The best eSIM for Moldova in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Moldova, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $19.99, a month for $36.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Moldova and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Chisinau, two weeks of wineries and monasteries, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Most of them stop selling Moldova-only unlimited after ten days. 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 $19.99 or 30 days at $36.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Holafly asks $50.50 for 15 days and $73.90 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest data buckets. 10 GB for 30 days at $15 and 25 GB for 30 days at $28, on Moldcell. Its Europe plan gives 30 GB for 15 days at $35, then 2 Mbps.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days, tied with Holafly. 3 days of unlimited at $12.50 on Orange, 3 GB a day at full speed. Its Moldova unlimited stops at 10 days.
Holafly: The only Moldova-only unlimited past ten days. Days, not gigabytes, on Orange, Moldtelecom and Moldcell. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets; unlimited only on its Global plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets, then 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 $29.50; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $27; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $19.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo Moldova plan stops at 10 days, $35; Discover global plan, 15 days, $96; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily No 15-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No local plan; Europe regional plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $35; Ringo Light $19.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No Moldova plan; Discover global plan $159; Holafly $73.90; Saily No Moldova plan; Global plan $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No local plan; Europe regional plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $62; Ringo Light $36.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $29.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $29.49; Nomad $25; Ubigi $15; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $19.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $49; Holafly No buckets; Saily No local 20 GB; Nomad $34; Ubigi 25 GB $28; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $36.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Not stated on its listing; 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 Orange; Holafly Orange, Moldtelecom, Moldcell; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Orange; Ubigi Moldcell; 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.
Most people give Moldova a long weekend or a week: Chisinau, a winery or two, and a day out to Orheiul Vechi or the monasteries on the Dniester. Unlimited data for longer is hard to find. Airalo's Moldova unlimited stops at 10 days, Saily and Nomad sell none for Moldova, and Ubigi sells unlimited only as a fixed amount on its Europe plan. For 15 days, Holafly asks $50.50 and Ubigi's Europe plan $35 for 30 GB at full speed. For a month, $59.99 to $73.90, or $159 on Airalo's global plan. Ringo Light charges $19.99 for 2 weeks and $36.99 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. Ubigi gives 5 GB a day on its 8-day plan, or 30 GB for 15 days and 60 GB for the month on its Europe plan, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Saily's listing does not state its rule. 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 $19.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $39.98, more than Ubigi's 30 GB for 15 days at $35 and less than Holafly's $50.50; a heavy month costs $56.98, still under every rival's month.
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 Holafly a week at $27.50. Our 2 weeks at $19.99 costs less than any rival's week of unlimited, so buy it if the trip might run past four days.
Moldova has three networks: Orange, Moldcell and Moldtelecom, which sells mobile under the Unite name. Orange is the biggest. All three cover Chisinau, the towns and the main roads; in the river valleys around Orheiul Vechi, Saharna and Tipova, signal can thin on any of them. Airalo and Nomad ride Orange, Ubigi rides Moldcell, and Holafly lists all three.
Since 1 January 2026, Moldova has been part of the EU's roam like at home area, so a phone plan from an EU country works there within its normal allowance. Visitors from the UK, the US and elsewhere still pay their own roaming rates, and that is where a travel eSIM earns its keep.
Transnistria, the strip east of the Dniester, is a separate question for coverage. Of the brands we priced, only Nomad mentions it: its Moldova page says its coverage runs from Tiraspol to Chisinau. The others say nothing either way, and Ringo Light makes no claim for it. If your trip goes there, ask the brand before you buy.
Ubigi, $15 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB over 30 days, and 25 GB for $28, on Moldcell. It also sells 10 GB for 7 days at $11.
Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $34, on Orange, prices read in dollars on its own site.
Saily, $29.49 for 10 GB. No local 20 GB. Its listing is from June; saily.com refused the fetch.
Airalo, $29.50 for 10 GB. Its Soroca Mobile plan, 20 GB for $49, buckets from $4.50 for 1 GB.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $19.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $36.99. If you want 10 GB to last a month, Ubigi at $15 is cheaper and lasts longer. For 20 GB over 30 days, Ubigi's 25 GB at $28 and Nomad's 20 GB at $34 both cost less than our month. 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 Moldova it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $19.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $36.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $19.99. 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 Chisinau. Airalo or Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $12.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $19.99 if you might stay longer.
