The short answer
Six travel eSIMs sell a Mexico plan and get most of the traffic for this search. I priced all six on the same day, for a week in Mexico City, two weeks down to Oaxaca or the Yucatan, and a month, and I read the fine print on unlimited. Mexico is not Ringo's cheapest country, and I say here where a rival is the better buy.
2 weeks at $42.99, a cent under Airalo's 15 days at $43, which gives a day more. A month is $57.99 against $62 at Airalo, $4.01 less.
30 days at $62 and 15 days at $43 on AT&T, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
3 days of unlimited at $10, a week at $22, 10 GB for 30 days at $15.50 and 20 GB at $27.50, on AT&T and Movistar.
Days, not gigabytes, no daily cap stated for your own phone, on Movistar and Telcel. $24.50 a week, $66.50 a month; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 11 November 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, 11 November 2026. The rivals sell 15 days, Ringo Light 2 weeks. Nomad stops at 10 days ($30) and Ubigi sells no unlimited for Mexico.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed. Here it costs less than all three rivals.
Holafly sells no buckets. 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 Mexico, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Mexico City and the colonial towns of the highlands to Oaxaca, the Yucatan and the tip of Baja, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities and the Riviera Maya have good 4G and 5G; the roads between them are thinner.
If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
Most first trips to Mexico run one to two weeks: Mexico City and Oaxaca, or Cancun, Tulum and the Yucatan. For about two weeks of unlimited, Ringo Light charges $42.99 for 2 weeks, Airalo $43 for 15 days, Holafly $44.90 and Saily $48.99. Airalo gives one day more for one cent more, so I call it a tie. For a month, Airalo asks $62, Holafly $66.50 and Saily $71.99. Ringo Light asks $57.99, the cheapest of the four and $4.01 under Airalo.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 3 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. 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 trip. For a month, I count the 30 days at $57.99 as $4.01 less than Airalo's 3 GB a day at $62.
For 3 days, Ringo Light sells no plan, and I would buy Nomad instead: 3 days of unlimited at $10, the cheapest of the six. For a week, Ringo Light's 7 days at $16.99 is cheaper than Nomad's $22. Ubigi sells no unlimited plan for Mexico; its closest is 20 GB for 7 days at $36, then 2 Mbps.
Which network works best in Mexico
Mexico has one big network, Telcel, and two smaller ones, Movistar and AT&T, plus Altan, the shared network other brands rent. Telcel reaches furthest outside the cities, on the highways and in small towns. All of them cover Mexico City, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Cancun and the Riviera Maya. Holafly and Ubigi name Telcel; Airalo rides AT&T for unlimited and Movistar for buckets, and Nomad AT&T and Movistar. If I were driving outside the cities, I would want Telcel.
Holafly's own page says its plan does not work on Holbox Island, Contoy Island and in some remote stretches between Playa del Carmen and Merida. If you are driving the Yucatan, I would download the offline map before you leave the coast, whichever eSIM you buy.
If you want a data bucket: Nomad
- Nomad, $15.50 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB and the cheapest 20 GB at $27.50, on AT&T and Movistar with 5G.
- Airalo, $26 for 10 GB. Its Movistar buckets, 20 GB for $42.50 and 5 GB for $18.50.
- Saily, $24.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $45.99. Its listing is dated 5 October 2026, and saily.com would not load when I tried it.
- Ubigi, $24 for 10 GB. On Telcel, Movistar and Altan, installed by QR code, no app needed.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. The 2 weeks is unlimited for $42.99 and the 30 days unlimited for $57.99. For a fixed amount of data, every rival here is cheaper in Mexico, Nomad by far. I would buy Ringo Light for unlimited with no daily cap, not for a bucket.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is the data eSIM Ringo sells to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Mexico it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 7 days at $16.99, 2 weeks at $42.99 and 30 days at $57.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Mexico the 2 weeks costs the same as Airalo's 15 days and the month costs $4.01 less than Airalo's. I would buy it for unlimited data with no daily speed cap.
One more thing I would rather tell you here than let you find at checkout: the Ringo Light Latin America trip covers Mexico as well, and on the same day it cost $47.99 for 2 weeks and $65.99 for 30 days, the same unlimited data with no speed cap on one eSIM that also works in the neighbouring countries. If you only need Mexico, the Mexico trip is cheaper on both lengths, $5.00 less for 2 weeks and $8.00 less for 30 days; the Latin America page compares it with the same brands.
The card to buy it is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $10. Ringo Light sells no 3 days, so it is not on my list for this trip.
Ringo Light unlimited, 7 days, $16.99, at full speed. Nomad's week is $22 with 2 GB a day at full speed. I would pay Holafly's $24.50 only if you want Telcel and no daily cap.
Ringo Light 2 weeks at $42.99 or Airalo 15 days at $43: the same price. I would take Ringo Light if you do not want a daily cap, Airalo if you want the extra day.
Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $15.50. I would count gigabytes here.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $57.99, full speed all month. I would pick Airalo at $62 only if 3 GB a day is enough.
None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have, and I know of no other route to it.
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 Mexico on 11 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/mexico-esim?currency=USD, unlimited and buckets in dollars on the site, read 11 November 2026; the earlier esimdb figures for 10 GB and 20 GB were for a plan its page no longer shows; daily allowance from esimdb.com/mexico/airalo, 5 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-mexico/, dollar prices and coverage notes on its own site, read 11 November 2026
- Saily: esimdb.com/mexico/saily, listing dated 5 October 2026, read again on 11 November 2026; saily.com refused the fetch
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/mexico-esim, dollar prices on its own site, read 11 November 2026
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/mexico/ubigi, listing dated 5 October 2026; networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com, which showed one plan, in euros; not readable on 11 November 2026, figures kept as dated here
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 11 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.
