August 11, 2026
A gigabyte costs $0.95 in Türkiye and $32.20 in Monaco
The same 10 GB eSIM costs 34 times more in one country than another. We published the rate for all 189 destinations we sell, including the ones where we are expensive.
We sell a 10 GB plan in 189 countries. The price per gigabyte across them ranges from $0.95 to $32.20 — a factor of 34 — and the median is $3.35.
Measured 11 August 2026 against our own catalogue.
Both ends
| 10 GB, 30 days | Per GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Türkiye | $9.50 | $0.95 |
| Japan | $13.00 | $1.30 |
| United States | $16.50 | $1.65 |
| Brazil | $30.00 | $3.00 |
| French Polynesia | $261.50 | $26.15 |
| Monaco | $322.00 | $32.20 |
Monaco is not a mistake, and neither is the fact that we are printing it. It is a real price for a real plan, and it is bad. If you are going to Monaco for a weekend, buy 1 GB, use the hotel wifi, and do not spend $322 with us.
Why the spread is that wide
A travel eSIM is wholesale roaming with an app on top. What we pay depends on what our supplier negotiated with a carrier in that specific country, and those agreements have nothing to do with each other.
Three things move the number:
How many carriers there are. Türkiye, Japan and most of the EU have several national networks competing for wholesale traffic. Monaco has one.
Whether the market is a roaming destination. Places with heavy inbound tourism and domestic price competition end up cheap. Places where nearly every visitor already arrives roaming on a European contract never developed that competition.
Territory size. Small territories and islands — French Polynesia, Cape Verde, Aruba — carry long-haul or satellite backhaul costs a mainland network does not, spread across a small subscriber base.
None of that is a defence of the price. It is the reason the price exists, and it is why “is this eSIM cheap?” has no answer that is not attached to a country.
What this means if you are comparing
A seller’s headline rate is almost always their best corridor. Ours is Türkiye at $0.95, and quoting that as our price would be true and useless — it tells you nothing about the country you are actually going to.
So compare the destination, not the brand. Open the page for your country on two sites and read the per-gigabyte figure. If one of them does not print it, divide the price by the gigabytes yourself. It takes ten seconds, and it is the only comparison that survives contact with a real trip.
Where we are expensive, plainly
Brazil matters more to us than any other corridor and it is one of our worst prices: $30.00 for 10 GB, $3.00 a gigabyte. The best like-for-like alternative we checked in July sold the same 10 GB for $23.00 — about 30% less. We are working on the sourcing. Until that changes, someone buying data for Brazil should know they can do better elsewhere, and we would rather write it here than have you find out after paying.
Where we are genuinely strong is Europe, Japan, Türkiye and Thailand, between $0.95 and $1.30 a gigabyte.