The best eSIM for North America in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for the US, Canada and Mexico, priced the same day: two weeks unlimited $32.99, a month $55.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a plan for the United States, Canada and Mexico together. We priced all six regional plans on the same day, for a long weekend, two weeks on the road and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed in 3 countries, one eSIM: 2 weeks at $32.99 or 30 days at $55.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $60.50 for 15 days and $97.50 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $32 and 20 GB at $35, across all three countries, on AT&T and Verizon in the US.
Ubigi: Cheapest week in the US and Canada. 8 days at $30 with 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Its North America plan leaves out Mexico.
Holafly: Cheapest 3 days, tied with Airalo. 3 days of unlimited at $18.50, days not gigabytes, no app. Sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Americanmex, 3 countries: buckets or unlimited days; Holafly North America, 3 countries: unlimited days only; Saily North America, 3 countries: buckets only; Nomad Regional North America, 3 countries: buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi North America, 2 countries (US and Canada, no Mexico): buckets or 8 days unlimited; Ringo Light 3 countries, one eSIM. Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $18.50; Holafly $18.50; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No 3-day plan; 5 days $27; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $37; Holafly $39.50; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No 7-day plan; 10 days $45; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, $30; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $32.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $60.50; Holafly 15 days $60.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No 2-week plan; 10 days $45; Ubigi No 2-week plan; Ringo Light $32.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $97.50; Holafly $97.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No 30-day plan; Ubigi No 30-day plan; Ringo Light $55.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $37; Holafly No buckets; Saily $43.99; Nomad $32; Ubigi US and Canada 10 GB is 7 days, $16; Americas plan 10 GB, 30 days, $48; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $32.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $49; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad $35; Ubigi Not listed on the day; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $55.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Ubigi 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo T-Mobile in the US; Bell, Telus, SaskTel in Canada; Mexico not named; Holafly Not named by Holafly; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad AT&T and Verizon in the US; Bell and Telus in Canada; AT&T in Mexico; Ubigi T-Mobile in the US; Bell, Telus, Freedom, SaskTel, Videotron in Canada; Ringo Light Local partner networks.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi No on these plans; 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.
A trip across North America is rarely short: a coast to coast loop, a road trip through the national parks, a week in New York and a week in Mexico. For about two weeks of unlimited across the three countries, Airalo asks $60.50 and Holafly $60.90 for 15 days. Nomad stops at 10 days for $45, Ubigi at 8 days for $30 without Mexico, and Saily sells no unlimited plan for the region. For a month, Airalo asks $97.50 and Holafly $97.90. Ringo Light charges $32.99 for 2 weeks and $55.99 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. Nomad gives 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. 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 $31.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $64.98, a few dollars more than Airalo's 15 days at $60.50 or Holafly's at $60.90. A heavy month costs $87.98, still under both rivals' month.
Our 2 weeks at $32.99 also costs less than a 7-day plan at Airalo ($37) or Holafly ($39.50). For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo and Holafly sell 3 days of unlimited at $18.50. If you only need the US and Canada for about a week, Ubigi's 8 days at $30 is the cheapest.
The United States has three national networks: AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Many travel eSIMs ride T-Mobile, which is strong in the cities; Nomad names AT&T and Verizon. Canada's big three are Bell, Rogers and Telus, and Mexico's widest network is Telcel. In all three countries the cities and main highways are well covered, and the gaps are in the wild places: stretches of road between national parks in the American West, the mountain passes of the Canadian Rockies, and parts of the canyons themselves. Download offline maps before those days, whatever eSIM you buy.
Check that your plan covers every country on your route. Ubigi's North America plan is the US and Canada only; for Mexico it sells a separate 23-country Americas plan. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and Ringo Light cover all three on one eSIM, so crossing at Niagara or flying on to Cancun needs no new plan.
Nomad, $32 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, and 20 GB for only $35, across all three countries.
Airalo, $37 for 10 GB. Its Americanmex plan, 20 GB for $49, buckets from $5.50 for 1 GB.
