The best eSIM for Tanzania in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Tanzania, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited from $49, a month from $59.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Tanzania and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a week on Zanzibar, two weeks of safari and beach, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Tanzania is one of our dearest countries, and this page says plainly where a rival is the better buy.
Ringo Light: Unlimited with no speed cap, one payment, and the only plan that tops itself up. 2 weeks at $65.99 or 30 days at $128.99, one payment each, nothing renews. We are not the cheapest here: Airalo asks $49 for 15 days, $16.99 less, and $99 for the month, $29.99 less.
Airalo: Cheapest unlimited for a few days, two weeks or a month on a Tanzania plan. 3 days at $19.50, 15 days at $49 and 30 days at $99 on its Tanzacomm plan, on Halotel, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
Nomad: Cheapest data buckets. 10 GB for 30 days at $19 and 20 GB for 45 days at $29, on Airtel. Nomad sells no Tanzania unlimited.
Saily: Cheapest month, on a global plan. Its Global plan is $59.99 for 30 days: 30 GB at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Its listing is from June.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Tanzania buckets; unlimited only on its Global plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No Tanzania unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $36; Holafly $36.50; Saily No Tanzania unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $33; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $65.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $54.50; Saily No Tanzania unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 15-day Tanzania plan; Best World 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77; Ringo Light $65.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $99; Holafly $108.50; Saily No Tanzania unlimited; Global plan, 30 GB, then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 30-day Tanzania plan; Best World 30 days, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $128.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $26; Holafly No buckets; Saily $28.99; Nomad $19; Ubigi Tanzania 10 GB lasts 8 days, $26; Best World 30 days $39; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $65.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $44; Holafly No buckets; Saily No 20 GB Tanzania plan; Nomad 20 GB for 45 days, $29; Ubigi 25 GB $45; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $128.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Global plan: 30 GB, then 1 Mbps; Nomad No unlimited; 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 Halotel and one other; Holafly Vodacom; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Airtel; Ubigi Halotel, Yas; 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 For the data balance; Saily Yes; Nomad Yes; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
A first trip to Tanzania is often a safari in the north followed by a week on Zanzibar, about two weeks in all. For about two weeks of unlimited, Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and Holafly $54.50. Ringo Light asks $65.99 for 2 weeks, $16.99 more than Airalo and $11.49 more than Holafly. Ubigi sells no 15-day Tanzania plan; its Best World plan is $77 for 15 days. Saily and Nomad sell no Tanzania unlimited at all.
For a month, Airalo asks $99, Ubigi's Best World plan $108 and Holafly $108.50. Ringo Light asks $128.99, $29.99 more than Airalo. Saily's Global plan is $59.99 for 30 days, but it gives 30 GB at full speed and 1 Mbps after that, and its listing is from June. If you are staying a month, Airalo is cheaper than us on a Tanzania plan and Saily cheaper on a global one. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, 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 $65.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $131.98 and a heavy month $194.98. For a heavy user, Airalo's 3 GB a day is the better deal in Tanzania.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50 and a week at $36, and Ubigi 8 days with 5 GB a day at full speed for $33.
Tanzania has several networks: Vodacom, Airtel, Yas (the former Tigo), Halotel and TTCL. Vodacom and Airtel are strongest in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and on Zanzibar; Halotel built out far into the countryside. Holafly rides Vodacom, Nomad Airtel, Airalo Halotel, and Ubigi Halotel and Yas. In the national parks signal is patchy on every network: you will have it near the park gates and at many lodges, and lose it on long drives across the plains. Download offline maps and your safari documents before you leave Arusha.
Nomad, $19 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, and 20 GB for 45 days at $29, the cheapest 20 GB too, on Airtel.
Airalo, $26 for 10 GB. Its Tanzacomm plan: 20 GB for 30 days at $44, buckets from $4.50 for 1 GB.
Saily, $28.99 for 10 GB. No 20 GB Tanzania plan. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for us.
