The best eSIM for Palau in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and Ubigi sell no Palau plan. Maya Mobile and Ringo Light do, priced on the same day: what each costs and which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs get most of the traffic for this search. We checked all six for Palau on the same day, and only one of them sells anything there: Ringo Light. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and Ubigi have no Palau plan, and none of their regional or world plans covers it. So we priced the one well known rival that does, Maya Mobile, for a week of diving out of Koror, two weeks, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Maya Mobile is cheaper. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Unlimited with no speed cap and no daily limit, one payment. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $42.99 or 30 days at $79.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Maya Mobile is cheaper in Palau: $27.99 for 14 days, $15 less, and $49.99 for 30 days, $30 less.
Maya Mobile: Cheapest unlimited for every trip length in Palau. Its Global plan covers Palau on PNCC: 3 days at $9.99, 7 days at $19.99, 14 days at $27.99 and 30 days at $49.99. Full speed for 5 GB a day, then 3 Mbps.
Model: Maya Mobile Global plan (many countries, not a Palau plan): unlimited days; Ringo Light Palau trips: unlimited, 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Maya Mobile $9.99, Global plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Maya Mobile $19.99, Global plan; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $42.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Maya Mobile 14 days $27.99, Global plan; Ringo Light $42.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Maya Mobile $49.99, Global plan; Ringo Light $79.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Maya Mobile No buckets for Palau; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $42.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Maya Mobile No buckets for Palau; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $79.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Maya Mobile 5 GB a day, then 3 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Maya Mobile PNCC; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Maya Mobile No; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Maya Mobile Not stated on the listing; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most trips to Palau are a week or two of diving and boat days out of Koror, and data is what you use for maps, WhatsApp with the dive shop, and photos home in the evening. Five of the brands we priced we set out to compare sell nothing for Palau. Maya Mobile's Global plan covers it: $27.99 for 14 days and $49.99 for 30 days. Ringo Light charges $42.99 for 2 weeks and $79.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews. Maya Mobile is $15 cheaper for two weeks and $30 cheaper for the month.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Maya Mobile gives 5 GB a day at full speed, then 3 Mbps for the rest of the day. Ringo Light has no speed cap and no daily limit: 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 $42.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $85.98 and a heavy month $122.98, far more than Maya Mobile's $27.99 and $49.99. Buy Ringo Light if you want one plan for Palau with no daily cap; for almost everyone else, Maya Mobile is the better buy here.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Maya Mobile sells 3 days of unlimited at $9.99 and a week at $19.99, $23 less than our 2 weeks.
Palau has two mobile networks, PNCC and PMCI. Both cover Koror, the bridge and the main road around Babeldaob, where almost every visitor sleeps and drives. Out among the Rock Islands, at the dive sites and on Peleliu, signal comes and goes, so a boat day often means an hour or more with no data on any plan. Maya Mobile's listing names PNCC.
Palau uses the US dollar. Hotels and dive shops in Koror take cards; small stores, boat fees and the state permits for the Rock Islands are easier with cash.
Maya Mobile, no buckets. For Palau it sells only its Global unlimited days, from 3 days at $9.99.
Smaller sellers, from $24.99. esimdb.com lists Palau buckets from sellers we did not compare, for example GoMoWorld at $24.99 for 15 GB over 30 days and ASIMGO at $27.06 for 10 GB over 30 days. We have not tested them; read their terms before you buy.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $42.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $79.99. For a fixed amount of data, those smaller sellers are cheaper in Palau. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited with no daily cap, 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 Palau it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $42.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $79.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $42.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Palau it is not the cheapest plan. Maya Mobile's Global plan costs $15 less for two weeks and $30 less for the month, with 5 GB a day at full speed. If that daily amount is enough for you, buy Maya Mobile.
The card to buy Ringo Light is just below this article.
A long weekend in Koror. Maya Mobile unlimited, 3 days, $9.99. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week of diving. Maya Mobile unlimited, 7 days, $19.99, less than our 2 weeks.
Two weeks, maps, messages and photos. Maya Mobile unlimited, 14 days, $27.99, $15 less than ours. Ringo Light at $42.99 if you want no daily cap at all.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. A small bucket from one of the smaller sellers on esimdb.com, from $24.99 for 15 GB.
A month, working from Koror. Maya Mobile unlimited, 30 days, $49.99. Ringo Light at $79.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $42.99, if a 5 GB daily cap would slow your work.
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 Palau, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from the Rock Islands to Babeldaob and Peleliu, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Koror and Babeldaob have 4G; out on the water and on the outer islands signal comes and goes, so several tips are about going offline.
