UPeSIM eSIM review

Read this before you buy from UPeSIM

UPeSIM is a French seller that has been trading since 2018, which makes it one of the older travel eSIM brands we list, and its terms name a real registered company you can look up. The catch is on the price. Every figure it advertises excludes VAT, and its own terms say VAT is due inside the EU, so a European buyer pays more than the number on the page while a buyer outside the EU pays what it says.

• The price you see excludes VAT, and whether you pay it depends on where you are. Article 2 of their Terms of Sales reads: prices are indicated in euros without taxes, VAT and other taxes applicable on the day of the order and depending on the country of the buyer, and VAT is due in EU Zone. So an EU buyer should expect the figure in our table to rise at their payment step, and a buyer outside the EU should not. No VAT inclusive price is published anywhere on their site.
• You pay in euros, not dollars. They sell in euros only, with no currency switcher, so the dollar figures in our tables are converted at the European Central Bank daily reference rate and refreshed every night. Your card is charged the euro amount and your bank adds its own rate and possibly a foreign transaction fee.
• There is no cooling off period on an eSIM, and they say so plainly. Their terms cite article L.121-21-8 of the French Consumer Code, under which the right of withdrawal does not apply to a digital product. They also state no refund for a device that turns out to be incompatible or carrier locked, and that an eSIM cannot be reinstalled once used. Check your handset before you buy, not after.
• The clock starts when you first use data, not when you buy. Their FAQ calls it the credit validity period and says it begins when the user starts using the internet. A separate expiry date sets the last day the eSIM can be installed at all, so the two dates are not the same thing.
• Hotspot is allowed and they state it without hedging. Their FAQ answer is that UPeSIM lets you share the data connection via hotspot for other devices. That is a site wide statement rather than a per plan one, so we show it on every plan.
• The company checks out. Their terms name UPeSIM as a simplified joint stock company at 12 place du General Leclerc, 92150 Suresnes, registered at RCS Nanterre under 841 222 474. The French company register returns the same number as an active company created on 17 July 2018 under the telecoms activity code, trading as MYSIM. Worth noting that the address in their website markup is a Paris one, while the registered office in their own terms is the Suresnes address that matches the register.
• We could not read any independent review score for them. Trustpilot blocks our server, so unlike some sellers we cannot tell you whether a profile exists or what it says. Their own site claims 4.9 out of 5 from 281 Google Play reviews and 4.9 from 310 App Store reviews, which are their figures and not ours.
• On price they sit just below the middle of the market. Their median plan works out at about $2.28 per gigabyte against a $2.94 median across everything we track, so roughly a fifth cheaper than the typical plan. They are not the cheapest anywhere we compared, which is normal: the cheapest plan in any country is the best of nearly fifty sellers.

We list UPeSIM because its prices are real and its plans rank on the same maths as everyone else's. We publish what we could not verify so you can decide with the facts in front of you.