Saily vs. Airalo: The Ultimate ESIM Battle for Travelers (2024)

s and airo eim comparisons and first impressions hello everyone this is Amed Don today I'll talk about a new eim provider s and a fairly known e provider AO and I'll compare their uh features and prices and I'll just give you my first impressions before I start I would like to mention that this is not a paid aate review uh those are not my things so whatever you're going to hear that they're totally honest and unbiased now s is a new provider on the market which was launched by nordvpn and they are popular among VPN providers so expectations are higher to provide good ECM services from s and airo is fairly known for their eim services uh they have been uh on the market for a while and so far until now I have been using uh AO for all my eim needs and I like their services I never had any issue or anything so today I'm going to uh show you some comparison between among prices uh from these two eim providers and I'll just give you my thoughts and Impressions and for the next part of the video I'm going to take you to my computer screen so I have both s and AO website on my left and right so if you take a look on uh the S you can see that the first thing you're going to notice that it looks very simple and uh it's very uh looks like user friendly it's not too complicated and they have like you know laid out how it works and all the useful information you need to know and even this kind of instruction uh right here and then you have the option to choose your destination which I'm going to come uh slightly later now one thing you're going to see here that looks like they have only plans available by countries they they do not have do not have any plans for uh let's region or the world but if you take a look on the ARL website which is on the right then you can see that uh they have three different versions one is local one is regional and one is global so what it is that uh with global you can purchase one sim which is going to be you know which is going to be covered in 128 countries and Regional would be specific regions for example Asia Europe Africa so for example uh if I'm going to Asia a few countries together then instead of uh you know um installing eim for each country I can just install one eim and it would be covered by these countries so here uh let me just take a look here okay so it's not giving me any specific country here which they should I think oh sorry here 18 countries so you're covered for 18 countries as long as you're staying within 18 countries then you don't have to change any seam so that's a very good feature which uh s doesn't offer now let's go to a s is plan so I'm going to go to USA [Applause] or okay so I think they're under United States and let's see what we have here okay so United States and you can see that there's 1 gig 3 gig 5 gig 10 gig 20 gig so I have a feeling that uh they all countries are very similar format one to 20 gig so in order to check that let's go back to another uh destination and let's go to just pick up anything random let's say Bangladesh and you can see 1 3 5 10 20 so all their plants are in that format but if you go to uh local for airo then you can see that they have like in one gig 2 gig 3 gig 5 gig I think these are not matching for for each country so for example if I'm going to a different country let's say turkey and one 2 3 5 10 20 let me just check Thailand Thailand would be okay so here you can see the difference is like uh 50 gig and unlimited so they're not not following the same format across the countries like s now I'm going to just quickly um compare s for United States Thailand and um another country will pick would be United Arab Emirates or Dubai so let's go start with United States so destination we are going to pick United States and here we're going to pick United States as well and okay so here I think they're maybe under USA okay so United States right here now if you take a look at the plan so one gig 3 gig 5 gig so 399 to 36.99 so if you compare here $ 450 all these are US dollars so 139 9 but here 450 2 gig is $8 us and here you're get getting 9 gig us and let's say 3 gig 11 and here 9 5 gig would be 16 and 14 1020 would be 23 and 37 and here 1020 would be 26 and 37 I'm sorry 42 so you can see that for United States uh s is slightly cheaper but it doesn't it's not cheap for every country so what we're going to do let's go to United Arab amirat uh which is going to be so I have a trip coming up to Dubai and I just want to check United Arab Amir okay so now looks like they have one gig two gig and three and five and 1 3 5 10 20 so here one gig would be 450 and here $4 so three gig would be they don't have 3 gig here so let's say we're actually here 950 799 5 gig would be 13 and here is 11 so for Dubai airo seems to be I'm sorry s seems to be cheaper for 20 gig uh $31 and for 20 gig $35 so slightly cheaper than uh air Alo so I'm going to check Thailand now and let's see what is the rate okay so we have Thailand here and let's go back to destination thent okay now here if you look at um a Alo uh you can see that it has only two plans $10 and $20 so for $10 you're getting 50 gig and for $20 you're getting unlimited but here um they don't if you want to get to 50 gig actually they don't even have it so it's going to be like $20 for 20 gig and they don't have any unlimited so you can see that for Thailand AO has much better deals or plans uh the one thing about the $1050 gig is that it last only for 10 days but if you are getting $20 you're getting unlimited internet for uh data and even it has calls so some of the a Sims they give you actually call minutes you can call within that country but uh for S uh you don't have that option you're not going to get any calls so that's one thing to remember that if you're looking for like you know uh calls then definitely s is not going to provide it and if you're looking for like you know both data and calls some of the airo eim have that option now another thing I notice that when you open airo app uh and when you open S app s seems to be much uh it looks much more like you easier to maneuver and user friendly but AO is packed of information it's not user unfriendly uh it's still a very nice and like you know easy to follow app but comparing to S I would say s has the advantage of uh being more user friendly and easier to maneuver uh also it gives you like you know lesser information than AO but AO gives you all the information you need to know so what I would recommend is that do not go with any SIM without checking uh like you should be checking which country you're going to so for example I'm going to Thailand and Dubai uh within a month so for Thailand I'm going to use air Alo but for Dubai or United Arab Emirates I saw that you know looks like s is giving slightly better deal so I'm going to with s so you know it all depends which uh provider you are going to use so just do your research and go with the one which has which is giving you the better deal and more options so don't just go with one for every country that way uh you know you're going to get the best deal so for uh I'm planning to do more videos on S and I do have more videos on AO in different countries showing their speed and how to install I'm going to put the put those videos uh in the description box below so for more tips and tricks video I'll see you in the next video thank you for watching [Music]