The best eSIM for Guinea in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Guinea, priced the same day: two weeks unlimited for $58.99, where a rival wins, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Guinea, the country with Conakry as its capital, not Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea or Papua New Guinea. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Conakry, two weeks up into the Fouta Djallon, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Only one of the six sells unlimited data for Guinea itself, and it beats us on the month. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $58.99, one payment, nothing renews: $4.91 under Holafly's 15 days. For a month we are not the cheapest: our 30 days is $114.99, Holafly's $112.90.
Holafly: Cheapest unlimited month and short trips. Days, not gigabytes, on Orange Guinée: 3 days at $20.90, a week at $39.90, 30 days at $112.90, $2.09 less than our month. Sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Ubigi: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $35 on Orange, or $30 on its Best Africa plan. Its Best World plan gives 60 GB at full speed for 30 days, then 2 Mbps, at $108.
Nomad: Two networks. The only brand here that names two Guinean networks, MTN and Orange. Small buckets only: 5 GB for 30 days at $35.
Model: Airalo Small buckets only, up to 3 GB for Guinea; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only; Nomad Small buckets only; Ubigi Buckets; regional plans a fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo No unlimited; 3 GB for 3 days $24; Holafly $20.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo No unlimited; 3 GB for 7 days $25; Holafly $39.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Africa plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $58.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo No unlimited; Holafly 15 days $63.90; 14 days $61.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi World plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77; Ringo Light $58.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No unlimited; Holafly $112.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi World plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $114.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Hello Africa 5 GB $41; Holafly No buckets; Saily $44.99; Nomad Not listed on the day; 5 GB $35; Ubigi $35; its Best Africa plan $30; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $58.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad Not listed on the day; Ubigi World plan 25 GB for 90 days $59; 20 GB monthly $44, renews; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $114.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo No unlimited sold for Guinea; Holafly No daily cap stated; speed may be reduced for up to a day under fair use; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited sold; Nomad No unlimited sold; 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 Orange, 4G; Holafly Orange Guinée; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad MTN, Orange; Ubigi Orange; 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 Optional, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most Guinea trips start with a few days in Conakry and the Îles de Loos, then head inland to Kindia and up into the Fouta Djallon, Dalaba, Pita and Labé. Only Holafly sells unlimited data for Guinea alone on the day we looked: $63.90 for 15 days, $61.90 for 14, and $112.90 for 30 days. Ubigi's Best World plan covers Guinea with 30 GB at full speed for 15 days at $77, or 60 GB for 30 days at $108, then 2 Mbps. Ringo Light charges $58.99 for 2 weeks and $114.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
So for two weeks we are the cheapest, by $4.91 against Holafly's 15 days. For a month we are not: Holafly is $2.09 cheaper and Ubigi's World plan $6.99 cheaper. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone, says the network may reduce your speed for up to a day under fair use, and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ubigi gives its fixed amount at full speed, then 2 Mbps. 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 $58.99 top-up.
Do the heavy-use arithmetic. A heavy two weeks with us costs $117.98, $54.08 more than Holafly's 15 days. A heavy month costs $173.98, $61.08 more than Holafly's month. If you will stream or work online every day, Holafly is the better buy in Guinea, whatever the length.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Holafly sells 3 days of unlimited at $20.90 and a week at $39.90, less than our 2 weeks.
Orange Guinée is the largest mobile network in Guinea and the one most travel eSIMs ride: Airalo, Holafly and Ubigi all name it. Nomad names MTN as well as Orange. Saily does not name its network. Coverage is best in Conakry and the larger towns, Kindia, Mamou, Labé, Kankan and Nzérékoré, and along the main roads between them. Holafly's own page warns that coverage is thinner in the highlands, in Forest Guinea and around Mount Nimba, and that matches what travellers report: download maps before every long drive.
A Guinean SIM has to be registered with an identity document before it works. A visitor shows a passport at an operator shop in Conakry and waits for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM installs at home before you fly, needs no shop, and connects when you land at Conakry's airport at Gbessia.
Much of Guinea pays in cash, in Guinean francs, and by phone with Orange Money, which needs a local number that a travel data eSIM does not give you. Cards work in the larger hotels and a few restaurants and supermarkets in Conakry; carry cash for everything else, and more of it outside the capital.
Ubigi, $35 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Orange, or $30 on its Best Africa plan. The cheapest 10 GB here. Its Best World plan also sells 25 GB for 90 days at $59, one payment.
Saily, $44.99 for 10 GB. For 30 days. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us, so check the price at checkout.
Nomad, $35 for 5 GB. Its largest Guinea plan, for 30 days, on MTN and Orange. 3 GB for 30 days costs $25.
