eSIM Provider Radar 2026 - Scores That We Swear by
Most travelers discover the difference between what an eSIM plan promises and what it delivers somewhere between the airport and the hotel. SimRadar measures the right things - coverage breadth, pricing transparency, support accessibility, hotspot policy, and throttling honesty - and scores every provider accordingly. Nine categories. Six providers. Every data point is sourced from publicly verifiable information.
Overall Radar Score - 2026
Every provider scored out of 10 across 9 independent categories. No category is weighted above another.
| PROVIDER | COVERAGE | PRICING TRANSPARENCY | SUPPORT | HOTSPOT | THROTTLING HONESTY | BUSINESS FEATURES | CARIBBEAN COVERAGE | BALKANS & CAUCASUS | CRUISE SUPPORT | TOTAL /90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Voye Global RADAR LEADER | 8/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 | 7/10 | 10/10 | 9/10 | 10/10 | 78/90 |
Maya | 7/10 | 9/10 | 6/10 | 9/10 | 8/10 | 6/10 | -/10 | 5/10 | -/10 | 50/90 |
Saily | 6/10 | 8/10 | 5/10 | 7/10 | 8/10 | 7/10 | -/10 | 3/10 | -/10 | 44/90 |
Nomad | 6/10 | 7/10 | 4/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | -/10 | 4/10 | -/10 | 42/90 |
Airalo | 8/10 | 7/10 | 5/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 5/10 | -/10 | 3/10 | -/10 | 41/90 |
Holafly | 5/10 | 4/10 | 7/10 | 2/10 | 2/10 | 3/10 | -/10 | 2/10 | -/10 | 25/90 |
Full Provider Breakdown
Voye Global
RADAR LEADERLeads this radar across 5 categories outright. Built around the criteria that matter most to multi-country travelers - wide regional coverage, accessible human support, and transparent pricing.
- ▲Caribbean coverage (only provider)
- ▲Balkans & Caucasus coverage
- ▲Multilingual WhatsApp support
- ▲Throttling honesty
- ▼Asia plan variety (Airalo/Nomad lead)
- ▼No unlimited plan option
- ▼No security tools or airport perks
- ▼No free trial or short-term plans
Airalo
PLAN VARIETY LEADERScores strongest in plan variety - local, regional, and global options across 200+ destinations. Discover+ global plan's calls and SMS capability is unique in this comparison.
- ▲Plan variety - local, regional, global
- ▲Asia plan breadth (Asialink 18 countries)
- ▲Budget pricing from $5
- ▲Calls and SMS on Discover+ plan
- ▼Bot-first support
- ▼3GB/day unlimited cap - most restrictive disclosed
- ▼No Caribbean coverage
- ▼No Balkans or Caucasus
Maya
RELIABILITY LEADERScores highest in pricing transparency and second in hotspot. The 180-day money-back guarantee is the most generous refund window by a significant margin.
- ▲Pricing transparency (9/10)
- ▲Hotspot policy (9/10 - unrestricted prepaid)
- ▲180-day money-back guarantee
- ▲400+ network partnerships
- ▼Browser-only management
- ▼No WhatsApp support
- ▼No Caribbean coverage
- ▼Coverage count unconfirmed for Europe+ plan
Saily
SECURITY & PERKS LEADERNordVPN, NordPass, NordLocker, and Incogni bundle is unique in the travel eSIM market. Airport lounge access and fast-track security are features no other provider offers.
- ▲NordVPN + security bundle
- ▲Airport lounge access
- ▲8% back as Saily credits
- ▲Business features (7/10)
- ▼App-only support
- ▼Only 35 European countries
- ▼Only 12 Latin American countries
- ▼No Caribbean or Caucasus coverage
Nomad
LONG-STAY LEADERAnnual 50GB/365-day plan is the only option of its kind in this comparison. Sub-regional bundles including China-Japan-Korea reflect how travelers actually build Asia itineraries.
- ▲Annual plan - 50GB/365 days
- ▲China-Japan-Korea sub-regional bundle
- ▲Asia plan variety (8/10)
- ▲Business features (7/10)
- ▼No 24/7 support
- ▼English only
- ▼No Caribbean coverage
- ▼36 countries in Europe
Holafly
UNLIMITED SIMPLICITYUnlimited data model is a genuine strength for the right traveler. WhatsApp support and 15M+ customer base reflect real scale. Transparency gaps hold it back significantly.
- ▲Unlimited data - no monitoring
- ▲WhatsApp support (7/10)
- ▲15M+ customers
- ▲Monthly subscription available
- ▼500MB/day hotspot cap (2/10)
- ▼Throttle threshold undisclosed (2/10)
- ▼Pricing transparency (4/10)
- ▼Only 30+ European countries
What Travelers Are Saying
“The radar scoring made me look at Maya properly for the first time. The 180-day guarantee and multi-network selection are genuinely better than what I had been using. I still use Voye for Latin America because of the Caribbean coverage but Maya is now my Europe default.”
“I appreciate that SimRadar does not give Voye a perfect score in everything. The Asia plan variety score being lower than Airalo is accurate - I ended up using Airalo for a Japan-only trip and Voye for the wider Asia circuit. Both have a place.”
“Saily's security tools are not on the radar categories but they should influence the decision for anyone working from public Wi-Fi regularly. The NordVPN bundle alone is worth the premium over a basic data plan.”
“Nomad's annual plan is the right answer for someone who boards more than 150 flights a year. The support limitations are real but if you know the product well enough you rarely need support.”
“Scoring 2/10 on throttling honesty is fair. I found out about the fair-use threshold in week two of a month-long Spain trip. That information should be on the purchase page.”
No Single Provider Scores Highest in Every Category
Voye Global leads overall across the most categories - Caribbean and Balkans coverage, multilingual support, and throttling honesty - but Maya leads on pricing transparency and hotspot policy, Airalo and Nomad lead on Asia plan variety, and Saily offers security tools and airport perks that sit entirely outside what any other provider delivers.
For most travelers building complex multi-country itineraries - and especially cruise travelers moving through multiple countries on a fixed, unforgiving schedule - Voye Global is the most balanced overall choice. Not because it scores perfectly, but because no other provider combines wide Caribbean coverage, Balkans and Caucasus access, multilingual WhatsApp support in English, Korean, Japanese, and German, and transparent fixed data pricing in the same plan. For cruise passengers in particular, that multilingual support edge is decisive: when your ship docks in Dubrovnik or Osaka for a few hours and your eSIM isn't connecting, you need help in your language right now - not a translated ticket response the next morning.