The best eSIM for Uruguay in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Uruguay, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $44.99, a month for $86.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Uruguay plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a week in Montevideo and Colonia, two weeks along the coast to Punta del Este and Rocha, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins, and where we do not.
Ringo Light: Cheapest Uruguay unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data with no speed cap for 2 weeks at $44.99 or 30 days at $86.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $52 for 15 days and $87 for the month, one cent more than us. Saily's Global plan is cheaper for a month at $59.99.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB and cheapest week. 10 GB for 30 days at $22, and 7 days with 20 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps, for $29, on Antel, the largest network.
Nomad: Cheapest 20 GB bucket. 20 GB for 30 days at $29 and 10 GB at $25, on Movistar. It sells no Uruguay unlimited.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. Unlimited for 3 days at $19.50, 40 cents under Holafly, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps, on Claro and Movistar.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only for Uruguay; Nomad Buckets only for Uruguay; Ubigi Buckets or a full-speed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No Uruguay unlimited; Nomad No Uruguay unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $35; Holafly $36.50; Saily No Uruguay unlimited; Nomad No Uruguay unlimited; Ubigi 7 days, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $29; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $44.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $52; Holafly 15 days $53.50; Saily No Uruguay unlimited; Nomad No Uruguay unlimited; Ubigi No 15-day unlimited; Ringo Light $44.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $87; Holafly $106.50; Saily No Uruguay unlimited; Global plan $59.99; Nomad No Uruguay unlimited; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $88; Ringo Light $86.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $38; Holafly No buckets; Saily $42.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi $22; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $44.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $49.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Uruguay stops at 10 GB; Nomad $29; Ubigi 25 GB $39; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $86.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No Uruguay unlimited; Nomad No Uruguay 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 Claro, Movistar; Holafly Antel, Movistar, Claro; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Movistar; Ubigi Antel; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi Uruguay plans no; its monthly regional plans do; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Airalo Yes; Holafly No, QR code by email or the app; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most first trips to Uruguay run one or two weeks: Montevideo, a day or two in Colonia, then east along the coast to Punta del Este, Jose Ignacio and the beaches of Rocha. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $52 and Holafly $53.50. Nomad and Saily sell no Uruguay unlimited at all, and Ubigi no 15-day unlimited. Ringo Light charges $44.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, nothing renews.
For a month it is close. Ringo Light's 30 days is $86.99, Airalo's $87, one cent more, and Ubigi's $88 for 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Holafly asks $106.50. Saily sells unlimited only on its Global plan, listed at $59.99 for 30 days in June, $27 under us. 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, 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 $44.99 top-up. So a heavy two weeks with us costs $89.98, more than Airalo or Holafly charge for 15 days, and a heavy month costs $131.98, more than any rival's month. If you will stream every day, Airalo's or Ubigi's month is the better buy in Uruguay.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50, and Ubigi a week with 20 GB at full speed for $29.
Uruguay has three networks: Antel, the state operator and the largest, then Movistar and Claro. The country is small and flat, and all three cover Montevideo, Colonia and the towns along the coast to Punta del Este. Antel reaches furthest into the interior and the quiet beaches of Rocha. Ubigi and Holafly name Antel; Airalo rides Claro and Movistar, and Nomad Movistar. For the cities and the coast any of them works.
Ubigi, $22 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB, on Antel, installed by QR code, no app needed. For 20 GB it sells 25 GB at $39.
Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. The cheapest 20 GB at $29, on Movistar.
Airalo, $38 for 10 GB. Its Ballena plan, on Claro and Movistar: 20 GB for $49.50, buckets from $7 for 1 GB.
Saily, $42.99 for 10 GB. Its largest Uruguay bucket. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $44.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $86.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi, Nomad, Airalo and Saily are all cheaper in Uruguay. Buy Ringo Light for 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 Uruguay it sells two trips, both unlimited data with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $44.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $86.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $44.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Uruguay it is the cheapest two weeks of unlimited of the six, and the cheapest Uruguay month by one cent over Airalo. Saily's Global plan is cheaper for a month.
