The short answer
Six travel eSIMs sell an India plan and get most of the traffic for this search. I priced all six on the same day, for a week in Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, two weeks that add Rajasthan or the south, 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 $21.99 or 30 days at $36.99, nothing renews. Airalo asks $62 for 15 days and $99 for the month.
10 GB for 30 days at $15 and 25 GB at $25, on Jio.
5 days of unlimited at $18 on Airtel, with 2 GB a day at full speed. 20 GB for 30 days at $33.
Days, not gigabytes, on India's two largest networks. $39.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 10 November 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, SIM rules for tourists 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. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks, the others 15 days. Nomad stops at 10 days. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ubigi's month is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad sells no month of unlimited.
Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
Side by side
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What to do in India, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Delhi and Agra to Goa and Kerala, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G and 5G; on the water and in the hills, download before you go.
If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
India is rarely a short trip. The Golden Triangle alone takes a week, and most people add Rajasthan, Varanasi or the south. Unlimited data costs more in India than almost anywhere else I have priced: for 15 days, Saily asks $59.99, Airalo $62 and Holafly $63.50, and Ubigi $46 for 30 GB at full speed. For a month, $68 to $111.90. Ringo Light charges $11.99 for 7 days, $21.99 for 2 weeks and $36.99 for 30 days, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. I checked each page, and the answers differ. Airalo and Saily give 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Nomad gives 2 GB a day. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, 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 7 days, 2 weeks or 30 days.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day plan, though its 7 days at $11.99 costs $8.51 less than 3 days at Airalo ($20.50) and $7.91 less than Holafly ($19.90). Nomad sells 5 days of unlimited at $18, $6.01 more than Ringo Light's 7 days. Cheaper for exactly 3 days, and my pick for a 3-day stay, is Airalo's Asia-wide Asialink plan, which covers India and sells 3 days of unlimited at $11.50, with the same 3 GB a day.
Which network works best in India
India has four mobile networks: Jio, Airtel, Vi and the state-run BSNL. Jio and Airtel are the two largest and run 5G in the big cities. Holafly is the one brand here that names both Jio and Airtel. Nomad rides Airtel, Ubigi Jio on 4G, and Airalo's India plan names Vi, the smallest of the three private networks. For Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai and Goa, I would expect any of them to work. In the hills and on the Kerala backwaters, coverage thins on every network.
A travel eSIM also skips India's SIM paperwork. A local SIM means showing your passport and visa at a counter and waiting for it to be activated. I would rather buy an eSIM before you fly: it is installed at home and works when you land.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi or Nomad
- Ubigi, $15 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB and the cheapest big bucket, 25 GB for $25, on Jio.
- Nomad, $21 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $33, on Airtel.
- Saily, $23.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $38.99, read in dollars on saily.com on 10 November 2026.
- Airalo, $24 for 10 GB. Its India plan, 20 GB for $38, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $21.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $36.99. For 10 GB, Ubigi is cheaper; for 20 GB or more, Ubigi and Nomad are both cheaper in India. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket. I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is the data eSIM from Ringo, the company I write for. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For India I count three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 7 days at $11.99, 2 weeks at $21.99 and 30 days at $36.99. 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
Airalo's Asialink, 3 days unlimited, $11.50, or Nomad 5 days at $18. Ringo Light sells no 3 days, but its 2 weeks costs $21.99.
Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $21.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks.
Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $15.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $36.99. Ubigi 25 GB at $25 if a fixed amount is enough.
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, SIM rules for tourists, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for India 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/india-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026; Asialink unlimited in dollars on airalo.com/asia-esim the same day; buckets from esimdb.com/india/airalo, listing updated 5 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-india/, in dollars on the site, 10 November 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-india/, prices in dollars on saily.com, read 25 October 2026; not readable on 10 November 2026, figures kept from 25 October
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/india-esim, in dollars from the site's own plan data, 10 November 2026; network from the same page
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/india/ubigi, listing updated 5 October 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com/india
- SIM rules for tourists: www.indembassybern.gov.in/page/introduction-of-sim-cards-for-the-foreign-tourists/, Embassy of India, Bern
- 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.
