The review
Nomad undercuts both Airalo and Saily on the two plans this page compares, and it is more open than either about whose network you are actually on — EE, Orange, Vodafone, O2 and Telia across Europe, the big three in America.
The genuinely different product is Nomad Pass. Three dollars a month buys a gigabyte of European data that refreshes every thirty days and a single eSIM that stays installed and does not expire. Nobody else on this page sells that. If you are in and out of Europe all year it removes the buy-a-plan-at-the-airport ritual entirely.
We have to be blunt about the reviews. The recurring complaint is not slow data or poor support, it is the connection dying partway through a trip, and in the worst reports the line still shows as active while passing nothing — which quietly defeats the usual advice of turning roaming off and trusting the eSIM. Take it for short trips and keep a fallback. Note too that the refund policy excludes anything bought with a discount code, and Nomad markets almost entirely through discount codes.
What works
- Cheapest of the three like-for-like plans, in Europe and the USA
- Nomad Pass: $3 a month for a permanent European eSIM
- Names the networks it uses, unlike most of the others
- Day plans from about $1.10 in eighteen countries
- Loyalty runs to 15% back, the highest here
What does not
- Reviewers repeatedly report it dying after a few days
- Can show as connected while passing no data at all
- No refund on anything bought with a discount code
- Cannot buy more data while you are in China, the UAE or India