The short answer
You hold a Rogers plan and a flight to Paris, and the choice is whether to buy the Rogers Europe Travel Pass or a travel eSIM first. I read the Rogers Europe pass prices on 10 November 2026 and set them against the travel eSIMs I priced on 10 November 2026 and against Ringo Light. For any trip from three days up I would buy Ringo Light and keep my Rogers SIM in for calls and texts.
Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $14.99 or 30 days at $26.99, nothing renews. The Rogers Europe pass for the same days is C$70 and C$90, and Airalo asks $42 for 15 days and $59 for the month.
The Europe Travel Pass puts your own Rogers plan to work in France, so nothing needs installing and a phone with no eSIM slot works. It is the cheapest pass Rogers sells for France, and every travel eSIM I priced still undercuts it at a month except Holafly.
10 GB for 30 days at $10 and 25 GB at $19, on all four French networks with 5G.
20 GB for 30 days at $21, $5.99 under Ringo Light's 30 days, and 10 GB at $14. On Free and Orange.
Prices read on 10 November 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Rogers, European Central Bank 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. The rivals sell 15 days, Ringo Light 2 weeks. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad sells no 15-day unlimited.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Nomad sells no 30-day unlimited.
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 France, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most trips from Canada include, from Paris to the Alps. Whichever plan you pick, the tip under each one is where your phone matters.
Roam with Rogers, or buy an eSIM
France is on the Rogers Europe Travel Pass list. I read the pass prices on 10 November 2026 on the Rogers roaming page, where the regional prices show once the Europe filter is selected: C$30 for 3 days, C$55 for 7, C$70 for 14 and C$90 for 30. I read the country list in the pass FAQ the same day. At the ECB reference rate of 10 November 2026, C$1 = $0.707, so the passes are about $21, about $39, about $50 and about $64. The International Travel Pass also covers France, but it is dearer at C$45, C$75, C$100 and C$120, and International Daily is C$18 a day, about $13. A pass day runs from 12 a.m. Eastern time on the activation date to 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on the last day. France is five or six hours ahead of Eastern time, so I would set the start date with that in mind.
Ringo Light is one payment per trip, with three trips for France: $9.99 for 3 days, $14.99 for 2 weeks and $26.99 for 30 days, all unlimited data at full speed. A long weekend in Paris is $9.99 against about $21 on the Rogers pass. Two weeks from Paris to the Riviera is $14.99 against about $50, and a month is $26.99 against about $64. Ringo Light has no 7-day plan, so for a week I would buy the 2 weeks at $14.99, which costs less than the Rogers 7-day pass at about $39.
Among the travel eSIMs, Ringo Light is the cheapest unlimited at every length I priced. For two weeks, Ubigi asks $25 for 15 days, Saily $41.99, Airalo $42 and Holafly $50.50, so Rogers at about $50 costs what Holafly does and more than the other three. For a month, Ubigi is $39, Airalo $59, Saily $59.99 and Holafly $73.90, and Rogers at about $64 sits between Saily and Holafly. For 3 days Airalo and Nomad ask $11, and Rogers at about $21 is nearly double that.
What Rogers wins is real. Your Canadian number keeps ringing, calls and texts use the talk and text in your own plan, nothing needs installing, a phone with no eSIM slot works, and the charge lands on a bill you already pay. Rogers says the pass has no separate usage bucket and uses the data in your plan, so a small plan is a small amount of data in Paris. The pages I read do not state a speed cap, a hotspot rule or whether prepaid plans qualify, and I would check my service agreement before I bought.
Networks in France, and what changes for a visitor from Canada
France has four national networks, Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free. Holafly, Saily and Ubigi list all four, Nomad rides Free and Orange, and Airalo does not name the network on its Élan plan. Ringo Light uses a local partner network. For Paris, Lyon, the Riviera and the main train lines I would not choose on network, and for Mont Saint-Michel, the Loire and the Luberon villages I would save offline maps before I left the hotel.
Rogers does not say on the pages I read which French network its pass uses, so I cannot tell you how its coverage compares. I would ask Rogers if I planned a week of back roads in the Alps.
The travel eSIMs here are data only, with no French number. Calls go over apps that use data, such as WhatsApp or FaceTime, while your Rogers number stays on your own SIM.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $10 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, 25 GB for $19, on Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free with 5G.
- Nomad, $14 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $21, the cheapest 20 GB, $5.99 under Ringo Light's 30 days. On Free and Orange.
- Saily, $16.99 for 10 GB. On all four networks, 20 GB at $22.99.
- Airalo, $17 for 10 GB. Its France plan is called Élan. 20 GB is $23.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $14.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $26.99. If I needed 10 GB to last a whole month, I would buy Ubigi at $10. 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 that. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For France it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 3 days at $9.99, 2 weeks at $14.99 and 30 days at $26.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan with a QR code, and needs no app.
It is data only: no number, no calls, no texts. It sits next to your own SIM, so your Canadian number stays on the Rogers SIM in the phone for calls and texts. I would pay once, before the flight, and switch the eSIM on for data when I land.
The card to buy it is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
Ringo Light unlimited, 3 days, $9.99, against C$30 (about $21) on the Rogers Europe pass. Airalo and Nomad are $11.
Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $14.99, against C$70 (about $50) on Rogers and C$55 (about $39) for just 7 days.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $26.99, against C$90 (about $64) on Rogers. Ubigi at $39 for 60 GB at full speed if you move big files every day.
Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $10.
Keep your own SIM in beside the eSIM. Rogers carries calls and texts on your number and the travel eSIMs do not; the full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
Frequently asked questions
How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Rogers, European Central Bank, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for France 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: Bell and Telus. I did not read their own roaming pages for France on the day, so they stay out rather than being guessed. This page prices Rogers only. Left out: Rogers daily roaming. Rogers' International Daily is C$18 a day, about $13, and I compare the Europe pass, which is cheaper from the second day. Left out: Maya Mobile. It lists only a Global plan for France and its own site refused the fetch, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/france-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026; buckets from esimdb.com/france/airalo, 4 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-france/, dollar prices on its own site, 10 November 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-france/, prices in dollars on saily.com, read 25 October 2026; networks from en.selectra.info, 25 August 2026; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- Nomad: esimdb.com/france/nomad, listing dated 4 October 2026; networks from nomadesim.com/en/france-esim
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/destinations/france/, and esimdb.com/france/ubigi, 4 October 2026
- Rogers: www.rogers.com/mobility/roaming, Travel Pass prices on rogers.com/mobility/roaming with the Europe filter selected, C$30, C$55, C$70 and C$90 for 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, the International pass at C$45, C$75, C$100 and C$120 and International Daily at C$18 a day, and the pass FAQ at rogers.com/mobility/roaming/faqs-about-travel-pass placing France on the Europe Travel Pass list, the day running from 12 a.m. ET on the activation date to 11:59 p.m. ET on the last day, and the line that passes use the data, talk and text in your plan, read 10 November 2026
- European Central Bank: www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml, euro reference rates of 10 November 2026, the latest published that day, used for the dollar figures (C$1 = $0.707)
- 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.
