of Tonkin. Most people see it on a day or overnight cruise from Hanoi, a few hours away by road. Save your cruise ticket and the pier location offline before you leave Hanoi.
Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Twin 88-floor towers joined by a skybridge, the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. The park at their feet has a fountain show in the evening. Skybridge tickets sell out; book them on your phone. Grab is how most people get around the city.
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. The skyline of Hong Kong Island facing Kowloon across the water. The Star Ferry has crossed between Tsim Sha Tsui and Central since the nineteenth century. An Octopus card in your phone wallet pays for the Star Ferry, the MTR and most convenience stores.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Asia 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/asia-esim?currency=USD (Asialink unlimited, buckets, 18 countries and the 3 GB daily cap read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-asia/ (prices in dollars and the 16-country list on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/region/asia/saily (Asia and Oceania plan, listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/region/asia/nomad (APAC plans, listing dated 18 September 2026; nomadesim.com/apac-eSIM showed only euros).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/region/asia/ubigi (Best Asia plans, listing dated 18 September 2026; 10 GB price confirmed on cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data on one regional plan, Ringo Light: $26.99 for 2 weeks and $47.99 for 30 days across 19 countries on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $73.50 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $11.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad at $21.
It depends on the brand. Ringo Light covers 19, including Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Australia and New Zealand. Airalo's Asialink covers 18 and adds Laos but not Australia or New Zealand. Holafly covers 16. Check that every country on your route is on the list before you pay.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB, Nomad after 2 GB, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
For one country, a country plan is often cheaper. For two or more, a regional plan saves you buying, installing and switching an eSIM at every border, and it keeps working on the flight connection in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. Ringo Light's Asia plan costs the same wherever in its 19 countries you use it.
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