since 2024
App-based
50 destinations
Roami eSIM Review 2026: 1181 Plans, Prices and Real Value
App-first travel eSIM with 24/7 activation. Every claim below is computed from our live price database — 50 destinations, 1181 plans, one formula.
Last updated Oct 4, 2026
Prices shown are Roami's own list prices as checked on Sep 30, 2026 and can change at any time — confirm the current figure on Roami's website before you buy.
Wondering which local towers it connects to? Every provider rides the same host networks per destination — see the eSIM network map.
The computed verdict
Roami is the cheapest provider in 1 of 50 countries we track — 2% of its coverage.
Best $/GB in 3 countries; entry price from $1.99. No editorial star-rating — just the numbers, computed the same way for every brand.
Price competitiveness index (editorial)
Beyond the price tag
Roami hotspot 5G and fair-use rules
Quoted from Roami's own published policy. Where a brand publishes nothing, we say so rather than guess.
Hotspot and tethering
AllowedUp to 5 devices
Roami advertises free hotspot sharing on every plan for up to five devices, with tethering traffic counted against the plan allowance rather than a separate hotspot budget.
Fair-use threshold
30 GB/day
Drops to Reduced speed
Roami's destination pages state that speed may reduce after 30 GB in a single day, but its USA page claims no fair-use throttle at all and its UK guide cites 2 GB/day on the unlimited tier instead. Treat the threshold as destination-dependent and read the plan page for the country you are buying.
Top-ups
AvailableTop-ups are bought in the Roami app and activate on the existing eSIM within seconds, with no new QR code to install.
Every plan is data-only — you keep your own number for calls and texts.
Speed and 5G
5G available5G in 49 of 50 markets
5G comes from the local networks rather than the brand. We profile 147 carrier networks across the markets where Roami sells, and 5G is live on them wherever the country has rolled it out.
LTE only in Fiji — no brand can sell you 5G there.
Per-country speeds and coverage are on the eSIM network map · fair-use audit
Word of mouth
Roami eSIM reviews and how to read them
Nobody publishes a review of Roami on this site — we publish dated prices, not opinions. What we can tell you is where the reviews live and which parts of them are worth your time. Everything we do publish is reproducible: 1181 Roami plan prices across 50 destinations, checked Sep 30, 2026.
What to look for in a review of Roami
- +One-star reviews that name a specific failure. The failure mode an eSIM actually has is a profile that installs and then never connects — a review describing exactly that predicts more than fifty five-star posts saying it worked.
- +The destination. A verdict written about Thailand says little about Roami in your country, because the roaming partner and the local network are different.
- +The date. eSIM apps, roaming partners and fair-use limits change every few months, so weight the last two months and treat anything older than a year as history.
What Roami customers say elsewhere
Roami has no Trustpilot business profile we could verify, so there is no public star rating we can honestly point you at. Sites that quote one are usually repeating Roami's own marketing, or the profile of a similarly named competitor. Judge it instead on the things you can check yourself: the dated prices on this page, the fair-use terms in the plan table, and the refund window in the profile card above.
Forums such as Reddit are useful and unreliable for the same reason: threads are unmoderated, often years old, and written by people whose destination and handset you cannot see. Read them for the failure patterns, not for the verdicts.
The mechanics
How Roami works
- 1
Install the app and buy in-app
Pick your destination and plan inside the app — checkout, eSIM and top-ups all live in one place, no email vouchers.
- 2
One tap installs the eSIM
The app writes the eSIM profile directly — no QR-code juggling, and it can switch host networks automatically where Roami holds multiple agreements.
- 3
Data starts when you land
The plan activates per its validity window; if you run low, buy a top-up in the app and keep the same eSIM.
Company snapshot
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Hong Kong Hong Kong LinZe Co., Limited
- Model
- App-based
- Destinations tracked
- 50
- Plans tracked
- 1181
- Price range
- $1.99 – $9.99
- Relationship
- Our own brand
Support & refunds
Getting help from Roami
Customer support
- Channels
- 24/7 human support (online assistance 365 days) and email
As published on Roami's official site — channels and response times can change; the app is usually the fastest route.
