Saily's Philippines eSIM: mid-table at every size
Saily's Philippines prices have been read off its own site. The 20GB month this page used to recommend at $23.99 actually costs $29.99, which removes the only reason we gave for buying it.
Philippines eSIM plans compared
Nomad50 GB · 30d$45$0.90/GB✓ checkedBest value8 plansData Days Price Per GB 1 GB 7 $4 $4 3 GB 30 $7 $2.33 5 GB 30 $11 $2.20 10 GB 30 $17 $1.70 Unlimited 5 $18 — 20 GB 45 $27 $1.35 Unlimited 10 $33 — 50 GB 30 $45 $0.90 
Airalo50 GB · 30d$48$0.96/GB✓ checked18 plansData 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 $11 $2.20 5 GB 15 $11.50 $2.30 Unlimited 3 $11.50 — 5 GB 30 $12 $2.40 10 GB 7 $18 $1.80 10 GB 15 $18.50 $1.85 Unlimited 5 $18.50 — 10 GB 30 $19 $1.90 Unlimited 7 $27 — 20 GB 15 $28.50 $1.43 20 GB 30 $30 $1.50 Unlimited 10 $34.50 — 50 GB 30 $48 $0.96 Unlimited 15 $48 — Unlimited 30 $71 — 
Saily20 GB · 30d$29.99$1.50/GB✓ checked5 plansData Days Price Per GB 1 GB 7 $3.99 $3.99 3 GB 30 $7.99 $2.66 5 GB 30 $11.99 $2.40 10 GB 30 $18.99 $1.90 20 GB 30 $29.99 $1.50 
HolaflyUnlimited · 3d$11.90unlimited✓ checked6 plansData Days Price Per GB Unlimited 3 $11.90 — Unlimited 5 $20.50 — Unlimited 7 $27.50 — Unlimited 10 $36.50 — Unlimited 15 $50.50 — Unlimited 30 $73.90 —
Providers marked ✓ checked were read from their own site on ; those marked indicative come from our earlier research and are not yet verified. Providers change pricing without notice — check before buying. Host networks marked ? are taken from provider listings and have not been confirmed by us; where no network is shown, the provider does not publish one. How we check prices.
The ladder, corrected
Saily sells five Philippines plans. One weekly, four monthly. Every price below was read off Saily's own site on 18 August 2026.
| Plan | Price | Per GB | What we used to publish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1GB / 7 days | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| 3GB / 30 days | $7.99 | $2.66 | $9.99 |
| 5GB / 30 days | $11.99 | $2.40 | $13.99 |
| 10GB / 30 days | $18.99 | $1.90 | $18.99 |
| 20GB / 30 days | $29.99 | $1.50 | $23.99 |
Three of the five moved, and the one that mattered moved the wrong way. This page was headlined "20GB at $23.99 is the draw" and told readers that single plan was the reason to consider Saily for the Philippines. Saily charges $29.99 for it. The $23.99 was never read off Saily's site — and, to be fair to the caution this page already carried, it told you to check the checkout before buying. That warning turned out to be the most useful thing on the page.
The 3GB and 5GB months, meanwhile, are two dollars cheaper than we said.
Where Saily now sits
Airalo's Philippines prices were verified against its own site on 13 August 2026 and Nomad's against its own on 17 August. Matched at 30 days:
| 30-day plan | Saily | Airalo (verified) | Nomad (verified) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3GB | $7.99 | $8.00 for 7 days | $7 |
| 5GB | $11.99 | $12 | $11 |
| 10GB | $18.99 | $19 | $17 |
| 20GB | $29.99 | $30 | $27.00 over 45 days |
Saily is a single cent under Airalo at 5, 10 and 20GB — the same one-cent pattern the two of them show in almost every country we have checked — and Nomad is a dollar to three dollars under both at every size. There is no tier where Saily is the cheapest option except 1GB, where its $3.99 week beats Airalo's $4.00 three-day plan and Nomad's $4.00 week by a penny.
Above 20GB Saily sells nothing. Nomad's verified 50GB month is $45, or 90 cents a gigabyte, and Airalo's is $48. Saily's best rate is $1.50.
Saily also sells unlimited-data plans for the Philippines, at lengths from five to thirty days. We hold no price for any of them, so nothing on this page tells you what Saily's unlimited tier costs.
Why the old price needed checking
The correction above is the argument for the method rather than an exception to it. The wider audit behind this site found roughly nine in ten unchecked prices did not match when tested, and the $23.99 was one of them.
The errors run both ways. When we checked Saily's Thailand plans against Saily's own site, a 10GB / 30-day plan published here at $16.99 was actually selling at $10.99 — a $6 error in the traveller's favour. In the Philippines the $6 error ran against the traveller. How we test sets out the method and the numbers behind it.
What Saily says about the network
Nothing. An earlier version of this page said Saily's listing pointed to Smart and Globe for the Philippines and noted that only its two smallest rows carried the claim. That was our own generated record rather than anything Saily publishes: Saily names no host network here, and none in any of the forty-eight countries we cover. The attribution has been removed. No travel eSIM provider in our Philippines data has a verified host network.
That is worth taking seriously here because Philippine coverage is uneven in ways that a country-level average hides. Manila, Cebu, Boracay and the developed resort areas are well served. Batanes, the Camiguin hinterlands, the smaller Visayas islands, the interior of Palawan and Mindanao, and the water between island-hopping stops such as Big Lagoon and Kayangan Lake are not. Nobody can sell you a particular carrier's towers in the Philippines, so if that coverage is the point of your trip, buy a local SIM and choose the carrier yourself.
Buying it
No ID or passport is required for the eSIM. A local prepaid SIM is cheaper at around $5 from an airport counter, with Globe, Smart Communications and DITO all selling to visitors, but registration requires your passport and ID.
Saily's Philippines plans are data only — no local number, no calls, no SMS — and its listing says hotspot tethering is supported across the range.
Verdict
There is no size in the Philippines at which Saily is now the buy, apart from a penny at 1GB. Nomad's verified ladder is cheaper at 3, 5, 10 and 20GB, and its 50GB month at $45 is the cheapest large plan in the country, with Airalo's $48 the only alternative; Airalo is a cent dearer than Saily and otherwise interchangeable with it.
For light trips, Nomad's verified 5GB month at $11.00. For heavy ones, Nomad's verified 50GB at $45.00. Everything sits side by side on the Philippines hub.
Common questions
Is Saily the cheapest eSIM for the Philippines?
Only at 1GB, and only by a penny: $3.99 for a week against $4.00 from both Airalo and Nomad. Above that Nomad is cheaper at every size — $7 against $7.99 at 3GB, $11 against $11.99 at 5GB, $17 against $18.99 at 10GB and $27 over 45 days against $29.99 over 30 at 20GB. An earlier version of this answer said Saily's 20GB month at $23.99 was $6 under Airalo's; Saily's real price, read off its own site on 18 August 2026, is $29.99. At 50GB Saily sells nothing.
Which network does Saily use in the Philippines?
None that it publishes. An earlier version of this answer said its listing pointed to Smart and Globe; that came from our own generated record rather than from Saily, and it has been removed. We hold no host network against a single Saily row in any of the forty-eight countries in our data. Do not choose Saily expecting a specific carrier's coverage.
Does Saily offer unlimited data in the Philippines?
Saily does sell unlimited-data plans here, at lengths from five to thirty days, but we hold no price for any of them and will not guess. Its largest metered plan is 20GB for 30 days at $29.99. For uncapped data at a price we can quote, Airalo is verified from $11.50 for three days and Holafly from a verified $11.90.