The daily limit table: what each eSIM gives you before it slows down

Every “unlimited” plan on the market has a daily limit. The difference between those providers is not whether there is a cap — it is what the number is, what speed is left afterwards, and how many clicks it takes to find out.

This page exists because most of the sites below do not put that information where the decision is made.

The table

Provider	Full speed	After that	Where it is written
eSIM Coffee	the whole bundle	nothing is throttled — the data ends	on the plan card, before payment
Airalo	3 GB/day	1 Mbps	resources page, outside the purchase flow
Holafly	varies by destination	reduced, no figure published	terms of use
Saily	varies by plan	reduced	terms of use
Ubigi	varies by plan	reduced	package details

Checked July 2026. Policies change without notice — if you find a discrepancy, tell us and the table gets corrected.

Our row is a different shape on purpose, and it is worth being precise about why. We do not sell an unlimited plan, so there is no daily cap to disclose. Every plan is a fixed bundle: 1, 3, 5, 10 or 20 GB, all of it at full speed, and when it is gone it is gone. Nothing is throttled part-way through a day and there is no counter to reset.

That is not a better deal in every case — see below — but it removes the entire second column from the decision. You are buying a quantity, not a daily allowance with a speed penalty attached.

The market norm for the plans that are unlimited is 3 GB a day. A provider offering that is average. What actually varies is the second column, and for those plans it decides whether the last day of your trip is usable.

What is left after the cap

The number nobody compares. Once the daily allowance is gone:

• 1 Mbps — WhatsApp, maps, email, scrolling social feeds. SD video stutters sometimes. Usable.
• 512 kbps — messaging and maps work. A heavy page takes a while. Video, no.
• 384 kbps — text messages. In practice you are offline for anything else.

A plan with 5 GB/day dropping to 384 kbps is worse than 3 GB/day dropping to 1 Mbps, for almost everyone. The bigger allowance looks better in a pricing table and serves fewer people in real life.

When the counter resets

Almost always 24 hours after activation — not at local midnight.

That has a consequence which catches people out: activate at 11pm on your first night and your allowance “day” ends at 11pm the next night. Activating in the morning, just after you land, lines the counter up with when you actually use data.

How much you actually spend

To calibrate, per sightseeing day:

Use	Consumption
Maps and navigation	50–150 MB
WhatsApp and messaging	50–100 MB
Scrolling social feeds	300–800 MB
Video streaming	700 MB – 1.5 GB per hour

An ordinary day without streaming rarely passes 1.5 GB. That is why 3 GB/day is comfortable — and why the difference between providers only appears if you watch video or tether a laptop.

Where a fixed bundle is the worse choice

The honest counter-argument to our own product. A daily-capped unlimited plan cannot strand you: throttled data is still data, and on day fourteen you are slow rather than offline. A fixed bundle can run out.

So if you are on a long trip, tether a laptop, or genuinely cannot predict your usage, the throttle is a safety net worth paying for — and one of the plans above will suit you better than one of ours. If you can estimate your usage within a few gigabytes, you are paying for a safety net you will not use.

How to compare without fooling yourself

For any plan sold as unlimited, three questions, in this order:

1. How many GB a day at full speed?
2. What speed is left afterwards? This is the one almost nobody answers on the plan card.
3. When does the counter reset?

If a site does not answer all three before payment, you are not comparing prices. You are comparing marketing.

For a fixed bundle the questions collapse into two: how much data, and how long is it valid? Both belong on the plan card, and on ours they are.

See our plans, with the size, the validity and the price per gigabyte