Ubigi, $26 for 10 GB over 8 days. Its 30-day Tanzania bucket is 25 GB at $45, on Halotel and Yas. For 10 GB over a month, its Best World plan is $39.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $65.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $128.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad, Airalo, Saily and Ubigi are all cheaper in Tanzania. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited with no daily cap, 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 Tanzania it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $65.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $128.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $65.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Tanzania our 2 weeks costs $16.99 more than Airalo's 15 days and our month $29.99 more than Airalo's. Buy it if you want no daily speed cap and one payment; buy Airalo if you want the lowest price. Tanzania is not in any of our regional trips, so there is no cheaper Ringo Light for it.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Dar es Salaam or Stone Town. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $19.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week on Zanzibar. Airalo unlimited, 7 days, $36, 3 GB a day at full speed. Ubigi 8 days at $33 with 5 GB a day.
Two weeks, safari then beach. Airalo unlimited, 15 days, $49. Ringo Light 2 weeks at $65.99 if you do not want a daily cap.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $19.
A month in Tanzania. Airalo unlimited, 30 days, $99, or Saily's Global plan at $59.99 for 30 GB at full speed. Ringo Light is $128.99 for the month here.
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 Tanzania, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar on the coast to Kilimanjaro and the safari parks of the north, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Signal is good in the towns and on Zanzibar; in the parks it comes and goes, so offline maps and saved documents matter.
The harbour waterfront, Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's largest city and main port, where most international flights land and the fast ferries leave for Zanzibar. Walk the waterfront and the fish market at Kivukoni in the morning. Ride-hailing apps work in Dar es Salaam and save you haggling over taxi fares.
The Old Fort, Stone Town, Zanzibar. A stone fort built by the Omanis on the waterfront of Stone Town, the old quarter of Zanzibar City and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Forodhani Gardens next to it fill with food stalls every evening. The alleys of Stone Town confuse even a good map. Save your guesthouse as a pin before you go out walking.
Nungwi beach, North Zanzibar. White sand and clear water at the northern tip of Zanzibar, about an hour by road from Stone Town. The tide here goes out far less than on the east coast, so you can swim most of the day. Cash still rules in the beach villages and ATMs are few. Check the map for one before you leave Stone Town.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Near Moshi. The highest mountain in Africa, climbed from Moshi on routes of five to nine days, with no technical climbing. The long dry seasons, January to March and June to October, are the usual time to go. Signal reaches parts of some routes and not others. Download the offline map and send your plans home before the gate.
Tarangire National Park, About two hours from Arusha. Old baobab trees and some of the largest elephant herds in Tanzania, gathered along the Tarangire River. The dry season, June to October, brings the most animals to the water. Park fees are paid by card, not cash. Keep your home SIM on as well, for your bank's payment codes by text.
Lake Manyara, Below the Rift Valley escarpment. A shallow lake at the foot of the Rift Valley wall, with forest, flamingos, baboons and elephants in a small park. Most safaris pass it on the way from Arusha to Ngorongoro. Most safari operators run the trip over WhatsApp. Keep it working for pickup times and changes.
The Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area. A huge volcanic caldera whose floor holds lions, buffalo, hippos and some of the last black rhinos in Tanzania. Game drives go down at first light, from lodges on the rim. The rim lodges usually have signal. Back up the day's photos there in the evening, before the next drive.
The Serengeti, Northern Tanzania. Open grass plains with the great wildebeest migration moving through the year: calving in the south early in the year, river crossings in the north from about July to September. Expect no signal on most game drives. Download the offline map and your park permits before you leave Arusha.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Tanzania 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/tanzania-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets and daily allowance from esimdb.com/tanzania/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-tanzania/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/tanzania/saily (listing dated 24 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/tanzania/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/tanzania-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/tanzania/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Airalo at $49 for 15 days on 28 September 2026, against $54.50 at Holafly and $65.99 for Ringo Light's 2 weeks. For a month, Saily's Global plan at $59.99 for 30 GB at full speed, or Airalo at $99 on a Tanzania plan, against $128.99 for Ringo Light. For 3 days, Airalo at $19.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad at $19.
Holafly rides Vodacom, Nomad Airtel, Airalo Halotel, and Ubigi Halotel and Yas. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All of them cover Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar; in the national parks 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, and Saily's Global plan after 30 GB. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Nomad sells no Tanzania unlimited. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
You can, at the airport or a carrier shop in town, but every SIM in Tanzania has to be registered to your passport with a fingerprint scan, which takes a queue after a long flight. A travel eSIM needs none of that: you install it at home and it works when you land.
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