The countries where the site's own operator is not the cheapest

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.

This site is run by one of the four sellers it compares. The obvious question is whether the comparison has been shaped to flatter its owner. The most useful answer we can give is this page: every country where we are not the cheapest, named, with the plan that beats us and the margin it beats us by.

The worst of it

Ranked by how much more we cost than the cheapest qualifying plan. Same rule as everywhere on this site: the cheapest plan that lasts at least seven days and gives at least 5 GB, or is unlimited.

Losing while charging less per gigabyte

The interesting part is not that we lose, but how. In 84 of these countries both plans are fixed-gigabyte, so they can be compared per gigabyte — and in 8 of them our data is cheaper per gigabyte and we still lose the sale. The reason is granularity: a traveller who needs a week of data can buy 5 GB from the competitor, while the smallest plan we have that clears the same bar is 10 GB. Better unit price, wrong unit size.

Where we have nothing at all

In 1 of the 194 countries we have no plan that meets the rule, so we are not in the comparison at all: Maldives. Those pages say so in those words and name the smaller plan we do sell, rather than entering it and looking cheap. That has not always been true — see Corrections.

How lopsided is it, really

We are cheapest in 109 countries and beaten in 84. When we win, we win by a median of 1.23×; when we lose, we lose by a median of 1.27×. Of the countries where we are beaten, 71 go to Airalo.

Disclosure: this site is operated by Easy Travel Data, one of the four providers compared. This report is about the countries where that provider is the wrong choice. The comparison rule is set out in How we compare and it structurally favours sellers of fixed gigabytes over sellers of unlimited-by-the-day plans; that is a property of the rule, stated there, not a finding about any seller.

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.