The short answer
The United States is on Vodafone's EasyTravel list, so your German contract works there for €7.99 (about $9) a day, charged only on the days you use the phone, or €21.99 (about $25) for a week. Ringo Light covers the trip once instead: 2 weeks at $17.99 or 30 days at $22.99, unlimited data at full speed. If the trip is longer than a few days, I would pay for Ringo Light. Vodafone does what a contract does best, your own number, calls and texts, and your home data volume with nothing to install.
The United States trip is paid once, $17.99 for two weeks or $22.99 for thirty, unlimited data at full speed from the first minute. Next to it, Vodafone bills €7.99 for each day you use the phone, or €21.99 for each week.
On Vodafone, your German number rings in Chicago as it does in Cologne, with up to 500 minutes and 500 texts a day, and the data volume of your home tariff comes along. The pass starts on its own and sits on the Vodafone bill you already pay; a phone with no eSIM slot works too. Ringo Light does data and nothing else. I would not hide that.
Prices read on 31 October 2026: Vodafone, Ringo Light, European Central Bank 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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The prices, charted
US dollars, 31 October 2026. Vodafone is two EasyTravel Woche passes at €21.99 (€43.98), cheaper than 14 separate days at €7.99. The euro prices turn into dollars at the ECB reference rate of 30 October 2026, the latest published, 1 euro = $1.1172, rounded to the nearest dollar. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed for the whole 2 weeks.
30 days at Vodafone is four EasyTravel Woche passes plus two Tag days (€103.94), at the ECB rate of 30 October 2026, 1 euro = $1.1172. The Flat Flex monthly option is not charted because it carries a 6-month minimum term; it is in the table. Ringo Light is one payment for 30 days.
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Vodafone EasyTravel vs Ringo Light in one paragraph
Reading the two price lists side by side, I find that for a trip of a few weeks Ringo Light costs less than half of EasyTravel: $17.99 against about $49 for two weeks and $22.99 against about $116 for a month. Vodafone has real strengths, and in one case it wins on price: if you already hold an eligible contract, Flat Flex at €9.99 a month (about $11) beats Ringo Light's monthly figure, though only once you accept its 6-month minimum term. Beyond that, EasyTravel keeps your own number, calls and texts working, brings your home data volume and needs no eSIM slot. For one or two days I would use it. For a fortnight or a month of data, I would buy Ringo Light, the cheaper of the two.
Price: the same trip at each
The EasyTravel page I read on 31 October 2026 lists the USA. EasyTravel Tag is €7.99 (about $9) and is charged only on the calendar days you call, text or use data there, by German time. EasyTravel Woche is €21.99 (about $25) for seven days. Two weeks as two Woche passes is €43.98 (about $49), and a month as four Woche passes and two Tag days is €103.94 (about $116). Flat Flex is €9.99 a month (about $11), but it runs for at least six months, €59.94 (about $67) in all. WorldTravel is €4.99 a month for 2 GB on a 12-month term. I would only consider either one if you cross the Atlantic more than once.
Vodafone's euro prices turn into dollars at the ECB reference rate of 30 October 2026, the latest published, 1 euro = $1.1172. Ringo Light is priced in US dollars, and the checkout shows the amount in euros before you pay. The trips are $17.99 for 2 weeks and $22.99 for 30 days, each paid once. Set against Vodafone, the gap I get is $31.01 for two weeks and $93.01 for a month.
Data and speed at each
EasyTravel brings the data volume of your German tariff: Vodafone's page gives 135 GB a month for Vodafone Mobil XL and 107 GB for the Young XL tariffs, and says unlimited tariffs do not get unlimited data abroad. Once the high-speed data is used, the SpeedGo of your tariff applies. I think that is a lot of data for most trips, and the real question is which tariff you hold. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed for the whole trip, with no monthly figure. Fair use policy, see Terms.
