Airalo alternatives for Australians
Ryvo is our brand, so this is an argument and not a review.
The ranking rules sit above the ranking, and every rival fact links to that rival's own page.
Airalo has the top two verdicts because the figures in the table put it there.
Airalo is hard to beat on the two things it publishes and its rivals do not: the amount you get each day at full speed, and the speed after it.
We beat it on reading a total before you pay, and on being quoted in Australian dollars.
Every rival term below is linked and dated.
How we ranked them
Does it name the daily amount and the speed after it
What a week costs, and what a month costs
Can the eSIM take more data later
Who else can use the connection
The plans side by side
| Provider | Plan | Data | After the cap | Hotspot | Top-ups | Price | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 10GB, 30 days | Data10GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$28.95 | Per dayA$0.97 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 10GB, 30 days | Data10GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$24.95 | Per dayA$0.83 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 10GB, 30 days | Data10GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$22.95 | Per dayA$0.77 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 10GB, 30 days | Data10GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$17.95 | Per dayA$0.60 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 10GB, 30 days | Data10GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$23.95 | Per dayA$0.80 |
| Airalo | Indonesia eSIM, 7 days | After the capThe default daily high-speed data threshold is 3GB. When you use more than 3GB in a day, we will slow down (or throttle) your internet speed to 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. Your daily allowance resets every 24 hours, counted from the time you activated your eSIM.28 October 2026 | Top-upsIn many cases, you can top up your eSIM. When available, you will find top-up packages for your eSIM before and after purchase.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.86 | |||
| Airalo | Japan eSIM, 7 days | After the capThe default daily high-speed data threshold is 3GB. When you use more than 3GB in a day, we will slow down (or throttle) your internet speed to 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. Your daily allowance resets every 24 hours, counted from the time you activated your eSIM.28 October 2026 | Top-upsIn many cases, you can top up your eSIM. When available, you will find top-up packages for your eSIM before and after purchase.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.79 | |||
| Airalo | Europe eSIM, 7 days, 41 countries and networks | After the capThe default daily high-speed data threshold is 3GB. When you use more than 3GB in a day, we will slow down (or throttle) your internet speed to 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. Your daily allowance resets every 24 hours, counted from the time you activated your eSIM.28 October 2026 | Top-upsIn many cases, you can top up your eSIM. When available, you will find top-up packages for your eSIM before and after purchase.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.86 | |||
| Airalo | Thailand eSIM, 7 days | After the capThe default daily high-speed data threshold is 3GB. When you use more than 3GB in a day, we will slow down (or throttle) your internet speed to 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. Your daily allowance resets every 24 hours, counted from the time you activated your eSIM.28 October 2026 | Top-upsIn many cases, you can top up your eSIM. When available, you will find top-up packages for your eSIM before and after purchase.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.00 | |||
| Airalo | United States eSIM, 7 days | After the capThe default daily high-speed data threshold is 3GB. When you use more than 3GB in a day, we will slow down (or throttle) your internet speed to 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. Your daily allowance resets every 24 hours, counted from the time you activated your eSIM.28 October 2026 | Top-upsIn many cases, you can top up your eSIM. When available, you will find top-up packages for your eSIM before and after purchase.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.57 | |||
| Holafly | Japan eSIM, 7 days | After the capSome operators have a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) that may reduce speeds after you reach a certain high-speed data limit. The speed reduction will last for no more than one day. The page puts no figure on the limit and no figure on the slower speed.28 October 2026 | HotspotShare 1 GB of data per day with fellow travelers. Your total sharable data depends on your plan length, for example a 7-day plan includes 7 GB.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.93 | |||
| Simify | Unlimited Japan eSIM, 15 days | After the capYour eSIM includes unlimited data for the full duration of your plan. In some cases, local network providers manage traffic during very high usage periods, and if this happens, speeds may be temporarily reduced for a short time (typically up to 24 hours) before returning to normal on their own.28 October 2026 | Top-upsTop up anytime within 180 days of last use. Simply keep your eSIM installed and top up via the app.28 October 2026 | Per day$3.60 |
Rows marked We make Ryvo come from our own plan data. Prices stay in the currency each provider published. Each date is the day we read that page.
Who should pick which
You are heavy on data and want to know, in writing, where the slowdown starts
Pick: Airalo
Airalo is the only seller in this table that publishes the amount you get each day at full speed, the speed it drops to after that, and when the daily count restarts.
It also says there is no limit on tethering.
If that is what you are buying on, buy from Airalo.
You are after the lower total for a week in Japan
Pick: Airalo
Japan is the one destination where this table shows a seven-day plan from two rivals, and Airalo's total came in under Holafly's on the day we read them both.
That is one week on one country, not a rule about every length Airalo sells.
You want to read the total, the days and the price per day before you pay
Pick: Ryvo
Our cards print the total you get, the days it runs for and the price per day, and we quote them in Australian dollars, which not one seller in this table did on the day we read it.
No rival row here publishes a data total at all.
Somebody is going to run their phone or laptop off yours
Pick: Holafly
Holafly is the only seller here that puts a figure on how much you may share each day, and says how that figure grows with the length of the plan.
