The best eSIM for the Caribbean in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for the Caribbean, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $44.99, a month for $80.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Caribbean plan. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend, two weeks of island hopping and a month, read the fine print on unlimited, and checked which islands each one actually covers. That last part matters more here than anywhere else. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed in 7 countries for 2 weeks at $44.99 or 30 days at $80.99, one payment each, nothing renews. The cheapest rival asks $75 for 15 days and $160 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB and cheapest week. 10 GB for 30 days at $34, and 7 days of unlimited at $44 with 20 GB at full speed, across 27 countries including the Dominican Republic.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days, widest island list. Its Island Hopper plan covers 26 countries, Puerto Rico included, the Dominican Republic not. 3 days of unlimited at $19.50.
Nomad: Cheapest 20 GB. 20 GB for 30 days at $49 on FLOW and BTC, but only 15 countries, without Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.
Model: Airalo Island Hopper, 26 countries: buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Caribbean, 18 countries: unlimited days only; Saily Caribbean Islands, 27 countries: buckets only; Nomad Caribbean, 15 countries: buckets only; Ubigi Caribbean, 27 countries: buckets or unlimited, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light 7 countries, one eSIM: unlimited trips of 2 weeks or 30 days.
Our 7 countries covered: Airalo Bahamas, Cayman, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten; not the Dominican Republic; Holafly Cayman, Dominican Republic, Jamaica; not the Bahamas, Puerto Rico or Sint Maarten; Saily Bahamas, Cayman, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten; not the Dominican Republic; Nomad Bahamas, Cayman, Jamaica; not the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or Sint Maarten; Ubigi Bahamas, Cayman, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Sint Maarten; not Puerto Rico; Ringo Light All 7: Bahamas, Cayman, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $45; Holafly $45.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $44; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $44.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $99; Holafly 15 days $90.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $75; Ringo Light $44.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $160; Holafly $161.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 30-day plan; Ringo Light $80.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $48; Holafly No buckets; Saily $46.99; Nomad $36; Ubigi $34; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $44.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo No 20 GB plan; Holafly No buckets; Saily No 20 GB plan; Nomad $49; Ubigi No 20 GB plan; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $80.99.
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; Nomad No unlimited; 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 Not named; 4G; Holafly Not named; 4G and 5G where available; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad FLOW, BTC and others; Ubigi Aliv, Altice, Digicel, Flow, UTS; Ringo Light Local partner networks.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi No; 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 Caribbean trip is often a week or two on one island, or a cruise that stops at four. For about two weeks of unlimited, Ubigi asks $75 for 30 GB at full speed, Holafly $90.50 and Airalo $99. For a month, Airalo asks $160 and Holafly $161.50; Ubigi sells no month of unlimited here, and Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited at all. Ringo Light charges $44.99 for 2 weeks and $80.99 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 gives 20 GB for 7 days or 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 $43.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $88.98, more than Ubigi's 15 days at $75 and a little less than Holafly and Airalo. A heavy month costs $124.98, still well under the $160 the others ask.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50, and Ubigi a week at $44, a dollar under our 2 weeks.
The Caribbean is thirty-odd countries and territories, and no plan covers them all. This is where the brands differ most, more than on price. Ringo Light covers 7: the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Sint Maarten, plus Nicaragua on the mainland. It is the only plan in this table that covers both the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, two of the most visited places in the region.
It is also the shortest list. Airalo's Island Hopper covers 26 countries, Saily and Ubigi 27 each, Holafly 18 and Nomad 15. If your trip is Barbados, St Lucia, Aruba, Antigua, Turks and Caicos or the French islands, Ringo Light does not cover it and one of them does. For an eastern Caribbean cruise, Airalo, Saily or Ubigi fits better. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Networks differ island by island. Digicel and Flow run most of the English-speaking islands, Aliv and BTC the Bahamas, Altice and Claro the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico runs on the big US networks. Every plan here roams on one or two local networks per island; cities and resort coasts are well covered, the small cays and national parks much less.
Ubigi, $34 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, across 27 countries including the Dominican Republic and Sint Maarten, but not Puerto Rico.
Nomad, $36 for 10 GB. And the only 20 GB bucket, at $49. Its list of 15 countries leaves out Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Sint Maarten.