The Rock Islands, Southern Lagoon, south of Koror. Hundreds of green limestone islands, undercut at the waterline, scattered across a turquoise lagoon that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Almost every boat, dive and kayak trip in Palau starts here. You need a Rock Islands permit from Koror State; the dive shop or tour usually arranges it, so confirm by message before the boat leaves.
Jellyfish Lake, Eil Malk, Rock Islands. A marine lake inside one of the Rock Islands, full of golden jellyfish whose sting is too weak for most people to feel. Snorkel only; scuba is not allowed, to protect the lake. There is no signal at the lake. Leave the phone in a dry bag on the boat and take photos with a waterproof camera.
The Milky Way, Rock Islands. A sheltered bay with pale blue water over a floor of fine white limestone mud, which boat guides scoop up for a mud mask. Most Rock Islands day trips stop here. A waterproof pouch keeps the phone usable for photos between swims.
German Channel, Southwest of the Rock Islands. A channel cut through the reef in the German colonial years, now one of the best places in Palau to see manta rays at their cleaning stations. Reached by dive or snorkel boat from Koror. Dive shops send pickup times and changes by WhatsApp the evening before, so keep data on in town.
Koror, Koror Island. Palau's largest town, with most of the hotels, restaurants and dive shops, spread over small islands joined by causeways. The Belau National Museum and the Etpison Museum are here. There is no ride-hailing app in Palau. Save a taxi number, or ask your hotel to call one.
The KB Bridge, Between Koror and Babeldaob. The Japan-Palau Friendship Bridge, which carries the only road from Koror to Babeldaob and the airport. It replaced the first bridge, which collapsed in 1996. The airport is on Babeldaob, over the bridge. Check your flight in the airline app before you drive out.
Ngardmau Waterfall, Ngardmau, Babeldaob. The largest waterfall in Palau, at the end of a jungle trail on the west side of Babeldaob. Go after a few days of rain for the most water, and wear shoes that can get wet. Download an offline map of Babeldaob: signal on the island's roads is patchy away from the main towns.
Peleliu, South of the Rock Islands. The island of one of the hardest battles of the Pacific war in 1944, with tanks, guns and bunkers still in the jungle and Orange Beach where the landing came ashore. A day trip by boat from Koror. Signal on Peleliu is limited. Save the map offline and carry cash for the island.
We priced Maya Mobile and Ringo Light for Palau 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: Airalo, it has no Palau page on airalo.com, and Palau is not in its Oceania plan or its Discover world plans, so there was nothing to buy or compare on 28 September 2026.
Left out: Holafly, it has no Palau page on esim.holafly.com, and Palau is not in its Oceania or global plans, so there is nothing to compare.
Left out: Saily, saily.com refused the fetch on the day, and esimdb.com lists no Saily plan that covers Palau, for Palau alone or as part of a region.
Left out: Nomad, its Palau page returns not found on nomadesim.com, and Palau is not among the 123 countries of its Global plan.
Left out: Ubigi, it does not list Palau among its destinations on cellulardata.ubigi.com, and esimdb.com has no Ubigi plan for it.
Source for Maya Mobile: https://esimdb.com/palau/maya-mobile (Global plan covering Palau, listing dated 21 September 2026; maya.net refused the fetch).
Source for esimdb.com, Palau: https://esimdb.com/palau (every seller for Palau, single and multi-country, updated 28 September 2026; none of Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad or Ubigi listed).
Source for Airalo: https://www.airalo.com/global-esim?currency=USD (no Palau page; Palau missing from its Discover and Oceania plans, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-global/ (no Palau page; Palau missing from its global and Oceania plans, 28 September 2026).
Source for Nomad: https://www.nomadesim.com/global-esim (no Palau page; Palau missing from its 123-country Global plan, 28 September 2026).
Of the brands we compared on 28 September 2026, Maya Mobile, for every length: $9.99 for 3 days, $19.99 for a week, $27.99 for 14 days and $49.99 for 30 days on its Global plan, with 5 GB a day at full speed. Ringo Light costs $42.99 for 2 weeks and $79.99 for 30 days, with no speed cap. For a small bucket, smaller sellers on esimdb.com start at $24.99 for 15 GB.
Palau has two mobile networks, PNCC and PMCI. Maya Mobile's listing names PNCC. Both cover Koror and Babeldaob; signal is thin or absent among the Rock Islands, at the dive sites and on Peleliu.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Maya Mobile gives 5 GB a day at full speed, then 3 Mbps. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Not on 28 September 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and Ubigi sell no Palau plan, and Palau is not in any of their regional or world plans. An eSIM from one of them will not connect there, so check the coverage list before you buy any global plan.
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