Airalo says it caps nothing, which is better until a network decides otherwise, and Holafly is the one that wrote a number down.
You want the option of adding data to the same eSIM months later
Pick: Simify
Simify is the only seller here that names a window for it and says it is done in its own app.
Airalo says top-ups are available in many cases, which is not the same promise, and Holafly's page says there are no top-ups to want.
See the Ryvo plans in this table
How we compared
What each rule checks
- Does it name the daily amount and the speed after it. This is the row Airalo wins. A seller that publishes both the full-speed amount per day and the slower speed afterwards ranks above one that leaves either to a help page, and above one that leaves both.
- What a week costs, and what a month costs. Each seller's published total for the length that seller sells, and the same total split across its days. Every rival figure arrived in US dollars, and the table leaves it there: a rate we chose would be the one number on this page you could not go and verify.
- Can the eSIM take more data later. A trip that runs long is the normal reason to want this. One seller here puts a window on adding data to an eSIM already installed, one hedges it, and one tells you there is nothing to add.
- Who else can use the connection. A laptop, a tablet, somebody else's phone. Some sellers put a separate daily figure on that and some say they put nothing on it, and the difference decides whether a plan suits anybody working from a hotel room.
How this page is built
Our rows are generated, not written. When the page renders it reads our Indonesia, Japan, Europe, Thailand and United States plans out of the catalogue that prices the checkout, so a figure here cannot differ from the one you are charged, and a plan withdrawn between supplier syncs leaves the table on its own.
A rival row is a quotation. The wording belongs to the seller, the link goes to the page it came off, and the date is the day somebody opened that page. An empty cell means we went looking and found nothing published to quote.
Our own prices are set against Airalo's, at about two Australian dollars under its price for the same destination. This table cannot demonstrate that, because Airalo published its prices to us in US dollars and we will not put a conversion rate of our own next to somebody else's figure.
Airalo's and Simify's destination pages both show a fixed-data filter, and neither returned a fixed-total plan to us on the day we read them. So every rival row here is a plan sold with no data total, and this page is not a complete account of what either seller offers.
Order is not ranking. Our rows lead because we wrote the page, and the rivals follow in the order the page cites them. Lengths differ because that is what each seller sells, which is the whole reason the per-day column is there.
Nothing here is allowed past three months old. Our own test suite refuses the build at that point, which is what turns the weekly read into work somebody has to do rather than work somebody means to do.
Per day is the published total divided by the plan's own days, rounded to the nearest cent. Prices stay in the currency each provider published, because a rate we picked on the day is not a price anyone published.
Where the competitor facts come from
- Airalo Indonesia eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo unlimited data plans fair use policy, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo Japan eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo Europe eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo Thailand eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo United States eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Holafly Japan eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Holafly FAQ, eSIMs with unlimited data, Checked 28 October 2026
- Simify Unlimited Japan eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
Questions about this comparison
Is Airalo ever the better choice?
Often.
If you want a seller that states the daily full-speed amount and the slower speed after it, Airalo is the row to buy, and for a week in Japan its total was the lower of the two rivals here.
We say so in the verdicts rather than burying it.
Holafly or Airalo, for an Australian?
On the pages we read, Airalo named the daily threshold and the speed after it and Holafly named neither.
Holafly is the only one of the two that puts a figure on how much you may share with a travel partner each day, and the only one whose page rules top-ups out.
Is Ryvo cheaper than Airalo?
Our rule is to price about two Australian dollars under Airalo for the same destination.
We cannot show that in this table, because Airalo quoted us US dollars and a conversion rate we picked would be the one figure on this page nobody could check.
Open both pages and compare the totals yourself.
Why does no rival row show a data total?
Because none of the pages we read published one.
Airalo and Simify both show a fixed-data filter and neither returned a fixed-total plan to us, and Holafly sells no fixed total on the pages in this table.
Ours are the only rows here with a total on them.
Why is every rival price in US dollars?
That is what each site showed us on the day we read it.
A seller can serve a different currency on a different day, which is one reason every row here carries its own date.
We publish each figure as published rather than converting it, since a rate we picked would be the only number here you could not check.
Why read the hotspot column first?
Because a laptop can clear a trip's data in an afternoon.
Airalo says it limits tethering in no way, Holafly publishes a daily figure for sharing, Simify says sharing is on without naming a limit, and our plans share the total you already bought.
Does any of these give me a local number?
No.
Every plan in the table is data only, so none of them rings or texts.
People still reach you on your usual number, on the SIM that is already in your phone, and nothing in this table changes that.
When were these pages last read?
On the date in each cell, and nowhere else.
Once a figure here passes three months our build refuses to run, so the dates you see are either fresh or about to be, and the link in the cell takes you to the seller to check for yourself.
In short
Airalo is the pick if you want a seller that names the daily amount and the slower speed after it, and it was the cheaper of the two rivals for a week in Japan.
Ryvo is the pick when you want a total you chose, quoted in Australian dollars, with the days and the price per day on the card.
Simify alone names a window for topping up.