Every cap, in writing · prices checked August 2026
Unlimited eSIMs for Asia
No travel eSIM sold for Asia is actually unlimited. Each one has a daily allowance and a throttle behind it. Here are the numbers the buy buttons leave out.
What "unlimited" means, provider by provider the daily cap
All of these are daily caps, not monthly ones. Hit the cap and your speed drops until local midnight, then you start again. That is a much friendlier failure than a monthly bucket, and it is still not unlimited.
| "Unlimited" plan | Real daily high-speed cap | After the cap |
|---|---|---|
| Saily Asia & Oceania Unlimited ($21.99 to $19.49) | 5GB / day | throttled until midnight local time |
| GigSky Asia Pacific Unlimited (from $11.49) | 3.5GB / day | reduced speed for the rest of the day |
| Airalo Asialink Unlimited ($9 to $73.50) | 3GB / day | throttled; maps and messaging still work |
| Jetpac APAC Unlimited (unlinked, from $12.99) | 3GB / day | throttled |
| Nomad Regional APAC unlimited (unlinked, from $18) | 2GB / day | throttled |
| Yesim Asia Pacific unlimited days (from $8.13) | not published | "may be reduced after heavy usage" |
| Ubigi ASIA plans (unlinked) | monthly allowance, not daily | stops rather than throttles |
Caps as published in each provider's plan data on 2026-08-31. A published cap you can plan around beats a larger one you cannot see: with Saily you know 5GB gets you through a working day, with Yesim you find out on day three.
Two honest choices: Saily for the largest published cap, 5GB a day from $21.99, or GigSky at 3.5GB a day from $11.49, which costs less per day if you can live inside it.
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| Plan | Daily cap | 10-day price | Per day | Per GB if you use the whole cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saily Asia & Oceania | 5GB | $38.99 | $3.90 | $0.78 |
| Airalo Asialink | 3GB | $35 | $3.50 | $1.17 |
| Jetpac APAC (unlinked) | 3GB | $33.99 | $3.40 | $1.13 |
| Nomad APAC (unlinked) | 2GB | $29.00 | $2.90 | $1.45 |
| GigSky Asia Pacific | 3.5GB | $26.99 (7 days) | $3.86 | $1.10 |
Regional plans, 10-day pricing where the provider sells it. The last column is theoretical: it assumes you drain the cap every single day, which almost nobody does. Read it as the best case an unlimited plan can offer you.
Saily is the most expensive unlimited plan per day and the cheapest per usable gigabyte, because its cap is nearly twice everyone else's. If you are buying unlimited to tether a laptop, that is the row that matters. If you are buying it for peace of mind on a phone, you will never see the difference and Airalo costs less.
Tethering a laptop? Take the 5GB cap. Phone only? Airalo's 3GB a day is $35 for ten days and you will never reach it.
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The break-even is about 2GB a day. Below it, buy gigabytes.
Ten days of Saily regional unlimited is $38.99. Ten days on a fixed 10GB regional plan is $22.99, and 10GB over ten days is 1GB a day, which covers maps, messaging, social feeds and a few photo uploads. Most travellers land there without noticing.
Unlimited earns its price in three situations, and they are all the same situation: something other than your phone is using the connection.
A working day on a hotspot is 2 to 3GB before you have opened anything heavy. Saily's 5GB daily cap is the only one sold for Asia that absorbs that without a second thought.
An hour of video is about 700MB. A daily call to another timezone plus normal use puts you near 2GB a day, which is exactly the break-even, and unlimited removes the arithmetic.
Maps, chat, feeds and photo uploads on wifi at night is 500MB to 1GB a day. A 10GB fixed plan covers ten days for $22.99 and leaves you change.
