Holafly review: 264 prices, six durations, no gigabytes, no network

Holafly review: we have read 264 Holafly prices, and this page has changed

An earlier version of this Holafly review said that not one Holafly price on this site had been verified, and built its argument on that. It then said 168 were. Neither is true now.

On 18 August 2026 we read esim.holafly.com directly, in USD, country by country. All 264 of our Holafly rows are verified, across 44 countries. Each country has six plans, so the whole catalogue is now on the table and the question has moved from "what does it cost" to "is it worth it".

Six durations, everywhere, and nothing else

Holafly sells 3, 5, 7, 10, 15 and 30 days. Not five of them in one country and seven in another: the same six lengths in all 44 countries we read, every one unlimited, with no gigabyte allowance attached to any of them.

This is why Holafly does not appear in our cheapest eSIM table. There is no 5 GB Holafly plan to set against a 5 GB Airalo plan and no cost-per-gigabyte figure to sort it by. That is the product working as designed, not a hole in our data.

It is also absent from three of the biggest markets we cover. We hold no Holafly rows at all for Australia, Thailand or the United States.

What does Holafly cost?

Most of Europe and East Asia is priced identically. Twenty-nine countries share one ladder to the cent: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

That $73.90 month appears in 30 of the 44 countries once South Korea, which differs only at three days ($12.50), is counted in. That is the biggest single group by a long way: no other ladder is shared by more than two countries.

This is worth pausing on, because on the eSIM Go page a repeated figure is our evidence of fabrication. Here it is not, and the difference is the source: these came off Holafly's own checkout, one country at a time. What repetition tells you about Holafly is that it does not price by market at all. It runs zones. Norway and Indonesia cost the same because Holafly has decided they are the same tier, not because their wholesale costs match.

Outside that zone the spread is wide:

India costs 73% more than Spain for the identical product, and Albania costs 95% more. If you are choosing between destinations, that is a real number; if you are not, it means the Holafly price you saw quoted for one trip tells you very little about the next one.

Is Holafly dearer than Airalo and Nomad?

Almost always. Airalo and Nomad sell unlimited plans too, and theirs are verified as well, so this is a comparison between prices that have all been read. Saily has no unlimited plans in our verified data, so it cannot be set against Holafly at the same duration.

Across every country and duration where Holafly and a verified unlimited rival sell the same length, that is 256 comparisons in all 44 countries, Holafly is the more expensive option 242 times, level 5 times and cheaper 9 times. At 30 days it is dearer in all 40 countries where a rival month exists. In Germany its month is $73.90 against Airalo's verified $59. In Spain, $64.50 against $63. In Japan, $73.90 against $69. In India, $111.90 against Airalo's $99. In Albania, $125.90 against $98, the widest gap we found at $27.90.

The nine wins are small and real. Canada at 3, 10 and 15 days ($17.90, $34.90 and $44.90, each 10 cents under the cheapest of Nomad and Airalo), Argentina at 3 and 5 days ($19.90 and $28.90, 10 cents under Airalo), India and South Africa at 3 days ($19.90, 60 cents under Airalo), Colombia at 7 days ($27.90 against $29.50) and South Africa at 15 days ($63.50 against $68). The five ties are Colombia at 3 and 5 days, and India, Argentina and South Africa at 7, 10 and 7 days respectively. If your trip is one of those, Holafly is the cheapest verified unlimited plan available, usually by a few cents.

Everywhere else you are paying a premium for the same thing. What that premium buys is a simpler catalogue and, by most accounts, a smoother app. It does not buy coverage information, for the reason below.

Does Holafly publish its host network?

Our Holafly rows used to name real operators where Airalo's and Saily's sat blank, and this site treated that as Holafly's one clear advantage.

It was our advantage, not Holafly's. We read the country pages on the same visit as the prices. They name no carrier at all. The Austrian page offers nothing more specific than "Fast and reliable coverage", with no A1, no Magenta, no Drei, all three of which our own rows had attributed to Holafly's listing. Every other country page was the same.

Those entries had already looked wrong. Several arrived visibly cut off mid-word, such as "TIM / Vodafone Italy / WindT" and "Orange France / SFR / Bouygu", which is text truncated by a character cap, exactly what generated prose does and nothing like what reading a page produces.

So Holafly is not the exception this page once made it. Not one seller whose own site we have read publishes the network its plans roam onto. If you need a particular carrier, nothing on this site will get it for you.

Are any Holafly prices still unverified?

Not in the 44 countries above: every one of those rows was read from Holafly's site. The earlier set of 72 unchecked rows is gone, and so is the warning that went with it.

One small leftover remains in the site's combined plan data. It holds seven Holafly rows for the United Arab Emirates (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15 and 20 days) that we have not checked. Holafly sells no 1-day or 20-day plan in any country we have read, so treat them as unknown and do not rely on them.

Where does Holafly fit?

Short, heavy trips where you may want to share your connection. Trips of three to seven days with unpredictable use are what duration pricing is for, and at that length the few dollars between Holafly and Airalo are not worth the comparison shopping. Canada, Argentina, Colombia, India and South Africa at the short end are the cases where it is also the cheapest checked option.

On tethering, we have changed our view. This hub used to say unlimited plans meant you would not tether. Holafly's current pages say hotspot is available on many plans where the destination allows it, with the daily shareable allowance shown on each destination page. Read the Holafly hotspot page before you rule it out or count on it.

For a month it is harder to justify. Airalo's verified unlimited month undercuts it in every country where we hold one, and a verified Airalo 50 GB metered plan at $29 to $42 across most of Europe sits $30 or more below $73.90 and covers ordinary use. Unlimited plans also carry a fair-use qualification that is not in the headline price: Holafly's terms let the network provider restrict speed or use it considers excessive. Read them before you buy on the strength of the word "unlimited".

Per-country pages, now carrying verified prices where we have them: Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey, Mexico, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and South Africa. How we test explains what verified means.

Holafly help topics

Practical guides, all read from Holafly's own help centre: how Holafly works, how to activate Holafly eSIM, Holafly eSIM not working, the Holafly app and login, Holafly refund, Holafly support, Holafly hotspot, Holafly compatible phones and the Holafly phone number. One correction to the hub above: Holafly's current pages say hotspot is available on many plans, so see the hotspot page before ruling it out.

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