The best eSIM for Romania in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Romania, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $12.99, a month for $21.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Romania plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Bucharest, two weeks through Transylvania, 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 for 2 weeks at $12.99 or 30 days at $21.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $48 for 15 days and $69 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB and the biggest bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $12 and 50 GB for 30 days at $34, on Digi and Orange, installed by QR code.
Nomad: Cheapest 20 GB and cheapest 3 days. 20 GB for 30 days at $20 and 3 days of unlimited at $11, on Orange and Vodafone.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited, three networks. Days, not gigabytes, on Digi, Vodafone and Orange, no daily cap stated for your own phone. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets or unlimited days; Nomad Buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi Buckets only; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; 5 days $18.99; Nomad $11; Ubigi No unlimited plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day Romania plan; Nomad $25; Ubigi No unlimited plan; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 15 days: Airalo $48; Holafly $50.50; Saily $48.99; Nomad No 15-day plan; 10 days $33; Ubigi No unlimited plan; Ringo Light 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $69; Holafly $73.90; Saily $71.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi No unlimited plan; 50 GB $34; Ringo Light $21.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $18; Holafly No buckets; Saily $17.99; Nomad $16; Ubigi $12; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $12.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $28; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $20; Ubigi No 20 GB; 50 GB $34; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $21.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily 5 GB a day, then slowed; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Ubigi No unlimited plan; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Orange; Holafly Digi, Vodafone, Orange; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Orange, Vodafone; Ubigi Digi, Orange; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi No; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Airalo Yes; Holafly No, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi No, QR install; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most first trips to Romania start in Bucharest and then take two weeks through Transylvania, by train or by car. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $48, Saily $48.99 and Holafly $50.50. For a month, $69, $71.99 and $73.90. Nomad stops at 10 days for $33, and Ubigi sells no unlimited plan in Romania at all. Ringo Light charges $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 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. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Airalo also sells Romania inside its EU and UK plan, 15 days for $39 and 30 days for $58, with the same 3 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 $12.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $25.98, still under every rival for 15 days. A heavy month costs $34.98 for 30 GB. Ubigi sells 50 GB for 30 days at $34, so if you know you will go past 30 GB in a month, Ubigi is the better buy.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $11 and a week at $25. Our 2 weeks at $12.99 still costs less than any of them charge for a week.
Romania has three main mobile networks: Orange, Vodafone and Digi. All three cover Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu, Cluj and the main roads well, with 5G in the cities. Coverage thins in the high Carpathians, on the Transfagarasan above the tree line, and in the channels of the Danube Delta. Holafly lists all three; Airalo rides Orange, Nomad Orange and Vodafone, and Ubigi Digi and Orange. For the eight places below, any of them works in the towns.
Romania is in the EU. If your home plan is from an EU country, roaming there is usually included at home prices, and you may not need a travel eSIM at all. Near the borders with Moldova and Ukraine, in Bucovina and the Delta, your phone may pick up a network across the border, where EU roaming does not apply. On a Romania eSIM, choose a Romanian network by hand there.
Ubigi, $12 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB here, on Digi and Orange, installed by QR code. It sells no 20 GB; its 50 GB for 30 days at $34 is the most data for the money.
Nomad, $16 for 10 GB. And the cheapest 20 GB at $20, on Orange and Vodafone.
Saily, $17.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $27.99. Its listing is from June, the newest we could find.
Airalo, $18 for 10 GB. Its Noroc plan, 20 GB for $28, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $12.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $21.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Ubigi at $12 is cheaper, and for 20 GB, Nomad at $20 is $1.99 cheaper than us. 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 Romania it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $12.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $21.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $12.99. 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 Bucharest. Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $11. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $12.99 if the trip might run longer.
Two weeks through Transylvania. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $12.99, less than any rival charges for one week.
Light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $12.
A month in Bucharest or Cluj. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $21.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $12.99. Ubigi 50 GB for $34 if you will use more than 30 GB.
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 Romania, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Bucharest up through the Carpathians to Brasov and Sighisoara, over the Transfagarasan, north to Bucovina and east to the Danube Delta, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Orange, Vodafone and Digi cover all of the towns; the mountains and the Delta are thinner.
The Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest. One of the largest buildings in the world, built under Ceausescu at the end of Unirii Boulevard. See it from the boulevard, then take the guided tour of its marble halls. Tours are booked ahead and you show a passport or ID card at the door. Keep the booking on your phone.
Peles Castle, Sinaia. The summer castle of Romania's first king, all turrets and carved wood, in a forest above a mountain town. Sinaia is on the main train line from Bucharest to Brasov. The CFR Calatori app sells train tickets and shows the platform.
Bran Castle, Bran, near Brasov. A castle on a rock above a mountain pass, sold to the world as Dracula's castle. Go on a weekday morning, before the coaches from Brasov arrive. Tickets are sold online. Buy yours on your phone and walk past the ticket queue.
Council Square and the old town, Brasov. A Saxon square of coloured houses under Mount Tampa, with the Black Church a street away. Ride the cable car up Tampa for the view in the photo. Bolt works in Brasov and saves you a taxi haggle from the station.
The citadel and Clock Tower, Sighisoara. A medieval hilltop citadel that people still live in, on the UNESCO list, with a clock tower you can climb. Stay the night to see it once the day visitors leave. Trains between Brasov and Sighisoara are few and slow. Check the timetable in the CFR app before you plan the day.
The Transfagarasan road, Fagaras Mountains. A road of hairpins over the highest mountains in Romania, up to Balea Lake. The high section is open only in summer and early autumn. Check that the road is open before you drive up, and download the offline map: signal fades near the top.
Voronet Monastery, Bucovina. A church painted inside and out in the fifteen hundreds, famous for its deep blue, one of the painted monasteries on the UNESCO list. Combine it with Humor and Sucevita on a day by car. Carry some lei in cash: monastery gates and village guesthouses do not always take cards.
The Danube Delta, Tulcea and Sulina. Channels, reed beds and lakes where the Danube meets the Black Sea, a biosphere reserve full of birds, pelicans included. Boats leave from Tulcea; late spring is the best time for birds. Signal drops in the side channels. Save the ferry timetable and the offline map in Tulcea before you set off.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Romania 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/romania-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets and the EU and UK plan from esimdb.com/romania/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-romania/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/romania/saily (listing dated 12 June 2026).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/romania/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from getnomad.app/romania-esim, which served euro prices).
Source for Ubigi: https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/destinations/romania/ (10 GB and networks on the site, 28 September 2026; other plans from esimdb.com/romania/ubigi, 14 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $48 for 15 days and $69 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Nomad at $11. For 10 GB over 30 days, Ubigi at $12; for 20 GB, Nomad at $20.
Holafly lists Digi, Vodafone and Orange. Airalo rides Orange, Nomad Orange and Vodafone, and Ubigi Digi and Orange. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All three networks cover Bucharest, Transylvania and the main roads.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB, Nomad after 2 GB. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Ubigi sells no unlimited plan in Romania. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Romania is in the EU, so a plan from an EU country usually roams there at home prices, within a fair use limit. Travellers from the US, the UK, Canada or Australia usually pay a daily roaming fee, and that is where a travel eSIM saves money.
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