The best eSIM for Georgia, the Caucasus country: prices, networks and Tbilisi arrival

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The best eSIM for Georgia, the country in the Caucasus whose capital is Tbilisi (not the US state), depends on two choices: unlimited data or a fixed allowance, and which of the three Georgian networks carries your plan. We read the Georgia pages of seven travel eSIM providers on 20 October 2026 and compared price, network and the rules that matter between Tbilisi, Batumi and the mountains.

Which is the best eSIM for Georgia?

For unlimited data, Maya Mobile's global eSIM was the cheapest plan we verified for 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, with full speed limited to 5 GB a day; Nomad was the cheapest for 5 and 10 days, with 2 GB a day at full speed; Yesim was the cheapest for 1 and 15 days and for fixed 30-day allowances; for stays beyond a month or for the Magti network, Holafly is the one to look at. No single provider wins every trip, so here are the winners by need, on prices checked on 20 October 2026:

• A stopover or a single day in Tbilisi: Yesim sells 1 day of unlimited data for €3.50, Holafly for €3.90; neither Maya Mobile nor Nomad sells a single day.
• A long weekend (3 days): Maya Mobile costs USD 9.99, Nomad €9.78, Yesim €10.50, Airalo's Eurolink plan €11 and Holafly €11.42 for 3 days of unlimited data. Maya slows to 3 Mbps after 5 GB a day and Nomad to 1 Mbps after 2 GB a day; Yesim and Holafly publish no daily figure.
• One week, Tbilisi plus Kazbegi or Kakheti: Maya Mobile costs USD 19.99, Nomad €22.24, Yesim €24.50, Airalo Eurolink €25 and Holafly €25.50 for 7 days of unlimited data. With a fixed plan, Airalo's 3 GB for 7 days costs €10.50.
• Ten days to two weeks: Nomad costs €29.35 for 10 days, just under Yesim's €29.94 and Holafly's €34.90. Maya Mobile's 14-day package costs USD 27.99, less than any of them and less than Yesim's €37.19 for 14 days. For 15 days, Yesim's €39 was the cheapest we verified, ahead of Holafly's €47.90; Yesim's 10- and 15-day prices were shown as discounts on list prices of €35 and €52.50.
• A month: Maya Mobile costs USD 49.99 for 30 days of unlimited data, less than Yesim's €57. Yesim's 10 GB plan valid 30 days costs €16 and its 20 GB plan €22, the cheapest fixed plans we found on a provider's own page.
• Longer than a month: Holafly sells up to 90 days of unlimited data, at €100.90 for 60 days and €130.90 for 90 days; the unlimited plans of Yesim, Airalo and Nomad stop at 30 days or less, and Maya Mobile's longest package is 30 days, renewed only if you turn on its Auto Top-Up.

If you plan to buy a local line instead, read our guide to Magti, Silknet and Cellfie tourist packs and mountain coverage: they cost far less per gigabyte, as shown further down.

The Georgia eSIMs side by side

The table lists the Georgian network each provider names, its unlimited week and a typical fixed plan. All figures were read on the providers' own pages on 20 October 2026 and are quoted in the currency each page displayed.

Unlimited prices by length tell the rest of the story. Yesim and Holafly sell any number of days; Nomad sells 3, 5, 7 and 10 days; Maya Mobile sells one-time packages of 3, 7, 14 and 30 days. Airalo's unlimited option for Georgia is its Eurolink plan, which covers 41 European countries including Georgia, and Maya's plan is a global one, sold on its Georgia page for "Georgia + 165 countries". Maya's page displayed prices in US dollars; the euro prices its own price data lists are €8.49, €16.99, €23.79 and €42.49. Yesim's prices from 10 days were shown as discounts on list prices of €35 for 10 days, €52.50 for 15 days and €105 for 30 days.

Several other brands sell Georgia plans but could not be verified on 20 October 2026. Saily blocked automated reading, and we found no Georgia page for Orange Travel. Their prices appear only in a third-party database, so we leave them out of every verdict.