Saily, $43.99 for 10 GB. No 20 GB on its regional listing. Its listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Ubigi, $16 for 10 GB over 7 days. US and Canada only. With Mexico, its Americas plan asks $48 for 10 GB over 30 days.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $32.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $55.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad is cheaper, and for a month that fits in 20 GB, Nomad at $35 is far cheaper than our $55.99. 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 North America it sells one eSIM for the United States, Canada and Mexico, and two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $32.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $55.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $31.99. 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 New York. Airalo or Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $18.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week in the US and Canada, no Mexico. Ubigi, 8 days at $30, 5 GB a day at full speed. Ringo Light's 2 weeks at $32.99 if Mexico is on the route.
Two weeks across the three countries. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $32.99, about half what Airalo or Holafly charge for 15 days.
Two weeks or a month, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $32, or 20 GB at $35.
A month on the road, working from motels and cafés. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $55.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $31.99. Even with the top-up, $87.98 is under Airalo's $97.50 month.
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 North America, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips across the United States, Canada and Mexico include, from New York to Tulum, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G and 5G on every network; the canyons and mountain lakes do not, so plan those days offline.
The Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walk the bridge from Brooklyn towards Manhattan so the skyline is in front of you the whole way. Early morning, before the crowds and the cyclists. The subway takes a contactless tap: add your card to the phone's wallet and tap in, no ticket needed.
The Grand Canyon from Mather Point, South Rim, Arizona. The first big view from the South Rim, a short walk from the visitor center. Come at sunrise or sunset, when the rock turns red. Signal is patchy along the rim and gone below it. Download offline maps and the park's app before you drive in.
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. Walk or cycle across the bridge to the Marin side for the view back at the city. Summer mornings are often foggy; afternoons and autumn are clearer. Add a Clipper card to your phone's wallet for buses and cable cars, and use ride-hailing to get back from the far end.
Ocean Drive and the Art Deco District, Miami Beach, Florida. Pastel Art Deco hotels from the 1930s face the beach along Ocean Drive. Walk it in the morning, then cross the road to the sand. Summer afternoons bring short thunderstorms. A radar app tells you when to leave the beach.
Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta. A glacier lake under ten peaks, bright blue in summer. The road is closed to private cars, so you arrive by Parks Canada shuttle or a tour bus. Book the shuttle online well ahead, and save an offline map: signal is weak at the lake and on mountain roads.
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York. The largest of the three falls, seen best from Table Rock on the Canadian side. The boats sail into the spray at the foot of it. Walking the Rainbow Bridge takes you into the other country. Carry your passport; a regional eSIM keeps working on both sides.
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. A white marble concert hall at the edge of the Alameda park, with murals by Diego Rivera and others inside. Beautiful lit up in the evening. Ride-hailing apps work across the city and are the easy way back to your hotel at night.
The Maya ruins of Tulum, Tulum, Quintana Roo. A walled Maya city on a cliff above the Caribbean, with a beach below the temples. Go at opening time, before the heat and the tour buses. Many small places in Tulum prefer cash in pesos. Use a bank ATM in town, and a translation app for menus.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for North America 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/north-america-esim?currency=USD (Americanmex unlimited in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets and networks from esimdb.com/region/north-america/airalo, listing dated 21 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-north-america/ (North America plan in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/region/north-america/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/region/north-america/nomad (listing dated 18 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/rates-and-coverage/north-america-data-plans/north-america-unlimited-8-days/ (North America plan (US and Canada) and Americas 10 GB on the site, 28 September 2026; 10 GB for 7 days from esimdb.com/region/north-america/ubigi, listing dated 18 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data across the United States, Canada and Mexico, Ringo Light: $32.99 for 2 weeks and $55.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $60.50 for 15 days and $97.50 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo and Holafly at $18.50. For a 10 GB or 20 GB bucket, Nomad at $32 and $35.
Airalo and Ubigi name T-Mobile in the US, Nomad names AT&T and Verizon. In Canada Airalo names Bell, Telus and SaskTel, Nomad Bell and Telus, Ubigi five networks including Freedom and Videotron. For Mexico, Nomad names AT&T. Holafly and Saily do not name their networks. All cover the cities and main highways; every network has gaps in remote parks.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Nomad after 2 GB, Ubigi after 5 GB. Saily sells no unlimited plan for the region. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
One regional eSIM is enough with Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad or Ringo Light: all five cover the three countries and switch network when you cross the border. Ubigi's North America plan covers only the US and Canada; for Mexico you need its Americas plan.
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