Saily in Brazil: a strong entry plan and the priciest metered data in the country

What Saily actually charges

Saily sells five metered plans for Brazil. These figures were read from Saily's own site and are verified, not extracted from listings.

An earlier version of this page had Saily cheapest at every size by a single cent, on indicative figures. Those figures were wrong, and wrong in the direction that costs you money: the 10GB month is $24.99, not the $17.99 we carried — an understatement of 39%. The 5GB month is $13.99, not $11.99. Corrected, the verdict inverts.

Above 3GB it is the most expensive option we hold

At 5GB over 30 days, Nomad's verified price is $12 and Airalo's verified price is $13. Saily charges $13.99 — the top of the row.

At 10GB over 30 days, Nomad's verified price is $19 and Airalo's verified price is $23. Saily charges $24.99. That is 39% above the cheapest option at that size, and $1.99 above a verified Airalo plan of identical size and identical length.

At 20GB over 30 days, Nomad's verified price is $31 and Airalo's is $36. Saily charges $39.99 — last again, and at $2.00 per gigabyte it is beaten on rate by Airalo's verified 20GB at $1.80 and Nomad's at $1.55.

Three monthly sizes, last in all three. There is no margin-of-error defence available now: these are Saily's own published prices, and the gaps are far too wide to be rounding.

The entry plan still wins

Compare like with like at the small end. Saily's 1GB lasts seven days and costs $3.99. Airalo's verified 1GB lasts three days and costs $4.

Same money, more than twice the validity, and both prices now confirmed at source. For a stopover, a short business trip to São Paulo, or a traveller who mostly needs maps and WhatsApp and will be on hotel wifi otherwise, this remains the cheapest sensible way to arrive in Brazil already connected.

The catch is the rate. A gigabyte at $3.99 costs twice per gigabyte what the 20GB plan charges. That is normal for an entry tier, and it only makes sense if a single gigabyte really does cover your week. If you use ride-hailing daily, it will not.

The 3GB month is the other shape worth knowing

Saily's 3GB for 30 days at $9.99 used to have no like-for-like rival in our data. It has one now: Nomad's verified 3GB for 30 days is $9, a dollar less for the same allowance over the same month. Airalo's verified 3GB plans run three days at $9 or seven days at $9.50, so between the two month-long options Nomad is simply the cheaper.

Weigh either against the next size up before buying. Nomad's verified 5GB for 30 days is $12 and Airalo's verified 5GB for 30 days is $13 — two to three dollars more for two extra gigabytes over the same month. A 3GB plan is worth it only if you are confident you will stay under three.

No host network is published

Saily does not publish which Brazilian network its plans roam onto. Its own pages name no carrier at all, describing only a reliable connection from the country's best networks.

This is worth knowing rather than shrugging at. Brazil's three national networks are not interchangeable once you leave the coast. Signal falls away in the Amazon interior, in Amapá and Roraima, across rural Mato Grosso, through the interior of the Northeast states, and on the smaller offshore islands. Whether your eSIM notices depends on whether it has landed on Vivo, Claro or TIM — and you cannot find that out before paying.

It is not an unusual gap. Airalo, Nomad and Holafly disclose nothing either — the Brazilian carriers our data once held against Holafly's rows came from our own older text, not from Holafly — and eSIMCard's own listing is the only one that names anything, though the carriers our data held for it came from our own text. eSIM Go discloses nothing anywhere: eSIM Go sells wholesale to resellers and publishes no consumer price — checked on esim-go.com on 18 August 2026, where there is no basket, no checkout and no per-country page — so its rows cannot be bought or ever verified. See our eSIM Go page. But it does mean coverage cannot be a reason to choose here, and with the price advantage gone there is now very little left to choose on.

What it does not sell

Unlimited. Holafly sells unlimited Brazil plans from a single day up to 90; Airalo sells verified unlimited from three days to 30; Nomad sells verified unlimited at five and ten days, cheaper than either at both. If you would rather not count gigabytes at all, no Saily plan answers that.

Anything above 20GB. The metered range stops there. It no longer stops there for everyone: Nomad sells a verified 50GB month at $45, which is $0.90 a gigabyte against Saily's $2.00 at 20GB.

Short validity above 1GB. Every plan beyond the entry tier runs 30 days, with no fortnight option. Airalo's verified 5GB for fifteen days at $12.50 and 10GB for seven days at $20 cover trips that do not need a month.

Calls and SMS are absent from all five plans, which in Brazil costs you very little. Tethering is supported, which matters more: Holafly's Brazil plans block it outright, so a metered eSIM is the only route to keeping a laptop online.

Buying it, and the local alternative

No passport, ID or registration is needed to install the eSIM. That is the practical argument for any travel eSIM in Brazil, because a local prepaid line is the opposite — our data records registration as needing a passport or ID, which means paperwork at the counter, in Portuguese, at the end of a queue. Travellers also widely report being asked for a CPF, the Brazilian tax number visitors do not have. We have not confirmed that, and it is not what our records hold, so treat it as a risk rather than a rule.

The counter is still cheaper. A starter pack at the airport runs around $6, well under half the 5GB monthly plan here, and it comes with a Brazilian number. Whether that beats installing something on the plane depends on how long you are staying and how much you mind the chance of being turned away.

Verdict

Buy the 1GB week. At $3.99 for seven days it beats a verified $4 Airalo gigabyte that expires in three, and nothing else we hold matches the shape.

Do not buy the monthly plans. At 5GB, 10GB and 20GB, Saily is the most expensive metered provider we hold for Brazil, and at 10GB it is 39% above the cheapest. Nomad undercuts it at every one of those sizes; Airalo's verified 20GB at $36 gives you a better rate per gigabyte than Saily's $39.99, and Nomad's verified $31 is better still. The 3GB month at $9.99 used to be the one middle plan with a genuine reason to exist, on the grounds that nobody else sold three gigabytes over 30 days. Nomad does, at $9.

For heavy use, long stays or unlimited data, this is the wrong shop. Those cases are covered on the Brazil hub.