The short answer
Six travel eSIMs sell a Germany plan and get most of the traffic for this search. I priced all six on the same day, for a weekend in Berlin, two weeks by train from Hamburg to Munich, and a month, and I read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $16.99 or 30 days at $26.99, nothing renews. The cheapest rivals I found ask $41.99 for 15 days (Saily) and $58 for the month (Ubigi).
10 GB for 30 days at $12.50, $4.49 under Ringo Light's 2 weeks, and 25 GB at $25, on O2 with 5G.
20 GB for 30 days at $21, $5.99 under Ringo Light's 30 days, and 7 days of unlimited at $23. On O2 and Vodafone.
Days, not gigabytes, no daily cap stated for your own phone, on Vodafone and O2. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 10 November 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi 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's unlimited stops at 10 days.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ubigi's month is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. 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 do in Germany, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Berlin and Hamburg to the Alps and the Black Forest, with the one thing your data does for you at each. All of them are on or near the main rail lines.
If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
Germany is a train country, and most first trips link three or four cities over two weeks. For about two weeks of unlimited, I read Saily at $41.99, Airalo at $42 and Holafly at $51.50; Ubigi asks $45 for 30 GB at full speed. For a month, the rivals run $58 to $76.50. Ringo Light charges $16.99 for 2 weeks and $26.99 for 30 days, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick, as I did for each brand. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Ubigi sells 30 GB at full speed for 15 days or 60 GB for 30, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed, for 2 weeks or 30 days.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells 3 days of unlimited data at $8.99, and no 7-day plan. Airalo and Nomad sell 3 days of unlimited at $11, and Nomad a week at $23 (Saily $23.99, Airalo and Ubigi $24). I count Ringo Light's 2 weeks at $16.99 as still cheaper than any rival's week.
Which network works best in Germany
Germany has three big networks: Telekom, Vodafone and O2, with 1&1 building a fourth. All three cover Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne well. Telekom reaches furthest into the countryside; O2 is thinnest outside the cities. Coverage on trains is patchy on every network in cuttings and forests, which is why the ICE has its own Wi-Fi. Of the brands I read, Holafly and Nomad name Vodafone, and all of them that name a network name O2; none names Telekom. If your trip is cities and rail, I would not lose sleep over which one you pick.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $12.50 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, 25 GB for $25, on O2 with 5G.
- Nomad, $14 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $21, the cheapest 20 GB, $5.99 under Ringo Light's 30 days. On O2 and Vodafone.
- Airalo, $16 for 10 GB. Its Hallo! Mobil plan, 20 GB for $23, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
- Saily, $16.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $22.99, read on saily.com on 10 November.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Ringo Light's 2 weeks is unlimited for $16.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $26.99. If you need 10 GB to last a whole month, Ubigi at $12.50 is the better buy, and Nomad sells 20 GB for $21. I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is Ringo's own data eSIM, and I write this guide 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 Germany it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 3 days at $8.99, 2 weeks at $16.99 and 30 days at $26.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 3 days, $8.99, against $11 at Airalo and Nomad; its 2 weeks is $16.99 if the trip might run longer.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $16.99, less than any rival charges for one week. Holafly at $27.50 a week if you want a stated no-cap plan on Vodafone.
Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $12.50.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $26.99. I would pick Ubigi at $58 for 60 GB at full speed only if you move big files every day.
None of these travel plans does that. 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, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Germany 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: Maya Mobile. We could not read its own prices for this country on the day, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/germany-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026; fixed data from the esimdb listing dated 4 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-germany/, prices in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-germany/, prices in dollars on the site, 25 October 2026; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/germany-esim, prices in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/data-plans-and-coverage/ubigi-esim-data-plans/?destination=DEU, prices in dollars on the site, 25 October 2026; network O2 from its Germany page; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- 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.
