1 · The short answer
Six travel eSIMs sell a United States plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in New York, two weeks on the road through the national parks, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $14.99 or 30 days at $22.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $46 for 15 days and $68 for the month.
10 GB for 30 days at $14 on T-Mobile, and 20 GB a month at $15 if you take its monthly plan, which renews.
3 days of unlimited at $11, 2 GB a day at full speed. The only brand here that names T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon.
Days, not gigabytes, on AT&T and T-Mobile, no daily cap stated for your own phone. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 28 September 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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2 · The prices, charted
One payment, US dollars, 28 September 2026. The rivals sell 15 days, Ringo Light 2 weeks. Ubigi's 15 days is 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps.
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed. Ubigi's month is 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad stops at 20 days.
Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
3 · Side by side
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Get Ringo Light for the United States, from $14.99.
Installed once, next to your own SIM. Your eSIM arrives by email in seconds.
We sell data eSIMs for now to fund the full Ringo service. Ringo is self funded. Every plan bought here pays for the build of one plan that works everywhere.
Want to keep your own number abroad?
That is the full Ringo service: one plan that works everywhere, with your own number included.
It is a separate product from Ringo Light and it is still being built, so it is not on sale yet. Join the waitlist to hear when it opens.
4 · What to do in the United States, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from New York and Washington to the Grand Canyon and San Francisco, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G and 5G on every network; the canyons and valleys of the West do not, so plan those days offline.
5 · If you want unlimited for two weeks or a month: Ringo Light
The United States is big, and most trips are long: two weeks between two coasts, a loop through the national parks, a month with family. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $46, Saily $48.99, Holafly $50.50 and Nomad $44, and Ubigi $39 for 30 GB at full speed. For a month, $65 to $73.90. Ringo Light charges $14.99 for 2 weeks and $22.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 5 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Ubigi 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 is unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks or 30 days.
Our 2 weeks at $14.99 also costs less than any rival's 7-day plan, the cheapest of which is Nomad at $23. For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $11, and Airalo at $11.50.
6 · Which network works best in the United States
The United States has three national networks: AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. All three cover the cities and the interstates well. Away from them, coverage differs by network and by state, and every network has gaps in the big national parks, in the desert and in the mountains. Most travel eSIMs ride T-Mobile. Holafly names AT&T as well, and Nomad is the one brand here that names all three, Verizon included. For New York, Chicago, Las Vegas or San Francisco, any of them works. For long drives in the West, download offline maps whatever eSIM you buy.
Every plan on this page is data only, with no American phone number. Calls and messages go over WhatsApp, iMessage or FaceTime. A few services, such as some restaurant waitlists and bank codes, want a US number by text message; for those, keep your own line on for texts, or use Wi-Fi calling.
7 · If you want a data bucket: Ubigi
- Ubigi, $14 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on T-Mobile with 5G, installed by QR code. For 20 GB it sells a monthly plan at $15 that renews, or 25 GB for 30 days at $32.
- Airalo, $22.50 for 10 GB. Its Change plan, 20 GB for $36.50, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
- Saily, $22.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $36.99. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for us.
- Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $36, on T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks is unlimited for $14.99 and our 30 days unlimited for $22.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Ubigi at $14 is the better buy, and its 20 GB monthly plan at $15 is cheaper than our 30 days if you remember to cancel it. Against every other 20 GB bucket for 30 days, our month is cheaper and has no cap on top. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
8 · What Ringo Light is
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 the United States it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $14.99 and 30 days at $22.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
9 · Pick by trip
Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $11. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $14.99 if the trip might run longer.
Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $14.99, less than any rival charges for one week.
Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $14.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $22.99.
Nomad, the only brand here that names Verizon as well as AT&T and T-Mobile. Download offline maps on any plan.
None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
10 · Frequently asked questions
11 · How we compared, and our sources
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for United States 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.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/united-states-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets and daily allowance from esimdb.com/usa/airalo, listing dated 23 September 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-usa/, in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026
- Saily: esimdb.com/usa/saily, listing dated 15 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch
- Nomad: esimdb.com/usa/nomad, listing dated 20 September 2026; networks from nomadesim.com, which showed euro prices
- Ubigi: esimdb.com/usa/ubigi, listing dated 16 September 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com, which showed euro prices
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 28 September 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