Is an unlimited eSIM for Georgia worth it?

Only if you use a lot of data: most unlimited weeks we verified cost more than the typical Georgia-only plan with a daily allowance of at least 1 GB, and the one that costs less is a global plan with a daily full-speed limit. The comparison database esimdb listed 8,947 plans from 237 providers covering Georgia on 20 October 2026. Among Georgia-only plans with at least 1 GB a day at full speed, the median price was €18.41 for 7 days (186 plans from 83 providers), €24.06 for 10 days, €34.25 for 15 days and €60.02 for 30 days, with dollar prices converted at the European Central Bank rate.

Nomad, Yesim, Airalo Eurolink and Holafly all sit above that median for a week, at €22.24 to €25.50; only Maya Mobile's global plan, at USD 19.99 (€16.99 in its own euro prices), falls below it. For a month, Maya's USD 49.99 (€42.49) and Yesim's discounted €57 (list price €105) fall below the €60.02 median, while Airalo Eurolink (€65.50) and Holafly (€70.90) stay above it. Georgia is a cheap market for data, and most travel brands do not undercut it.

Cheaper plans exist from small brands, the lowest at €5.32 for 7 days, but we did not check their own pages, and esimdb lists that plan and the next cheapest as slowing to 384 or 128 kbps once the daily allowance is used. Airalo publishes its Eurolink rule plainly: 5 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Nomad's Georgia page gives "2GB/day at 4G/5G. 1 Mbps after 2GB". Maya Mobile's marketing text promises "No caps, no throttling, no surprises", but the plan details on the same page read "5GB Per Day full speed, then speed drops to 3Mbps". Holafly publishes no daily full-speed figure for Georgia; its FAQ says operators may apply a fair usage policy that reduces speed "for no more than one (1) day". Yesim's page says only that speed "may be limited in accordance with the network operator's Fair Usage Policy".

Unlimited data matters most for photo and video uploads, long video calls and using your phone as a hotspot for a laptop. If you mainly need maps, messages and ride-hailing apps, a fixed plan of 3 to 10 GB costs less, as the next section shows.

Which fixed-data plan is cheapest for Georgia?

Among the provider pages we read, Yesim's 30-day plans were the cheapest at every size from 1 GB to 30 GB. Yesim sold 1 GB for €2.50, 3 GB for €6.50, 5 GB for €9.60, 10 GB for €16, 20 GB for €22 and 30 GB for €28, all valid 30 days. Most of these prices were shown as discounts on higher list prices (for example €16 instead of €25 for 10 GB), so check the price again at checkout.

For short trips, plans valid 7 days make sense. Airalo's Georgia plan, called Gaumarjos!, sold 3 GB for 7 days at €10.50 and 5 GB for 7 days at €14. On the same page, its Gaumarjos!+ version, which adds minutes and SMS, was listed cheaper for some sizes: 5 GB with 50 SMS and 50 minutes for 7 days cost €10.50. Ubigi sold 1 GB for 7 days at €6 and 10 GB for 7 days at €17; aloSIM sold 1 GB for 7 days at $4.50 and Nomad at €4.45.

Magti, Silknet or Cellfie: which network does each eSIM use?

Most travel eSIMs connect to Silknet or Cellfie, while Magti, the largest operator, appears less often. Georgia has three mobile networks. The regulator, the Georgian National Communications Commission (ComCom), counted 6.43 million mobile subscribers at the end of 2025, machine-to-machine SIM cards included, and gave MagtiCom 41% of them, Silknet 36% and Cellfie Mobile 23%, according to its Annual Report 2025, published in July 2026.

Two names cause confusion on eSIM sites. Cellfie is the network formerly sold under the Beeline brand: VEON sold its Georgian subsidiary to its former local partner in June 2022, and Holafly still writes "Beeline Georgia". Geocell is Silknet's mobile network: Silknet acquired Geocell in 2018, and its own website still files its mobile offers under "geocell".

