The best eSIM for Liberia in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Liberia, 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 Liberia. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Monrovia, two weeks out to Robertsport and the Firestone country, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Only one of the six sells unlimited data for Liberia 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: $4.51 under Holafly's 15 days. For a month we are not the cheapest: our 30 days is $114.99, Holafly's $111.90.
Holafly: Cheapest unlimited month and short trips. Days, not gigabytes, on Orange Liberia and Lonestar: 3 days at $19.90, a week at $39.50, 30 days at $111.90, $3.09 less than our month. Sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Ubigi: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $30 on its Best Africa plan, on Lonestar Cell MTN. Its Best World plan gives 60 GB at full speed for 30 days, then 2 Mbps, at $108.
Saily: Cheapest Liberia-only 10 GB. 10 GB for 30 days at $31.99 on a plan sold for Liberia alone. Its listing is from May, so check the price at checkout.
Model: Airalo One small Liberia plan; regional and global plans; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Regional plans only: buckets, or a fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo No Liberia unlimited; Discover global plan $24; 1 GB for 3 days $6; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo Discover global plan $45; Holafly $39.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best Africa plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $58.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days, Discover global plan $96; Holafly 15 days $63.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best World plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77; Ringo Light $58.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo Discover global plan $159; Holafly $111.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best 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 $31.99; Nomad $39; Ubigi Best Africa plan $30; Best World plan $39; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $58.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Discover 20 GB for 365 days $66; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad Not listed on the day; its Regional Global plan $103; Ubigi Best World plan 25 GB for 90 days $59; World 20 GB monthly $44, renews; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $114.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo Discover: 3 GB a day, then slowed; 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 Lonestar Cell MTN on the Liberia plan; Orange on regional plans; Holafly Orange Liberia, Lonestar; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Orange; Ubigi Lonestar Cell MTN; 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 Liberia trips start with a few days in Monrovia, then head up the coast to Robertsport, inland to Blue Lake or the rubber country around Harbel, and for the few with time, down to Harper or up to Nimba. Only Holafly sells unlimited data for Liberia alone on the day we looked: $63.50 for 15 days and $111.90 for 30 days. Ubigi's Best World plan covers Liberia with 30 GB at full speed for 15 days at $77, or 60 GB for 30 days at $108, then 2 Mbps. Airalo's Discover global plan costs $96 for 15 days and $159 for 30. 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 $4.51 against Holafly's 15 days. For a month we are not: Holafly is $3.09 cheaper and Ubigi's Best 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. Airalo's Discover plan gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then slows you. 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, $54.48 more than Holafly's 15 days. A heavy month costs $173.98, $62.08 more than Holafly's month. If you will stream or work online every day, Holafly is the better buy in Liberia, whatever the length.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Holafly sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.90 and a week at $39.50, less than our 2 weeks.
Liberia has two main mobile networks, Lonestar Cell MTN and Orange Liberia, and the travel eSIMs split between them. Airalo's Liberia plan and Ubigi ride Lonestar Cell MTN; Nomad and Airalo's regional plans ride Orange; Holafly names both. Saily does not name its network. Coverage is best in Greater Monrovia and the county capitals and along the main paved roads. Holafly's own page warns that it can be weak or unstable in the rainforest, in Sapo National Park and the Nimba reserve, and along stretches of the southeastern coast: download maps before every long drive.
A Liberian SIM has to be registered with an identity document. A visitor shows a passport at a Lonestar Cell MTN or Orange shop in Monrovia to get one. A travel eSIM installs at home before you fly, needs no shop, and connects when you land at Roberts International Airport, next to the Firestone plantation at Harbel.
Liberia runs on two currencies: US dollars and Liberian dollars are both used every day, with small change in Liberian dollars. Many people pay by phone with Lonestar's MoMo or Orange Money, which need a local number a travel data eSIM does not give you. Cards work in the larger hotels and some supermarkets in Monrovia; carry cash for everything else, and more of it outside the capital.
Ubigi, $30 for 10 GB. For 30 days on its Best Africa plan, on Lonestar Cell MTN. The cheapest 10 GB here. Its Best World plan also sells 25 GB for 90 days at $59, one payment.
Saily, $31.99 for 10 GB. For 30 days, on a plan sold for Liberia alone. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us, so check the price at checkout.
Nomad, $39 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Orange. 5 GB for 30 days costs $27.
Airalo, $6 for 1 GB. Its only Liberia plan, 1 GB for 3 days on Lonestar Cell MTN, 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, Saily and Nomad are cheaper in Liberia: Ubigi by $28.99 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 Liberia 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 Liberia our 2 weeks is the cheapest unlimited on the day we priced it. Our 30 days is not: Holafly's month costs $3.09 less and Ubigi's Best 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 Monrovia. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $19.90, on Orange and Lonestar. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week, Monrovia and Robertsport. Holafly unlimited, 7 days, $39.50, less than our 2 weeks.
