Comparisons

How we compare.

Six things are true about buying from us, and every one of them can be checked in a couple of minutes. Data that does not expire, so nothing you paid for is deleted the day you fly home. One app and one balance for every trip, where each destination's line installs in one tap and refills arrive on the line you already have. Speeds published destination by destination. 100 MB of free rescue data once a month for customers when the balance reaches zero. $1.44 a gigabyte on the 20 GB wallet, which is less per gigabyte than Airalo, Saily, aloSIM or Nomad charge on the nearest plan they sell. And the throttle number printed on the buy button, repeated in the terms and in the price index, which we do not move after you have paid.

	Orbislo	Airalo	Holafly	Saily
Data expires	Never	7 to 365 days	1 to 90 days	7 to 30 days
Unused data when a plan or line closes	Back to your balance	Lost with the plan	Lost with the plan	Lost with the plan
Cost per gigabyte, 20 GB plan	$1.44	$3.30	No metered plan	about $3.20
Free data at zero balance	100 MB a month	None	None	None
Where the throttle number is published	On the buy button	On the plan page	Not published	In the buy box
Speed per destination	Yes	No	No	No

Compared in August 2026 against publicly listed plans, and refreshed monthly. The per gigabyte figures are each seller's own global plan of that size, sticker price divided by the gigabytes in it, read off their own site on 31 August 2026. Ours comes from the same wallet the checkout charges.

The full price index, every seller and every figure behind these rows.

197

Destinations on our global plan, counted from the catalog

100 MB

Free rescue data for customers, once a month

Sellers read one by one in the survey

The four things that actually differ

Four things separate one travel eSIM seller from another. How many destinations the plan you can actually buy reaches, what a gigabyte costs, what happens to the gigabytes you do not use, and whether the throttle number is printed anywhere.

All four can be checked on a seller's own public pages in about ten minutes, with no account and no purchase. That is how the survey behind this page was done, one provider at a time, on 31 August 2026.

Destination count on the plan you can buy, not the headline. Yesim markets 200+ and its global plan reaches 83. Nomad markets 200+ and reaches 123. Instabridge markets 190+ and reaches 114.
Price per gigabyte at the same plan size. Our 20 GB is $28.89, or $1.44 a gigabyte. The Airalo 20 GB is $66.00, or $3.30. The nearest Jetpac global plan is 30 GB, so sticker against sticker misleads.
What happens to unused data. Ours does not expire, and nobody else sells gigabytes with no clock on them. Yesim, Instabridge, Firsty and Roamless keep a balance alive, which is a different promise.
Whether the throttle number is published. Ours is on the buy button: 2 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Holafly and Yesim publish nothing. GigSky publishes 2.5 GB and 3.5 GB for one plan. aloSIM says 1 Mbps on the product page and 0.5 Mbps in its terms.

The three that look like differences and are not

Three things get top billing on comparison pages and decide nothing. They are easy to market because they are easy to picture, and they are the same at every seller in the table above.

5G in the headline. Every seller resells the same host networks, so what you get is the cell you are standing in. 88 of our own 197 destinations are not 5G yet.
Instant delivery and a QR code by email. Everyone does this. Median time here from tapping buy to being online is 41 seconds, and shaving ten off that changes nothing.
The ranking on a review site. Published affiliate rates run Maya 20 percent, Saily 15 percent and Airalo 12 percent, while Holafly, GigSky and BNESIM publish no rate at all.

One by one

Orbislo vs Airalo

The category default. A new eSIM every trip, data on a clock, and nothing left over when you land home.

Orbislo vs Holafly

Unlimited only, no metered plan, and the throttle number is not published anywhere.

Orbislo vs Saily

Plans that expire, at a higher price per gigabyte than our wallet.

Orbislo vs Nomad

Metered plans that expire, at the highest cost per gigabyte in our index.

Orbislo vs Ubigi

A carrier product with a carrier's app. Data expires, and there is nothing free at zero balance.

What one balance on every trip gives you

Each destination's line installs in one tap from the app, and while it is valid every refill arrives on the line you already have, with no new QR code. Most of Europe runs on a single line, so a rail trip through several countries is one install. The same balance pays in all 197 destinations, and data loaded on a line that you do not use goes back to it when the line closes. That balance never expires. Buy the 20 GB size at $1.44 a gigabyte, use a third of it in one week, and the rest is still yours next year. Every other seller in the table above sells a window of days, and whatever is left when the window shuts is deleted.

When the balance does reach zero, every customer gets 100 MB of free rescue data once a month, loaded onto the line you are using. It covers the map, the boarding pass and the message that says the flight moved, which is the exact set of things you need before you can top up.

The throttle number is printed where you buy rather than filed in a help article: 2 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. The same figure is repeated in the terms and in the price index, and it does not move after you have paid.

How to check any seller in ten minutes

Do not take the table on trust. Five checks, ten minutes, on any seller including us, using nothing but their own public pages.

Count their destination list yourself and set the total against the number in their headline. The gap is the finding.
Open the plan page for a country you are actually going to, then divide the price by the gigabytes.
Find the expiry window. An expiring plan costs the sticker divided by what you used, not by what you bought.
Search their site for the fair use number. Help centre only, or two pages that disagree, counts as unpublished.
Look for the affiliate disclosure on whatever review ranked them, and check what that review earns per sale.

Which size to buy for the trip you are taking

Three trips, three sizes, and the same balance behind all of them. The only thing that changes is how much you put in the wallet.

One country for one week. A small wallet size covers it, and whatever you do not use is still there for the next trip instead of being deleted on the flight home.
More than two trips a year. Our wallet, because nothing expires, and a fifth of an expiring plan is typically wasted.
A long route across several borders. Buy the 20 GB size at $1.44 a gigabyte. Most of Europe runs on a single line, so the borders inside it need no new install, and refills arrive on the line you already have.
A trip somewhere with dearer networks. Each destination draws from the balance at its own published rate: in most popular destinations a wallet gigabyte is a full local gigabyte, and dearer networks draw at their own multiple.

Questions people actually ask

What does a gigabyte cost on the wallet?

At the 20 GB size it is $1.44 a gigabyte, and that is the figure the checkout charges rather than a rounded marketing price. Bigger sizes cost less per gigabyte, the whole ladder is published on the price index, and none of it has a clock on it.

What do I get here that a per trip eSIM does not give me?

One app and one balance for every trip, with each destination's line installing in one tap, a balance that never expires, 100 MB of free rescue data once a month for customers when it reaches zero, speeds published destination by destination, and the throttle number printed on the buy button.

Why does every seller advertise 200 plus countries?

Because the headline counts every country the company has a deal in, and the plan you buy reaches fewer. Yesim markets 200+ with 83 on the global plan. Nomad markets 200+ with 123. Count the list yourself.

What does unlimited actually mean on a travel eSIM?

A daily allowance at full speed, then a slower speed for the rest of the day. Ours is 2 GB, then 1 Mbps, printed on the buy button. Saily publishes 3 GB. Holafly and Yesim publish no number at all.

Does anyone pay you for these comparisons?

No seller pays for a row, a rank or a mention here. What we can show you is the working. Every rival figure was read off that seller's own site on 31 August 2026, and the per destination listings sit on the price index.

What happens to data I do not use?

It stays in your wallet with no clock on it, so an unused half is still yours next trip. Every other seller in the table sells a window of 1 to 365 days, and whatever is left at the end is gone.

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