Ghana and Tanzania start at identical eSIM prices, then fan apart — and the gap is all in the big plans

Eleven prices, one seller, one reading

Airalo is the only eSIM provider we have priced in Ghana. Eleven plans, all eleven verified, every figure read off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard and eSIM Go also sell travel eSIMs; none of them has been priced in Ghana, so no number for them appears anywhere on this page. That is a real limit on what this page can claim, and it is better stated than hidden.

Airalo sells the Ghanaian plans as Fifi Mobile. That name is Airalo's own retail branding for its Ghana product, not a mobile operator, and it carries no information about coverage. Airalo publishes no host network for Ghana — it publishes none for any country — so which Ghanaian network your phone attaches to is not something we can tell you, however confidently other pages do.

The whole range

Eleven rows, topping out at 20 GB. There is no unlimited option in Ghana, which distinguishes it from several neighbouring markets — Tanzania and Fiji both have one.

Two ladders that start identically

Put the Ghanaian and Tanzanian ranges side by side and the bottom three rungs are the same figure, to the cent: $4.50 for 1 GB over 3 days, $10.00 for 3 GB over 3 days, $11.00 for 3 GB over a week.

Above that they separate, and the gap widens with every step up:

A dollar apart at 5 GB, three at 10 GB, five at 20 GB. Whatever sets these prices, it is not being applied to the small plans at all — those look like a shared regional template — and it lands entirely on the large ones. Since the large plans are where a country's cheapest rate comes from, that is also where Ghana's floor of $2.40 a gigabyte gets set, against $2.15 next door.

We do not know why. Airalo does not publish its per-country pricing, and a plausible-sounding explanation would be a guess dressed up as a finding.

Where the ladder stops still matters most

The wider pattern across every market we hold is that rates fall as plans grow, so a country's floor tracks the size of its largest plan more than anything else.

Ghana reaches 20 GB and floors at $2.40. Nigeria and Fiji stop at 10 GB and floor at $4.70, with Kenya a shade better at $4.60 — the three dearest ladders on a site now covering 94 countries. South Africa reaches 50 GB and floors at $0.98.

The same $49.00 makes the point without any arithmetic: in Ghana it buys 20 GB, in Nigeria 10 GB, in South Africa 50 GB. Same seller, same month.

Ghana lands well clear of that bad end, but it is not mid-table either. Its $2.40 is the 14th dearest floor of the 94 countries we hold, against a median of $0.98. For a sharper sense of scale, the Thai 50 GB plan from the same seller was $27.50 — $0.55 a gigabyte, roughly a quarter of Ghana's best rate.

The rule is a tendency rather than a law: the Dominican Republic also stops at 20 GB and still sits at $3.43. Checking the top of the ladder tells you more than checking the bottom, but it does not tell you everything.

Reading the ladder for your own trip

Duration costs very little here. Each step up in window adds fifty cents at 5 GB and a dollar at 10 GB and 20 GB. If your dates are loose, buy the longer window; it is one of the cheapest things on the page.

Capacity is where the money is, and the steps get better as you climb. Moving from 5 GB to 10 GB across the same week costs $11.50 for five extra gigabytes. Moving from 10 GB over 7 days to 20 GB over 15 costs $21.00 for ten extra gigabytes and twice the time — $2.10 each, better than any average rate on the ladder.

Which gives:

• A weekend. 3 GB over 3 days at $10.00.
• A week. 10 GB over 7 days at $27.00, or $28.00 for the fortnight version.
• Two weeks or more, or any real laptop use. 20 GB over 15 days at $48.00 — the country's cheapest gigabyte at $2.40 — or $49.00 to stretch it across a month.
• More than 20 GB. Not sold. A second plan is the only route, and there is no unlimited tier to fall back on.

The local SIM we have not priced

At $2.40 a gigabyte the eSIM is a long way above what domestic mobile data usually costs, and our honest expectation is that a Ghanaian prepaid SIM bought locally would come in cheaper.

That expectation is not a recommendation. We hold no Ghanaian local SIM research: no prices, no operator names, no registration rules, no advice on where to buy or what identification to bring. If that is the route you want, this page cannot help you take it, and pretending otherwise would undo the reason the site was rebuilt.

What is still missing

Five of the six sellers we track are unpriced in Ghana, so nothing here should be read as a market ranking. It is one company's eleven prices, read on one day, with the date attached — which is the whole of how we test. Our Airalo page covers the seller across every country we hold, and the cheapest eSIM plans shows where Ghana's $2.40 falls among the rest.