The Bahamas has the shortest eSIM price list we hold, and its cheapest gigabyte is $2.25

One seller, two ranges, twelve prices

Every figure on this page comes from Airalo, and only from Airalo. Twelve plans, all twelve verified — read off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. Nobody here has priced Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard or eSIM Go in the Bahamas, so this is one company's price list rather than a survey of what the islands sell.

Twelve rows is the shortest list we hold for any of the markets checked that day, and the shape is unusual in two ways. Airalo sells six sizes here — 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 and 20 GB — with exactly one duration each, so there is no choice of window at any size. And there are no unlimited plans at all, where most comparable markets carry six.

Airalo sells the plans under two names, Jitney Mobile and Jitney Mobile+. Both are Airalo's own retail branding, not mobile networks. Airalo publishes no host network for the Bahamas or for any other country, so which Bahamian operator your phone attaches to — and whether that changes anything on a Family Island — is not something this page can tell you.

The two ranges, side by side

The plus range is dearer at every size, by $1.50 to $3.50. Our data holds sizes, durations and prices and nothing at all about what the premium buys — Airalo publishes no explanation, and we are not going to invent one. Note that the gap narrows sharply as the plans get bigger: $2.50 on 1 GB is a 26% premium, while $1.50 on 20 GB is barely 3%.

The durations climb with size and cannot be chosen. 1 GB runs 7 days, 2 GB runs 15, and everything from 3 GB up runs 30. A 2 GB plan for a fortnight is the only fortnight-length option in the country.

The 5 GB plan is the one to avoid

The cheapest gigabyte in the Bahamas is $2.25, from the 20 GB plan over 30 days at $45.00. The dearest is $12.00, from the plus range's 1 GB plan — a 5.3-fold spread, the widest of the five markets we priced that day.

Between those ends sits the clearest bad buy on the page. The 5 GB plan is $30.00 for 30 days; the 10 GB plan is $35.00 for the same 30 days. Five dollars buys five more gigabytes. Then 10 GB to 20 GB is $35.00 to $45.00 — ten more gigabytes for $10. Above 5 GB, extra data costs a dollar a gigabyte on this ladder, while the first 5 GB cost $30.00. Almost nobody should buy the 5 GB plan.

The small plans are dear for the usual reason, and dearer here than in the other markets checked the same day: 1 GB is $9.50 against $8.00 in Jamaica, $7.50 in Bolivia, $7.00 in Uruguay and $5.00 in Ecuador — though the Bahamian one runs 7 days where all four of those run 3.

Where the ladder stops sets the rate

Across the 94 countries we cover, the top of the ladder predicts price better than anything else about a market. Countries selling a 50 GB plan over 30 days land near $0.98 a gigabyte, and Thailand, the cheapest we hold, is $0.55 — $27.50 for 50 GB. Countries that stop at 20 GB, as the Bahamas does, sit between $2 and $3. Countries that stop at 10 GB are the worst we hold: Kenya at $4.60, Nigeria and Fiji at $4.70.

The Bahamas stops at 20 GB and lands at $2.25. So do four other markets priced the same day — Jamaica at $2.15, Ecuador and Bolivia at $2.40, Uruguay at $2.43. A high-income island state, two Andean and Southern Cone economies and another Caribbean one, all inside 28 cents of one another. Nothing about those five places is comparable; what they share is a price ladder that ends at 20 GB. This is Airalo's tiering, not the cost of carrying data across the Bahamian archipelago.

Which plan to buy

There is no window to choose here, so the whole decision is how much data you want.

• A week, light use. 1 GB over 7 days at $9.50. It is poor value per gigabyte, but it is the only 7-day plan sold.
• A fortnight, maps and messaging. 2 GB over 15 days at $15.00.
• A month, light use. 3 GB over 30 days at $20.00.
• A month, ordinary use. 10 GB over 30 days at $35.00. Do not buy the 5 GB plan at $30.00 — the extra five gigabytes cost five dollars.
• A month with a laptop tethered. 20 GB over 30 days at $45.00, the cheapest gigabyte sold in the country.

Take the Jitney Mobile row in every case. Nothing in our data supports paying the plus premium, because nothing in our data says what it is for.

What this page does not tell you

We hold no local SIM data for the Bahamas: no counter prices, no shop advice, no registration rules, no operator names, nothing about coverage away from New Providence. Nobody here has researched it. Pages that answer all of that confidently may be right, but you have no way of knowing where the answers came from, which is the argument behind how we test.

We also hold nothing for the other five sellers. If one of them beats $2.25 a gigabyte here we would not know. The cheapest eSIM plans puts the Bahamian rate against every other country on the site, and our Latin America page covers the fifteen markets priced across the wider region — Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Jamaica come in below the Bahamas there, and the Dominican Republic, at $3.43, holds the region's dearest floor. It is not the site's: Lebanon reads $27.00 a gigabyte, though that is one 1 GB plan rather than a market; the dearest real ladders are Nigeria and Fiji at $4.70 and Kenya at $4.60, all three capped at 10 GB.