Airalo in Egypt: a full range, and Nomad undercuts all of it

What Airalo charges in Egypt

Every price below was read off Airalo's own site on 13 August 2026. That matters here more than usual, because an earlier version of this page carried figures — a $4.50 gigabyte, a $9 three-gigabyte month — that do not exist and never did.

Unlimited is priced separately: $19.50 for 3 days, $28.50 for 5, $32 for 7, $35 for 10, $49 for 15 and $90 for 30.

Hotspot tethering is supported. No plan includes calls or SMS.

The entry plan is the worst thing here

Airalo's smallest Egypt plan is 1GB over three days at $5.50. Saily's 1GB over seven days is $8.99, read off its own site on 18 August 2026 — Egypt is one of its three most expensive markets anywhere. So the cheapest way into Airalo Egypt costs more than a third again over its nearest rival and expires in less than half the time. Nomad is the one exception at this size: its 1GB week is a verified $6.00, dearer than Airalo's plan though it lasts more than twice as long.

The 3GB plans do not improve matters. Three gigabytes runs $12 for three days or $14.50 for a week, against monthly 3GB plans from Nomad at a verified $12.00 and Saily at a verified $14.99. This page previously put Saily's 3GB month at $8.99, six dollars below what Saily charges. Nomad's is the same money as Airalo's three-day plan for ten times the validity, and Saily's is a third less again.

If your Egypt trip needs a small amount of data, Airalo is not the provider to buy it from.

Above three gigabytes, it is the only game

The picture used to invert as soon as you wanted more, and it no longer does. An earlier version of this page said our Egypt data held no metered plan above 3GB from anyone but Airalo. Nomad's Egyptian ladder had never been checked; read at source on 17 August 2026, it runs 5GB at $18, 10GB at $28 and 20GB at $37, against Airalo's $20, $33 and $42 over the same thirty days. Airalo is beaten at every one of those sizes, and Nomad's 20GB at $1.85 a gigabyte is the cheapest rate in the country. Saily still stops at 3GB.

Within that ladder, buy the long validity. Going from 7 days to 30 costs a dollar at 5GB and two dollars at 10GB; 15 to 30 days at 20GB costs one dollar. There is no argument for the short version of any of them.

The rate improves as you climb, though never to a bargain: $4.00 a gigabyte at 5GB, $3.30 at 10GB, $2.10 at 20GB. Egypt is simply an expensive eSIM market on our numbers, and the best per-gigabyte deal Airalo offers in it is the 20GB month at $2.10 — still 25 cents a gigabyte above Nomad's rate at the same size.

Two coincidences are worth spotting in the table. Unlimited for three days costs $19.50, exactly what 5GB over 15 days costs. And unlimited for a week costs $32, exactly what 10GB over 15 days costs. In both pairs, unless you are streaming hard, the metered plan is the better buy — more days, and enough data for ordinary travel.

Against Holafly's unlimited listings, Airalo wins in the middle and loses at both ends: cheaper at 7, 10 and 15 days, more expensive at 3 and 5 days, and $90 against $74.90 over a month.

Network, and the passport question

Airalo does not publish a host network for Egypt. It publishes one for no country, so there is nothing on the product page to look up and nothing in our data to pass on. eSIMCard is the only one of the six sellers that publishes a host network at all — we read that directly on its Japan page — but the carriers our own data carried for it in this country came from this site's generated text rather than from eSIMCard, so we no longer repeat them. Nomad, Saily and Holafly publish nothing either.

Where that bites is off the main routes. Coverage through Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan and the Red Sea resorts is not the issue. The Western Desert thins out fast — Siwa is reachable, the deep desert is not — and there are dead stretches on the road south of Luxor towards Abu Simbel and through the interior mountains of Sinai. No travel eSIM sold for Egypt lets you choose the carrier that covers those.

There is one genuine administrative advantage. Buying a local Egyptian SIM means registering it against your passport, and it costs around $8 at an airport counter. An eSIM needs no passport and no counter, which is worth real time on arrival at Cairo or Hurghada even when it costs more.

Verdict

Buy Airalo in Egypt if you want more than 3GB and you want a choice of validities: it is the only seller here offering 5, 10 and 20GB over three different windows. Ten gigabytes for 30 days at $33 covers a normal fortnight; take 20GB at $42 if you tether a laptop. Take the 30-day validity in every case; it costs a dollar or two. If the thirty-day version is all you want — which it is for most people — Nomad's verified $28 and $37 do the same job for $5 less.

Do not buy Airalo in Egypt for a light trip. At 1GB and 3GB it is roughly twice the price of the listed alternatives, on shorter validity, and the money saved is better spent on almost anything else. Full comparison on the Egypt hub.