How refunds work
Roami's worry-free refund policy promises a full refund if the plan doesn't work or remains unused. The same 24/7 team handles activation, refunds and travel questions.
Summarised from Roami's published refund terms. Full conditions live on the provider's own policy page — read them before relying on a refund.
Price record
Where does Roami win on price and where does it lose
We re-priced Roami against every other provider in each of its 50 countries. It is the strictly cheapest option in 1 of them — undercutting the next-best brand by 1% on average where it wins. In the typical country where it loses, its entry plan costs about 4× that country's cheapest entry. Every row below links to the full country table.
Where Roami is the cheapest you can buy
Entry-plan price vs the next-cheapest provider in the same country. Every winner above also carries a cheapest badge in the coverage list below.
Where another brand beats Roami on price
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Brazil
$4.99 vs $0.51
10×
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United Arab Emirates
$3.99 vs $0.51
8×
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South Africa
$3.99 vs $0.51
8×
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Saudi Arabia
$3.99 vs $0.51
8×
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New Zealand
$3.99 vs $0.51
8×
Roami's entry price vs the cheapest provider in that country. It pays to compare in all 49 of these markets — open the country table and check who wins before you buy.
Plan shape
Sells both metered buckets (1010 plans) and unlimited plans (171) across 50 destinations.
Typical entry price across its markets: $1.99.
Best value anywhere: $0.55/GB.
Strengths
- +Aggressive pricing across Asia
- +No ID verification for travel plans
- +24/7 activation and human support
- +Auto-switching across all three Japanese networks
Watch out for
- –Younger brand with fewer third-party reviews
- –Deepest discounts concentrate on 3-30 day plans
Alternatives by market
Who beats Roami on price and where to go instead
Another brand sells a comparable plan for less in 11 of the 50 markets where we track Roami. We put like against like: an identical data allowance and validity where a rival sells one, otherwise the nearest rival plan that covers at least as much data and at least as many days. Every gap below is a real list-price difference from the same dated snapshot, and where nothing is genuinely comparable we list nothing.
| Country | Roami cheapest | Cheaper rival | Rival price | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Costa Rica
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$9.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $3.00 1GB / 7 d | −70% |
Fiji
|
$6.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $3.00 1GB / 7 d | −57% |
Georgia
|
$3.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $2.00 1GB / 7 d | −50% |
Morocco
|
$3.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $2.00 1GB / 7 d | −50% |
Turkiye
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$1.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $1.00 1GB / 7 d | −50% |
Israel
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$2.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $2.00 1GB / 7 d | −33% |
Canada
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$3.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $3.00 1GB / 7 d | −25% |
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South Africa
|
$3.99 1GB / 7 d | Roamic | $3.00 1GB / 7 d | −25% |
|
Brazil
|
$4.99 1GB / 3 d | Airalo | $4.00 1GB / 3 d | −20% |
Colombia
|
$4.99 1GB / 3 d | Airalo | $4.50 1GB / 3 d | −10% |
How we matched: first the same data allowance and validity as Roami's cheapest plan in that market; if no rival sells that exact combination, the cheapest rival plan that covers at least as much data and at least as many days; where that does not exist either, the market is left out rather than compared across mismatched plans. Both prices are dated list prices before promo codes and taxes.
The brand that beats Roami most often is Roamic, ahead in 8 of those markets. Read its review or open a full matchup Roamic · provider matchups
Destinations & coverage
Where you can buy Roami eSIMs
Grouped by region, with each country's cheapest Roami plan. Countries marked cheapest are where Roami is the lowest-price provider we track.
A note on coverage: we verify and rank Roami in the 50 destinations listed below. Roami itself sells eSIMs for roughly 200+ destinations — the list here is our tracked scope, not the limit of what Roami offers.
