Latin American eSIM prices, for the fifteen markets we can actually price

What this page covers, and why fifteen

The boundary is worth stating, because "Latin America" and "the Caribbean" are not the same place and this page crosses between them.

Thirteen of these markets are Latin American: Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Chile and the Dominican Republic. Two are not: Jamaica and the Bahamas are anglophone Caribbean, included because we have verified prices for them and they sit inside the same trip planning as the Dominican Republic.

Airalo's prices were read on 13 August 2026 for Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina and on 17 August for the other eleven. Nomad reaches only four of the fifteen — Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina — and all four were read on 18 August. Saily is verified in Mexico and Brazil. In the remaining eleven markets Airalo is the only seller we hold a single row for, so for most of this region the page is one company's price list, checked, and nothing more. We hold no regional bundle and no local-SIM research for the eleven newest markets.

The fifteen, verified

Cheapest verified cost per gigabyte, and the cheapest verified 5 GB plan beside it.

Nothing from Holafly, eSIMCard or eSIM Go has been checked anywhere in the region, so none of it appears above.

A correction: Brazil is not a 20 GB market

This page said, until 18 August 2026, that Mexico and Colombia were the only two of these fifteen markets with a plan above 20 GB, and that Brazil's floor was $1.75 a gigabyte on Airalo's 20 GB over 15 days at $35.

Airalo does still stop at 20 GB in Brazil. Nomad does not: its verified 50 GB over 30 days is $45, or $0.90 a gigabyte. That halves Brazil's floor and moves it level with Mexico at the top of this table. Nomad's whole catalogue — 436 plans across 47 countries — was read off nomadesim.com in USD on 18 August, which is what changed; the plan was there all along and we had not checked it.

Three of these fifteen markets now sell above 20 GB, not two.

A second correction: this is not the dearest region on the site

An earlier version of this page said Latin America held the seven most expensive verified floors anywhere we cover, and that the Dominican Republic at $3.43 was the dearest of them. The dataset has since grown from 57 countries to 94, and both claims are now wrong.

Four floors sit above the Dominican Republic. Lebanon is $27.00 a gigabyte, though that is a single 1 GB product rather than a market — there is no ladder to read. Nigeria and Fiji are $4.70 and Kenya is $4.60, each on a 10 GB plan with nothing above it.

What survives is narrower. Ranks five to ten on the site — the Dominican Republic, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica — are an unbroken Latin American run. Three of these fifteen markets sit at or below the site's median verified floor of $0.98. The other twelve sit above it.

The ceiling sets the level. The seller's tiering sets the number.

Twelve of the fifteen sell nothing above 20 GB. Across the site a country's cheapest gigabyte almost always sits in a 50 GB plan — that is where Thailand's $0.24 and Mexico's $0.90 come from. Remove that plan and the floor is whatever 20 GB costs, a size priced as a mid-tier rather than a bulk deal.

That explains the level, not the exact figures, and the wider dataset now suggests what does. Ecuador and Bolivia both price 20 GB over 15 days at exactly $48 — and so do Canada, Jordan, Ghana, Laos, Armenia and Azerbaijan, eight countries on four continents landing on the same figure to the dollar. At the other end, 56 countries carry an Airalo 1 GB plan over 3 days at exactly $4.00, and 18 of the 56 countries selling 50 GB over 30 days price it at exactly $49.

Nomad shows the same thing from the other direction. Thirteen European countries share every rung of its ladder to the cent; France and Spain share a second; Austria and Poland a third. Two sellers, independently, price by rung rather than by market.

Rungs that repeat across unrelated markets are not reading local wholesale cost. On that reading Uruguay at $48.50 and Ecuador at $48 tell you nothing about Uruguay or Ecuador. Neither company publishes anything about how it sets prices, so we cannot prove the mechanism — but the repetition is in the data, and it accounts for these numbers better than a story about local costs.

Where Nomad lands, and where it does not

Nomad is in four of these markets and wins only one of them.

In Brazil it takes the floor outright, on the strength of a 50 GB plan Airalo does not sell there. In Mexico it stops at 20 GB for $27.50, which is $1.375 a gigabyte against Airalo's verified $0.90 — though its 5 GB over 30 days at $11 is the cheapest verified 5 GB in the region, because Airalo's $12 buys only seven days. In Colombia it charges $39 for 20 GB, $1.95 a gigabyte, against Airalo's $0.98. In Argentina its 20 GB is $47, exactly level with Airalo's, and $2.35 a gigabyte.

Those last two are Nomad's most expensive markets anywhere in the world — dearer than its Egyptian, Emirati or South African pricing, and roughly ten times its Thai rate. A seller with a reputation for cheap data does not have it here.

Mexico, Brazil and Colombia are a different market

They are the only three here with a plan above 20 GB, and that plan is the whole of their advantage: $45 in Mexico, $45 in Brazil and $49 in Colombia, ordinary European rates. Mexico and Colombia also sell prepaid SIMs with no ID requirement, around $8 and $10, so the eSIM case turns on volume — a data-heavy month goes to the big plan, a week of maps and messaging to the counter.

Two prices for the same data

Airalo runs paired tiers in five of these markets. Mexico sells Chido and Chido Plus, where 10 GB over 7 days is $17 or $23.50; Costa Rica repeats it as Hot Telecom and Hot Telecom+, 20 GB over 15 days at $55 or $59; Jamaica and the Bahamas do the same under Jamcomm and Jitney Mobile. Panama inverts it — 20 GB over 15 days is $61 on plain Pancell Digital and $57 on Pancell Digital Plus, which is why Panama's floor is $2.85 rather than $3.05. Price both names at every size.

Panama also produced the one verified row we hold out of the tables: 10 GB over 7 days at $57.50 against $52.50 for the same product over 15 days. More money for less time, so it is flagged rather than averaged away.

The local SIM, and the network question

Brazil is where a local SIM is hardest to beat: about $6 at the airport, below almost every eSIM here, with a passport to register. Argentina is around $15 on the same terms, and Argentina's guide works through whether it is worth the queue. For the eleven newest markets we have no counter prices and no registration rules, so we will not tell you either way.

No eSIM here settles which network you get. Chido, Chimba, Acuntel, Altoque, Tikal Mobile, Hot Telecom, Pancell Digital, Jamcomm and Jitney Mobile are Airalo's own retail brands, not carriers, and Airalo, Saily and Nomad each publish no host network in any of these fifteen markets. If one operator's coverage is the whole question, buy locally.

For the full ranking see the cheapest eSIM plans, and for how verified and indicative are decided, how we test.