The best eSIM for Niger in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Niger, priced the same day: two weeks unlimited for $63.99, and who wins the month.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. This page is about Niger, the country on the Niger river with Niamey as its capital, not Nigeria, which has its own comparison at /blog/best-esim-for-nigeria. Six travel eSIMs cover Niger and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Niamey, two weeks with the giraffes and the W park, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Data is not cheap in Niger, and only two of the six sell a Niger unlimited plan. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks, at half Holafly's price. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $63.99, one payment, nothing renews. Holafly asks $129.90 for 15 days, and Airalo stops at 10 days for $84. For a month, Ubigi's global plan is $4.99 less than our $124.99.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days and cheapest week. 3 days of unlimited at $33.50 and 7 days at $53.50, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, on Celtel. Its longest unlimited is 10 days.
Saily: Cheapest 10 GB. 10 GB for 30 days at $38.99. The listing is from May, so check the price at checkout.
Ubigi: Cheapest month, if 60 GB is enough. It sells no Niger plan, but its World plan covers Niger: 60 GB at full speed for $120 a month, then 2 Mbps. It renews every month until you cancel.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days, up to 10 days; Holafly Unlimited days only, up to 20 days; Saily Buckets only; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi No Niger plan; World and Africa plans with a fixed amount; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $33.50; Holafly $33.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No unlimited; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $53.50; Holafly $53.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No unlimited; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $63.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo No 15-day plan; 10 days $84; Holafly 15 days $129.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No unlimited; Ringo Light $63.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No 30-day plan; Holafly No 30-day plan; 20 days at most; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi World plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $120 a month, renews (global plan); Ringo Light $124.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $45; Holafly No buckets; Saily $38.99; Nomad $70; Ubigi World 10 GB $59 (global plan); Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $63.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad Not listed on the day; Ubigi World 20 GB $44 a month, renews (global plan); Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $124.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; hotspot sharing limited; 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 Celtel (Airtel); Holafly Airtel Niger, Zamani Telecom; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Airtel, 3G; Ubigi Zamani Telecom; 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 trips to Niger are one to two weeks: Niamey, a day with the giraffes at Kouré, perhaps the W park, work or a family visit. Only Airalo and Holafly sell a Niger unlimited plan. Airalo stops at 10 days, at $84. Holafly sells 15 days at $129.90. Ringo Light charges $63.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, nothing renews. That is less than half of Holafly's 15 days, and less than Airalo's 10.
For a month the choice is thin. Airalo and Holafly sell no 30 days at all; Holafly stops at 20. Ubigi sells no Niger plan, but its World plan covers Niger: 60 GB at full speed for $120 a month, then 2 Mbps. That is $4.99 less than our 30 days at $124.99, and it renews every month until you cancel it, so set a reminder. If 60 GB will do, Ubigi is the cheaper month. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits hotspot sharing. 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 $63.99 top-up.
That top-up is expensive in Niger, and the arithmetic should be plain. A heavy two weeks with us costs $127.98, still $1.92 under Holafly's 15 days at $129.90. A heavy month costs $188.98, against $120 for Ubigi's 60 GB. If you will stream every night for a month, Ubigi is the better buy.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $33.50 and a week at $53.50, both less than our 2 weeks.
Niger has four mobile networks: Airtel, which still appears as Celtel on some listings, Zamani Telecom, which took over the old Orange Niger network, Moov Africa and Niger Telecoms. Airtel and Zamani are the two travel eSIMs use. Airalo and Nomad ride Airtel, Ubigi Zamani, and Holafly both. Saily does not name its network, and Nomad lists 3G only. In Niamey, Maradi, Zinder and Agadez, both work. Outside the towns, signal follows the main roads and then stops. In the Aïr and the Ténéré there is usually none at all, so download maps before you leave town.
A local SIM in Niger has to be registered with an identity document, which for a visitor means a passport at an operator's shop in Niamey. A travel eSIM installs at home before you fly, needs no shop, and connects when you land at Diori Hamani airport in Niamey. It carries data only, so it gives you no Nigerien number.
Niger pays in West African CFA francs, and daily life runs on cash. Cards work in a few large hotels in Niamey; carry francs for everything else, including taxis and markets. French is the official language and Hausa is the most widely spoken, so a translation app with both downloaded offline helps outside the hotels.
Saily, $38.99 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB, for 30 days. Its listing is from May and saily.com would not load for us, so check the price at checkout.
Airalo, $45 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Celtel, and 5 GB for 30 days at $26. From esimdb, updated the same day.
Ubigi, $59 for 10 GB. Its World plan, for 30 days on Zamani Telecom. Its World 20 GB is $44 a month and renews.
