The best eSIM for Uzbekistan in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Uzbekistan, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $16.99, a month for $28.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a plan that works in Uzbekistan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Tashkent, two weeks on the Silk Road from Samarkand to Bukhara and Khiva, and a month of remote 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 $16.99 or 30 days at $28.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and sells no Uzbekistan month of unlimited; Holafly asks $73.90 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest short unlimited, on Unitel. 3 days at $12.50 and a week at $27.50, 3 GB a day at full speed, on Unitel, the company behind Beeline. Holafly charges the same for both.
Nomad: Cheapest bucket that lasts a month. 10 GB for 30 days at $18, 20 GB at $29 and 50 GB at $39, on Uzmobile. Nomad sells no Uzbekistan unlimited.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited month. Days, not gigabytes, on Beeline. $73.90 for 30 days, the only rival that sells an Uzbekistan month of unlimited; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days, up to 15; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Uzbekistan buckets; unlimited only on regional and global plans; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets; some go on at 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 No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27.50; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $29; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $16.99.
Unlimited, 15 days: Airalo $49; Holafly $50.50; Saily Asia and Oceania, regional, $54.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light 2 weeks $16.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No Uzbekistan month; Discover global, $159; Holafly $73.90; Saily Global plan, 30 GB then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; 50 GB $39; Ubigi No Uzbekistan unlimited; Best World, 60 GB then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $28.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $21; Holafly No buckets; Saily $22.99; Nomad $18; Ubigi $19; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $16.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $33; Holafly No buckets; Saily $32.99; Nomad $29; Ubigi 25 GB $44; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $28.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Asia and Oceania 5 GB a day, then 1 kbps; Global 30 GB, then 1 Mbps; Nomad No unlimited plan; 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 Unitel (Beeline); Holafly Beeline; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Uzmobile; Ubigi Beeline; 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 Uzbekistan are about two weeks: Tashkent, the fast train to Samarkand and Bukhara, then Khiva out west. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Ubigi $49 for 30 GB at full speed, Holafly $50.50 and Saily $54.99 on its regional Asia and Oceania plan. For a month it gets harder: Airalo stops at 15 days for Uzbekistan, and only Holafly sells a local month, at $73.90. The rest are global plans, $59.99 to $159. Ringo Light charges $16.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily's Asia and Oceania plan gives 5 GB a day, then 1 kbps, which is close to nothing; its Global plan gives 30 GB for the month, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days, 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 $16.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $33.98, still under every 15-day rival. A heavy month costs $45.98, under every rival's month of unlimited, though Nomad's 50 GB for 30 days at $39 costs less if you know you need about that much.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo and Holafly both sell 3 days of unlimited at $12.50 and a week at $27.50. Our 2 weeks at $16.99 still costs less than either week.
Uzbekistan has several mobile networks: Beeline, run by Unitel, Ucell, Mobiuz, the state operator Uzmobile, and the smaller Perfectum. The big ones cover Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and the Fergana Valley towns well. Between Bukhara and Khiva the road and railway cross the Kyzylkum desert, and the signal drops out for long stretches there, as it does in the mountains above Charvak. Save offline maps before those legs.
Airalo rides Unitel, the company behind Beeline. Holafly and Ubigi name Beeline too, and Nomad Uzmobile. Saily does not name its network. Uzbekistan is far from the European Union, so a European phone plan roams here at full price. Check yours before you land.
Nomad, $18 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB that lasts 30 days, 20 GB at $29 and 50 GB at $39, on Uzmobile. For light use it also sells 3 GB at $7 and 5 GB at $11.
Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. On Beeline. Its 20 GB week at $29 goes on at 2 Mbps when the 20 GB runs out.
Airalo, $21 for 10 GB. Its Uzbeknet plan on Unitel, 20 GB for $33, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Saily, $22.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $32.99. Its listing is from July, so check the price in the app before you buy.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $16.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $28.99. That undercuts every 10 GB and 20 GB bucket on the page, but a bucket from Nomad lasts 30 days where our 2 weeks lasts 2 weeks. If you want 10 GB spread over a month, Nomad at $18 is the better buy than our 30 days at $28.99, and for 3 or 5 GB Nomad is far cheaper than anything we sell. 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 Uzbekistan it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $16.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $28.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $16.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Tashkent. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $12.50, on Unitel. Holafly charges the same. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks: Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $16.99, less than any rival charges for 15 days. With the one top-up, $33.98, still less.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 5 GB for 30 days at $11, or 10 GB at $18.
