The best eSIM for Saudi Arabia in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Saudi Arabia, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $21.99, a month for $40.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Saudi Arabia plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Riyadh, two weeks of Umrah between Makkah and Madinah, and a month for Hajj or work, 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 $21.99 or 30 days at $40.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $54 for 15 days and $97 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest 3 days and cheapest buckets, on stc. 3 days of unlimited at $12, 10 GB for 30 days at $18 and 20 GB at $31, on stc, the largest Saudi network.
Airalo: Cheapest rival for 15 days, on Zain 5G. 15 days of unlimited at $54 on its Red Sand plan, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, no daily cap stated for your own phone, on Mobily. $27.90 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 up to 10 days; Ubigi Saudi buckets; unlimited only on its Middle East plan; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $12.50; Holafly $12.50; Saily No 3-day plan; 5 days $18.99; Nomad $12; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.90; Saily No 7-day plan; 10 days $34.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi No Saudi unlimited; Middle East plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $21.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $54; Holafly 15 days $57.90; Saily 15 days $54.99; Nomad No 2-week plan; 10 days $33; Ubigi No Saudi unlimited; Middle East plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $88; Ringo Light $21.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $97; Holafly $107.50; Saily $98.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi No Saudi unlimited; Middle East plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $149; Ringo Light $40.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $25.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $26.99; Nomad $18; Ubigi $27; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $21.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $42; Holafly No buckets; Saily $42.99; Nomad $31; Ubigi No 20 GB Saudi plan; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $40.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; 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 Zain; Holafly Mobily; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad stc; Ubigi Zain; 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 Yes; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most trips to Saudi Arabia are an Umrah of ten days to two weeks, a Hajj of three to five weeks, or a week of business in Riyadh or Jeddah. For about two weeks of unlimited, Airalo asks $54, Saily $54.99 and Holafly $57.90 for 15 days. Nomad stops at 10 days, at $33, and Ubigi sells unlimited only on its Middle East plan. For a month, $97 to $107.50. Ringo Light charges $21.99 for 2 weeks and $40.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo and Saily give 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Nomad gives 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi's Middle East plan gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, 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 $21.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $43.98, still under every rival's 15 days; a heavy month costs $62.98, still under every rival for the month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $12 and a week at $25; Airalo and Holafly charge $12.50 for 3 days. For anything longer than a week, our 2 weeks at $21.99 costs less than any rival's week.
Umrah and Hajj run on your phone now. The Nusuk app, from the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, is where you get the Umrah permit and book a slot to pray in the Rawdah at the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah. Install it and sign in before you fly, while you still have your home connection for the verification codes, and keep your permits on the phone, not only in an email.
All three Saudi networks cover Makkah, Madinah and the Haramain train between them well. The strain comes from crowds, not coverage: in Ramadan and during the Hajj days in Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, millions of phones share the same masts and data slows for everyone, whatever eSIM you carry. Download your maps, prayer times and group chat photos when the crowds are thin, and carry a power bank.
For an Umrah of up to two weeks, Ringo Light's 2 weeks at $21.99 is the cheapest unlimited on this page. For Hajj, most packages run three to five weeks; our 30 days at $40.99 covers most of them, against $97 at Airalo. If your group stays longer than 30 days, buy the 30 days and a 2 weeks when it ends.
Saudi Arabia has three networks: stc, the largest, Mobily and Zain. All three have 5G in Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah, Madinah and Dammam. stc reaches furthest along the desert highways and into small towns; out on the road to AlUla, the Edge of the World or the Asir villages, signal thins out on every network. Nomad names stc, Airalo and Ubigi Zain, Holafly Mobily; Saily does not name its network. For the cities and the holy sites, any of them works.
Nomad, $18 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB and the cheapest 20 GB at $31, on stc with 5G.
Airalo, $25.50 for 10 GB. Its Red Sand plan on Zain, 20 GB at $42, buckets from $4.50 for 1 GB.
Saily, $26.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $42.99. Its listing is from June.
