The 116 countries with no eSIM of their own
Ask which eSIM to buy for Germany and nobody sells one. This is how much of the world is in that position, what covers it instead, and what it costs.
Corrected 2026-09-08, after first publication. Airalo splits a country's plans across tabs and our crawler read only the first one, so in 135 of the 191 countries we hold Airalo prices for we recorded a price a median of 2.4× higher than the cheapest qualifying plan actually on sale. Every part of that error flattered this site's operator. Recomputed from the full list, Easy Travel Data is beaten in 74 countries rather than the 52 first published here, and is cheapest in 118 rather than 140. The numbers below are the corrected ones. Logged in full.
Most of the world has no eSIM of its own
Ask which eSIM to buy for Germany or Spain and the honest answer is that nobody sells one. Of the 198 destinations we can price, only 82 have a single-country plan on sale from any of Airalo, Saily, Holafly or Easy Travel Data. The other 116 are reachable only through a regional pack — one eSIM good across a continent, or in some cases most of the planet.
That is not a gap in our data. It is how the market is built: carriers wholesale by region, and a single-country SKU only exists where the volume justifies one.
What it costs you
A week of data costs a median of $13.99 in countries that have their own plan and $22.99 in countries that do not — a difference of $9.00. Buying coverage you will not use is the normal case, not the exception.
Which packs are doing the work
For the 116 countries without a local plan, these are the products that turn out cheapest most often:
| Pack | Cheapest for N countries |
|---|---|
| Discover Global 5 GB | 34 |
| Europe Special 5 GB | 28 |
| Best World 10 GB | 8 |
| Africa 5 GB | 7 |
| Europe and USA 5 GB | 5 |
| Europe Asia and USA 5 GB | 4 |
| Half Global 12 GB | 3 |
| LATAM 5 GB | 3 |
One regional product is the cheapest option for 34 separate destinations. If you are going to any of them, you are buying the same eSIM.
Where it gets expensive
When the only thing covering a country is a near-global pack, the price reflects the pack, not the country:
| Country | Cheapest week | What covers it |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde | $86.99 | World 10 GB (184 countries) |
| Lesotho | $86.99 | World 10 GB (184 countries) |
| New Caledonia | $86.99 | World 10 GB (184 countries) |
| Guinea | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Guinea-Bissau | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Nauru | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Eswatini | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Tonga | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Vanuatu | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
| Samoa | $49.99 | Best World 10 GB (173 countries) |
How to read this
Prices are the cheapest plan of at least seven days and at least 5 GB, or unlimited — the same rule used everywhere on this site, set out in How we compare. Every figure links to the provider page it was read from; open any country on the map and check.
Disclosure: this site is operated by Easy Travel Data, one of the four providers compared. Nothing in this report depends on which of them is cheapest — it is about what exists at all.
The data
Everything above is computed from one CSV file, one row per country, with the source URL for each price. The filename carries a hash of its contents, so it can never come to point at different numbers. Reuse it with attribution.
This report is recomputed with every weekly price check, so its figures change. The current figures use prices read 2026-09-29 to 2026-10-12; the CSV records the date of each one. Each recomputation publishes a new file and removes the previous one, so if you cite a figure, keep a copy of the CSV you took it from.