The best eSIM for Pakistan in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Pakistan, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $18.99, a month for $28.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Pakistan plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a week between Lahore and Islamabad, two weeks up the Karakoram Highway, and a month home with family, 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 for 2 weeks at $18.99 or 30 days at $28.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $72 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest data buckets. 10 GB for 30 days at $14, 25 GB at $27 and 50 GB at $39, on Jazz and Zong.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days and week of unlimited. 3 days at $12.50 and 7 days at $27, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. On Zong and one other network.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on Zong. $12.50 for 3 days and $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only for Pakistan; Nomad Buckets only for Pakistan; 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 unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $26; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $18.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $46; Ringo Light $18.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $72; Holafly $73.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 30-day unlimited; 50 GB for 30 days $39; Ringo Light $28.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $18; Holafly No buckets; Saily $17.99; Nomad $24; Ubigi $14; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $18.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $28; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $39; Ubigi 25 GB $27; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $28.99.
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 No unlimited plan; 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 Zong and one other; Holafly Zong (CMPak); Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Jazz; Ubigi Jazz, Zong; 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.
Many trips to Pakistan are long ones: two weeks up to Hunza in summer, or a month home with family for a wedding or Eid. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49 and Holafly $50.50. Ubigi asks $46 for 30 GB at full speed. For a month, Airalo asks $72 and Holafly $73.90. Saily and Nomad sell no Pakistan unlimited at all. Ringo Light charges $18.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 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 20 GB for 7 days or 30 GB for 15 days, 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 $18.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $37.98, still under Ubigi's $46 and Airalo's $49. A heavy month costs $47.98, against $72 at Airalo. If you know you will use about 50 GB in a month, Ubigi sells exactly that for $39.
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 Airalo a week at $27.
Pakistan has four big networks: Jazz, the largest, Zong, Telenor and Ufone. All four cover Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and the motorways well, and Jazz and Zong have the widest 4G. Travel eSIMs here ride Jazz or Zong: Nomad names Jazz, Holafly and Airalo name Zong, and Ubigi lists both.
The north is different. Along the Karakoram Highway, on the jeep road to Fairy Meadows and in Deosai, signal comes and goes or stops, and Holafly says so on its own Pakistan page. Download offline maps of Gilgit-Baltistan before you leave Islamabad, whichever eSIM you buy. Mobile data is also sometimes suspended by the authorities in some cities on days of protest or major religious processions; when that happens it affects every network and every eSIM that rides them.
Ubigi, $14 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, 25 GB for $27 and 50 GB for $39, on Jazz and Zong. No app needed.
Saily, $17.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $27.99. Its listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $18 for 10 GB. Its Sheesh plan, 20 GB for $28, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Nomad, $24 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $39 on Jazz.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $18.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $28.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi is cheaper in Pakistan, and Saily and Airalo sell 20 GB for a month for a dollar less than our 30 days. 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 Pakistan it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $18.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $28.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $18.99. 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 few days in Lahore or Islamabad. Airalo or Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $12.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $18.99 if the trip might run longer.
Two weeks up the Karakoram Highway. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99, less than any rival charges for one week. Download offline maps for the stretches with no signal.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $14.
A month home with family. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $28.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $18.99. Ubigi 50 GB for 30 days at $39 if you want a fixed amount.
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 Pakistan, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Karachi and the Indus valley to Lahore, Islamabad and the high north, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G; north of Islamabad, plan for stretches with no signal.
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore. The red sandstone mosque Aurangzeb built in 1673, with a courtyard that holds tens of thousands. Go in the late afternoon, when the stone glows and the heat drops. Ride-hailing apps such as Careem and inDrive show the fare before you get in, which saves haggling with rickshaws at the Walled City gates.
Lahore Fort, Lahore. The Mughal citadel across the garden from Badshahi Mosque, with the Sheesh Mahal, a hall lined with mirror work. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the Shalimar Gardens across town. The lanes of the Walled City behind the fort are a maze. Keep a maps app open to find your way back out.
Faisal Mosque, Islamabad. A modern mosque shaped like a desert tent, at the foot of the Margalla Hills. The hills behind it have marked walking trails with views over the city. A maps app shows the Margalla trailheads, a short ride from the mosque.
Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Hunza. A centuries-old fort of stone and timber above Karimabad, looking across the Hunza valley to the peaks around it. Late spring for the blossom, October for the autumn colours. Flights from Islamabad to Gilgit are often cancelled for weather. Check the flight status on your phone on the morning before you head to the airport.
Attabad Lake, Gojal, upper Hunza. A turquoise lake made by a landslide in 2010 that blocked the Hunza River. The Karakoram Highway now runs beside it through tunnels, and boats go out from the shore. Signal along the Karakoram Highway comes and goes. Download the offline map of Hunza before you leave Gilgit.
Fairy Meadows, Below Nanga Parbat, Gilgit-Baltistan. A high meadow facing the north face of Nanga Parbat, reached by jeep from the Karakoram Highway and then on foot. The season is summer, roughly June to September. Expect little or no signal up there. Tell someone your plans and save maps and bookings to the phone before the jeep road.
Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi. The white marble mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, set in a large garden in the middle of the city. The guard changes in a formal ceremony. Karachi is spread out. Ride-hailing apps are the easy way between the mausoleum, Clifton beach and the old city.
Mohenjo-daro, Near Larkana, Sindh. The ruins of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilisation, over four thousand years old, with brick streets, a great bath and a stupa on the mound. Go in winter; summer in Sindh is extremely hot. Cards are rarely taken in rural Sindh. Carry rupees, and find an ATM in Larkana on your phone before you drive out.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Pakistan 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/pakistan-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets from esimdb.com/pakistan/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-pakistan/ (dollar prices and network on its own page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/pakistan/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/pakistan/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/pakistan-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/pakistan/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $18.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $72 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo and Holafly at $12.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $14.
Nomad rides Jazz, Holafly Zong, Airalo Zong and one other, and Ubigi Jazz and Zong. Saily does not name its network on its listing. Jazz and Zong cover the cities and motorways well; in Gilgit-Baltistan signal is patchy 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 and Nomad sell no Pakistan unlimited. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
The PTA's device registration is for phones used on a Pakistani SIM. A travel eSIM connects as a foreign line in roaming, so there is nothing to register. A local SIM is sold against your passport with a fingerprint check at the shop, and your phone then falls under the PTA's registration rules if you keep using it.
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