Calls, texts and your own number
Vodafone wins this row outright. EasyTravel includes up to 500 minutes and 500 texts a day, to Germany or within the United States, on your own number, and each one above that is €0.20. Banking codes sent by text to your German number keep arriving, which I would not give up lightly. Ringo Light is data only. Calls go over apps that use data, and your number stays on your own SIM next to it.
Setup and billing
A Vodafone contract is required. Tag starts by itself when the phone calls, texts or uses data in the United States, and ends at midnight German time or when you re-enter Germany. Woche is booked a day ahead in MeinVodafone or by sending Easy7 to 70127. Ringo Light arrives by email after you pay and installs in one scan of the QR code. I would install it at home on Wi-Fi before the flight and switch the eSIM on for data when you land. The phone must support eSIM; EasyTravel has no such requirement.
What Ringo Light is, and what it is not
Ringo Light is Ringo's data eSIM, and I write for Ringo, so weigh my view with that in mind. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, the single plan that works worldwide. For the United States it has three trips, 7 days at $7.99, 2 weeks at $17.99 and 30 days at $22.99, all unlimited data at full speed, paid once with no renewals.
It has no phone number, so it cannot take over your Vodafone line for calls and texts, and the phone must take an eSIM. Vodafone is simpler and keeps everything on one bill. For the same weeks in the United States, Ringo Light costs less.
You can find the full comparison of travel eSIM brands for the United States at /blog/best-esim-for-usa. The card to buy Ringo Light is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Which to pick
- ✓Ringo Light, for a fortnight or a month. I would pay $17.99 or $22.99 once, unlimited at full speed, against €21.99 for each week of EasyTravel.
- ✓EasyTravel Tag, for a day or two. Nothing to install, your own number, €7.99 per day used, and I would not bother with an eSIM for it.
- ✓Flat Flex, if you fly to the United States several times. €9.99 a month on an eligible contract, with the 6-month minimum. I would only take it if the trips repeat.
- ✓Both, for a long assignment. Ringo Light for the data, your own SIM for the calls you need. That is the pairing I would set up.
Pick by trip
I count a single EasyTravel Woche at €21.99, about $25, already more than Ringo Light for a week at $7.99, and more than its two weeks at $17.99.
My pick is Ringo Light, $17.99, unlimited at full speed for the maps. Two Woche passes come to €43.98, about $49.
My pick is Ringo Light, $22.99, with the laptop on a tether. Vodafone would run to €103.94, about $116.
An EasyTravel Tag is the easy answer: one €7.99 day and your own number.
Stay on EasyTravel, or pair Ringo Light with your own SIM.
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How we compared, and our sources
Vodafone, Ringo Light, European Central Bank, Ringo Light
We priced Vodafone and Ringo Light for United States on 31 October 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: Other eSIM brands. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and Ubigi sell the United States too and sit in the wider table at /blog/best-esim-for-usa. This page sets only Vodafone against Ringo Light. Left out: Vodafone roaming outside EasyTravel. The ReisePaket passes and the Vodafone World tariff are other ways to use a contract abroad, but Vodafone's pages send the United States to EasyTravel, so that is what is priced here. The two addresses first given for the Vodafone roaming pages returned not found on the day, so the figures come from the EasyTravel and WorldTravel pages under vodafone.de/de/mobilfunk/ausland-und-roaming.
- Vodafone: www.vodafone.de/de/mobilfunk/ausland-und-roaming/easytravel, EasyTravel page, read 31 October 2026: Tag €7.99, Woche €21.99, Flat Flex €9.99 a month, 500 minutes and 500 texts a day, home data volume, the USA in the country list; the WorldTravel page at vodafone.de/de/mobilfunk/ausland-und-roaming/worldtravel for €4.99 a month and the 12-month term. The addresses vodafone.de/privat/hilfe-support/roaming.html and vodafone.de/privat/mobilfunk/roaming.html returned not found on the same day
- Ringo Light: ringoesim.com/usa, the catalogue the checkout charges, read the same day
- European Central Bank: www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml, euro reference rates of 30 October 2026, the latest published on 31 October 2026, used for the dollar figures (1 euro = $1.1172)
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 31 October 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.
