Pakistan's cheapest verified eSIM rate is $1.35 a gigabyte, the lowest of the five markets we priced this day
Airalo's 20 GB Pakistan plan is $27 over 15 days, which is $1.35 a gigabyte. Its 1 GB plan is $4.00. Seventeen prices, all read off the checkout on 17 August 2026, from the one provider we hold for Pakistan.
One seller, seventeen prices, one date
Airalo is the only eSIM provider whose Pakistani prices anyone here has read: seventeen plans, all seventeen verified off airalo.com on 17 August 2026. That is our complete Pakistan dataset. Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard and eSIM Go all sell travel eSIMs and none has been priced here yet, so none of them appears below with a figure beside it.
Airalo sells its Pakistani plans under the name Sheesh. That is Airalo's own retail product label, not an operator, and Airalo publishes no host network for Pakistan — it publishes none for any country on earth. Which Pakistani network you end up roaming on is therefore something we cannot tell you, and anyone who states it confidently is guessing.
The metered ladder
| Data | Days | Price | Per GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | 3 | $4 | $4 |
| 3 GB | 3 | $7.50 | $2.50 |
| 3 GB | 7 | $8 | $2.67 |
| 5 GB | 7 | $10 | $2 |
| 5 GB | 15 | $10.50 | $2.10 |
| 5 GB | 30 | $11 | $2.20 |
| 10 GB | 7 | $17 | $1.70 |
| 10 GB | 15 | $17.50 | $1.75 |
| 10 GB | 30 | $18 | $1.80 |
| 20 GB | 15 | $27 | $1.35 |
| 20 GB | 30 | $28 | $1.40 |
Eleven metered plans and six unlimited ones. Two things stand out. The entry price is $4.00, where Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Iraq all charge $4.50 for the same 1 GB over 3 days. And the whole ladder is compressed — the worst rate is $4.00 a gigabyte and the best $1.35, a spread of under three to one where most markets manage four or five.
A low ceiling does not have to mean a high price
The most useful pattern on this site is that where a country's ladder stops predicts what it costs. Markets running to 50 GB land near a dollar a gigabyte; markets stopping at 20 GB usually sit between two and three; markets stopping at 10 GB — Kenya at $4.60, Fiji and Nigeria at $4.70 — are the worst on the site.
Pakistan is the exception worth knowing about. Its ladder stops at 20 GB, exactly like Qatar, Jordan and Iraq, and yet it costs $0.80 to $1.05 a gigabyte less than any of them. Read across the five markets priced on 17 August: Pakistan $1.35, Saudi Arabia $1.96, Qatar $2.15, Iraq $2.35, Jordan $2.40. Same seller, same day, same 20 GB ceiling in four of the five.
Sharper still: Pakistan's 5 GB week costs $10, which is $2.00 a gigabyte — a better rate than the largest and best plan Airalo sells in Qatar, Iraq or Jordan. A small Pakistani plan beats a big Jordanian one. So the ceiling explains a great deal but not everything, and Pakistan is where that shows.
Unlimited is the expensive way to buy here
Airalo lists six unlimited Pakistan plans: $12.50 for 3 days, $20.50 for 5, $29.50 for 7, $35 for 10, $49 for 15 and $72.50 for 30.
Because the metered plans are cheap, the unlimited ones look poor by comparison. Fifteen days of unlimited is $49 against $27 for 20 GB over the same fifteen days. Thirty days is $72.50 against $28. That is nearly double the money at a fortnight and more than two and a half times it at a month, to remove a limit most travellers on a phone never reach. The one defensible buy is the three-day plan at $12.50, where the metered alternative at 3 GB is $7.50 and five dollars is a fair price for a weekend of not counting.
Which tier to buy
- A few days. 3 GB over 3 days at $7.50, or 5 GB over 7 days at $10 — the 5 GB plan is better value per gigabyte and lasts twice as long.
- A week of ordinary use. 10 GB over 7 days at $17.
- A fortnight, or a phone tethering a laptop. 20 GB over 15 days at $27, the lowest rate in the country.
- A month. 20 GB over 30 days at $28. There is nothing larger, so heavy users should plan on a second eSIM rather than an upgrade.
Where $1.35 sits on the site
Cheap for the region, mid-table overall. Airalo's Indian floor was $1.82 a gigabyte on 13 August and its Egyptian floor $2.05, so Pakistan undercuts both. It does not come near the cheapest markets we hold — Thailand at $0.55, Austria at $0.58, Belgium at $0.65, Turkey at $0.69 — and every one of those has a 50 GB plan that Pakistan does not.
That is the honest summary: Pakistan is the best-value market of the five we priced on 17 August, and roughly two and a half times the cost of the best market on the site. Why Airalo prices it lower than its neighbours we cannot say. It publishes no country-by-country logic and nobody here has seen a wholesale rate card.
What this page does not cover
No local SIM information: no shop or counter prices, no operator names, no registration rules. We have not researched it for Pakistan and would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with plausible text.
We hold nothing on local rules for calling apps, VPNs or SIM registration either, so this page says nothing about what is permitted or required. Check current official sources yourself before you travel.
And we hold nothing for the other five sellers. If one of them beats $1.35 a gigabyte here, we would not know it. That distinction is the whole of how we test. Our Airalo page covers the company across every country we hold, and the cheapest eSIM plans puts this rate beside every other one on the site.
Common questions
Which eSIM is cheapest in Pakistan?
Of the prices anyone here has read, Airalo’s 20 GB plan over 15 days at $27 is the cheapest per gigabyte, at $1.35. Airalo is the only provider whose Pakistani checkout we have opened, so this is not a market-wide answer — Saily, Holafly, Nomad, eSIMCard and eSIM Go are unpriced here and one of them could be cheaper.
Why is Pakistan cheaper than Qatar or Jordan?
We can show it but not explain it. All five markets were read from Airalo on 17 August: Pakistan floors at $1.35 a gigabyte, Saudi Arabia $1.96, Qatar $2.15, Iraq $2.35, Jordan $2.40. Four of the five stop at 20 GB, so the usual explanation — where the ladder ends — does not account for the gap. Airalo does not publish its pricing logic.
Is an unlimited Pakistan eSIM worth it?
Usually not, because the metered plans are unusually cheap. Fifteen days of unlimited is $49 while 20 GB over the same fifteen days is $27, and thirty days is $72.50 against $28. The exception is a short stay: $12.50 for three days of unlimited against $7.50 for 3 GB is a five-dollar premium for not counting.
Which Pakistani network does an Airalo eSIM use?
We do not know. Airalo publishes no host network for Pakistan and none for any other country, so the only honest answer is that it is not disclosed. Sheesh is the name on the listing, but that is Airalo’s own product label rather than a carrier and tells you nothing about coverage.