On esimdb, 6,652 of the plans covering Georgia name a network. Silknet (listed as Geocell) appears in 4,921 of them (74%), Cellfie (listed as Beeline) in 4,887 (73%) and Magti in 3,782 (57%); a plan can name more than one network. Among the providers we read, Holafly names Magticom and Beeline Georgia, Yesim names Cellfie and Geocell, Nomad names Geocell and Cellfie, Airalo and Ubigi name Cellfie, and aloSIM names Silknet. Maya Mobile names no network in its page text; the plan data embedded in the page lists Silknet, LTE.

We found no recent independent speed comparison of the three networks: no nPerf barometer and no Opensignal report for Georgia. Coverage in the mountains is the real difference between them, and we cover it below and in our local SIM guide.

Pros and cons of each provider

Each provider below was read on 20 October 2026. Prices are for Georgia-only plans unless stated.

Yesim

• Pros: the cheapest unlimited plan we verified for 1 day (€3.50) and 15 days (€39), and cheaper than Airalo Eurolink and Holafly at every length from 1 to 30 days (€24.50 a week, €57 a month); the cheapest fixed 30-day plans we found (10 GB for €16); validity begins on connection to a compatible network, and the plan can be activated within 180 days of purchase.
• Cons: Maya Mobile or Nomad cost less for 3, 5, 7, 10, 14 and 30 days of unlimited data; the unlimited prices from 10 days and most fixed prices are shown as discounts on higher list prices; hotspot "depends on operator"; no daily full-speed figure published for unlimited plans; no Georgia-only plan longer than 30 days (the page also lists Yesim's multi-country Global Package, up to 365 days).

Airalo

• Pros: the Gaumarjos! Georgia plans run on Cellfie's 5G network and start on first use; small allowances are cheap (1 GB for 3 days at €4.50); the Eurolink plan adds unlimited data at 5 GB a day for 41 European countries, Georgia included, at €25 a week.
• Cons: no unlimited Georgia-only plan; Eurolink costs more than Yesim at every length; Airalo does not name the Georgian network on its Eurolink page; we found no hotspot rule on its Georgia page.

Holafly

• Pros: the only big brand we read that names Magti; any length from 1 to 90 days, with 60 days at €100.90 and 90 days at €130.90; a monthly 1 GB backup allowance it calls "Always On"; hotspot allowed at 1 GB a day.
• Cons: more expensive than Yesim and Airalo Eurolink at every length up to 30 days; no fixed-data plans; no Georgian phone number. Holafly itself warns that coverage "may be more limited or unstable" in "certain parts of the Greater Caucasus, along routes through Tusheti, in the mountainous areas of Svaneti and on some roads around Kazbegi".

Ubigi

• Pros: simple fixed plans on Cellfie Mobile (3 GB for 15 days at €9, 10 GB for 30 days at €19, 25 GB for 30 days at €49); the plan starts automatically on arrival and can be bought up to 6 months ahead; instant top-ups.
• Cons: no unlimited Georgia plan; more expensive than Yesim at the sizes we compared; the plan pages we read do not mention hotspot use.

aloSIM

• Pros: runs on Silknet; hotspot allowed and "ID/documentation required: No", according to its Georgia page; a free international phone number from the app Hushed with every plan.
• Cons: no unlimited Georgia plan priced on the page; speeds "typically LTE"; prices in US dollars by default, and its 10 GB plan ($31) costs more than Yesim's (€16) or Ubigi's (€19).

Nomad

• Pros: the cheapest unlimited plan we verified for 5 days (€16.01) and 10 days (€29.35), and cheaper than Yesim for 3 and 7 days (€9.78 and €22.24); a Georgia-only plan on Geocell and Cellfie; the plan starts automatically once connected to a Georgian network, and must be activated within 60 days of purchase; hotspot supported, according to its page.
• Cons: unlimited plans slow to 1 Mbps after 2 GB a day; no unlimited plan longer than 10 days; its 10 GB for 30 days (€29.35) costs almost twice Yesim's €16.

