Price Guard
The cheapest correct answer for the trip you are actually taking.
Travel data pricing is confusing on purpose almost everywhere you look. There are four shapes of the same product, they are priced on different units, and the comparison is left to you at the exact moment you are tired and standing at a gate. Price Guard is the part of Orbislo that does the arithmetic instead, and then publishes the working.
Promise one. The best combination for your trip
We sell data in four shapes. Wallet balance, which is a pool of gigabytes with no end date. A country pack, which is cheaper per gigabyte inside one border. A regional pack, which covers a continent at a small premium. And an unlimited day pass, which is a flat fee for full speed to 2 GB a day and 1 Mbps after that. The right answer depends on how many days you travel, how many borders you cross, and how much data you actually use.
So work it, rather than guess it. Tell us the countries and the dates, or connect an itinerary through Trip Sync, and we return one recommendation with the alternatives underneath and the price of each. Here is a real example. Twelve days, Tokyo to Seoul, at the median traveller usage of roughly 800 MB a day, which is 9.6 GB over the trip. Round it to 10 GB.
| Option | You pay | Covers both countries | Left after the trip | Cost per usable GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two country packs | $93.89 | Yes, as two purchases | Credited back to your wallet | $9.89 |
| One regional Asia pack | $16.89 | Yes | Credited back to your wallet | $1.69 |
| 10 GB of wallet balance | $16.89 | Yes | Still yours, no end date | $1.69 |
| 30 day unlimited pass | $64.89 | Yes | Nothing to keep | $6.89 at 10 GB |
Our prices, all four of them, taken from the wallet tiers and the destination catalog rather than typed here. Nothing in this table expires: leftover country pack data is credited back to your wallet at the end of the trip.
The recommendation on that trip is not the wallet. Two country packs, one for Japan and one for South Korea, come to $93.89, which is $77.89 under the 10 GB wallet at $16.89, so the country packs are the line we show first even though the wallet is the product we would rather sell you. The wallet is the second line and it is the better answer the moment a third country appears, because a Japan pack is only cheap in Japan. The unlimited month is more than two and a half times either price unless you tether a laptop, and if you tell us you do, the answer flips: past roughly 41 GB in a month, the $64.89 pass wins and we say so.
The combination really is a combination, not a single pick. A common output is 10 GB of wallet balance plus one 1 day unlimited pass for the day you know you will tether at a conference. Nothing in the model is allowed to consider margin. It has the four price curves, your days, your borders and your usage estimate, and that is all it has.
$9.89
per GB on the combination we recommend for this trip, against $1.69 for the wallet we would rather sell you
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product shapes compared on every trip you describe
41 GB
the monthly point where an unlimited pass becomes the cheaper answer
Promise two. Price drops refund themselves for 30 days
Prices move. Wholesale rates fall, a country gets a second carrier contract, a promotion starts the week after you bought. Everywhere else that is your loss, because the mechanism for getting it back is a support ticket you will not write.
We snapshot the exact price you paid at the moment of purchase. Every night for the next 30 days a job compares that snapshot against the live public price of the same product. If the live price is lower, the difference moves into your wallet as balance, and you get a notification that names the product, the old price, the new price and the amount returned. You do not claim it, because there is nothing to claim. The refund is the default state.
Now the exclusions, printed here rather than three clicks away. A promo code you never applied is not a price drop. A different product falling in price is not a price drop on yours, so a cheaper 10 GB tier does not refund your 5 GB purchase. A lower price at another provider is not covered here, because that is what promise three is for. And the window is 30 days from purchase, not 30 days from when you first used the data.
Promise three. Send a quote, get a straight answer
Send a screenshot or a link showing a named provider's live public price for the same destination and the same amount of data. We answer with a price and with the working behind it. Where ours comes out lower, the better price goes onto your basket the same day. Where the two are not the same product, we set the differences out line by line: the speed floor, the expiry date, and what happens to the gigabytes you do not use.
The comparison is rarely a like for like one, and that is the part a sticker price hides. A cheap headline on a single country usually rests on one wholesale contract in that country, which means one network and nothing to fail over to on the day it has a bad one. Ours runs across several carriers in most destinations, holds a published speed floor, and leaves the gigabytes you did not use sitting in your wallet with no end date. Those three things are what a price difference is buying, and the reply tells you which of them apply to your trip.
| Provider | What they sell | What you get from us |
|---|---|---|
| Holafly | Unlimited plans for one country, sold in windows from 15 days up | Metered data that never expires, one balance for every country, with most of Europe on a single line, and a published speed floor. Independent testing measured them near 7 Mbps before throttling and under 1 Mbps after, with no published fair use number. |
| Airalo | Country, regional and global packs, each one sold with an expiry date | A lower cost per usable gigabyte, because our data does not expire. Their unlimited throttles near 3 GB a day and was measured at 10 to 22 Mbps. |
| Saily | Occasional launch promotions on a single country, and an unlimited tier: Saily Ultra is $31.00 a month | Coverage across 197 destinations live today, and data that does not expire against their 7 to 30 day windows |
A valid quote is a live public price, dated inside 7 days, for the same destination and the same data amount. It is not an expired banner, a rate you were given as an affiliate, or a reseller listing we cannot check. Quotes go through the same support queue as everything else.
Why we can afford all three
Travel data has a quiet profit centre in it called breakage, which is the money you paid for gigabytes that were deleted before you used them. Industry estimates put wasted purchased data at 20 to 35 percent. A business built on that number cannot also refund price drops and hand you the cheapest line, because the cheapest line and the refund both come out of the same margin.
Our data never expires, so we never booked that revenue. What is left is a simpler business where we make money when you travel again rather than when you forget. Price Guard is what that difference looks like on a page. If you want the underlying rates, they are all on pricing, and the per country speed figures and carriers are on coverage.