Two weeks, Monrovia out to the coast and the counties. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $58.99, the cheapest two weeks of unlimited here. Holafly 15 days at $63.50 if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks or a month, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $30 on its Best Africa plan, or Saily's Liberia plan at $31.99.
A month in Liberia, working remotely. Holafly unlimited, 30 days, $111.90, or Ubigi's Best 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 Liberia, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Monrovia and Providence Island up the coast to Robertsport, inland to Blue Lake and the Firestone plantation, and out to Harper and the Nimba range, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Greater Monrovia and the county capitals have good 4G; the long roads between them often do not.
Downtown Monrovia, Monrovia. The capital, founded in 1822 and named after the American president James Monroe, spread along a peninsula between the Atlantic and the Mesurado River. Broad Street and the blocks around it hold the ministries, banks and the busiest shops. Monrovia's yellow taxis are shared and run set routes. Show the driver your pin on a map and agree the fare before you get in.
The Ducor Hotel, Mamba Point, Monrovia. Once the grandest hotel in West Africa, opened in 1960 on the highest hill in the city and closed during the civil war. The empty shell looks over Mamba Point, West Point and the ocean; ask locally whether the grounds are open when you go. Mamba Point is where many hotels, embassies and restaurants are. Save your hotel as a pin so any driver can find it.
Providence Island, Mesurado River, Monrovia. The small island where the first settlers from the United States landed in 1822, the start of the Liberian state. It sits under the bridges between downtown and Bushrod Island, next to Waterside market. Waterside is crowded. Keep your phone away while you walk and check the map before you go in, not in the middle of the market.
Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County. A quiet hill town on a cape near the Sierra Leone border, a few hours' drive from Monrovia, with long surf beaches and Lake Piso, a wide lagoon, behind it. Go in the dry season, from about November to April, for the easiest roads. Signal comes and goes on the drive up. Download the route offline before you leave Monrovia.
Blue Lake, Near Tubmanburg, Bomi County. A deep lake of bright blue water in a flooded old iron ore mine, ringed by green hills, a day trip north of Monrovia. The colour is at its strongest on a sunny day. Agree a return time with your driver on WhatsApp and share your live location before you walk down to the water.
The Firestone rubber plantation, Harbel, Margibi County. One of the largest rubber plantations in the world, running since 1926, with straight rows of rubber trees for mile after mile. Its roads pass right by Roberts International Airport. Most flights land here, about an hour or more from Monrovia. Your eSIM is on the moment you land, so you can message your driver before you reach the exit.
Harper and Cape Palmas, Maryland County. The far southeastern town near the Côte d'Ivoire border, with nineteenth-century houses, beaches and the Cape Palmas lighthouse on its point. It is a long way from Monrovia by road, much of it unpaved and slow in the rains. Holafly itself warns coverage thins along the southeastern coast. Download maps and anything you need before the drive.
The Nimba range, Nimba County, near Yekepa. Grassy ridges and cloud forest on the border with Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire, the Liberian side protected as the East Nimba Nature Reserve. Walks go with a local guide from the Yekepa area. Ganta is the last big town with steady signal on the way. Download offline maps there and tell someone your plan.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Liberia 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/liberia-esim?currency=USD (Liberia package in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; Hello Africa and Discover plans from esimdb.com/liberia/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-liberia/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026; esimdb has no Holafly listing for Liberia).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/liberia/saily (listing dated 15 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/liberia/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/liberia-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/liberia/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; Africa and World plans only, network from the listing; cellulardata.ubigi.com refused the fetch).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Ringo Light at $58.99 on 28 September 2026, against $63.50 for 15 days at Holafly. For a month, Holafly at $111.90, or Ubigi's Best World plan at $108 for 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps; our 30 days costs $114.99. For 3 days, Holafly at $19.90. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $30 on its Best Africa plan.
Airalo's Liberia plan and Ubigi ride Lonestar Cell MTN. Nomad rides Orange Liberia. Holafly names both Orange and Lonestar. Saily does not name its network. All cover Monrovia and the county capitals; signal thins in the rainforest, the parks and parts of the southeast.
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, and Airalo's Discover plan after 3 GB a day. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited for Liberia. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
A local Liberian SIM, yes: you show your passport at a Lonestar Cell MTN or Orange shop. A travel eSIM is installed before you fly and works when you land at Roberts International Airport, with no shop. It carries data only, so it does not give you mobile money or a Liberian number.
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