Ubigi, $27 for 10 GB. On Zain, installed by QR code. It sells no 20 GB Saudi plan.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $21.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $40.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad is cheaper: $18 for 10 GB over 30 days and $31 for 20 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 Saudi Arabia it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $21.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $40.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $21.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Saudi Arabia it is the cheapest two weeks and the cheapest month of unlimited on this page. For 3 days or for a data bucket, Nomad is cheaper. The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Riyadh or Jeddah. Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $12. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Umrah, ten days to two weeks in Makkah and Madinah. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $21.99, less than any rival charges for a week. Install Nusuk before you fly.
Hajj, or a month of work. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $40.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $21.99. Airalo asks $97 for the month.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $18, on stc.
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 Saudi Arabia, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Makkah and Madinah to Riyadh, AlUla, Jeddah and the Asir mountains, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities and holy sites have strong 4G and 5G; the desert roads do not always.
Masjid al-Haram and the Kaaba, Makkah. The Grand Mosque surrounds the Kaaba, the centre of every Umrah and Hajj. Makkah is open to Muslims only, and Umrah can be made all year outside the Hajj days. Get the Umrah permit in the Nusuk app before you go and keep it on your phone for the mosque gates.
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah. The green dome stands over the Prophet's tomb, and giant umbrellas open over the courtyards to shade them by day. Most pilgrims spend a few days here before or after Makkah. A visit to the Rawdah is booked by time slot in Nusuk. Slots go fast, so check the app each day.
Hegra, AlUla. More than a hundred Nabataean tombs carved into sandstone outcrops, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Go between October and March, when the days are mild. Hegra is visited on booked tours only. Buy the ticket online and keep the QR code on your phone.
Kingdom Centre and the Riyadh skyline, Riyadh. A 302 metre tower with an opening at the top, crossed by the Sky Bridge viewing deck. Go up at sunset for the view over Olaya and the financial district. The Riyadh Metro and ride-hailing apps such as Careem and Uber both get you across the city. Your map shows which is faster at that hour.
At-Turaif, Diriyah, Riyadh. The mud-brick palaces of the first Saudi state, a UNESCO site on the edge of Riyadh, with the restaurants of Bujairi Terrace across the wadi. Go late in the afternoon and stay for dinner. Book entry online before you go, and download the site map: the old town is large and in full sun.
The Edge of the World, Northwest of Riyadh. Sheer cliffs of the Tuwaiq escarpment drop to a plain that runs to the horizon. The last stretch is a rough track, best done with a guide or a 4x4, and sunset in the cooler months is the time to go. Signal drops on the track. Download offline maps and share your live location before you leave the tarmac.
Al-Balad, historic Jeddah, Jeddah. Coral-stone houses with carved wooden roshan balconies, souks and old mosques, a UNESCO site in the centre of Jeddah. Walk it in the evening, when the heat drops and the shops open. The Haramain high-speed train links Jeddah with Makkah and Madinah. Buy the seat online and keep the ticket on your phone.
Rijal Almaa, Asir, near Abha. A village of stone tower houses stacked up a green mountain valley, with a museum in the old houses. The Asir highlands stay much cooler than the rest of the country in summer. The road down from Abha is steep and winding, and signal fades in the valley. Download the route offline first.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Saudi Arabia 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/saudi-arabia-esim?currency=USD (Red Sand unlimited read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026, network Zain from the same page; buckets from esimdb.com/saudi-arabia/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-saudi-arabia/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026; network Mobily from the same page).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/saudi-arabia/saily (listing dated 16 June 2026).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/saudi-arabia/nomad (listing dated 20 September 2026; network stc from nomadesim.com, which served euro prices).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/saudi-arabia/ubigi (listing dated 16 September 2026; its Middle East plan is used for unlimited).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $21.99 for 2 weeks and $40.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $54 for 15 days and $97 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Nomad at $12. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad at $18.
Nomad names stc, the largest network. Airalo and Ubigi name Zain, Holafly Mobily. Saily does not name its network. All three cover the cities, Makkah and Madinah with 4G and 5G; stc reaches furthest into the desert.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo and Saily slow you after 3 GB a day, Nomad after 2 GB, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. 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.
A local SIM from stc, Mobily or Zain is sold against your passport with a fingerprint check at the counter, often in a queue at the airport. A travel eSIM bought online needs neither: you install it before you fly and it connects when you land. You still need the Nusuk app for your Umrah permit and Rawdah booking.
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