# Ahoray

> Prepaid travel eSIM data plans for 7 destinations, delivered by email and installed before departure. Data only — the traveller keeps their own number for calls and texts. One-time purchases with no renewal.

- Ahoray sells prepaid data-only travel eSIMs. There is no phone number, no voice calls and no SMS on any plan — an eSIM is added as a second line and the traveller keeps their own number on their existing SIM for calls and messages.
- Plans are one-time purchases. Nothing renews, nothing subscribes, and a plan cannot bill a second time. When the data or the days run out it simply stops.
- Validity is counted from the first time the eSIM connects to a network, not from the moment of purchase. An eSIM can therefore be bought and installed at home days before departure without spending any of its days.
- Delivery is by email, usually within a minute of payment: a QR code plus the SM-DP+ address and activation code for installing by hand.
- An eSIM profile can be installed one time only. Deleting it from the phone, resetting the device or erasing all content destroys the plan permanently; it cannot be reissued and it is not refundable once installed.
- A phone must be eSIM-capable and carrier-unlocked: iPhone XS or newer, Google Pixel 3 or newer, most Samsung Galaxy S20 or newer. Dialling *#06# shows an EID number on a phone that supports eSIM.
- Some plans route traffic through a different country than the one being visited. Where that is true, the exit-IP country is stated on the plan before purchase rather than discovered afterwards.
- Prices are in US dollars and are shown in full before payment. There are no daily fees, no activation fees and no charge for the eSIM itself.
- Data can be added to an eSIM that is already installed, without reinstalling it and without a new QR code.
- Ahoray is a trading name of IYDO LLC, a Delaware company. Support is at support@ahoray.com.

## Destinations

- [United States eSIM](https://staging.ahoray.com/esim/us) — from $8.99
- [Japan eSIM](https://staging.ahoray.com/esim/jp) — from $6.99
- [Turkey eSIM](https://staging.ahoray.com/esim/tr) — from $5.99
- [Thailand eSIM](https://staging.ahoray.com/esim/th) — from $6.99
- [Every destination](https://staging.ahoray.com/destinations) — the full list of 7, each with its own page and its own plans

## Questions answered in full

- [How much mobile data do you actually need abroad?](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/how-much-data-do-i-need) — For most travellers, 1 GB per week covers maps, messaging, email and light browsing. Add photo backup and social media and a week runs closer to 3 GB. Streaming video, video calls or tethering a laptop is what turns a fortnight into 20 GB or more. Buy the smallest plan that covers the trip: unused data is not refunded and does not roll over, and topping up mid-trip takes under a minute.
- [Travel eSIM or your carrier’s roaming: which is actually cheaper?](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/esim-vs-roaming) — A daily roaming pass from your home carrier charges a flat fee for every day you use it, whether you use 20 MB or 2 GB, and keeps your number working for calls and texts. A travel eSIM charges once for a fixed amount of data and nothing per day. Roaming wins on very short trips and when you genuinely need your number to ring abroad; a travel eSIM is usually several times cheaper from about the third or fourth day onward, and the gap widens the longer you stay.
- [Does my phone support eSIM? How to check in ten seconds](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/does-my-phone-support-esim) — Dial *#06# on the phone. If an EID number appears alongside the IMEI, the phone supports eSIM; if there is no EID, it does not. Broadly, that means iPhone XS and newer, Google Pixel 3 and newer, and Samsung Galaxy S20 and newer. Being eSIM-capable is only half of it — the phone must also be carrier-unlocked, which is a separate thing and the more common reason an install fails.
- [eSIM installed but no service: what to check, in order](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/esim-installed-but-no-service) — In almost every case the cause is one of two settings: data roaming is off for the travel line, or the travel line is not selected as the line for mobile data. Turn data roaming on for the travel eSIM, set it as the mobile data line, then toggle flight mode for fifteen seconds. If it still shows nothing, select the network by hand instead of automatically. Do not delete the eSIM — deleting it destroys the plan permanently and it cannot be reissued.
- [How to choose a travel eSIM: the six things that actually differ](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/how-to-choose-a-travel-esim) — Compare six things: the price per gigabyte rather than the headline price, which country your traffic exits in, whether tethering is allowed, whether you can add data without reinstalling, exactly which countries a regional plan covers, and what happens if the eSIM fails. Coverage maps and carrier logos are the least useful comparison — almost every provider resells the same handful of wholesale networks in any given country.
- [Does a travel eSIM give you a phone number? (WhatsApp, SMS and bank codes)](https://staging.ahoray.com/guides/esim-phone-number-sms-whatsapp) — A travel eSIM is a data plan and has no phone number. It cannot make or receive calls, and it cannot receive an SMS — including a bank verification code. That is not a limitation of a cheaper tier; it is what the product is. Your own number keeps working for calls and texts on your existing SIM alongside it, and everything that runs over the internet — WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, FaceTime, Telegram, authenticator apps — works normally over the eSIM’s data.

## Understanding the product

- [Installing your eSIM](https://staging.ahoray.com/install) — settings paths for iPhone, Samsung and stock Android, and what to do when a QR code will not scan
- [Refund policy](https://staging.ahoray.com/refunds) — what is refundable and what the single-install rule means for it
- [Support](https://staging.ahoray.com/support)
- [Terms](https://staging.ahoray.com/terms)
- [Privacy](https://staging.ahoray.com/privacy)

## Optional

- [Full text, including every destination price](https://staging.ahoray.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Product feed, every plan with its price](https://staging.ahoray.com/feed/google.xml) — XML

Updated 2026-09-07. Prices are live and change when the underlying wholesale price does.