Asia 13
Europe 18
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Austria
from $1.99
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Belgium
from $1.99
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Switzerland
from $1.99
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Czechia
from $1.99
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Germany
from $1.99
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Spain
from $1.99
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France
from $1.99
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UK
from $1.99
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Georgia
from $3.99
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Greece
from $1.99
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Croatia
from $1.99
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Ireland
from $1.99
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Iceland
from $1.99
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Italy
from $1.99
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Netherlands
from $1.99
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Poland
from $1.99
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Portugal
from $1.99
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Turkiye
from $1.99
Americas 8
Africa & Middle East 8
Network reality
Which local networks Roami rides on
An eSIM does not build towers. In every market Roami buys capacity from that country's national operators, so the networks below are the same ones every reseller in that country uses. We profile 147 of them.
5G is live in 49 of 50 markets
Markets where 5G is live and Roami is also the cheapest provider we track:
Where 5G is not available at all
Host networks in these markets run LTE only, so no eSIM on any brand can be faster than that:
- Fiji — Vodafone Fiji · Digicel Fiji
Speeds and generations come from our per-country network profiles, built from operator material and third-party measurement. eSIM network map
Where Roami plans cost the least and the most
Same provider, very different entry prices by country. If your destination sits in the right-hand column, compare against the full table before buying.
Lowest entry prices
Highest entry prices
Price structure
Roami pricing at each data tier
The lowest price we have recorded at each data tier, across the 50 Roami destinations we track. The cost per gigabyte comes from that same plan, so the two columns always describe one purchase.
| Data tier | Destinations | Lowest price | Lowest cost per GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1GB | 95 | $1.99Austria | $1.99/GBAustria |
| 3GB | 200 | $2.99Hong Kong | $1.00/GBHong Kong |
| 5GB | 203 | $4.99Australia | $1.00/GBAustralia |
| 10GB | 200 | $6.99Israel | $0.70/GBIsrael |
| 20GB | 165 | $10.99South Korea | $0.55/GBSouth Korea |
| 30GB | 94 | $19.99South Korea | $0.67/GBSouth Korea |
| 50GB | 34 | $30.99Belgium | $0.62/GBBelgium |
| 100GB | 16 | $54.99Austria | $0.55/GBAustria |
Unlimited plans by trip length
| Trip length | Destinations | Lowest price |
|---|---|---|
| 3 days | 49 | $7.99Hong Kong |
| 7 days | 47 | $15.99Macao |
| 15 days | 41 | $29.99Thailand |
| 30 days | 34 | $41.99UK |
Tiers sold in fewer than 10 destinations are left out, so the table shows the standard line-up rather than every plan on sale. Where several destinations tie on price the table names one of them. Prices are the lowest we have recorded, not offers, and they change.
Alternatives
Roami vs the field
Each bar is the share of the 50 destinations in our database where that provider posts the lowest price of any brand we track; the fraction repeats the same number. A short bar means it is rarely the outright cheapest, not that it is expensive — check the per-gigabyte column there.
Head to head
The two brands closest to Roami
These two are not picked by hand. We rank every rival by how close its record is to Roami's number of cheapest-market wins and show the two nearest. The three lines below are the numbers that actually separate them.
Roami vs Nomad
- ·Nomad is the cheapest provider in 1 of the 50 markets where it sells, against 1 for Roami.
- ·Its entry price is $4.00 against $1.99 for Roami.
- ·Its best value on our $/GB measure is $0.24/GB against $0.55/GB.
Roami vs Ubigi
- ·Ubigi is the cheapest provider in 1 of the 50 markets where it sells, against 1 for Roami.
- ·Its entry price is $2.90 against $1.99 for Roami.
- ·Its best value on our $/GB measure is $0.30/GB against $0.55/GB.
Trip calculator
What Roami would cost for your trip
Pick a destination, a trip length and your expected daily use. We price Roami's own catalogue against the cheapest plans in the same market. A plan qualifies when its validity covers the trip and its data covers your need, and unlimited plans always qualify.
The full cross-brand version, with a usage estimator that turns app hours into gigabytes, is on the trip cost calculator.
FAQ
What do travelers ask about the Roami eSIM
Which countries does the Roami eSIM work in?
Roami sells eSIMs for 50 of the 50 destinations this site tracks, all priced from the same dated snapshot. Its own catalogue lists 200+ destinations in total — we track the 50 where demand is highest. For a specific trip, open that destination's page in the country comparison and every Roami plan sorts against the field.
