eSIM guide

Which travel eSIMs let you tether

If you are travelling with a laptop, the hotspot policy matters more than the price. One provider here caps it at 1GB a day and does not tell you at checkout.

ProviderHotspot allowanceThe detail
SailyUnlimited
AiraloUnlimitedNo limit on tethering or connected devices, but hotspot use draws down the same 3GB/day bucket.
UbigiUnlimitedSupported without restriction at no extra cost.
NomadSupported
Holafly1GB/dayHolafly's destination pages state 1GB/day. A third-party reading of its terms reports 500MB/day. Holafly does not surface either figure at checkout.
Prices checked by hand · 31 August 2026

The Holafly problem

Holafly’s destination pages state a 1GB per day hotspot cap. A third-party reading of its terms of service reports 500MB per day. We could not reconcile the two, and Holafly surfaces neither figure during checkout.

Either way, it is the tightest restriction in the category by a wide margin. If you plan to work from a laptop, share the connection with a partner, or use a tablet, an unlimited Holafly plan will stop being unlimited within a couple of hours — and you will have paid the highest price in the comparison for it.

If you need to tether

Three providers allow unrestricted tethering: Saily, Airalo and Ubigi. Nomad supports it without publishing a specific limit.

One caveat worth understanding: unrestricted tethering does not mean unlimited data. Airalo is explicit that hotspot use draws down the same 3GB daily bucket as the phone itself, and the same logic applies everywhere. A laptop doing a video call will burn through a daily cap far faster than a phone will.

For sustained laptop work, a fixed-data plan with a large allowance usually beats an unlimited plan with a daily cap. Ubigi’s 50GB and Nomad’s 50GB plans are the ones to look at.