The best eSIM for Bangladesh in 2026. Six Bangladesh eSIMs priced on the same day: Ringo Light is two weeks unlimited for $21.99 and a month for $40.99. Who wins buckets and short trips.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Bangladesh plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days of business in Dhaka, two weeks out to the Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar, and a month, 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 for 2 weeks at $21.99 or 30 days at $40.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $50 for 15 days and $73.50 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days and cheapest 10 GB. 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 and 10 GB for 30 days at $17.50, on Grameenphone, the largest network in Bangladesh.
Nomad: Cheapest 20 GB. 20 GB for 30 days at $25 on Banglalink, and 10 GB at $20. Nomad sells no unlimited plan for Bangladesh.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on Grameenphone, installed by QR code with no app. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets; unlimited only on its Asia plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets, or 5 GB a day then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No Bangladesh unlimited; Asia plan 5 days $21.99; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, $32; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $21.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $50; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily Asia plan, 15 days $54.99; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 15 days, 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $54; Ringo Light $21.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $73.50; Holafly $73.90; Saily Asia plan, 30 days $81.99; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No Bangladesh plan; World plan 60 GB a month, then 2 Mbps, $120, renews; Ringo Light $40.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $17.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $17.99; Nomad $20; Ubigi $20; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $21.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $27.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi Not listed on the day; 25 GB $49; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $40.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Asia plan: 5 GB a day, then slowed; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Grameenphone; Holafly Grameenphone; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Banglalink; Ubigi Banglalink; 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 people come to Bangladesh for work in Dhaka or to see family, and stay two weeks or more. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $50, Holafly $50.50, Ubigi $54 and Saily $54.99 on its Asia plan. For a month, Airalo asks $73.50, Holafly $73.90 and Saily $81.99. Nomad sells no unlimited plan for Bangladesh at all. Ringo Light charges $21.99 for 2 weeks and $40.99 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. Ubigi and Saily give 5 GB a day, then slow you down. 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 $21.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $43.98, still under Airalo's $50 for 15 days; a heavy month costs $62.98, still under every rival for the month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 and Holafly at $11.90. For a week, Airalo asks $27 and Holafly $27.50, so our 2 weeks at $21.99 costs less than either brand's week.
Bangladesh has four mobile networks: Grameenphone, Robi, Banglalink and the state-owned Teletalk. Grameenphone is the largest and reaches furthest outside the cities. Airalo and Holafly ride Grameenphone; Nomad and Ubigi ride Banglalink. Saily does not name its network. In Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Cox's Bazar, any of them works.
Two things are true for every brand here, ours included. Deep in the Sundarbans, signal fades to nothing once the boat leaves the villages behind. And the government has shut down mobile internet across the country before, for days at a time during the July 2024 protests. A travel eSIM rides the same local networks, so it goes down with them. Keep offline maps and your bookings saved on the phone.
Airalo, $17.50 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB here, on Grameenphone, 20 GB for $27.50, and small buckets from $4 for 1 GB. The app is needed.
Saily, $17.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $27.99, read on saily.com in dollars on the day. It does not name its network.
Nomad, $20 for 10 GB. And the cheapest 20 GB at $25, on Banglalink. A good fit for a light month.
Ubigi, $20 for 10 GB. On Banglalink, and 10 GB for 7 days at $18. No 20 GB plan was listed; 25 GB is $49.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $21.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $40.99. For a fixed amount of data, Airalo, Saily, Nomad and Ubigi are all cheaper in Bangladesh. 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 Bangladesh it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $21.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $40.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $21.99. 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 few days of meetings in Dhaka. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $11.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week, heavy use. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $21.99, less than Airalo's week at $27 or Holafly's at $27.50.
Two weeks, Dhaka to the Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $21.99, less than half of any rival's 15 days.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Airalo 10 GB for 30 days at $17.50.
A month visiting family. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $40.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $21.99. Nomad 20 GB at $25 if you will mostly be on home Wi-Fi.
