Airalo in Romania: 17 prices, read off the site

Every Airalo price for Romania

Seventeen plans, all read from Airalo's own site on 13 August 2026. Eleven sell a fixed allowance; six sell unlimited data for a fixed number of days. Nomad's Romanian prices below were read from its own store on 17 August 2026 and are equally verified. The Saily and Holafly figures are indicative, drawn from our wider dataset rather than a fresh check at source.

Two things fall straight out of that grid. Duration is nearly free: 5GB costs $10.00 for a week and $11.00 for a month, and 10GB costs $17.00 against $18.00. There is no reason to buy the short window unless your trip is genuinely three days long. And Airalo's ladder stops at 20GB, so a heavy month on Airalo means unlimited or nothing. An earlier version of this page said Romania has no 50GB plan at all. That was wrong: Nomad sells 50GB over 30 days here for $45, which is $0.90 a gigabyte and the cheapest rate in the country.

Per gigabyte, the range runs from $4.00 at 1GB to $1.40 at 20GB. That is not cheap by regional standards. Airalo charges $12.00 for a 10GB month in neighbouring Poland and $18.00 for the same thing here.

Unlimited is where Airalo wins

Holafly is the provider most travellers associate with unlimited data, and in Romania it is the more expensive of the two at both lengths we can line up.

Fifty cents at five days, $2.40 at ten, and at the top a straight embarrassment: Holafly's 25-day plan is $68.90 and Airalo's 30-day is $69.00. Ten cents buys five more days. Airalo also fills the gaps Holafly leaves — three, seven and fifteen-day windows that have no equivalent.

The honest caveat is that Holafly's figures are indicative and Airalo's are verified. If Holafly has cut prices since ours were recorded, the margin moves. Nothing we hold suggests it has.

Capped data is where it loses

Nomad's Romanian prices, now checked at source, undercut Airalo at the two sizes that matter: $16.00 against $18.00 for a 10GB month, and $20.00 against $28.00 for 20GB — 29% off at the larger size, for the same allowance over the same window. An earlier version of this page put those Nomad figures at $14.00 and $22.00; both were wrong, and the 20GB gap is wider than we said, not narrower.

It does not win everywhere. At 5GB Airalo's $11.00 beats Nomad's $12.50, and at 1GB Airalo's $4.00 beats Nomad's $4.50. Nomad also sells 3GB for a month at $9.00, a combination Airalo does not offer at all — its 3GB plans run for three or seven days only.

Against Saily it goes the other way. Saily's $12.99 for a 5GB month and $19.99 for a 10GB month both sit above Airalo's verified $11.00 and $18.00. The one place Saily wins is the entry point: $3.99 for 1GB over seven days, a penny under Airalo's $4.00 for 1GB over three.

So the shape of the market here is Nomad for capped data at 10GB and above, Airalo for unlimited and for the small end, Saily for a single cheap week, and Holafly for nothing in particular.

The network question, answered honestly

Airalo does not publish which Romanian network its plans roam onto. It does not do so for any country, and our data holds no host network for it here. An older version of this page named two Romanian carriers; that was not something anyone had confirmed, and it has been removed rather than repeated.

If which carrier you land on matters to your trip, no travel eSIM can promise you that in writing, and a physical local SIM is the only way to control it.

Coverage, ID and the local alternative

Romania's dead zones are geographic and shared by every provider: remote Carpathian trails above about 1,600 metres, the Danube Delta's reed channels once you are on the water away from the villages, and very remote rural settlements in the Moldova region. Bucharest, Cluj, Brașov, Timișoara and the roads between them are unremarkable.

A prepaid Romanian SIM from Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania, Digi or Telekom Romania costs around $13 at the airport, and registration requires a passport or ID card at the counter. Note the arithmetic: that is more than Airalo's verified $11.00 for 5GB over a month, and the eSIM needs no documents and no queue. Romania is one of the countries where the local SIM does not obviously win.

Before any purchase, check your own contract. Romania is in the EU, so an EU or EEA home plan normally works there at domestic rates under roam-like-at-home. The Romania hub has the full comparison, and our cheapest eSIM roundup covers longer multi-country trips.

Verdict

Buy Airalo in Romania if you want unlimited data — it is cheaper than Holafly at every comparable length and sells more window sizes. Hotspot tethering is supported on all plans, so a laptop can share the connection.

If you want a fixed allowance of 10GB or more, price Nomad first: Airalo is $2 dearer at 10GB and $8 dearer at 20GB, and Airalo has no answer at all to Nomad's 50GB for $45. Below that Airalo wins — $11.00 against $12.50 at 5GB, $4.00 against $4.50 at 1GB. Both sets of prices have now been read at source, so there is no longer a confidence penalty on either side.