A week or two of wineries and monasteries. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $19.99, less than any rival charges for a week of unlimited. Ubigi's Europe plan, 30 GB for 15 days at $35, if you will stream every evening.
A month, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $15, or 25 GB at $28.
A month of remote work in Chisinau. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $36.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $19.99. Every rival's month of unlimited costs $59.99 or more.
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 Moldova, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Chisinau and its wine cellars to Orheiul Vechi, Soroca and the cliff monasteries along the Dniester, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Everything here is a day trip from Chisinau by car or bus.
Nativity Cathedral and Cathedral Park, Chisinau. The main Orthodox cathedral of Chisinau stands with its bell tower in a park on Stefan cel Mare boulevard, next to the Triumphal Arch. It is the easiest place to start a walk round the centre. Chisinau runs on trolleybuses and minibuses. A maps app with transit tells you which number to take.
Cricova wine cellars, Cricova, north of Chisinau. An underground town of wine: limestone tunnels running for well over a hundred kilometres, with streets named after grapes and a national wine collection. Visits are guided, partly by vehicle. Book the tour online before you go, and expect no signal once you are underground.
Orheiul Vechi, Butuceni, Orhei district. The Raut river loops through a limestone gorge, with a cave monastery cut into the cliff and a small church on the ridge above. Walk up from the village of Butuceni and down along the river. Guesthouses in Butuceni fill at weekends. Book a room or lunch from your phone before you drive out.
Capriana Monastery, Codri forest. One of the oldest monasteries in Moldova, founded in the fifteenth century in the Codri forest west of Chisinau. Its churches sit inside a brick wall in a quiet valley. The forest roads have few signs. Download the offline map of the Codri before you leave the city.
Soroca Fortress, Soroca, on the Dniester. A round stone fortress with five towers on the bank of the Dniester in the north, rebuilt in stone in the sixteenth century. Soroca is a long day trip from Chisinau. Check the bus times back to Chisinau on your phone before you set off.
Saharna Monastery, Saharna, Rezina district. A monastery in a green gorge above the Dniester, with a trail past a string of small waterfalls and up to a rock chapel. Spring and early autumn are the best times to walk it. Share your location with someone before you take the gorge trail.
Tipova cave monastery, Tipova, Rezina district. Cells, chapels and a church carved into the cliffs high above the Dniester, reached by steep paths from the car park. It is close enough to Saharna to see both in a day. A route app tells you how long the drive between Saharna and Tipova takes, so you can fit both in.
Castel Mimi, Bulboaca, southeast of Chisinau. A nineteenth-century winery built like a castle, restored and open for tours and tastings, with gardens and a restaurant. Tours and tastings run at set times. Book yours online the day before.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Moldova 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/moldova-esim?currency=USD (Moldova plans in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; Discover global plan from esimdb.com/moldova/airalo, same day).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-moldova/ (dollars and networks on its own site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/moldova/saily (listing dated 12 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://www.getnomad.app/moldova-esim (dollar prices in its own page data, 28 September 2026; matches esimdb.com/moldova/nomad, dated 17 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/moldova/ubigi (listing dated 14 September 2026; the 10 GB price and Moldcell confirmed on cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $19.99 for 2 weeks and $36.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $50.50 for 15 days and $73.90 for 30 days at Holafly. For 3 days, Airalo and Holafly at $12.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $15.
Airalo and Nomad ride Orange, Ubigi rides Moldcell, and Holafly lists Orange, Moldtelecom and Moldcell. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All cover Chisinau and the towns; signal can thin in the river valleys on every network.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Saily's listing does not state its rule, and Nomad sells no unlimited for Moldova. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Yes, since 1 January 2026. Moldova joined the EU's roam like at home area that day, so an EU plan works there within its normal allowance. Plans from the UK, the US and most other countries still charge roaming, so a travel eSIM is the cheaper way to get data.
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