Best eSIM for Europe
We make Ryvo.
That makes this our case rather than a review, so the five ranking rules are printed above the ranking, every rival figure links to the rival's own page, and three of the four picks below go to somebody else.
Start with the country list, not the price.
Four sellers here use the word Europe for four different maps, and a plan that misses one leg of your route is no bargain.
The table names the count each rival publishes and links to it, and our own coverage sits on our Europe page as a list you can read.
How we ranked them
Does the plan cover every country on your route
Does one eSIM last the whole trip
What two weeks costs, and what four weeks costs
What you are told about the ceiling
Could we source it
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$22.95 | Per dayA$0.77 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 20GB, 30 days | Data20GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$42.95 | Per dayA$1.43 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 100GB, 30 days | Data100GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$88.95 | Per dayA$2.97 |
| Holafly | Europe eSIM, 3 days, 33 countries published | After the capSome operators have a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) that may reduce speeds after you reach a certain high-speed data limit, particularly during periods of high network traffic. If this applies to your plan, 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.6 October 2026 | HotspotSimply turn your smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect multiple devices, with 1 GB of shareable data available per day. The total amount of data you can share depends on the eSIM plan duration you chose. For example, a 7-day plan includes up to 7 GB of shareable data.6 October 2026 | Per day$3.97 | |||
| Holafly | Europe eSIM, 15 days, 33 countries published | After the capSome operators have a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) that may reduce speeds after you reach a certain high-speed data limit, particularly during periods of high network traffic. If this applies to your plan, 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.6 October 2026 | HotspotSimply turn your smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect multiple devices, with 1 GB of shareable data available per day. The total amount of data you can share depends on the eSIM plan duration you chose. For example, a 7-day plan includes up to 7 GB of shareable data.6 October 2026 | Per day$3.37 | |||
| Holafly | Europe eSIM, 30 days, 33 countries published | After the capSome operators have a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) that may reduce speeds after you reach a certain high-speed data limit, particularly during periods of high network traffic. If this applies to your plan, 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.6 October 2026 | HotspotSimply turn your smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect multiple devices, with 1 GB of shareable data available per day. The total amount of data you can share depends on the eSIM plan duration you chose. For example, a 7-day plan includes up to 7 GB of shareable data.6 October 2026 | Per day$2.46 | |||
| Airalo | Europe eSIM, unlimited, 15 days, 41 countries published | 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.6 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.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$4.80 | |||
| Airalo | Europe eSIM, unlimited, 30 days, 41 countries published | 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.6 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.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$3.47 | |||
| Simify | Europe and UK 10 GB, 30 days, 51 countries published | After the capIf you use all the data included in your fixed plan, your internet connection will stop working until you purchase another eSIM or plan.6 October 2026 | HotspotOur fixed plans support hotspot and tethering. Hotspotting can use data quickly, especially when streaming large videos or connecting multiple devices.6 October 2026 | Top-upsTop-ups aren't available on fixed data plans yet, but we're currently exploring building this. Until then, you can buy a new eSIM in the app or on our website and be connected in minutes.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$1.63 | ||
| Simify | Europe and UK 20 GB, 30 days, 51 countries published | After the capIf you use all the data included in your fixed plan, your internet connection will stop working until you purchase another eSIM or plan.6 October 2026 | HotspotOur fixed plans support hotspot and tethering. Hotspotting can use data quickly, especially when streaming large videos or connecting multiple devices.6 October 2026 | Top-upsTop-ups aren't available on fixed data plans yet, but we're currently exploring building this. Until then, you can buy a new eSIM in the app or on our website and be connected in minutes.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$2.50 | ||
| Simify | Europe and UK 30 GB, 30 days, 51 countries published | After the capIf you use all the data included in your fixed plan, your internet connection will stop working until you purchase another eSIM or plan.6 October 2026 | HotspotOur fixed plans support hotspot and tethering. Hotspotting can use data quickly, especially when streaming large videos or connecting multiple devices.6 October 2026 | Top-upsTop-ups aren't available on fixed data plans yet, but we're currently exploring building this. Until then, you can buy a new eSIM in the app or on our website and be connected in minutes.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$3.30 | ||
| Simify | Europe and UK 100 GB, 90 days, 51 countries published | After the capIf you use all the data included in your fixed plan, your internet connection will stop working until you purchase another eSIM or plan.6 October 2026 | HotspotOur fixed plans support hotspot and tethering. Hotspotting can use data quickly, especially when streaming large videos or connecting multiple devices.6 October 2026 | Top-upsTop-ups aren't available on fixed data plans yet, but we're currently exploring building this. Until then, you can buy a new eSIM in the app or on our website and be connected in minutes.6 October 2026 | Per dayA$2.43 |
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
Your whole route sits inside our Europe list and you want a total with a per-day price beside it
Pick: Ryvo
A fixed total across every country on our coverage list, priced in Australian dollars, with the days and the per-day figure on the card.
Check the list on our Europe page against your route first, because that is the part no price can fix.
Your route includes Turkiye, Israel, the Caucasus or a Balkan detour
Pick: Simify
Simify publishes the widest of the three rival country lists in this table, and it sells fixed totals in Australian dollars on lengths out to ninety days, longer than any Europe plan we sell.
