The short answer
Six travel eSIMs cover Laos and get most of the traffic for this search. Not all of them sell a Laos plan: Ubigi covers it only with an Asia plan, and Saily sells unlimited only on its Asia and Oceania plan. I went through the pages of all six on the same day, for a few days in Vientiane, two weeks from Luang Prabang down to the 4,000 Islands, 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 $37.99 or 30 days at $63.99, nothing renews. The closest rival for two weeks is Ubigi's Asia plan at $45 for 15 days; for the month, Ubigi at $66, $2.01 more than Ringo Light.
Unlimited for 3 days at $11.50 on its Asialink regional plan. Its own Laos plan, Pak Ou Mobile on ETL, starts at $19.50 for 3 days.
10 GB for 30 days at $25 and 20 GB at $39 on a Laos plan, on LaoTel. Nomad sells no unlimited for Laos.
Its Best Asia plan, which covers Laos on ETL: 25 GB for 7 days at $25, and 60 GB at full speed for 30 days at $66, then 2 Mbps.
Days, not gigabytes, on Lao Telecom, no daily cap stated for your own phone. The dearest here: $64.90 for 15 days; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 29 October 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, 29 October 2026. The rivals sell 15 days, Ringo Light 2 weeks. Ubigi, Airalo and Saily bars are their Asia regional plans; Airalo's Laos plan is $62. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad sells no unlimited.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed. Ubigi's month is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Airalo's Laos plan is $99 for 30 days. Nomad sells no unlimited.
Holafly sells no buckets. Airalo's Laos plan sells 10 GB for $29. 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 Laos, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Luang Prabang in the north to the 4,000 Islands in the south, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The towns and the railway between Vientiane and Luang Prabang have good 4G; the mountains and the river between them do not always.
If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
Most people give Laos two weeks: Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng and Vientiane on the train, then a flight or a long bus south. For about two weeks of unlimited, Ubigi asks $45 on its Asia plan, Airalo $49 on its Asialink plan and $62 on its Laos plan, Saily $54.99 on its Asia and Oceania plan and Holafly $64.90. For a month, $66 to $115.50. Nomad sells no unlimited here. Ringo Light charges $37.99 for 2 weeks and $63.99 for 30 days, nothing renews. That is the cheapest two weeks I found for Laos.
The month is close. Ubigi's 30 days costs $66, $2.01 more than Ringo Light's, and gives 60 GB at full speed before it slows to 2 Mbps. If you work online all month I would still take the cheaper one.
What does unlimited mean here? I read each page for the answer. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, then almost nothing. 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 the whole 2 weeks or 30 days.
For a short stay, Ringo Light sells no 3-day plan. Airalo's Asialink sells 3 days of unlimited at $11.50, less than Ringo Light's 7 days at $13.99. For a week, Ringo Light's 7 days at $13.99 costs less than Ubigi's 25 GB for 7 days at $25 and Airalo's Asialink week at $26.
Which network works best in Laos
The main networks in Laos are Unitel, Lao Telecom (LTC) and ETL. All of them cover Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng and the towns on the railway. Signal gets thin in the northern mountains, on the Bolaven Plateau and on long stretches of the Mekong, including the two-day slow boat from Huay Xai. Holafly and Nomad ride Lao Telecom, and Airalo's Laos plan and Ubigi ride ETL. None of the brands I read names Unitel. I would download offline maps before you head for the river or the hills.
If you want a data bucket: Nomad or Ubigi
- Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB on a Laos plan, and 20 GB for $39, on LaoTel. 4G only.
- Airalo, $25 for 10 GB on Asialink. Its regional plan matches Nomad: 10 GB for $25 and 20 GB for $39. Its Laos plan asks $29 and $46.
- Saily, $27.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $45.99. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for me.
- Ubigi, $28 for 10 GB. On its Best Asia plan. Its 20 GB is a monthly plan at $19 that renews, the cheapest 20 GB here if you remember to stop it.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $37.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $63.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad, Airalo, Saily and Ubigi are all cheaper in Laos. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket, and I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is a data eSIM from Ringo, sold to fund the full Ringo, so I am not neutral, though I name every row where a rival wins. It is one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Laos it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 7 days at $13.99, 2 weeks at $37.99 and 30 days at $63.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
Ringo Light's Asia trip does not cover Laos, so I would buy the Laos trip.
The card is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
Airalo Asialink unlimited, 3 days, $11.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Ringo Light unlimited, 7 days, $13.99, less than Ubigi Best Asia's 25 GB for 7 days at $25. Its 2 weeks at $37.99 if you might stay longer.
Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $37.99, less than any rival charges for 15 days. The closest rival, Ubigi, asks $45 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed.
Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $25.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $63.99. Ubigi's 60 GB month costs $66, $2.01 more.
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 Laos on 29 October 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/laos-esim?currency=USD, Laos plan unlimited in dollars on the site, 29 October 2026; Asialink plan and buckets from esimdb.com/laos/airalo, page dated 27 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-laos/, dollar prices and network from its own page, 29 October 2026
- Saily: esimdb.com/laos/saily, listing page dated 5 October 2026; saily.com refused the fetch on 29 October 2026
- Nomad: esimdb.com/laos/nomad, dollar prices as read on the esimdb listing dated 17 September 2026; on 29 October 2026 nomadesim.com did not show dollar prices to a normal request, so they were not re-read; network from nomadesim.com/laos-esim
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/laos/ubigi, listing dated 27 October 2026; Ubigi sells no Laos plan, only Asia and World plans, and cellulardata.ubigi.com has no Laos page (404 on 29 October 2026); network kept from 28 September
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 29 October 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.
