Pay per MB
Pay-as-you-go eSIM
Buy credit, not a bundle. You're billed per megabyte at a rate that's published before you travel, in 200+ countries — and whatever you don't spend stays on the eSIM.
How the billing actually works
- 1
Load a USD balance
From $5, plus a one-time $5 eSIM setup fee on your first order. What you pay is what lands on the eSIM — no bonus-credit games, no rounding.
- 2
Install the eSIM
One QR code. There is nothing to configure: no country to choose, no bundle size, no duration, no plan name.
- 3
Use data anywhere
The eSIM attaches to a local network in whichever of the 200+ countries you're in. Hotspot is enabled, so a laptop can share the same balance.
- 4
Get metered per megabyte
The network reports usage roughly every ten minutes and deducts it from your balance at that country's published per-GB rate.
- 5
Top up when you want
Any amount, any time, from any browser. It goes onto the same eSIM — you never reinstall and never get a new QR code.
Every country we cover has its own per-GB price, and all of them are on one page. You can see the live per-GB rate for all 200+ countries before you spend a cent — that list is the whole pricing model, not a summary of it.
The bundle model's real flaw: you have to guess
Every bundle eSIM opens with the same question — how many gigabytes will you use? That's a forecast, and you're asked to make it before you know whether the hotel Wi-Fi works, whether you'll navigate on foot all day, whether you'll tether a laptop in an airport, or whether one video call home will run for an hour.
There are two ways to be wrong and both cost you money:
- Guess too low and you're buying data again mid-trip — normally a small emergency package, normally at a worse per-GB price than the one you already bought, normally while standing somewhere with one bar of signal.
- Guess too high and the surplus expires with the validity window. You paid for it. You simply don't get to keep it. That is the whole reason a balance that never expires beats a bundle with a clock.
Per-megabyte billing deletes the question. There is nothing to forecast, because there is nothing to size.
The same trip, two ways
The figures below use a hypothetical $2.00/GB so the arithmetic is easy to follow. Look up the real published rate for your destination before you travel — some countries are well under it, some are above.
| Light user | Heavy user | |
|---|---|---|
| Data actually used | 1.2GB over 10 days | 11GB over three weeks |
| Pay-as-you-go at $2.00/GB | $2.40 | $22.00 |
| Smallest bundle that fits | A 5GB tier — nothing smaller is usually sold | A 10GB tier, then an emergency top-up |
| Data paid for and lost | 3.8GB expires unused | None, but you ran dry before the trip ended |
| After the trip | Unspent credit stays on the eSIM | Unspent credit stays on the eSIM |
Notice that the heavy user isn't punished either. Topping up mid-trip costs the same per gigabyte as the first dollar you loaded — there is no premium for being wrong about your own appetite, because there was never an estimate to be wrong about.
Bundle vs balance
| Bundle eSIM | Silent eSIM balance | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A fixed number of gigabytes | US dollars of credit |
| What you have to predict | Your data use, before you travel | Nothing |
| If you use less than you bought | The surplus expires | It stays on the eSIM as credit |
| If you use more | Buy again, often at a worse rate | Top up at the same published rate |
| Crossing a border | Frequently a second bundle | Same balance, that country's rate |
| Where the price is published | Per bundle, per region | Per country, before you buy |
| Hotspot / tethering | Varies by plan | Included on every plan |
What you pay, in full
- $5 one-time eSIM setup fee, charged on your first order only.
- From $5 of credit to start. Credit is one-for-one — pay $20 and $20 lands on the eSIM.
- Data from $1.50/GB, with every country's rate published in advance rather than discovered on a bill.
- No daily fee, no monthly fee, no per-device fee. Hotspot costs nothing extra.
- No overage. When the balance reaches $0 data pauses instead of billing you.
- Card payments are capped at $200 per transaction; crypto payments have no cap.
Frequently asked questions
What does pay-as-you-go mean on an eSIM?+
You hold a USD balance instead of a data bundle. The network measures the megabytes you actually move and deducts the cost from that balance at the published rate for the country you're in. Nothing is charged when you aren't using data.
How often is my usage billed?+
Usage is reported and deducted roughly every ten minutes while data is flowing, so the balance on your account page tracks close to real time rather than arriving as a bill weeks later.
Is pay-as-you-go cheaper than buying a bundle?+
It depends on the destination and how much data you move, and we won't pretend otherwise. What it removes is waste: you pay only for the gigabytes that actually transferred, and anything you don't spend stays on the eSIM instead of expiring. Check your country's per-GB rate against the bundle you were about to buy.
What happens when my balance reaches zero?+
Data pauses. There is no overage charge and no bill to settle. Top up from any browser and the same eSIM reconnects within seconds — no reinstall, no new QR code.
Can I stop the eSIM using data without deleting it?+
Yes. Your account page has a pause control for each eSIM, so you can stop it drawing data while keeping the profile installed and the balance intact.
Is there a minimum top-up?+
The minimum is $5. Your first order also carries the one-time $5 eSIM setup fee, so a first purchase starts at $10 in total and $5 of that is spendable credit.
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