The best eSIM for Jamaica in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Jamaica, priced on the same day: who is cheapest for a week, two weeks and a month.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Jamaica and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a cruise stop or a long weekend, two weeks between Negril, Ocho Rios and the Blue Mountains, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins, including where we lose.
Ringo Light: Unlimited with no speed cap, one payment, and the only plan that tops itself up. 2 weeks at $51.99 or 30 days at $101.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Under Holafly and Ubigi for two weeks, but Airalo is $2.99 cheaper, and for a month Saily and Airalo cost less. Our Caribbean trip, which covers Jamaica, is $44.99 and $80.99.
Airalo: Cheapest two weeks of unlimited on a Jamaica plan. 15 days of unlimited at $49 and 30 days at $68, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, on Flow.
Saily: Cheapest month, on its Global plan. 30 GB at full speed for 30 days at $59.99, then 1 Mbps. For Jamaica itself Saily sells only 1 GB.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $34 on Flow, level with Ubigi's Caribbean plan, and 20 GB at $45, level with Airalo.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily 1 GB for Jamaica; more only on its Caribbean and Global plans; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi No Jamaica plan; Caribbean and world plans, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $20.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $36.50; Holafly $36.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Caribbean plan: 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $44; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $51.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $68.90; Saily No 15-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Caribbean plan: 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $75; Ringo Light $51.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $68; Holafly $111.90; Saily Global plan only: 30 GB, then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best World plan: 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $101.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $35; Holafly No buckets; Saily Global plan $44.99; Caribbean Islands plan $46.99; Nomad $34; Ubigi Caribbean plan $34; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $51.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $45; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad $45; Ubigi No 20 GB Caribbean plan; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $101.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Global plan: 30 GB, then 1 Mbps; 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 Flow; Holafly Digicel; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Flow; Ubigi Digicel, Flow; Ringo Light Local partner network.
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 first trip to Jamaica is usually a week or two on the north and west coasts, Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios, with a day in the Blue Mountains or Kingston. For about two weeks of unlimited, Airalo asks $49 for 15 days, Holafly $68.90 and Ubigi $75 on its Caribbean plan for 30 GB at full speed. Saily and Nomad sell no two-week unlimited for Jamaica. Ringo Light charges $51.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, nothing renews: $2.99 more than Airalo, and less than Holafly and Ubigi.
For a month we do not win. Saily's Global plan gives 30 GB at full speed for 30 days at $59.99, then 1 Mbps, and Airalo sells 30 days of unlimited for Jamaica at $68. Our 30 days costs $101.99, under Ubigi's Best World plan at $108 and Holafly at $111.90, but $42 above Saily. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, which over 15 days is up to 45 GB at full speed. Saily's Global plan and Ubigi give a fixed amount, then slow you. 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 $51.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $103.98 and a heavy month $153.98, more than every rival here. If you stream every day, buy Airalo.
Jamaica has two mobile networks: Digicel and Flow, the Cable & Wireless network owned by Liberty Latin America. Both cover Kingston, Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios and the north coast road where most hotels are. Airalo and Nomad ride Flow, Holafly Digicel, and Ubigi names both.
Signal thins out in the interior: the Blue Mountains above the coffee farms, Cockpit Country and stretches of the road between Kingston and Port Antonio. Download offline maps before you head up, whichever eSIM you buy.
Nomad, $34 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for Jamaica itself, on Flow, and 20 GB for $45. Nomad sells no unlimited here.
Ubigi, $34 for 10 GB. On its Caribbean plan, which also works on Digicel and Flow in most of the region. No 20 GB Caribbean plan.
Airalo, $35 for 10 GB. Its Jamaica plan, 20 GB for $45, buckets from $8 for 1 GB.
Saily, $44.99 for 10 GB. On its Global plan; for Jamaica itself it lists only 1 GB. Its listing is from June and saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $51.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $101.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad, Ubigi, Airalo and Saily are all cheaper in Jamaica. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited with no speed cap, 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 Jamaica it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $51.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $101.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $51.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Jamaica our country trip is not the cheapest in this table. Airalo is $2.99 cheaper for two weeks, and Saily and Airalo are $42 and $34 cheaper for a month. The card to buy it is just below this article.
One more thing we would rather tell you here than let you find at checkout: our own Caribbean trip covers Jamaica as well, and on the same day it cost $44.99 for 2 weeks and $80.99 for 30 days, against $51.99 and $101.99 for the Jamaica trip. It is the same unlimited data with no speed cap, on one eSIM that also works in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and its 2 weeks is the cheapest two weeks of unlimited on this page, $4.01 under Airalo. Even if you only visit Jamaica, it is the Ringo Light to buy today. The Caribbean page at /blog/best-esim-for-caribbean compares it with the same brands.
