The eSIM Price Index
What a gigabyte of travel data actually costs, read from the pricing pages of 8 eSIM providers. As of June 2026, the average works out at $3.85 per GB for a 5 GB / 30-day plan.
Average per GB
$3.85
Median per GB
$3.85
Cheapest
$3.40
GigSky
Providers tracked
8
Price per gigabyte, ranked
Based on a 5 GB / 30-day plan for the Europe region, lowest price first.
Unlimited plans and free tiers are left out, since neither has a per-gigabyte price that means anything.
The trend
The baseline was set in June 2026 at $3.83 per GB. A snapshot of the market is taken every month, and as those build up the year-on-year movement will be shown here. No one else in the eSIM space keeps this record.
Cite this data
According to the eSIMShortlist Price Index, the average travel eSIM costs $3.85 per gigabyte as of June 2026 (https://esimshortlist.com/data/esim-price-index).
Reuse it freely under CC BY 4.0 with a credit and a link back. The machine-readable feed:
https://esimshortlist.com/data/esim-price-index.jsonMethodology
Each provider we follow is measured on its 5 GB / 30-day plan for the Europe region, or the nearest thing it sells, and that price is divided by five to give a cost per gigabyte. From those figures we report the average, the median, and the lowest and highest across the 8 providers with a comparable plan.
Unlimited plans stay out because a per-gigabyte figure cannot be derived from them, and free tiers stay out of the paid average. Every price is a guide price, rechecked from time to time, and a promotion can move it, which is why automated re-measurement with a retained history is on the roadmap. The whole series is available in the machine-readable feed.
This index is one of several inputs behind our rankings. The rest, including which sources we rely on and why a commission cannot change the order, is set out in how we rank.