Nomad, $70 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Airtel, 3G only.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $63.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $124.99. For a fixed amount of data, Saily, Airalo and Ubigi are all cheaper in Niger, Saily by $25 on 10 GB. 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 Niger it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $63.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $124.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $63.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
For a month in Niger our 30 days is not the cheapest: Ubigi's World plan gives 60 GB for $120, $4.99 less, and renews monthly. For two weeks of unlimited, ours is the cheapest by a wide margin: $63.99 against $129.90 at Holafly.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Niamey. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $33.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week. Airalo unlimited, 7 days, $53.50, with 3 GB a day at full speed. Our 2 weeks at $63.99 costs $10.49 more.
Two weeks, Niamey, Kouré and the W park. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $63.99, less than half Holafly's 15 days at $129.90.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Saily 10 GB for 30 days at $38.99, or Airalo at $45 if you want a price read the same day.
A month, working in Niamey. Ubigi's World plan, 60 GB for $120 a month, $4.99 under our 30 days at $124.99. Cancel it before it renews.
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 Niger, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Niamey and the Niger river to the giraffes of Kouré, the W park, Agadez, the Aïr and Zinder, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Niamey and the big towns have 4G; the parks and the desert mostly have no signal. Some regions carry travel warnings, so check your government's travel advice before you book.
The Niger river at Niamey, Niamey. The river runs wide and slow past the capital, crossed by the Kennedy Bridge. Go at sunset, from the bank or from a pirogue, when the water turns orange. Niamey's taxis are shared and take cash. Drop a pin on your hotel in maps so you can show the driver where you are going.
The National Museum Boubou Hama, Niamey. A park of pavilions in the centre of Niamey, with the country's collections, craft workshops, a small zoo and what remains of the Arbre du Ténéré, the lone desert tree. Plan a morning, before the heat. Labels are in French. Point the camera translation at them.
The giraffes of Kouré, Kouré, about 60 km southeast of Niamey. The last wild herd of West African giraffes lives among the farms and bush around Kouré, and local guides take you out on foot to see them. The dry season, roughly November to May, is the easiest time. Signal fades off the main road. Save the route offline and send your plans before you set off.
W National Park, Southwest, on the Niger river. A park shared with Benin and Burkina Faso, named for the W bends of the river, with buffalo, elephants, hippos and antelope. Game viewing is best in the dry season. There is little or no coverage inside the park. Download maps and anything you want to read before you drive in.
The Grand Mosque of Agadez, Agadez. A mud-brick minaret about 27 metres tall, bristling with wooden beams, over the old town of Agadez, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The morning light is best on the walls. Agadez runs on cash. Carry CFA francs; there are few places to use a card.
Timia and its fort, Aïr Mountains. An oasis village of gardens and palm groves in a valley of the Aïr, with an old fort on the rocks above it. Visited on guided trips from Agadez. There is usually no signal in the Aïr. Download offline maps of the whole route in Agadez.
Arakao, where the Ténéré enters the Aïr, Eastern Aïr, on the edge of the Ténéré. A great ring of dark rock that the sand of the Ténéré has blown into, so that high dunes sit inside the mountains. Travelled only with a local guide and driver. Your phone is a camera and an offline map out here. Carry a power bank and expect no signal for days.
The Sultan's Palace, Zinder, Zinder. The palace of the Sultan of Damagaram in the Birni, Zinder's old walled quarter of decorated mud-brick houses. Zinder was the capital of Niger until 1926. Hausa is the language of the street here. Download Hausa and French in your translation app.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Niger 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/niger-esim?currency=USD (unlimited days and the Celtel network in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets and the 3 GB daily cap from esimdb.com/niger/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-niger/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026; 20 days at most; networks from the same page).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/niger/saily (listing dated 14 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/niger/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/niger-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/niger/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; no Niger plan, World and Africa plans only; cellulardata.ubigi.com has no Niger page).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Ringo Light at $63.99 on 28 September 2026, against $129.90 for 15 days at Holafly. For a month, Ubigi's World plan at $120 for 60 GB, which renews monthly. For 3 days, Airalo at $33.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Saily at $38.99.
Airalo and Nomad use Airtel, Ubigi Zamani Telecom, the former Orange Niger network, and Holafly both. Saily does not name its network. Both cover Niamey and the big towns; outside them signal follows the main roads, and in the desert there is usually none.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you to 1 Mbps after 3 GB a day. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits hotspot sharing. Ubigi's World plan gives 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited for Niger. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
No. Niger and Nigeria are two different countries with different networks and different plans; an eSIM bought for one does not cover the other. Nigeria has its own comparison, linked at the top of this page.
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