Cheapest eSIM for Asia

What the cheapest Asia eSIM costs right now

As of 16 October 2026, 06:08 GMT, the best rate on an Asia plan is ASIMGO at $0.43 per GB: 10 GB for 5 Days at $4.29, across 3 countries. The median across all 1133 plans is $1.92, so half of what is sold in this region costs more than that.

• Smallest ticket price Yesim, 502 MB for 1 Day at $0.45. Useful for a short hop, rarely the best value per GB.
• Best rate on a large plan ASIMGO, 20 GB for 7 Days at $8.74, $0.44 per GB. Buying bigger is almost always cheaper per GB than topping up twice.
• Longest validity MobiMatter, 365 Days on one plan. Long itineraries lose money on short plans that have to be replaced.
• Features across these plans 555 can be topped up, 734 advertise 5G, 949 allow hotspot use, and 500 are sold as unlimited.

Which is the best eSIM for Asia?

Best depends on the trip, so here are the winners on today's numbers rather than one name. Each line is the first row of a different sort on the 1133 live plans above:

• Best value ASIMGO, 10 GB for 5 Days at $4.29: $0.43 per GB across 3 countries.
• Widest coverage SogdiaRoam, 33 countries on one eSIM, 6 GB for 10 Days at $19.90.
• Best for a long trip MobiMatter, 365 Days on one plan, 45 GB at $43.99.
• Highest daily cap on an unlimited plan MegaEsim, 1 Day at $10.09, full speed up to 10 GB a day. Set that daily cap against the fixed plans before you pay for the word unlimited.

An Asia eSIM only earns its keep once you cross a border. If the whole trip stays in one country, the single country plan usually wins, and the next section prices both sides.

Is an Asia eSIM worth it, or is one plan per country cheaper?

This is the comparison that decides the purchase, and nobody publishes it, so here it is from our own catalogue. We price both sides on the same basket: a plan of 5 to 50 GB lasting at least 15 days, which is what a real trip needs. Bulk data pools are excluded from both sides, because nobody buys 500 GB for a fortnight.

That regional figure is ASIMGO, 50 GB for 20 Days at $25.19, covering 3 countries. The country figure is the average of the cheapest comparable plan in each of the 32 countries we have prices for in this region.

The averages hide a wide spread, and the spread is where the decision actually lives. The cheapest country in this region is Laos at $0.25 per GB on its own plan, well under the regional rate. The dearest is Brunei at $2.20. If your itinerary leans towards the expensive end, the regional plan is worth more than the averages suggest. If it leans cheap, buy per country.

How many countries does an Asia eSIM actually cover?

There is no standard. Across the 1133 plans on this page the country lists differ enormously, and the name on the plan tells you almost nothing. These are the widest plans each provider currently sells in this region.

The countries below are the ones travellers assume are covered. The share is live: it is the proportion of the 1133 Asia plans in our catalogue that currently include that country.

Country	Plans including it	Share
China	2365 of 6072	39%
Hong Kong	2404 of 6072	40%
India	1296 of 6072	21%
Japan	2286 of 6072	38%
South Korea	2363 of 6072	39%
Macau	2100 of 6072	35%
Taiwan	1405 of 6072	23%

China, Hong Kong and Macau are three different things

Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau run separate networks, and a plan that lists one does not automatically carry the others. This is the most expensive assumption in the region, because a traveller flying into Hong Kong and taking the train to Shenzhen needs both.

The other China question is the firewall. Filtering happens on the network inside mainland China, not on your SIM, so no eSIM removes it by existing. What does change things is routing: some roaming plans carry your traffic out to a gateway abroad before it reaches the internet, which is why some travellers reach their usual apps normally. It depends on the plan and the provider, it is not promised, and it can change. If you need a specific service to work in China, ask the provider directly and take a backup.

India is the other regular gap. It is expensive to roam into, so it is dropped from most pan Asian packs and sold on its own.

Are the unlimited Asia plans really unlimited?

That is why unlimited plans carry no price per GB in our table. There is no honest per gigabyte number to print, so we show the daily allowance instead and leave the value verdict blank rather than invent one. At $0.43 per GB from the cheapest fixed plan here, unlimited only pays off if you genuinely burn several gigabytes a day.

How to pick the right Asia plan

Every destination covered by an Asia plan

These 30 destinations are covered by at least one of the plans on this page. No single plan covers them all, so treat this as the list of places worth checking rather than a promise. Several of these plans also reach countries outside the region, which is worth knowing if your trip crosses into one. Each name links to its own price comparison.

ArmeniaAzerbaijanBangladeshBhutanBruneiCambodiaChinaGeorgiaHong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanKazakhstanKyrgyzstanLaosMacauMalaysiaMongoliaNepalPakistanPhilippinesSingaporeSouth KoreaSri LankaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteUzbekistanVietnam

Compare another region

Every region we track, ranked by the cheapest real price per GB, sits on the regional and global eSIM hub. If your trip stays in one country, the country by country comparison will nearly always be cheaper.