A month, working from Tashkent. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $28.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $16.99. Nomad 50 GB for 30 days at $39 if you know you need that much.
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 Uzbekistan, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Tashkent and the Charvak lake to Samarkand, Shakhrisabz, Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand in the Fergana Valley, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities have good 4G; the desert and the mountains between them do not, so plan ahead.
Hazrati Imam complex, Old town, Tashkent. The religious heart of Tashkent: a Friday mosque, two madrasas and a library that keeps the Uthman Quran, one of the oldest Qurans in the world. Most visitors start their trip here. Yandex Go, the ride app Tashkent uses, gets you across the city at a fixed fare without haggling.
Charvak Reservoir, Western Tian Shan, northeast of Tashkent. A turquoise lake under the Chimgan mountains, about two hours by road from Tashkent. Locals swim here in summer; in winter the slopes above it are for skiing. Save offline maps before the drive up: the signal in the mountain valleys comes and goes.
The Registan, Samarkand. Three tiled madrasas face each other across one square, Ulugh Beg's from the 15th century and two from the 17th. Come back after dark, when the facades are lit. The fast Afrosiyob train from Tashkent sells out. Book seats on the Uzbekistan Railways site or app as soon as sales open.
Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand. A lane of blue tiled mausoleums, most of them from the 14th and 15th centuries, climbing a hill beside the old city. It is a place of pilgrimage, so cover shoulders and knees. Translation by camera reads the Uzbek and Russian on the plaques and on menus in the old town.
Ak-Saray Palace, Shakhrisabz. The ruined gate towers of Timur's summer palace, in the town where he was born. A day trip from Samarkand over the mountains, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Shared taxis and drivers from Samarkand make the trip; agree the fare in a translation app before you set off.
Po-i-Kalyan and the Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara. A 12th century minaret over a great mosque and a working madrasa, at the centre of a walkable old town. Late afternoon light turns the brick gold. Many stalls and small cafés in the old town want som in cash. Find an ATM on the map before you head out.
Itchan Kala, Khiva. A whole walled town of mud brick, minarets and madrasas, the first place in Uzbekistan listed by UNESCO. Walk the top of the walls at sunset. The rail and road west from Bukhara cross the Kyzylkum desert with long gaps in coverage. Download your route and your tickets first.
Palace of Khudayar Khan, Kokand, Fergana Valley. The tiled palace of the last khans of Kokand, from the 1870s, now a museum. The Fergana Valley is also where Uzbek silk and ceramics are made, in Margilan and Rishtan. Trains from Tashkent cross the Kamchik pass into the valley. Check live times in the railway app, since they change by season.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Uzbekistan 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/uzbekistan-esim?currency=USD (unlimited and network in dollars on the site; buckets and the Discover global plan from esimdb.com/uzbekistan/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-uzbekistan/ (dollar prices and network from the site, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/uzbekistan/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/uzbekistan/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/uzbekistan-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/uzbekistan/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $16.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days at Airalo and $73.90 for 30 days at Holafly. For 3 days, Airalo and Holafly at $12.50. For a 10 GB bucket that lasts 30 days, Nomad at $18.
Airalo rides Unitel, the company behind Beeline, and Holafly and Ubigi name Beeline. Nomad rides Uzmobile. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All of them cover Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva; coverage thins out in the Kyzylkum desert and in the mountains.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily's regional plan after 5 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Nomad sells no unlimited here. 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. Beeline, Ucell, Mobiuz and Uzmobile sell SIM cards against your passport, and a local number helps with apps that send codes by text. Phones on local SIMs also fall under Uzbekistan's IMEI registration system. A travel eSIM skips all of that: you install it before you fly and it works when you land, as a visitor on an Uzbek network.
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