Saily, $46.99 for 10 GB. No 20 GB plan and no unlimited. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $48 for 10 GB. Its Island Hopper plan, buckets from $8 for 1 GB over 3 days.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $44.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $80.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi and Nomad are cheaper in the Caribbean. 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 the Caribbean it sells two trips on one eSIM across 7 countries, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $44.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $80.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $43.99. 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 Nassau or San Juan. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $19.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $44.99, the one plan here that covers both, and less than any rival charges for two weeks.
An eastern Caribbean cruise. Airalo Island Hopper or Ubigi: their lists include Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua and Aruba, which Ringo Light does not cover.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $34, if your island is on its list.
A month, working from the beach. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $80.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $43.99. Half what Airalo and Holafly ask.
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 the Caribbean, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places on the islands Ringo Light covers, from San Juan to Sint Maarten, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Towns and resort coasts have good 4G; the cays, reefs and rainforests much less, so a few tips are about going offline.
Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. A Spanish fortress from the 1500s on the point guarding San Juan Bay, with a wide lawn in front where locals fly kites. Go early, before the midday heat. Uber runs in the San Juan area, the easy way back to your hotel after the walk through Old San Juan.
El Yunque National Forest, Northeast Puerto Rico. The only tropical rainforest in the US National Forest System, about an hour east of San Juan, with waterfalls, trails and lookout towers above the canopy. Driving in on the main road has needed a timed reservation booked online in recent years; check before you go, and save the trail map offline because signal fades under the trees.
The Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The first European city in the Americas, a UNESCO site of stone streets around the Catedral Primada, the oldest cathedral in the Americas. Walk it in the morning. Uber works in Santo Domingo and is the simplest way across the city.
Isla Saona, Parque Nacional del Este, Dominican Republic. A palm-lined island inside a national park, reached by boat from Bayahibe or on day tours from Punta Cana, often with a stop at a shallow sandbar on the way. Tours confirm pickups by WhatsApp, so keep data on; signal on the island itself is patchy.
Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios, Jamaica. A terraced waterfall you climb from the beach to the top, usually in a hand-holding chain with a guide. Busiest on days when cruise ships are in port. Your phone rides in a waterproof pouch for the climb. Look up which ships are docked in Ocho Rios and go on a quieter day.
Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. A long public beach of calm water on the west coast, with snorkelling off the rocks at the north end and boats out to the stingrays of Stingray City. Prices are often in Cayman dollars, worth more than the US dollar. A currency converter saves surprises.
The Exuma Cays, The Bahamas. A chain of hundreds of cays south of Nassau with water in every shade of blue. Boat days run to the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay, Thunderball Grotto and sandbars like Stocking Island. Coverage thins out between the cays. Download offline maps and message your boat captain before you leave the dock.
Maho Beach, Sint Maarten. Planes land just over the sand at Princess Juliana Airport, a few dozen metres above the swimmers. Afternoons bring the bigger jets. A flight tracking app shows which jet lands next. Stay off the airport fence: the blast from departing planes is dangerous.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Caribbean 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/caribbean-islands-esim?currency=USD (Island Hopper plan, prices, country list and 3 GB a day rule read on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-caribbean/ (prices and 18-country list read on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/region/caribbean/saily (listing dated 16 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://www.nomadesim.com/caribbean-esim (dollar prices, networks and 15-country list read on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/rates-and-coverage/caribbean-data-plans/caribbean-unlimited-15-days/?wmc-currency=USD (Caribbean plan (not Best Caribbean, which covers only the French islands), prices, full-speed amounts, networks and country list read on the site, 28 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $44.99 for 2 weeks and $80.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $75 for 15 days at Ubigi and $160 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $19.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $34. Check first that your island is on the plan's list.
It depends on the island. Most English-speaking islands run on Digicel and Flow, the Bahamas on Aliv and BTC, the Dominican Republic on Altice and Claro, and Puerto Rico on US networks. Ubigi names Aliv, Altice, Digicel, Flow and UTS; Nomad names FLOW and BTC; Airalo, Holafly and Saily do not name theirs.
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. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited plan here. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Usually yes: Puerto Rico is a US territory and most US plans treat it as home. The other islands are not, and US roaming there is charged by the day. A regional eSIM covers the rest of the trip; Ringo Light covers Puerto Rico and six more countries on one eSIM.
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