How competitive is Roami on price?
No provider wins everywhere — it depends on the destination. Roami is the cheapest provider in 1 of the 50 countries where we track its plans (2% of its coverage). For example, in Japan its plans start at $1.99.
Is there an unlimited Roami eSIM?
Yes — 171 of the 1181 plans we track from Roami are unlimited. Every one carries a fair-use policy that can throttle speed after a threshold, so read the verbatim notes in our fair-use audit before a streaming-heavy trip.
Do I need the Roami app to use its eSIMs?
Yes — Roami is app-first: you browse, buy and install plans inside the app (available on the App Store), and the eSIM sits alongside your physical SIM rather than replacing it. Buy and install before you fly; on landing, enable data roaming for the eSIM line and it connects by itself.
Is there a discount code for Roami?
Yes — code web20 gives 20% off your entire order (20% off, Published by Roami itself (homepage banner and every destination page): apply at checkout for 20% off your entire order. No minimum spend, no new-customer restriction, no plan-type restriction. Bonus: 100MB of free data when you download the Roami app.). Copy it on our eSIM deals page, which also calculates whether the discounted price still loses to a cheaper rival in each country.
What is the entry price for Roami?
The entry price in our database is $1.99 — the smallest bucket in the cheapest destination, not necessarily the right plan for your trip. Sort by $/GB on your destination's page before choosing; prices exclude promo codes and taxes.
Can Roami be trusted for travel data?
Roami launched in 2024 and sells app-first plans across 50 destinations. It is operated by Hong Kong LinZe Co., Limited, headquartered in Hong Kong. It is this site's own brand, reviewed with the same formulas as every other provider.
Where do I get help with an eSIM from Roami?
Roami offers 24/7 human support (online assistance 365 days) and email. Email: roamiesim@roamiapp.com. Before writing in, test once on Wi-Fi and check that data roaming is on for the eSIM line — most "no connection" reports turn out to be a roaming toggle, not a broken eSIM.
Does Roami give money back if the eSIM fails?
Roami's refund terms are quoted in the support card above — we keep that summary rather than restating it here. The part that actually decides whether you can claim is timing: buy a day or two before departure and install at home, because the withdrawal window normally closes the moment the eSIM is activated. Install early, test the connection, and a problem is still fixable; install at the airport and you have usually spent the right.
How does Roami compare with Yesim?
Across the destinations we track, Roami is the cheapest provider in 1 countries vs Yesim in 42. The full country-by-country table is our Roami vs Yesim comparison.
Does Roami support hotspot sharing?
Roami sets its hotspot rules at brand level rather than country by country, so one answer covers every market we track. What Roami publishes: Up to 5 devices. Tethering traffic is drawn from the same allowance as your phone unless that note says otherwise, so a laptop session drains a metered plan noticeably faster — size the plan for the devices you are actually bringing.
Is 5G included with Roami?
An eSIM cannot invent a network the destination does not have. 5G is live on the host networks in 49 of the 50 markets where Roami sells, so whether you get 5G is decided by where you fly, not by which brand you bought. One market we track is LTE only — Fiji — and no brand can change that. Check your own destination on our eSIM network map before you count on 5G speeds.
Who is cheaper than Roami?
It depends on the market. In 11 of the 50 countries where we track Roami, another brand sells a comparable plan — same data allowance, same validity — for less. The most frequent winner against it is Roamic, ahead in 8 markets. Our Roami vs Yesim comparison shows the same gap brand by brand, and the table above lists all 11 markets with both prices side by side.
Keep reading
What else to check before you buy Roami
Guides for your trip
Where these numbers come from
Every figure here is computed from our price database — 1181 Roami plans across 50 destinations, list prices in USD before promo codes and taxes, rebuilt Sep 30, 2026. Rankings are sort positions, not editorial scores.
Roami vs Yesim? We computed the numbers.
Every price, badge and ranking on this page is a literal sort position from our price database — no editorial pay-to-rank. How we collect and check data is in our methodology; how we make money in our disclosure.