The best eSIM for Taiwan in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Taiwan, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $25.99, and which to buy for a month.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Taiwan plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Taipei, two weeks around the island on the high speed rail and the east coast line, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $25.99, one payment, nothing renews. Ubigi asks $39 for 15 days and Airalo $49. For a month our $48.99 is one cent under Ubigi's $49, but Ubigi includes 60 GB at full speed and we start with 20 GB.
Ubigi: Cheapest bucket and the best month for heavy use. 10 GB for 30 days at $14, and 60 GB at full speed for 30 days at $49, then 2 Mbps, on Far EasTone and Taiwan Mobile.
Nomad: Cheapest 3 days and cheapest one-off 20 GB. 3 days of unlimited at $12 on Chunghwa Telecom, and 20 GB for 30 days at $26, one payment.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, with 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, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $12.50; Holafly $12.50; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad $12; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; 5 days $18.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi 7 days, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $22; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $25.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily 15 days $48.99; Nomad No 15-day plan; 10 days $33; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $39; Ringo Light $25.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $69; Holafly $73.90; Saily $71.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light $48.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $19; Holafly No buckets; Saily $19.99; Nomad $16; Ubigi $14; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $25.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $29; Holafly No buckets; Saily $30.99; Nomad $26; Ubigi $16 a month, renews; 25 GB one-off $28; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $48.99.
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 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 Taiwan Mobile; Holafly Not named by Holafly; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Chunghwa Telecom; buckets also Taiwan Mobile; Ubigi Far EasTone, Taiwan Mobile; 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.
Most first trips to Taiwan last one to two weeks: Taipei, then the high speed rail down the west coast or the train along the east coast to Hualien. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Saily $48.99 and Holafly $50.50. Ubigi sells 30 GB at full speed for 15 days at $39, and Nomad stops at 10 days for $33. Ringo Light charges $25.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, 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 and Nomad 2 GB, both then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives a fixed amount at full speed, 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 $25.99 top-up.
Now the heavy case, honestly. A heavy two weeks with us costs $51.98, more than Ubigi's 15 days at $39 and a little more than Airalo, Saily or Holafly. For a month, our $48.99 and Ubigi's $49 cost the same, but Ubigi gives 60 GB at full speed and we start with 20 GB; a heavy month with us costs $74.98. If you will use more than 20 GB in a month in Taiwan, buy Ubigi. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
For a short stay, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $12, and Ubigi 7 days with 20 GB at full speed for $22.
Taiwan has three networks since the 2023 mergers: Chunghwa Telecom, the largest, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone. All three cover Taipei, the west coast cities and the high speed rail line well, with 5G in the cities. Signal is weaker in the mountains: deep in Taroko Gorge, on the trails at Alishan and on the high roads across the Central Range, whichever network you ride. Airalo uses Taiwan Mobile, Nomad Chunghwa for its unlimited plans, and Ubigi Far EasTone and Taiwan Mobile. Holafly and Saily do not name theirs. For Taipei, Tainan and Kaohsiung, any of them works.
Ubigi, $14 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on Far EasTone and Taiwan Mobile. Its 20 GB at $16 is a monthly plan that renews until you stop it; 25 GB as a single payment is $28.
Nomad, $16 for 10 GB. And the cheapest one-off 20 GB at $26, on Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile.
Airalo, $19 for 10 GB. Its Xie Xie plan on Taiwan Mobile, 20 GB for $29, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Saily, $19.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $30.99. Its listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $25.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $48.99, both unlimited. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi, Nomad, Airalo and Saily are all cheaper in Taiwan. Buy Ringo Light for two weeks of unlimited, not for a bucket.
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 Taiwan it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $25.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $48.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $25.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Taiwan our 2 weeks is the cheapest two weeks of unlimited of the six. Our 30 days is not the best month: Ubigi charges one cent more and includes 60 GB at full speed.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Taipei. Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $12. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks around the island. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $25.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks. Ubigi 15 days at $39 for 30 GB at full speed if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $14.
A month, working from cafés in Taipei. Ubigi 30 days at $49, with 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Ringo Light 30 days at $48.99 starts with 20 GB, so it only matches Ubigi if you use less than that.
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 Taiwan, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Taipei and the northeast coast to the east coast gorges, the central mountains and the south, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities and the rail lines have good 4G and 5G; in the mountains, plan for gaps.
Taipei 101, Xinyi, Taipei. The 508 metre tower that was once the tallest building in the world, with an observatory near the top. Go up before sunset and stay for the city lights. Buy an EasyCard at any MRT station; your maps app gives you the red line to Taipei 101/World Trade Center.
Jiufen, Ruifang, New Taipei. An old gold mining town on a hillside above the sea, with teahouses and red lanterns along steep stairs. Weekday evenings are calmer than weekends. The buses back to Taipei fill up at dusk. A live bus app shows when the next one leaves.
Taroko Gorge, Hualien. A marble canyon cut by the Liwu River, a short drive from Hualien on the east coast. The April 2024 earthquake closed many of its trails, and some are still shut. Check the national park site for open trails on the day; signal fades deep in the gorge.
Sun Moon Lake, Nantou. Taiwan's largest lake, ringed by forested mountains. Take the boats between the piers, cycle part of the shore path or ride the ropeway. Buses leave from Taichung high speed rail station. Check the timetable before you step off the train.
The Alishan Forest Railway, Chiayi County. A narrow gauge mountain railway into a forest of giant cypresses, where people rise before dawn to watch the sun come up over the sea of clouds. Book the forest train online early, and download the area in your maps app: signal is patchy on the trails.
Chihkan Tower, Tainan. Chinese pavilions built over the walls of Fort Provintia, a Dutch fort from 1653, in Taiwan's oldest city. Tainan is also where many Taiwanese go to eat. Uber works in Tainan. Book in the app and the fare is set before you ride between the temples.
Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, Lotus Pond, Kaohsiung. Two seven storey pagodas standing in Lotus Pond. You walk in through the dragon's mouth and out through the tiger's, for luck. It is near Zuoying, the high speed rail stop for Kaohsiung. Book the train in the T Express app and show the ticket on your phone.
Kenting National Park, Hengchun, Pingtung. White beaches, coral coast and the Eluanbi lighthouse at the southern tip of Taiwan, warm for most of the year. Buses run down from Kaohsiung; most people then rent a scooter. Save the coast road offline before you ride.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Taiwan 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/taiwan-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets and daily cap from esimdb.com/taiwan/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-taiwan/ (dollar prices read from the page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/taiwan/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/taiwan/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/taiwan/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Ringo Light at $25.99 on 28 September 2026, against $39 for 15 days at Ubigi and $49 at Airalo. For a month, Ringo Light at $48.99 and Ubigi at $49 cost the same, and Ubigi includes more full-speed data. For 3 days, Nomad at $12. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $14.
Airalo rides Taiwan Mobile, Nomad Chunghwa Telecom for unlimited, and Ubigi Far EasTone and Taiwan Mobile. Holafly and Saily do not name their network. All three networks cover Taipei, the west coast cities and the high speed rail line.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB, 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.
You can: Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone have counters in the arrivals halls selling tourist SIMs. You queue after the flight, show your passport and usually a second photo ID, and swap out your own SIM. A travel eSIM is bought before you fly, keeps your own SIM in the phone and works the moment you land.
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