The best eSIM for Kazakhstan in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Kazakhstan, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $18.99, a month for $28.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a plan that works in Kazakhstan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Almaty, two weeks from the mountain lakes to Astana, and a month of remote work, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $18.99 or 30 days at $28.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $72 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest big bucket. 20 GB for 30 days at $25 and 50 GB for 30 days at $35, on Beeline. Nomad sells no Kazakhstan unlimited.
Airalo: Cheapest short unlimited, on Kcell. 3 days at $12.50 and a week at $26.50, 3 GB a day at full speed, on Kcell with 5G. Holafly matches the 3 days at $12.50.
Saily: Cheapest 10 GB. 10 GB for 30 days at $17.99 on its July listing, a cent under Airalo and Nomad at $18.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Kazakhstan buckets; unlimited only on regional and global plans; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets; some go on at 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $12.50; Holafly $12.50; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $26.50; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $29; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $18.99.
Unlimited, 15 days: Airalo $49; Holafly $50.50; Saily Asia and Oceania, regional, $54.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light 2 weeks $18.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $72; Holafly $73.90; Saily Global plan, 30 GB then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; 50 GB $35; Ubigi No Kazakhstan unlimited; Best World, 60 GB then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $28.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $18; Holafly No buckets; Saily $17.99; Nomad $18; Ubigi $19; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $18.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $28; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi 25 GB $49; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $28.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Asia and Oceania 5 GB a day, then 1 kbps; Global 30 GB, then 1 Mbps; Nomad No unlimited plan; 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 Kcell (5G), Tele2; Holafly Tele2, Beeline; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Beeline; Ubigi Beeline, Tele2; 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 No, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Kazakhstan is big, and most first trips are two weeks: Almaty and the lakes of the Tian Shan, a flight or night train to Astana, sometimes Turkistan in the south. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Ubigi $49 for 30 GB at full speed, Holafly $50.50 and Saily $54.99 on its regional Asia and Oceania plan. For a month, $59.99 to $108, and two of those are global plans because Saily and Ubigi sell no Kazakhstan unlimited. Ringo Light charges $18.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 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. Saily's Asia and Oceania plan gives 5 GB a day, then 1 kbps, which is close to nothing; its Global plan gives 30 GB for the month, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 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 $18.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $37.98, still under every 15-day rival. A heavy month costs $47.98, under every rival's month of unlimited, though Nomad's 50 GB for 30 days at $35 costs less if you know you need about that much.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo and Holafly both sell 3 days of unlimited at $12.50, and Airalo a week at $26.50.
Kazakhstan has three mobile networks: Kcell, which also sells the Activ brand, Beeline, and Tele2, which runs together with Altel. All three cover Almaty, Astana, Shymkent and the main highways. Between cities the steppe is empty for hours and coverage drops out for long stretches, on the road and on the train. Up in the mountains above Almaty, at the lakes and the canyons, the signal is patchy whichever network you are on, so save offline maps before you leave the city.
Airalo rides Kcell with 5G and Tele2 as a backup. Holafly names Tele2 and Beeline, Nomad Beeline, and Ubigi Beeline and Tele2. Saily does not name its network. Kazakhstan is far from the European Union, so a European phone plan roams here at full price. Check yours before you land.
Saily, $17.99 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, and 20 GB at $27.99. Its listing is from July; saily.com refused the fetch.
Airalo, $18 for 10 GB. Its Kazaknet plan on Kcell with 5G, 20 GB for $28 and 50 GB for $49, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Nomad, $18 for 10 GB. The cheapest 20 GB at $25 and the cheapest big bucket, 50 GB for 30 days at $35, on Beeline.
Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. On Beeline and Tele2. Its 20 GB week at $29 goes on at 2 Mbps when the 20 GB runs out.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $18.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $28.99. For a fixed amount of data, Saily, Airalo and Nomad are cheaper in Kazakhstan, and a 10 GB bucket from them lasts 30 days where our 2 weeks lasts 2 weeks. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
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 Kazakhstan it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $18.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $28.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $18.99. 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 Almaty. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $12.50, on Kcell. Holafly charges the same. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks: Almaty, the lakes and Astana. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99, less than any rival charges for 15 days. With the one top-up, $37.98, still less.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Saily 10 GB for 30 days at $17.99 on its July listing, or Airalo and Nomad at $18.
A month, working from Almaty. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $28.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $18.99. Nomad 50 GB for 30 days at $35 if you know you need that much.
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 Kazakhstan, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Almaty and the lakes of the Tian Shan to Astana, Burabay and Turkistan, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G; the mountains and the steppe between them do not, so plan ahead.
Zenkov Cathedral, Panfilov Park, Almaty. A wooden Orthodox cathedral from 1907, painted yellow and pink, in the middle of Almaty's oldest park. It stood through the 1911 earthquake that flattened much of the town. The Green Bazaar a few streets away wants tenge in cash at many stalls; cafés around the park take cards.
Shymbulak, Above Medeu, Almaty. A ski resort in the Tian Shan, reached by gondola from the Medeu skating rink on the edge of the city. Snow in winter, walks and views in summer. Yandex Go, the ride app Almaty uses, gets you from the city centre to the Medeu gondola without haggling.
Big Almaty Lake, Ile-Alatau National Park, south of Almaty. A turquoise lake high in the mountains, with snow peaks behind it. The colour is strongest from late spring to early autumn. Save offline maps before the drive up: the signal on the mountain road comes and goes.
Charyn Canyon, East of Almaty. Red rock towers along the Charyn River, with a trail down the Valley of Castles to the water. Go in spring or autumn; summer afternoons are very hot. It is a long drive across the steppe with gaps in coverage. Download the route and share your plan before you leave.
Kolsai Lakes, Kolsai Kolderi National Park, southeast. Three lakes in a forested valley near the Kyrgyz border, often done with Kaindy Lake and Charyn on a two or three day trip from Almaty. Guesthouses and drivers in Saty village mostly take bookings on WhatsApp, so you need data to arrange the next day.
Baiterek Tower, Astana. The white and gold tower at the centre of the new capital, with a viewing deck inside the sphere. Walk the boulevard at night when the towers light up. 2GIS, the map app locals use, has every entrance and bus route in Astana. Download the city before you land.
Burabay, Akmola Region, north of Astana. Pine forest, granite hills and clear lakes in the middle of the northern steppe, the weekend escape from Astana. Best from June to September. Trains run from Astana to Burabay and Shchuchinsk. Book seats online ahead of summer weekends.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Turkistan. A huge 14th century mausoleum with a turquoise dome, built on Timur's orders and left unfinished, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Few signs or menus in the south are in English. Translation by camera reads Kazakh and Russian.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Kazakhstan 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/kazakhstan-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets from esimdb.com/kazakhstan/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-kazakhstan/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/kazakhstan/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/kazakhstan/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/kazakhstan-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/kazakhstan/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $18.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $72 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo and Holafly at $12.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Saily at $17.99 on its July listing, or Airalo and Nomad at $18. For 20 GB, Nomad at $25.
Airalo rides Kcell with 5G and Tele2, Holafly Tele2 and Beeline, Nomad Beeline, and Ubigi Beeline and Tele2. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All of them cover Almaty, Astana and Shymkent; coverage thins out on the steppe between cities and in the mountains.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily's regional plan after 5 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Nomad sells no unlimited here. 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.
You can. Kcell, Beeline and Tele2 sell SIM cards against your passport, and a local number helps with apps that send codes by text. Kazakhstan also has device registration rules for phones on local SIMs over longer stays. A travel eSIM skips all of that: you install it before you fly and it works when you land, as a visitor on a Kazakh network.
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