Maya Mobile

• Pros: the cheapest unlimited plan we verified for 3 days (USD 9.99), 7 days (USD 19.99), 14 days (USD 27.99) and 30 days (USD 49.99); one eSIM for Georgia and 165+ other countries; one-time packages, with no recurring charge unless you turn on Auto Top-Up; hotspot included, according to its page.
• Cons: a global plan, not a Georgia one; full speed for 5 GB a day only, then 3 Mbps, according to the plan details on its page; no 1-, 5-, 10- or 15-day package; prices displayed in US dollars; the network appears only in the page's plan data (Silknet, LTE).

Is a local tourist SIM cheaper than a travel eSIM in Georgia?

Yes, by a wide margin, if you accept a counter visit and a Georgian line. Prices are in Georgian lari (GEL, ₾); the National Bank of Georgia's official rate for 20 October 2026 was 2.9128 lari to the euro.

A Silknet tourist week costs less than a third of the cheapest unlimited eSIM week we verified, Maya Mobile's USD 19.99 (€16.99), and about a fifth of Yesim's €24.50. Magti's tourist page offers a free SIM card with its Welcome Package at Tbilisi and Kutaisi airports (the free SIM is listed in the 30-lari offer; a 15-lari pack of 5,000 MB for 15 days appears beside it without one), and Silknet's tourist packages renew automatically, so cancel them before you leave if your line keeps a balance. None of the operator pages we read says which identity document a visitor must show. A travel eSIM installed at home avoids the queue and works as you land; you can also combine the two, with a small eSIM plan for the first day and a local line once you reach a shop.

Which eSIM should you pick for your trip length?

Maya Mobile for the lowest unlimited price at 3, 7, 14 or 30 days if 5 GB a day at full speed is enough, Nomad for 5 or 10 days, Yesim for a single day, 15 days or a fixed allowance, a local tourist pack for the lowest price overall, and Holafly for stays longer than 30 days or if you want Magti. Here is how the choice plays out on typical itineraries.

A city break in Tbilisi or Batumi

For three days, Maya Mobile (USD 9.99), Nomad (€9.78), Yesim (€10.50), Airalo Eurolink (€11) and Holafly (€11.42) are close for unlimited data. A fixed 3 GB plan from Airalo for 3 days costs €9.50, and Cellfie's 5G network, which Airalo names, is available in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi according to Cellfie's 5G page.

One to two weeks around the country

Maya Mobile's USD 19.99 week and USD 27.99 for 14 days were the cheapest unlimited options we verified, at full speed for 5 GB a day. Nomad's €29.35 for 10 days suits a traveller who prefers a Georgia-only plan and needs no more than 2 GB a day at full speed, and Yesim's discounted €39 was the cheapest for 15 days. If you head for Kazbegi or Svaneti, network choice matters more than price: read the coverage section below before you buy.

A month or more

Maya Mobile's USD 49.99 was the cheapest unlimited month we verified. Yesim's 20 GB for €22 or 30 GB for €28, valid 30 days, suit most remote workers who also have accommodation Wi-Fi. Beyond 30 days, Holafly's 60-day plan (€100.90) avoids buying a second eSIM, Maya renews for another 30 days if you turn on Auto Top-Up, and a local Silknet Tourist 30 pack (50 ₾) costs far less if you can visit a shop.

When does the plan start, and can you share it?

All seven providers let you install the eSIM at home and start the plan later, so you can set it up before you fly. Airalo's policy is "first-usage"; Nomad's plan "will start automatically once connected to the destination network"; Maya Mobile's plan starts when you turn on Travel Mode in its app; Ubigi's "Smartstart" activates the plan "upon arrival in a destination covered by the plan"; Yesim's validity "begins upon connection to a compatible network"; aloSIM "connects upon arrival in Georgia"; Holafly says to set up the eSIM before departure and to activate the plan in Georgia by turning on data roaming.

