Best travel eSIM for Australians
We make Ryvo, so treat this as our own argument rather than somebody else's verdict.
We wrote down the five things we rank on before ranking anything, linked every rival figure to the page it came from, and handed five of the six verdicts to sellers who are not us.
There is no single best travel eSIM, so this page ranks by what the trip is.
One country, a month of Europe, a long haul across many countries, heavy data, the cheapest route onto a global plan, and a single day away.
Five of the six answers below are not us.
How we ranked them
What shape is the trip
Does it tell you what you get
How many countries one plan covers
What it costs over its own length
Sharing and stretching
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$24.95 | Per dayA$0.83 |
| 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$34.95 | Per dayA$1.17 |
| 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 | 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$86.95 | Per dayA$2.90 |
| RyvoWe make Ryvo | 20GB, 90 days | Data20GB | After the capData stops when it's used up. No slow-speed extra. | HotspotHotspot allowed | Top-upsTop up without reinstalling | PriceA$168.95 | Per dayA$1.88 |
| Holafly | Japan eSIM, 1 day | 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€3.79 | |||
| Airalo | Europe eSIM, 30 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$2.37 | |||
| Holafly | Europe eSIM, 30 days, 33 countries included | 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 family, friends, or fellow travelers. Use your smartphone to create a WiFi network and connect multiple devices.28 October 2026 | Per day$2.55 | |||
| Simify | Unlimited Europe and UK eSIM, 30 days, 51 countries covered | 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$2.70 | |||
| Airalo | Discover global eSIM, 30 days, 168 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$5.30 | |||
| Holafly | Global eSIM, 30 days, 142 countries included | 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 family, friends, or fellow travelers. Use your smartphone to create a WiFi network and connect multiple devices.28 October 2026 | Per day$5.38 | |||
| Simify | Unlimited Global eSIM, 30 days, 128 countries covered | 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$3.57 |
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
One country, a week or two, and you roughly know how much data you use
Pick: Ryvo
A total you chose, with the days and the price per day on the card, quoted in Australian dollars.
Not one rival row in this table published a data total, and not one of them quoted us Australian dollars on the day we read it.
A month of Europe, hopping between countries
Pick: Simify
Of the three European rows here, Simify names the most countries covered, Airalo comes next and Holafly names the fewest.
Simify's thirty-day total is also the highest of the three, so the country list is what you are paying the difference for.
A long trip across several continents on one eSIM
Pick: Airalo
Its global plan names the longest country list of any row in this table, ahead of Holafly's and Simify's global plans.
Our World plan sells a fixed data total across a shorter list instead, which is a different thing to buy.
You are heavy on data and want the slowdown in writing before you pay
Pick: Airalo
Four things decide this, and Airalo is the only row that states any of them: the full-speed amount per day, the speed afterwards, when the day restarts, and that tethering is capped at nothing.
The other two sellers in the table state none of the four.
A month on a global plan, as cheaply as this table allows
Pick: Simify
Of the three thirty-day global rows here, Simify's published total is the lowest and its country list the shortest.
Read both figures together before you decide which of the three you want.
You are away for a single day
Pick: Holafly
Holafly is the only seller in this table that publishes a one-day plan, and the only row served to us in euro.
Our shortest plans run a week, so for one night away Holafly has something we do not.
See the Ryvo plans in this table
How we compared
What each rule checks
- What shape is the trip. A week in one country, a month wandering Europe and six weeks across four continents are three different purchases. Every rule below is applied inside a trip shape, never across them, because a thirty-day global plan and a seven-day country plan are not rivals.
- Does it tell you what you get. Either a data total you chose, or the daily full-speed amount and the slower speed after it. A seller that publishes neither is ranked below one that publishes either, however the plan is priced.
- How many countries one plan covers. Counted the way each seller counts it on the page we read, and quoted in the plan name so you can see whose figure it is. A bigger list is better only if your trip actually uses it.
- What it costs over its own length. The seller's own total for the plan's own days, and that total divided by those days. Every rival figure here was served to us in US dollars except one in euro, and the table keeps each of them where it was published.
- Sharing and stretching. Whether a laptop can use the connection without a cap of its own, and whether more data can be added to the eSIM already installed rather than buying a second one.
How this page is built
Our rows arrive from the catalogue when the page renders, not from this file. That is why no Ryvo figure here can differ from the one the checkout charges, and why a plan that stops being sold simply stops appearing in the table.
A rival row quotes its seller: that seller's words, that seller's link, and the day somebody opened the page. Where a seller had published nothing on a question, the cell reports that rather than filling the space with something of ours.
A verdict only ever compares rows inside one trip shape. We have not ranked a one-day plan against a thirty-day global plan, or declared a seller best overall, because the table holds nothing that would support either.
Two of the three sellers offer a filter for fixed sizes and neither served us one through it, so every rival row in this table is sold without a total. Read the table as an account of what those pages published to us, not as an inventory of everything those sellers sell.
We index our own prices to Airalo's, roughly two Australian dollars below it for the same destination. The table cannot show that. Airalo gave us US dollars, and the one thing we will not do is set somebody else's figure beside a conversion rate of our own choosing.
Table order carries no meaning. Ours come first because we wrote the page, then each rival as the page cites it. The per-day column is the only thing that lets plans of different lengths be set against each other at all.
No figure on this page may age past three months. The test suite stops the build at that point, which is what keeps the weekly read on somebody's list instead of on somebody's conscience.
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 Japan eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Holafly FAQ, eSIMs with unlimited data, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo Europe eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo unlimited data plans fair use policy, Checked 28 October 2026
- Holafly Europe eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Simify Unlimited Europe and UK eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Airalo Discover global eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Holafly Global eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
- Simify Unlimited Global eSIM page, prices served in US dollars, Checked 28 October 2026
Questions about this comparison
So which is the best travel eSIM?
There is no single answer, which is why this page has six.
The honest version is that the best eSIM is the one built for your trip shape, and on this table that means a different seller for a week in one country than for a month across several continents.
One eSIM for the whole trip, or one per country?
If you are in one or two countries, a plan for each keeps things simple and lets you pick the data you need in each place.
Once you are into a long list of countries, one regional or global eSIM saves you installing a new one in every airport.
Compare the prices for your own route before you buy.
Why is there no data figure in the rival rows?
Because not one of the regional or global pages we read printed one.
Two of the three sellers offer a filter for fixed sizes and neither served us a plan through it, and the third sells no fixed sizes at all.
The only totals in this table are ours.
Why are the rival prices not in Australian dollars?
That is what each site showed us on the day we read it: US dollars in every row but one, which came in euro.
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.
Can I trust the country counts in the plan names?
They are each seller's own figure from the page we read, and they are not counted the same way.
Two of them say countries and networks, one says countries covered and one says countries included.
Open the link in the row and read the list before a count decides your purchase.
Can I run a laptop off any of these?
Read the hotspot column before you pay.
One seller says it limits nothing, one publishes a separate daily sharing figure, one says sharing is enabled without naming a limit, and our plans share the total you already bought.
Will any of these ring or text?
No.
Data only, every row.
Calls and texts stay on the SIM already in your phone, which is also where your bank codes keep arriving, so nothing in this table costs you your own number.
How current is this table?
As current as the date in each cell, which is the day somebody opened that seller's page.
Our build refuses to run once a figure turns three months old, so nothing on this page can sit here quietly aging for a year.
In short
For one country, buy a total you chose and can read on the card, which is what Ryvo sells.
For a month of Europe or the cheapest global month in this table, Simify is the row to read, and for heavy data or the longest country list it is Airalo.
Holafly is the only seller here with a one-day plan.