Saily, re-read from source in thirty-seven countries

What we checked, and what it changed

On 13, 16 and 18 August 2026 we read Saily's own site for thirty-seven countries and recorded 185 plans. Those rows are marked verified. The other 40 rows we hold for Saily, covering the remaining 11 countries, came from this site's original generated content and are indicative only. Saily appears in 48 of the 94 countries this site now covers. It is absent from the other 46 — Taiwan, Malaysia, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Kenya and 36 more — and those 46 are exactly the countries where Airalo is the only seller we hold a price for at all.

The thirty-seven we checked are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam.

The eleven still unread are Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Finland, New Zealand, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates.

Every single country we checked differed from what we had been publishing, in both directions. Indonesia had been understated by 47%. Canada by 55%. Turkey had been overstated by 30%. In the second batch the Czech Republic came in at half what we had for its 1 GB plan, and Egypt and Morocco at more than double. None of those errors were small, and none pointed the same way, which is what you would expect from numbers that were generated rather than read. Treat any Saily price on this site outside the thirty-seven above as a placeholder.

The $3.99 gigabyte that never existed

The clearest evidence that our old Saily rows were invented rather than gathered is that they were all the same. Before the price checks, our dataset held Saily's 1 GB / 7-day plan at exactly $3.99 in almost every country it covered. A single repeated figure across dozens of markets is not what a real price list looks like.

Read at source, that plan runs from $1.99 to $8.99:

Austria and the Czech Republic at $1.99 are genuine outliers — less than half what most European markets charge for the same plan. Egypt and Morocco at $8.99 are Saily's dearest markets by a wide margin, and they stay dearest all the way up: $42.99 for 20 GB against $15.99 in Austria for the same allowance over the same month.

The shape of the ladder

Saily's checked catalogue is narrow and consistent: five plans per country, at 1 GB over 7 days and 3, 5, 10 and 20 GB over 30 days. Nothing larger.

The 20 GB plan is the cheapest per gigabyte in every one of the thirty-seven countries we have checked, without exception. That rate runs from 80 cents in Austria to $2.20 in Canada.

The 1 GB plans, by contrast, run at $1.99 to $8.99 a gigabyte — two to five times the rate on the same provider's 20 GB plan. That pattern is universal across travel eSIMs and Saily is neither better nor worse at it than anyone else.

It is never the cheapest per gigabyte, and the reason is structural

In none of the 48 countries where we hold a Saily price does it have the lowest cost per gigabyte in our data. That sounds damning and mostly is not. Saily stops at 20 GB, and in 56 of our 94 countries the cheapest plan on the site is a 50 GB one from Airalo. You cannot win a per-gigabyte race against a plan tier you do not sell.

Compared at matched size, the picture is much closer, and closer than one comparison usually gets. Across the thirty-seven countries where both providers are verified, on 20 GB over 30 days, the two are within a dollar of each other in twenty-five. In several markets they are within a single cent — Saily $15.99 against Airalo $16.00 in Austria, $10.99 against $11.00 at 10 GB, $7.99 against $8.00 at 5 GB, and the same penny recurs in the Czech Republic, Sweden, Singapore, the Philippines and elsewhere. Whatever produces that, it is not two companies pricing independently.

Where the gap opens it usually goes Airalo's way, and by more: $27.99 against $19 in Portugal, $25.99 against $20 in Belgium, $43.99 against $37 in Canada, $37.99 against $31 in Mexico. Saily is genuinely ahead at 20 GB in sixteen countries, mostly by cents.

So: broadly line-ball with the strongest priced provider we hold at the sizes both sell, with no answer at all above 20 GB. If you want a month of heavy use in Europe, that ceiling is the whole story.

The unlimited plans we cannot price

Saily sells unlimited data plans at seven durations — 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 days — in every country we checked, and we hold none of those prices. Not one row. Our Saily data is metered plans only, and any comparison you read here that involves Saily silently excludes a large part of what it actually sells.

That is a gap in our coverage, not a criticism of the product. But it means this page cannot tell you whether Saily's unlimited is good value against Holafly's, which is unlimited-only, or against Airalo's. We would rather say that than fill the hole.

No host network, in any country

Saily's country pages promise “a reliable connection from the country’s best networks”. They do not name one. There is no page on saily.com we found that states which operator a given eSIM roams onto, in any of the 48 countries it sells.

Our data still carries 21 network entries against Saily rows — Vodafone Albania, du, Spark NZ and so on. Every one of them sits on a row we have not re-read, and every one was scraped out of this site's original generated prose, the same text whose prices turned out to be wrong in all thirty-seven countries we later checked. Saily itself names no operator anywhere: its country pages promise only a connection from the country's best networks. Those entries are ours, not Saily's, and no coverage decision should rest on one.

Who it suits

Saily is a reasonable default for 3 to 20 GB over a month, priced within a dollar of the best verified alternative in most places we have checked, and it is one of only three providers where we can point at a price we have actually seen. It is the outright cheapest way into Austria and the Czech Republic, and the most expensive way into Egypt and Morocco. It is not the choice for a heavy month, because it has nothing above 20 GB. And it is not the choice if you need to know which network you are on.

If you are looking at one of the eleven countries we have not re-read, use the country hub's other columns and treat the Saily line as unreliable until we get to it. In the nine countries where we hold no Saily row at all, the hub says so rather than filling the gap.

Country detail: Austria, the Czech Republic, Japan, Thailand, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Egypt, Morocco and the United States. Everything we price is ranked together on cost per gigabyte, and how we test sets out what verified means.