Airalo, $25 for 3 GB. Its Guinea Miyahu line on Orange, 3 GB for 7 days, as airalo.com showed it on the day. Its Hello Africa regional plan sells 5 GB for 30 days at $41.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $58.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $114.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi and Saily are cheaper in Guinea: Ubigi by $23.99 on 10 GB, and Ubigi's 25 GB for 90 days at $59 costs about half our 30 days. Buy Ringo Light for two weeks of 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 Guinea it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $58.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $114.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $58.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Guinea our 2 weeks is the cheapest unlimited on the day we priced it. Our 30 days is not: Holafly's month costs $2.09 less and Ubigi's World plan $6.99 less, so for a month, buy one of those.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Conakry. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $20.90, on Orange. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week, Conakry and Kindia. Holafly unlimited, 7 days, $39.90, less than our 2 weeks.
Two weeks, Conakry up to the Fouta Djallon. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $58.99, the cheapest two weeks of unlimited here. Holafly 15 days at $63.90 if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks or a month, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $35, or $30 on its Best Africa plan.
A month in Guinea, working remotely. Holafly unlimited, 30 days, $112.90, or Ubigi's World plan at $108 for 60 GB at full speed. Our 30 days at $114.99 costs more here.
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 Guinea, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Conakry and its islands inland to Kindia, up through the Fouta Djallon highlands around Dalaba, Pita and Labé, and down to Forest Guinea and Mount Nimba, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Conakry and the main towns have good 4G; the roads between them and the hills often do not.
Grande Mosquée Fayçal, Conakry. One of the largest mosques in West Africa, built in the early 1980s with four minarets around a gold-domed hall. Its square is the place to see it from; dress modestly nearby. Conakry runs along one long peninsula and jams at rush hour. Check live traffic in a map app before you set off anywhere.
The Îles de Loos, Off Conakry. A small group of islands just off the city, with Roume's palm-backed beaches and Kassa closest to shore. Boats leave from the harbour in Kaloum, central Conakry, and the crossing is short; go in the dry season, from about November to May. Swap WhatsApp numbers with the boatman so you can call him for the trip back.
The Bride's Veil falls, Near Kindia. The Voile de la Mariée, a thin waterfall down a cliff in the forest outside Kindia, a long day trip inland from Conakry. It runs fullest in and just after the rainy season, from about July to October. Signal comes and goes on the road into the hills. Download the route offline before you leave Conakry.
Dalaba, Fouta Djallon. A hill town at about 1,200 metres, cool enough for pine trees, with wide views over the Fouta Djallon. From here many travellers go on to Doucki near Pita for guided walks through its canyons. French is the language of shops and guesthouses. Download French in your translation app so it works without signal.
Kambadaga Falls, Near Pita. A set of tiered falls dropping into a green gorge outside Pita, one of the best known sights of the Fouta Djallon. They are fullest late in the rainy season, around September and October. The tracks to the falls are unsigned. Save the spot in an offline map and share your live location before you walk in.
Saala Falls, Near Labé. The Chutes de Saala, a wide river pouring over black rock steps outside Labé, the main town of the Fouta Djallon. They run fullest in and just after the rainy season. Labé is the place to stock up on Guinean francs before heading out into the countryside, where there are few cash machines.
Mount Nimba, Forest Guinea, on the border with Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia. Guinea's highest mountain, at 1,752 metres, inside the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Visits are arranged with a local guide and the reserve authorities in the Lola area. Holafly itself warns coverage is thin around Nimba. Download maps and anything you need before you leave the last town.
Nzérékoré, Forest Guinea. The main city of Forest Guinea, green and humid, with a large mosque and a busy market, and the base for Mount Nimba. It is far from Conakry, well over a day by road. Motorbike taxis are how most people get around town. Show the driver your destination on a map rather than trying to explain it.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Guinea 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/guinea-esim?currency=USD (Guinea Miyahu packages in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; Hello Africa regional buckets from esimdb.com/guinea/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-guinea/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026; esimdb has no Holafly listing for Guinea).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/guinea/saily (listing dated 15 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/guinea/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from nomadesim.com/guinea-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/guinea/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com/guinea).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Ringo Light at $58.99 on 28 September 2026, against $63.90 for 15 days at Holafly. For a month, Holafly at $112.90, or Ubigi's World plan at $108 for 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps; our 30 days costs $114.99. For 3 days, Holafly at $20.90. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $35, or $30 on its Best Africa plan.
Airalo, Holafly and Ubigi ride Orange Guinée, the largest network. Nomad names MTN and Orange. Saily does not name its network. All cover Conakry and the main towns; signal thins in the highlands, in Forest Guinea and around Mount Nimba.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone, but its fair use lets the network slow you for up to a day, and sharing stops at 1 GB a day. Ubigi slows you to 2 Mbps after its fixed amount. Airalo, Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited for Guinea. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
A local Guinean SIM, yes: you show your passport at an operator shop and wait for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM is installed before you fly and works when you land in Conakry, with no shop. It carries data only, so it does not give you Orange Money or a Guinean number.
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