If your route leaves the obvious part of the map, start with the seller whose published list is longest.
You are moving every second day and refuse to think about data
Pick: Airalo
Of the sellers offering no total, Airalo publishes both the full-speed amount per day and the speed afterwards, puts no limit on tethering, and covers more countries than Holafly does.
That is the one to buy if you want a month you never check.
You are only crossing western Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom and want the shortest plan available
Pick: Holafly
Holafly's Europe plan carries the United Kingdom and Ireland on the same eSIM and sells a three-day length, the shortest in this table.
Its published country list is the narrowest of the three rival lists here, so read it before you book a train to Belgrade.
See the Ryvo plans in this table
How we compared
What each rule checks
- Does the plan cover every country on your route. This decides it before anything else does. Switzerland, Turkiye, Serbia and the United Kingdom are each inside some Europe plans and outside others, so the count in the table is a starting point and the seller's own list is the answer.
- Does one eSIM last the whole trip. The point of a regional plan is not buying a new one at each border. We rank a single eSIM across the route above any arrangement that needs a second install halfway through Italy.
- What two weeks costs, and what four weeks costs. A Europe trip is usually a fortnight or a month, so those are the lengths in the table, each with the seller's own total divided by its own days.
- What you are told about the ceiling. Some of these plans have a published daily threshold and a published slower speed. Some have a total that simply ends. One has neither figure anywhere we could find. That difference is the whole reason this table has a cap column.
- Could we source it. Every rival figure here came off that seller's own page on the date in the row. Anything we could not find there is printed as unpublished instead of being estimated.
How this page is built
Our rows are generated from the catalogue that builds our Europe page and prices our checkout, so no Europe figure here is typed by hand. The same applies to our coverage: the list on our Europe page is the one the supplier has confirmed, and a plan taken off sale drops out of this table instead of ageing in it.
Each rival row is that seller's own wording from its own page, with the link and the date somebody opened it. The country count in a plan's name is the number that seller published on the page we read, not a number we counted. Lists change, which is exactly why the date is there.
Country counts are not comparable as scores. One seller counts Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man separately, another folds a region together, and a long list that misses your one border crossing is still the wrong plan. Use the count to decide which list to open first.
No price is converted. Holafly showed us US dollars from an Australian connection and the other two showed Australian dollars, so that is how each sits in the table, with a per-day figure so a fortnight and a month can be compared.
One gap stays open. Neither Holafly page we read says whether a Europe trip can be extended on an eSIM already installed, so those cells are blank rather than answered.
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
- Holafly Europe eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 6 October 2026
- Holafly FAQ, eSIMs with unlimited data, Checked 6 October 2026
- Airalo Europe eSIM page, prices served in Australian dollars, Checked 6 October 2026
- Airalo unlimited data plans fair use policy, Checked 6 October 2026
- Simify Europe and UK fixed data eSIM page, Checked 6 October 2026
Questions about this comparison
Why do four Europe plans cover four different sets of countries?
Because each seller buys from different operators and draws its own line around the region.
The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Turkiye and much of the Balkans are inside some plans and outside others.
Always read the list, not the word Europe.
Does a Europe plan include the United Kingdom?
Sometimes.
Operators treat it on its own now, so one seller may include it while another sells it separately.
The country list on the plan you are looking at answers it, and we also sell a United Kingdom plan of our own.
How much data does a month across Europe take?
More than a beach holiday, because you are navigating, booking trains and checking addresses all day.
If you are between two totals, take the larger one.
Our Europe page turns each total into hours of maps, messaging and video.
Do I need to do anything when I cross a border?
No, with any plan in this table.
Your phone looks for a local network on the other side by itself, which can take a minute or two.
Leave data roaming switched on for the travel eSIM so it can.
Is one regional eSIM better than a plan per country?
For a multi-country trip, yes, as long as the region covers your route.
One install, one total and one price beats four installs.
For a fortnight in Italy alone, a single-country plan is often the cheaper buy.
What does the cap column mean on a plan with no total?
It is the amount you get each day before the speed drops, and the speed it drops to.
One seller here publishes both figures.
One publishes neither on any page we could find, and that cell says so rather than guessing.
Why is one of these priced in US dollars?
Because that is what Holafly showed us from an Australian connection on the day.
We print each price in the currency it was published in.
A rate we chose ourselves would be the only figure on this page that nobody could verify.
Will it work on the trains and in the tunnels?
Every plan here runs on the local networks, so what happens on a train is the same whichever you buy.
Long rail tunnels, alpine valleys and some older metro lines carry no mobile network at all, so pull your tickets up before you go under.
That is geography rather than a seller's fault.
Can I work off a laptop on one of these?
Check the hotspot column first.
One seller caps sharing at a daily amount, one says it caps nothing, and our cards state only what our supplier has confirmed rather than promising tethering we have not verified.
Can people still ring my Australian number?
Yes.
Every plan in this table carries data only, so your usual SIM stays in the phone for calls, texts and bank codes while the eSIM handles data across the trip.
None of these gives you a local European number.
In short
Check the country list before the price, because the four sellers here mean four different maps by Europe.
Ryvo is the pick when your whole route sits on our coverage list, with a fixed total and a per-day figure on the card.
Simify publishes the widest rival list and the longest lengths, and Holafly the narrowest list and the shortest plan.