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AirPlans eSIM vs MicroeSIM
Both sell in 165 of the same markets. Everything below is computed from their live catalogues, so the figures move as their prices do.
AirPlans eSIM, on price and on reach.
AirPlans eSIM is cheaper in 22 of the 30 shared markets this table can decide, on average by 1.3 times. Of the 11 rows below where both publish a figure, they take 5, MicroeSIM takes 5, and 1 are level.
Check your destination ↓The numbers
Head to head
Green marks the better figure on each row. Where they match, neither is marked. Nothing here is weighted or scored: these are the published figures side by side.
AirPlans eSIM
MicroeSIM
Average per GB is computed only over plans where a per-gigabyte figure is derivable, so a catalogue full of unlimited plans is not flattered by counting zeroes. Price accuracy is measured from our own outbound clicks rather than taken from either provider: 12 sampled clicks for AirPlans eSIM and 4 sampled clicks for MicroeSIM. A perfect score from a hundred clicks is a weaker claim than one from four hundred, so the counts travel with it, and a provider nobody has clicked through yet has no score at all rather than a flattering default.
Same size, both providers
What each actually charges
Aggregates tell you about a catalogue. These are real plans at matching allowances, the same validity window and the same breadth of coverage, which is what you would actually be choosing between.
Each row pairs plans with the same allowance, the same validity window and the same number of countries, so neither side is penalised for covering more. The Buy links go to each provider's cheapest live plan rather than to the plan on that row: we only link to a plan we can track, and their own checkout is always authoritative.
Like for like
Where they overlap
The comparison that means something: the same market, both providers, cheapest gigabyte each. An average across different countries is not a like-for-like number.
AirPlans eSIM is cheaper in 22 of the 30 markets listed here that both of them price. Across those markets the dearer of the two costs 1.3 times as much per gigabyte on average.
Not in this sample. They share 165 markets and this table lists 30 of them, so your destination is very likely covered by both. Its country page carries every provider selling there, not only these two.
Showing the 30 largest of the 165 markets they share. Each row is the cheapest honest gigabyte each provider sells in that country; where either publishes no per-gigabyte figure the row shows no gap rather than a winner.
Which to pick
When each one is the right buy
Every reason below is drawn from a figure in the table above, so none of them outlives the fact behind it.
Pick AirPlans eSIM if
- Your destination is one of the 22 shared markets they are cheaper in
- You need to tether, allowed on 94% of their plans and on none of MicroeSIM\x27s
- You would consider an unlimited plan, which MicroeSIM does not sell at all
- Topping up matters, because none of MicroeSIM's plans support it
- You need a validity window longer than 90 days
- You are going to one of the 41 markets MicroeSIM does not reach
Pick MicroeSIM if
- Your destination is one of the 8 shared markets they are cheaper in
- Price per gigabyte is what you are optimising for: CA$4.08 typical against CA$5.43
- You want the cheapest gigabyte on the page: CA$0.10 against CA$0.41
- You want the lowest entry price: their cheapest plan is CA$0.61 against CA$1.86
- You are going to one of the 2 markets AirPlans eSIM does not reach
- You would rather choose from a deep catalogue than a short one
Or neither of them
This page compares two providers because you asked for two. MicroeSIM is the 6 cheapest of the 62 catalogues we read, and on plenty of trips the right answer is a third provider entirely. The destination page for wherever you are going ranks every provider selling there on the same figures used above.
We earn a commission on some outbound links. Which provider comes out ahead on any row above is computed from their published prices, not from what either pays us, and no payout figure is available to the code that ranks plans.
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AirPlans eSIM
11,042 plans across 206 markets
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