Hotspot rules differ more:

• Holafly: 1 GB of shared data a day.
• Yesim: "depends on operator".
• aloSIM: hotspot allowed, according to its page.
• Nomad and Maya Mobile: hotspot supported or included, according to their pages.
• Airalo and Ubigi: we found no hotspot rule on their Georgia pages.

Apart from Airalo's Gaumarjos!+ plans, which add minutes and SMS, the plans we compared are data only. Holafly states that its Georgia eSIM has no local phone number, and aloSIM adds a free international number from Hushed, not a Georgian one. Keep your home line switched on with data roaming off if you need bank codes by SMS. Our guide to running two eSIMs at the same time explains how to keep both lines without paying roaming.

What should you sort out before landing in Tbilisi, Kutaisi or Batumi?

Install the eSIM at home, check that your phone is unlocked, and download offline maps for the mountains. Tbilisi International Airport lies about 17 km south-east of the capital, Kutaisi International Airport about 14 km west of Kutaisi, and Batumi International Airport about 2 km south of Batumi, so you will want data for a map or a ride on the way in.

Three checks on the phone itself save trouble on landing:

• eSIM support: find your model on our list of eSIM-compatible phones, for example the iPhone 17 range, the Galaxy S25 range or the Pixel 10 range.
• Unlocked: a phone locked to your home operator will refuse a Georgian profile. Read do you need an unlocked phone for a travel eSIM.
• Installation: on Android, follow our step-by-step eSIM activation guide; if the line stays on "Activating", see our fixes for an eSIM stuck on activating.

If a seller or its support team asks for your phone's EID, our guide shows where to find the EID number on Samsung, Pixel and iPhone. If nothing connects on arrival, check that data roaming is on for the eSIM line, then work through 10 fixes for a travel eSIM not working abroad.

Will your eSIM work in Kazbegi and Svaneti?

Mostly along the main roads and in the towns, but the network your plan uses can make the difference. On nPerf's crowdsourced maps, which show where users of the nPerf app ran tests rather than guaranteed coverage, we looked at Stepantsminda (Kazbegi), Mestia (Svaneti) and the Georgian Military Road near Gudauri on 20 October 2026.

In Stepantsminda, Silknet showed 5G tests along the main road through the town, and Cellfie (still listed as Beeline by nPerf) 4G+ tests; Magti had no tests in the town, only 4G and 4G+ tests on the road to the south and a single point far to the north. In Mestia the picture reversed: Magti had 4G and 4G+ tests in the town, while we saw no tests at all for Silknet or Cellfie in the area shown, which places the town at its eastern edge. An absence of tests is not proof of an absence of signal, but it is a warning for a trip that depends on Svaneti.

That is where Holafly's Magti network can matter, and where a second, cheap plan on another network is a sensible backup. Our local SIM and mountain coverage guide sets out the measurements road by road. For other European trips that include Georgia, our guide to eSIMs in Europe explains how regional plans work.

How we compared

We read each provider's Georgia page, or the plan data it embeds, on 20 October 2026, and recorded price, validity, data, network, start of validity and hotspot rule. We cross-checked plans and computed market medians with the esimdb database, using Georgia-only plans with at least 1 GB a day at full speed, promotions included, and dollar prices converted at the European Central Bank rate of 19 October 2026 (1 euro for 1.1225 dollars) for the medians only.

Market shares come from ComCom's Annual Report 2025, tourist packs from Magti's, Silknet's and Cellfie's own pages, the lari rate from the National Bank of Georgia (official rate for 20 October 2026), and coverage observations from nPerf's crowdsourced maps. We did not buy the plans or measure speeds in Georgia. Prices change often, so check the provider's page before you buy. For the same comparison in another country, see our best eSIM for Albania.