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 Bangladesh, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Old Dhaka to the Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar, the tea hills of Sylhet and the ruins of the north, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G; in the forests and on the rivers, download before you go.
Ahsan Manzil, the Pink Palace, Old Dhaka. The pink palace of the Nawabs of Dhaka on the Buriganga river, now a museum of their rooms and portraits. Pair it with a boat ride from the Sadarghat river port nearby. Old Dhaka's lanes defeat any map at street level. Drop a pin on the palace gate and show it to your rickshaw driver.
Lalbagh Fort, Old Dhaka. A Mughal fort begun in 1678 and never finished, with a mosque, an audience hall and the tomb of Pari Bibi set in gardens. Go early, before the heat and the crowds. Dhaka traffic is slow. Uber and Pathao both work here and show the fare and the route before you book.
The Sundarbans, Khulna division. The largest mangrove forest in the world, shared with India and home to the Bengal tiger. Most visitors go on a guided boat trip of two or three days from Khulna or Mongla, best from November to February. Signal disappears in the forest. Download offline maps and tell family when you will be back in range.
The Sixty Dome Mosque, Bagerhat. A fifteenth century brick mosque, the largest of the historic mosque city of Bagerhat, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Despite its name, its roof carries more than seventy domes. Bagerhat is an easy day from Khulna and often joined to a Sundarbans trip. A route app shows the bus times.
Cox's Bazar, Chittagong division. A sandy beach that runs for more than 100 kilometres down the Bay of Bengal, lined with hotels at the town end and quieter to the south along the Marine Drive. The dry season, November to March, is the time to go. The surf has strong currents. Check the tide times and swim only where the lifeguard flags are.
The tea gardens of Srimangal, Sylhet division. Rolling tea estates around the town that calls itself the tea capital of Bangladesh, with Lawachara forest next door. Try the layered tea in the stalls in town. Trains from Dhaka sell out. Book seats in the Bangladesh Railway Rail Sheba app before you go.
Ratargul Swamp Forest, Near Sylhet. A freshwater forest that stands in water during the rainy season, explored by small wooden boat between the trunks. Come in the wet months; in the dry season the water drains away. Camera translation reads the Bangla signs and menus on the way out from Sylhet.
Somapura Mahavihara, Paharpur, Naogaon. The ruins of a great Buddhist monastery from the eighth century, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the far northwest, with a small museum beside it. It is a long way from Dhaka. Most people come by bus or train via Joypurhat or Naogaon; check the journey times in a route app first.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Bangladesh 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/bangladesh-esim?currency=USD (unlimited and buckets in dollars from the page data, 28 September 2026; network from the same page).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-bangladesh/ (dollar price table on the page, 28 September 2026; network and sharing limit from the same page).
Source for Saily: https://saily.com/esim-bangladesh/ (buckets in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; Asia and Oceania unlimited from esimdb.com/bangladesh/saily, listing dated 2 July 2026).
Source for Nomad: https://www.nomadesim.com/bangladesh-esim (dollar prices from the page data, 28 September 2026, matching esimdb.com/bangladesh/nomad (dated 21 September 2026); network from the same page).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/bangladesh/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $21.99 for 2 weeks and $40.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $50 for 15 days and $73.50 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $11.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Airalo at $17.50; for 20 GB, Nomad at $25.
Airalo and Holafly ride Grameenphone, the largest network in the country. Nomad and Ubigi ride Banglalink. Saily does not name its network. Both networks cover Dhaka and the other big cities well; Grameenphone reaches further into the countryside.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you to 1 Mbps after 3 GB a day, Ubigi to 2 Mbps after 5 GB a day, and Saily's Asia plan slows you after 5 GB a day. 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.
Yes. Operator counters in the arrivals hall sell local SIMs, and they are cheap. You need your passport, and the SIM is registered to you with a fingerprint scan, which can mean a queue after a long flight. An eSIM installs before you land and works as soon as the plane does.
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