Chile's floor is $3.28 a gigabyte, about six times Thailand's
One seller, seventeen plans, all read off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. The best rate in Chile is $3.28 a gigabyte — roughly six times what the same company charges in Thailand.
One provider, seventeen prices, one date
We hold plan data for Chile from exactly one seller: Airalo. Seventeen plans, every one of them read off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. That is the whole of what we know about buying mobile data in Chile, and it belongs at the top of the page rather than in a footnote.
Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard and eSIM Go all sell travel eSIMs, and several of them cover Chile. We have not priced any of them here yet. So this is not a survey of the Chilean market, and nothing below should be read as one. It is one company's ladder, checked line by line, on a single day.
What those seventeen rows do support is an unwelcome finding. Chile is expensive, and not by a little.
$3.28 a gigabyte is the floor, not the average
The cheapest rate in the data comes from the 20 GB plan over 15 days, at $65.50. That works out at $3.28 a gigabyte, and nothing else in Chile beats it.
Set that against other verified numbers on this site, all read the same way off sellers' own checkouts. Thailand's floor is $0.55 a gigabyte. Austria's is $0.58. Someone using data in Bangkok is paying roughly a sixth of what the same person pays in Santiago, from the same company, in the same month. That is not a rounding difference or a currency wobble. It is the actual gap, and there is no plan on offer here that closes it.
The nearest comparison in the region is Argentina, whose verified floor is $2.35 a gigabyte. Until this round of checking, that was the highest floor we held for any country on the site. Chile is dearer than it. We do not know why Chilean data prices out where it does, and we are not going to invent a reason.
The whole ladder
Every row below was verified on 17 August 2026. All of them are Airalo, sold at checkout under the name Altoque — that is Airalo's own retail product name for its Chilean eSIM, not a mobile network.
| Plan | Price | Per GB |
|---|---|---|
| 1 GB / 3 days | $6.50 | $6.50 |
| 3 GB / 3 days | $14.50 | $4.83 |
| 3 GB / 7 days | $15 | $5 |
| 5 GB / 7 days | $21 | $4.20 |
| 5 GB / 15 days | $21.50 | $4.30 |
| 5 GB / 30 days | $22 | $4.40 |
| 10 GB / 7 days | $37 | $3.70 |
| 10 GB / 15 days | $38.50 | $3.85 |
| 10 GB / 30 days | $40 | $4 |
| 20 GB / 15 days | $65.50 | $3.28 |
| 20 GB / 30 days | $68.50 | $3.43 |
Six uncapped plans sit alongside the metered ones: $18 for 3 days, $29.50 for 5, $39 for 7, $50 for 10, $71 for 15 and $130.50 for 30.
Two things stand out. The metered ladder stops at 20 GB — there is no 50 GB plan in Chile at all. Across most of the countries we cover, 50 GB over 30 days exists and is reliably the cheapest rate on the list, so the standard advice is to scroll past everything else and buy it. Here the bottom of the ladder is 20 GB over 15 days, and that is where the floor sits instead.
The second is the spread inside one seller's own list. $6.50 a gigabyte at 1 GB down to $3.28 at 20 GB is a factor of two. Buying small is punished harder here than in most markets.
Uncapped plans sit unusually close to the cap
At most trip lengths, the uncapped option is only a few dollars above the largest metered plan covering the same window.
Over 15 days it is $71 against $65.50 for 20 GB — $5.50 to remove the ceiling. Over 7 days it is $39 against $37 for 10 GB, a $2 gap. If there is any chance of running past the metered allowance, those are small premiums for not having to think about it, and that is a less common shape than you might expect.
The exception is a month. Uncapped over 30 days is $130.50, nearly double the 15-day price and almost twice the $68.50 that 20 GB over 30 days costs. That plan is priced for people with no alternative.
What to buy for the trip you are taking
A long weekend. 1 GB at $6.50 if you are mostly on hotel wifi and want maps and messages. 3 GB at $14.50 if you are not. The uncapped 3-day plan at $18 is $3.50 above the 3 GB one and removes the question entirely.
A week. 5 GB over 7 days is $21. 10 GB over 7 days is $37 and a better rate per gigabyte, but only if you will actually use the headroom. The uncapped week at $39 is $2 above that 10 GB plan.
A fortnight. 20 GB over 15 days at $65.50 is the cheapest gigabyte available in Chile, and it is the plan the data points at for anyone staying more than a week.
A month. 20 GB over 30 days is $68.50 — $3 more than the 15-day version for double the window, which is the best-tempered step on the whole ladder. 10 GB over 30 days is $40 if 20 GB is more than you need.
What we have not checked
Airalo does not publish the host network behind its eSIMs in any country, and Chile is no exception. Every network field in our Chilean data is empty. We cannot tell you which Chilean network the plan connects to, and any page that states one is guessing.
We also hold nothing on Chilean local SIMs. No shop prices, no registration rules, no advice about buying on arrival — we have not researched it, so there is nothing here about it. If a specific network matters for where you are going, buying a physical SIM in person is still the only way to choose one deliberately.
For the wider picture, the cheapest eSIM plans ranks every country we hold by cost per gigabyte, the Latin America guide covers the region, and how we test explains what verified means here.
Common questions
What is the cheapest eSIM for Chile?
Of the plans we have verified, Airalo's 20 GB over 15 days at $65.50 gives the lowest rate at $3.28 a gigabyte. We hold prices for only one seller in Chile, so that is the cheapest we can show you rather than the cheapest that exists anywhere.
Is there a 50 GB plan for Chile?
No. The metered ladder we hold stops at 20 GB, which is unusual — in most countries a 50 GB plan exists and is the cheapest rate on offer. In Chile the largest metered plan is 20 GB over 30 days at $68.50, and the best rate is the 15-day version of it at $65.50.
Why does Chile cost so much more than Thailand or Austria?
We do not know, and we are not going to speculate. What we can show is the gap: $3.28 a gigabyte at best in Chile against $0.55 in Thailand and $0.58 in Austria, all read off the same seller's checkout. Argentina, at $2.35, was the dearest country we held before this round, and Chile is above it.
Which network does an Airalo eSIM use in Chile?
Airalo publishes no host network for any country, so we cannot say. The name Altoque that appears at checkout is Airalo's own product name for its Chilean eSIM, not a carrier — treating it as one is a mistake we have seen made repeatedly.