Fiji's metered eSIM plans stop at 10 GB, and everything expensive about the market follows from that

Fourteen prices, one provider, one day

Airalo is the only eSIM seller we have priced in Fiji. Fourteen plans, all fourteen verified, every figure read off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard and eSIM Go all sell travel eSIMs and none has been priced here, so none of them carries a number on this page. This is a full account of one seller, not a comparison of the market.

Airalo lists the Fijian plans as Vinaka Fiji. That is the company's own retail name for the product rather than a mobile operator. Airalo publishes no host network for Fiji, and does not publish one for any country, so which Fijian network the eSIM roams onto is genuinely unknown to us.

Metered plans

Nine metered plans, and the largest is 10 GB. There is no 20 GB tier and no 50 GB tier. Five unlimited plans sit beside them, priced by the day.

$4.70, tied with Nigeria as the dearest ladder we hold

Across 94 countries, the cheapest gigabyte in Fiji is beaten almost everywhere. Nigeria matches it exactly at $4.70, and Kenya is marginally better at $4.60. No other market where the seller offers a real range of plans comes close. Before these countries were priced, the worst rate we held was the Dominican Republic's $3.43.

There is one dearer figure in the data, and skipping past it would be the wrong kind of tidy. Lebanon holds exactly one plan — 1 GB at $27, or $27 a gigabyte — and nothing else. A single product is not a market, and there is no ladder there to compare. Fiji and Nigeria remain the dearest markets we have properly priced.

The scale is easier to feel against the same seller elsewhere. Airalo's Thai 50 GB plan was $27.50 — $0.55 a gigabyte. Its Austrian one was $29.00, $0.58. A gigabyte in Fiji costs eight or nine times either.

We cannot tell you why, and we are not going to speculate. Airalo does not publish how it prices country by country. What the data does show is the mechanism.

The ceiling is the mechanism

On every ladder we hold, the rate per gigabyte falls as the plan grows. Fiji's own numbers show it: $7.50 a gigabyte at 1 GB, $5.60 at 5 GB, $4.70 at 10 GB. The curve is bending in the right direction — it just runs out of road.

Countries that keep going land far lower. South Africa reaches 50 GB and floors at $0.98 a gigabyte. Tanzania and Ghana reach 20 GB and floor at $2.15 and $2.40. Fiji, Kenya and Nigeria stop at 10 GB, and all three sit between $4.60 and $4.70. Where the ladder ends predicts the floor better than any other single thing in the data.

It is a tendency, not a law — the Dominican Republic stops at 20 GB and still sits at $3.43 — but in Fiji it explains essentially the whole price.

Unlimited is the only route past 10 GB

Because the metered range ends where it does, anyone needing more than 10 GB has one option: the unlimited plans, priced by time. They are $27.50 for 3 days, $41.50 for 5, $53.00 for 7, $69.00 for 10 and $95.00 for 15. There is no 30-day version.

One is a good buy; the rest deserve care.

The 7-day unlimited at $53.00 sits $6 above the 10 GB plan covering the same week at $47.00. Six dollars to stop counting, on a ladder where six dollars buys barely more than a gigabyte, is the best-value step on this page.

The 15-day unlimited at $95.00 is a different proposition — almost exactly double the 10 GB fortnight plan at $48.00. Even so, the alternative for two weeks of heavy use is buying two 10 GB plans at $48.00 each, which is $96.00. A dollar more, for a hard cap instead of none. If you are certain you will pass 10 GB in a fortnight, the unlimited plan is the cleaner buy.

The short unlimited plans are harder to justify. Three days unlimited is $27.50 against $18.00 for 3 GB over the same three days, and most people do not use 3 GB in a weekend.

What to buy

• A few days. 3 GB over 3 days at $18.00. Poor value at $6.00 a gigabyte, like everything small here.
• A week, light use. 5 GB over 7 days at $28.00.
• A week, normal use. 10 GB over 7 days at $47.00, or $53.00 for unlimited over the same week.
• A fortnight, heavy use. Unlimited for 15 days at $95.00. Expensive, and still marginally cheaper than the two-plan alternative.

The local SIM we have not researched

At these rates the honest expectation is that a Fijian prepaid SIM bought on arrival would undercut the eSIM, probably by a wide margin. That is what usually happens in markets with floors this high.

We will not recommend it, because we have not checked it. There is no Fijian local SIM research in our data: no prices, no operator names, no registration rules, no shop or counter detail, and nothing on whether local providers support eSIM at all. We would rather leave the gap visible than close it with something nobody read.

What this page is, and is not

It is fourteen prices from one seller, read on one day, with the date attached. It is not a ranking, because five of the six sellers we track have no Fijian figures. It is not coverage advice, because no network information exists in the data.

That narrowness is deliberate and it is described at how we test. Our Airalo page covers the seller across every country we hold, and the cheapest eSIM plans shows where Fiji's $4.70 sits against the rest — at the very bottom of the value table, level with Nigeria.