Unlimited in your country every entry price we can link
The same caps apply to single-country plans, at lower prices than the regional ones. Cheapest entry point per provider, per country. Tap a country to open its full comparison.
| Country | Saily, usually 5GB/day | GigSky, 3.5GB/day | Airalo, 3GB/day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Japan | from $18.99 /5d | from $10.99 /3d | from $11.50 /3d |
| 🇨🇳 China | from $18.99 /5d | from $17.99 /3d | from $11.50 /3d |
| 🇮🇳 India | from $27.99 /5d 3GB/day | from $18.99 /3d | from $20.50 /3d |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | from $18.99 /5d | from $10.99 /3d | from $9.50 /3d |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | from $18.99 /5d | not sold | from $11.50 /3d |
| 🇹🇼 Taiwan | from $18.99 /5d | from $14.99 /3d | from $12.50 /3d |
| 🇭🇰 Hong Kong & Macau | from $18.99 /5d | not sold | from $12.50 /3d |
| 🇮🇩 Bali & Indonesia | from $18.99 /5d | from $10.99 /3d | from $11 /3d |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | from $18.99 /5d | not sold | from $11.50 /3d |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | from $18.99 /5d | from $10.99 /3d | from $11.50 /3d |
| 🇳🇵 Nepal | not sold | not sold | from $17 /3d |
| 🇰🇭 Cambodia | not sold | from $14.99 /3d | from $12.50 /3d |
| 🇲🇻 Maldives | not sold | not sold | not sold |
| 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | from $18.99 /5d 3GB/day | from $19.99 /3d | not sold |
Cheapest unlimited entry price per provider per country, 2026-08-31. An amber cap in a cell means that country's cap is not the provider's usual one. Saily's entry price is identical in most countries, though its cap drops to 3GB a day in India and Sri Lanka. GigSky's varies with local wholesale rates, which is why Nepal costs seven times Thailand.
Unlimited questions the ones people actually search
Which eSIM offers unlimited data in Asia?
Saily, GigSky, Airalo, Jetpac and Nomad all sell unlimited regional plans, with published daily caps of 5GB, 3.5GB, 3GB, 3GB and 2GB. Yesim sells unlimited days without publishing a cap. Saily's 5GB per day is the largest cap you can read before buying. Checked August 2026.
Is unlimited data on an eSIM really unlimited?
No. Every plan sold as unlimited in Asia has a daily high-speed allowance and throttles you to roughly 1 to 3 Mbps once you pass it, until midnight. The plans do not stop working and you are not charged extra, but the speed drop is real and it lands exactly when you are uploading something.
What happens when I hit the daily cap?
Your connection keeps working at reduced speed for the rest of the day and resets at local midnight. Maps, messaging and email stay usable. Video calls, large uploads and laptop tethering effectively do not.
Is unlimited worth it for a two-week Asia trip?
Only if you tether a laptop or make daily video calls. Below about 2GB a day, a fixed plan is cheaper: $22.99 of regional data covers ten days of ordinary phone use, against $38.99 for ten days unlimited.
Can I hotspot on an unlimited Asia eSIM?
On Saily, GigSky, Airalo, Nomad and Jetpac, yes: tethering is allowed and simply consumes your daily cap. That is why the size of the cap matters more than the word unlimited. A laptop workday is 2 to 3GB, so 5GB per day works and 2GB per day does not.
Why does Yesim not publish a cap?
We do not know, and that is the point. Their plan data shows unlimited days with no daily allowance stated and a note that speed may be reduced after heavy usage. It may be generous. You cannot check before you buy, and Trustpilot suspended their score during a fake-review cleanup, so there is no reputational shortcut either.
Asia unlimited · 5GB/day · $38.99
Ten days across Asia and Oceania with the largest published daily cap sold for the region. Enough to tether a laptop on.
Get Saily Asia unlimitedSources & freshness: Fair-use caps, prices and validity from provider plan feeds via esimdb, 2026-08-31, in USD. Throttled-speed figures are the range providers publish or that users consistently report; we have not measured post-cap speeds ourselves and will say so until we have. Back to the Asia eSIM comparison.