eSIM Go does not sell to travellers, and 34 prices on this site implied it did

You cannot buy an eSIM Go plan

That is the finding, and everything else on this page follows from it.

We opened esim-go.com on 18 August 2026 and looked for a price. There is not one anywhere on the site. There is no basket, no checkout and no payment step — where a shop would put "Buy now", eSIM Go puts Contact Sales. There are no per-country consumer pages either: /japan-esim/, /esim-japan/ and /japan/ all return 404, and so does every other shape we tried.

The company's own copy explains why. eSIM Go describes a reseller platform — an API, a catalogue and a billing layer sold to travel brands, MVNOs and other businesses that want to put their own name on an eSIM. Its customer is a company. Airalo, Saily, Nomad and Holafly want your card details; eSIM Go wants a meeting.

So the honest comparison is not "eSIM Go versus Airalo". It is that eSIM Go and Airalo are not in the same business, and a table that ranks them by price is comparing a wholesale rate card with a shop window.

What that makes the 34 prices we hold

We hold 34 eSIM Go rows across 16 countries. Every one of them is a price no traveller can pay. They are not the same as our eSIMCard rows, which were withdrawn on 18 August 2026 for a different reason: eSIMCard runs a working storefront at esimcard.com, so its prices can be paid — ours for it were simply wrong, and its real catalogue does not fit our records. The eSIM Go rows can never be read at a checkout, because there is no checkout.

We have left them in the data rather than deleting them, for two reasons. Quietly removing 34 rows would hide the fact that this site published them for months as though you could buy them. And the shape of those 34 rows is the clearest evidence we have about how the original dataset was built.

The repeated figures

Nineteen of the 34 rows are one of those three figures. Nine countries priced to the cent identically at 10 GB, on four continents, across wholesale markets that have nothing in common.

Real pricing does not do this. Every provider whose prices we have actually read from source varies by country and varies a lot: Airalo's verified 10 GB month runs $14 in Spain and $22.50 in the United States; Nomad's verified 10 GB runs $10 in Thailand and $17 in Canada. A flat $17 repeating across nine unrelated markets is a template being filled, not a business setting prices.

That pattern is the same fabrication signature we found in the Saily rows, where re-reading twenty countries at source produced a different number in all twenty, wrong by as much as 55% in both directions. The difference is that Saily's could be corrected by going and looking. eSIM Go's cannot.

The three networks we named

Six of the 34 rows carry a host carrier: Telekom in Germany, SoftBank in Japan, KT in South Korea. Several pages on this site made a virtue of it — eSIM Go as the one seller that tells you which network you land on.

It does not tell you that. It has no consumer page on which it could tell you. Those three names came out of our own generated corpus, exactly like the carrier names we had attributed to Holafly's "own listing" and later found nowhere on Holafly's site. One seller does publish a host network — eSIMCard names three Japanese operators on its own Japan page, and it is the only one of the six that does. eSIM Go was never that exception, and the pages that said so were repeating our invention back to readers as a reason to pay more.

What we have withdrawn

Every ranking on this site that placed eSIM Go against a seller you can buy from. Those comparisons were not close calls decided on unverified numbers — they were invalid, because one of the two options was never available.

The country pages linked below still show the rows, still show what we recorded, and now say plainly what they are. Where an earlier version told you eSIM Go was cheapest at 10 GB in the United States or at 3 GB in the United Kingdom, that sentence has gone. "Cheapest" requires a price you can pay.

On its own unbuyable numbers eSIM Go would not have won much anyway: a verified Nomad or Airalo plan already undercuts it at its own size in twelve of the sixteen countries, and its one duration means a five-day trip pays for thirty days. But that is a footnote. The reason not to buy eSIM Go is that there is nothing to buy.

If you have seen eSIM Go on a box

You may well have used the network without knowing it. Wholesale platforms sit behind retail brands, so an eSIM bought from an airline, a travel agent or a smaller app may run on eSIM Go's infrastructure. That is a normal arrangement and says nothing bad about the product.

What it does mean is that the price you pay is set by whoever put their name on it, not by eSIM Go — which is another reason the figures on this page could never have been quotes for you.

What would change this page

A consumer checkout at esim-go.com with prices on it. If that appears, we will read the prices the way we read everyone else's and mark the rows verified. Until then this page records a company that sells to businesses, and a dataset that spent months telling travellers otherwise.

Country pages, all carrying the same finding: the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United States, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. Everything you can actually buy is ranked on cost per gigabyte, and how we test sets out what verified means.