One more thing we would rather tell you here: our own Latin America trip covers Uruguay too, and on the same day it cost $29.99 for 2 weeks and $59.99 for 30 days, less than our Uruguay trip on both lengths, on one eSIM that also works in Argentina and Brazil. If you take the ferry to Buenos Aires, it is the better buy. It is compared in full in our Latin America post at /blog/best-esim-for-latin-america. The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Montevideo. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $19.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week in Montevideo and Colonia. Ubigi, 7 days with 20 GB at full speed on Antel, $29.
Two weeks along the coast. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $44.99, less than any rival charges for 15 days. Our Latin America trip at $29.99 covers Uruguay as well.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $22.
A month in Uruguay. Ringo Light, 30 days, $86.99, one cent under Airalo, starting with 20 GB. Ubigi at $88 for 60 GB at full speed if you stream every day, or Saily's Global month at $59.99.
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 Uruguay, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Montevideo and Colonia on the river to Punta del Este and the Atlantic beaches of Rocha, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Signal is good in the towns and along the coast; in Cabo Polonio power is scarce, so come charged.
Plaza Independencia and Palacio Salvo, Montevideo. The main square of the capital, with the statue of Artigas and the tower of Palacio Salvo, finished in 1928. The old stone gate on its west side leads into the Ciudad Vieja. Uber works in Montevideo, and a route app shows which city bus to take.
The Rambla, Montevideo. A seafront promenade that runs for more than 20 km along the Rio de la Plata, past beaches and fishing points. Walk it in the late afternoon, when the city comes out with its mate. Keep a map open to find the nearest bus stop back when you have walked further than you meant to.
Barrio Historico of Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia. Cobbled lanes and low houses from the Portuguese town founded in 1680, a UNESCO site on the river. About two and a half hours by bus from Montevideo, or a ferry ride from Buenos Aires. Keep your ferry or bus ticket on your phone, and remember a Uruguay-only eSIM stops at the Argentine border.
La Mano on Playa Brava, Punta del Este. Five concrete fingers rising from the sand, by the Chilean artist Mario Irarrazabal, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula. The town is at its fullest in January. In high summer beds and tables go fast. Book them on your phone well ahead.
Casapueblo, Punta Ballena. The white house the artist Carlos Paez Vilaro built by hand on the cliffs, now a museum and hotel. Come for the sunset over the sea. Look up the sunset time before you drive over from Punta del Este, so you arrive with time to spare.
The lighthouse of Jose Ignacio, Maldonado. A stone lighthouse from 1877 on a rocky point, with a calm beach on one side and an open Atlantic one on the other. Quiet out of season, busy in January. Buses from Punta del Este are few. Check the times on your phone before you go.
Cabo Polonio, Rocha. A cape of dunes, a lighthouse and a sea lion colony, with no road in: open trucks carry you across the dunes from the entrance on Route 10. Most houses run on little or no mains power. Bring a charged power bank and download offline maps before the truck.
Punta del Diablo, Rocha. A fishing village turned beach town near the Brazilian border, with boats pulled up on the sand and surf beaches either side. Cash machines are few. Check on your phone which places take cards before you run low.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Uruguay 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/uruguay-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets and networks from esimdb.com/uruguay/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-uruguay/ (prices in dollars and networks on its own page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/uruguay/saily (listing dated 18 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/uruguay/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/uruguay/ubigi (listing dated 24 September 2026).
For two weeks of unlimited data, Ringo Light at $44.99 on 28 September 2026, against $52 for 15 days at Airalo. For a Uruguay month, Ringo Light at $86.99 against $87 at Airalo; Saily's Global plan was listed at $59.99. For 3 days, Airalo at $19.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $22.
Airalo rides Claro and Movistar, Holafly Antel, Movistar and Claro, Nomad Movistar and Ubigi Antel. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All cover Montevideo, Colonia and the coast to Punta del Este; Antel reaches furthest inland.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Nomad and Saily sell no Uruguay unlimited. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
A Uruguay-only plan, ours included, stops at the border, which matters on the ferry between Colonia or Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Airalo's Latamlink, Nomad's Latin America plan, Saily's Latin America plan, Ubigi's Best LATAM and Ringo Light's Latin America trip all cover both countries.
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