A cruise stop or a long weekend. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $19.90, or Airalo at $20.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week in Negril or Ocho Rios. Airalo or Holafly unlimited, 7 days, $36.50 each. Ringo Light sells no 7 days.
Two weeks around the island. Our Caribbean trip, 2 weeks unlimited, $44.99, which covers Jamaica. Airalo 15 days at $49 if you will stream every day; our Jamaica trip at $51.99 costs more than both.
A month, heavy use. Saily's Global plan, 30 GB at full speed for $59.99, or Airalo 30 days at $68 with 3 GB a day. Our Caribbean 30 days is $80.99 and our Jamaica 30 days $101.99.
A month, light use. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $34, or 20 GB at $45.
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 Jamaica, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from the beaches of Negril to Port Antonio and Kingston, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The coast and the towns have good 4G; the mountains often do not.
The beaches of Negril, Negril, west coast. Seven Mile Beach runs along the west coast, with Bloody Bay at its northern end: calm water, white sand and the sunset straight over the sea. Negril is about an hour and a half by road from Montego Bay airport. Share your live location with someone during the transfer.
Rick's Café and the West End cliffs, Negril. A cliff-top bar where divers jump into the sea from the rocks, busiest in the hour before sunset. The cliffs are a few kilometres from the beach hotels. Save the pin and agree the taxi fare before you get in.
Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios. A terraced waterfall that runs straight into the sea, climbed from the beach to the top in a line with a guide. Busiest on days when cruise ships are in port. Look up which ships are docked in Ocho Rios and go on a quieter day. Your phone rides in a waterproof pouch for the climb.
The Blue Mountains, Above Kingston. Cloud forest and coffee farms rising to Blue Mountain Peak, the highest point in Jamaica, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Many hikers climb through the night to see sunrise from the top. Signal fades on the trail. Download the route and the map offline before you leave Kingston.
San San and the Port Antonio coast, Portland, northeast coast. The greenest corner of the island, with the Blue Lagoon, Frenchman's Cove and bamboo rafts on the Rio Grande a short drive from town. The road from Kingston crosses the mountains and loses signal. Save the drive offline before you set off.
The Bob Marley Museum, 56 Hope Road, Kingston. The house where Bob Marley lived and recorded in his last years, now a museum seen by guided tour, with his rooms and the studio. Kingston traffic is slow at rush hour. A maps app with live traffic picks the time to drive across town.
Rose Hall Great House, East of Montego Bay. A Georgian plantation house from the 1770s, restored and seen by guided tour, known for the legend of Annie Palmer, the White Witch of Rose Hall. Tours run at set times. Keep your booking on your phone; the house is a short ride from the Montego Bay hotels.
Port Royal and Fort Charles, Palisadoes, near Kingston. Once a pirate town, most of it sank in the earthquake of 1692. Fort Charles still stands at the tip of the Palisadoes, close to Kingston's airport. Jamaican dollars and US dollars are both taken in most tourist places. Check the rate on your phone before you pay in either.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Jamaica 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/jamaica-esim?currency=USD (unlimited and buckets in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; 3 GB a day rule from the plan details).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-jamaica/ (prices, network and sharing rule read on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/jamaica/saily (listing dated 26 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/jamaica/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; network and plan list from nomadesim.com/jamaica-esim, which served euro prices).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/jamaica/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; Caribbean and Best World plans, networks as listed).
For two weeks of unlimited data, our Caribbean trip at $44.99, then Airalo at $49 for 15 days, on 28 September 2026. Our Jamaica trip is $51.99. For a month, Saily's Global plan at $59.99 with 30 GB at full speed, then Airalo at $68. For 3 days, Holafly at $19.90. For 10 GB, Nomad or Ubigi's Caribbean plan at $34.
Airalo and Nomad ride Flow, Holafly rides Digicel, and Ubigi names both. Saily does not name its network on its listing. Both networks cover Kingston, Montego Bay, Negril and the north coast.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily's Global plan after 30 GB, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Yes. Install it before you sail and turn it on when the ship docks in Montego Bay, Falmouth or Ocho Rios; it joins a Jamaican network on land. At sea your phone can join the ship's own network, which your home carrier bills separately, so keep roaming off on your home line until you are ashore.
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