A free eSIM for the country you are in
A free eSIM from SimFuse is a real prepaid data plan, not a trial: 500 MB to 1 GB in 21 destinations, valid 1 to 7 days. Claimed in the app only once you are already in that country. One per traveller.
You must already be in the country to claim it. The app checks your location, and a claim from home is refused. Not there yet? Buy a plan instead ↓
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Free · Only once you are already in the country · Apple or Google sign-in · Card verified, never charged
When this batch is gone the offer closes until we open the next one.
Between 500 MB and 1 GB, depending on where you are going. Check your destination ↓
What the app checks before you claim
Three checks, and these are the two that catch people out. Both happen before you are asked for anything else, and neither can be skipped. Worth knowing now rather than at step three.
You are already in the country
The free eSIM is for travellers who have arrived, so the app reads your device location once and checks it against the destination you picked. A Spain eSIM claimed from a sofa in Germany is refused. We read it for the claim and nothing else, and there is no tracking in the background.
You sign in with Apple or Google
Apple or Google only. Typing an email address and waiting for a code is no longer accepted for this offer. Email addresses are free to make by the hundred; an account you already use is not, and that is what keeps the offer open instead of farmed by scripts.
The third is your card, and it is the one people worry about most. Why we ask for a card if it is free ↓
Not travelling yet? Buy a plan instead
Most people reading this page are still at home, and for them a paid plan is the better product, not the fallback. You install it over Wi-Fi before you fly, its validity starts when it first connects rather than when you buy, and you are online at the gate. Plans start at €0.99 across 205 countries, and every destination has one.
Browse plans from €0.99Which destinations have a free eSIM?
Every destination runs on a different local network, so what we can give away differs by country. Search yours to see the real allowance before you claim, and the price if it is not in this batch.
21 free of 30 shown. The rest start from €0.99.
Four ways to get a free eSIM, and the catch with each
"Free eSIM" is sold to mean four different things, and only one of them is a plan you keep. This is what each one really gives you.
| Where it comes from | What you get | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| A network's free trial (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, EE) | 5 to 30 days of trial data on that network, in that country. | Your home country only, it is useless abroad, and it rolls into a paid line unless you cancel before the trial ends. |
| A travel eSIM app's free tier | Usually 100 MB to 1 GB, in one region, for about 7 days. | Enough for a map and a message. It exists to sell you the paid plan, and it often expires on install rather than on first use. |
| Government-subsidised phone service (Lifeline, in the US) | A monthly allowance of data, calls and texts at no cost. | US residents who qualify on income or benefits, with paperwork and an eligibility check. It is a home line, not a travel plan, and SimFuse is not part of it. |
| A free eSIM from SimFuse | 500 MB to 1 GB of data in 21 destinations, valid 1 to 7 days from first connection. | You claim it from the destination itself, so it is no use to you before you fly. Apple or Google sign-in, one per traveller, released in limited batches. Your card is verified once (never charged) to keep bots out. |
| A "free eSIM number" app | A second phone number that works over the internet. | Not mobile data at all. It needs Wi-Fi or a data plan you already pay for, so it solves the opposite problem to this page. |
Nobody gives away unlimited data. Anything advertising a free eSIM with unlimited data is either a speed-capped trial or a paid plan with a free first week.
Is a free eSIM trial the same thing?
No. A trial is a sample of a plan you are expected to buy: it runs on the network of the country you are already in, it is measured in hundreds of megabytes, and it usually asks for a card that starts billing the day the trial ends.
A free eSIM in the sense this page uses is a plan that is already paid for. It has an allowance, a validity window and an end, and when it runs out nothing renews and nothing is charged. That is the whole difference, and it is worth checking which one you are being offered before you install anything.
How to get your free eSIM
Five steps in the app, and two of them are checks rather than taps. Under a minute, once you have landed.
Get the app
Free on iPhone and Android. Install it before you fly and the rest happens when you arrive.
Pick your destination
You see exactly how much data you get before anything else is asked of you.
Confirm you are there
The app reads your location once and checks it against the country you picked. No location access, no claim.
Sign in with Apple or Google
One tap, and it is how the eSIM stays yours on your next phone. An email address on its own is not enough here.
Claim it
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Verified by your bank, not charged.
Your eSIM installs from inside the app, so there is no QR code to photograph. If you would rather install it by QR, the same eSIM is emailed to you with one attached.
Will your phone take a free eSIM?
An eSIM needs hardware support, and a phone that is not locked to one network. Roughly every flagship since 2018 qualifies.
iPhone
iPhone XS, XR and everything newer, including every SE from the 2020 model on. Check under Settings, then General, then About: an EID means eSIM.
Android
Pixel 3 and newer, Galaxy S20 and newer, plus most recent Motorola, Oppo, Xiaomi and Huawei flagships. Some regional variants ship without it, so check the EID.
Carrier locks
A phone locked to the network that sold it will refuse any other eSIM, free or paid. Your carrier unlocks it, usually once the handset is paid off.
Why we ask for a card if it is free
Free eSIMs get farmed by bots. People write scripts, cycle through throwaway emails and drain the offer until it has to be switched off for everyone.
A payment method your bank has verified is the one check that reliably separates a real traveller from a script. It is friction, and we would rather have it than take the offer away. There is no credit check, no subscription and no trial that starts billing later: one per traveller, and if it is still uninstalled after 30 days we release it back into the pool for someone else.
When you are running low, we will tell you
Your eSIM shows exactly how much data is left, and we send a heads-up before it runs out rather than after. No silent cut-off halfway through a map.
If your free plan takes a top-up, adding data is one tap, because the card you verified is already there. You stay in control: nothing is charged unless you choose to top up.
Free eSIM questions people actually ask
No. The app checks your device location as you claim, and it has to match the country the eSIM is for. If your trip has not started, buy a plan instead. It covers the same destination, installs before you fly, and starts when it first connects after you land.
Each batch is small, and it goes to people who need data where they are standing. We read your location once and check it against the destination you picked. It is recorded against the eSIM, so a refused claim can be looked into later. Without it the claim cannot go ahead.
Yes, for this offer. Typing an email address and waiting for a code is no longer accepted. Email addresses are free to make by the hundred and an account you already use is not, which is the whole reason the offer is still open.
Nothing is charged for this eSIM. Your card is kept so a later top-up or purchase takes one tap, and we only charge it when you buy or top up yourself. Auto top-ups and subscriptions happen only if you switch them on.
You need a payment method your bank can verify, which can be a debit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay rather than a credit card. It is verified once and never charged. Without that check the offer gets farmed by scripts within hours.
Not honestly. Every free offer has a limit somewhere, whether it is stated as an allowance or hidden as a speed cap after the first gigabyte. We publish the real allowance next to every destination instead.
No, it is data only. That is deliberate: your existing number stays active on your normal SIM, so WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage and your bank's verification codes all keep working exactly as they do at home.
The offer closes until we open the next batch. One pool covers every destination, so it is first come, first served wherever you are going. We buy these plans from our suppliers like any other, so the number is a real limit rather than a countdown for effect.
Read this next
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- Compare eSIM prices per gigabyte
- What an eSIM is, in plain English
- Phones that support eSIM, model by model
- How to install an eSIM, step by step
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Ready when you are
Get the app before you fly, then claim your free eSIM once you have landed. It takes about a minute and installs on the spot.
Claim your free eSIM
One free eSIM per traveller, whilst this batch lasts. Claimed in the destination, with Apple or Google sign-in.