Quickstarts
Three paths from zero to connected — every step works against the live network.
Buy your first eSIM
- Create your account — pick a plan, live now.
- Pick a plan and check out — live now.
- Scan the QR code to install the eSIM.
Set up a team plan
- Create your account — pick a plan, live now.
- Create your workspace and invite the team.
- Assign numbers and data pools per line.
Build on the developer API
- Mint a developer API key (self-serve) — live now.
- Read the OpenAPI 3.1 document — live now.
- Subscribe to
com.esimgomobile.*webhooks for billing, porting, number and call events — live now. - Automate top-ups per line.
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The platform, in five parts
Coverage
195 country guides with install steps and local network notes.
Read →Plans
Data plus a permanent phone number on one eSIM line.
Read →Numbers
Real virtual numbers for calls, SMS and verification codes.
Read →Tele Agent
An AI receptionist that answers, books and summarizes calls.
Read →API
Catalog, checkout, account, QR, balance, numbers and Tele Agent endpoints.
Read →Developer platform — live today
Self-serve API keys, a published OpenAPI 3.1 document, JavaScript and Python SDKs, a CLI, com.esimgomobile.* webhooks, a number-porting API, KYC intake and an honest status page. The product API contract (catalog, checkout, account, QR, balance, numbers, Tele Agent) is live — and so is the developer platform.
What shipped
Every public change to esimgomobile, newest first — dated, in English, nothing invented.
esimgomobile in Benin
Using docs in Benin? You are on the local edition — key facts for Benin (capital Porto-Novo, dial code +229) are below. esimgomobile plans for Benin are live now — monthly plans from $8/mo and one-time travel packs from $3.65, with live checkout.
| Capital | Porto-Novo |
|---|---|
| Dial code | +229 |
| Currency | West African CFA franc (XOF) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 |
| Main languages | French |
Plans are live — see plans and pricing.
How it works
The product, up close.
A visual walkthrough built for this page — mockups of the exact experience plus photography from the field.
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
- 1The plan card shows exactly what you're buying — data, days, destination.
- 2One tap starts the two-minute QR install.
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
- 1A real support transcript: the question, then the specific answer.
- 2This is what 'AI support' actually looks like in practice.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
- 1Illustrative speed readout: sample carrier, city and latency figures.
- 2The meter demonstrates the readout — figures are examples, not live measurements.
- 1Coverage pins show where partner networks are live.
- 2The map answers the only question that matters: will it work there?
- 1Checkout shows the full price before you pay. Nothing hidden.
- 2Amazon Pay handles payment securely; taxes are calculated for you.
- 5G where available
- Instant QR install
- Hotspot included
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1Three plans side by side so the trade-off is obvious.
- 2Pick by trip length, not by decoding fine print.
- 1A real support transcript: the question, then the specific answer.
- 2This is what 'AI support' actually looks like in practice.
- 1The roaming math, made visible: one price versus per-day carrier fees.
- 2This is the comparison most travelers never see until the bill.
- 1Illustrative speed readout: sample carrier, city and latency figures.
- 2The meter demonstrates the readout — figures are examples, not live measurements.
- 1Mockups illustrate the product flow — captions describe what's real.
- 2Figures labeled as examples show sample data, never live telemetry.
curl https://api.esimgomobile.com/v1/esims \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"country":"BE"}'- 1The dashboard keeps every eSIM, every trip, in one place.
- 2Rows show data left, days left and current city at a glance.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
Explainer
Docs: the full picture
Everything on this page exists to answer one question well: how does esimgomobile fit into your trip? The sections below go deep so you never need a second tab.
The long version is the rest of this page — plans, mechanics, edge cases and honest trade-offs, written the way we'd explain it to a friend.
The short version: prepaid travel eSIMs across 195 destinations, installed by QR code in two minutes, managed from a dashboard, with an AI agent on call when you need a human-style answer fast.
Explainer
How it works, step by step
- Buy before you fly
- Order from home, the hotel, or the departure lounge — delivery is instant and digital.
- No shipping, no pickup counters, no airport SIM queues.
- Add the eSIM
- One QR scan adds the plan to your phone. iPhone and Android both walk you through it in under a minute.
- You can install now and activate later — the plan starts when you choose.
- Stay online abroad
- Data, maps, translation and messaging work the moment you land.
- Running low? Top up in one tap from your dashboard — no new QR code needed.
Explainer
Good to know
- Hotspot sparingly: one laptop tethered all day can burn through a week of phone data.
- WhatsApp, iMessage and FaceTime keep your existing number on a data eSIM — no need to tell anyone a new number.
- Screenshot your hotel address and booking confirmations — you'll want them with no signal.
- Check that your phone is carrier-unlocked before you buy any eSIM — locked phones can't add one.
- Set a data alert at 80% so a top-up never surprises you mid-trip.
- Charge your phone before long travel days; weak signal areas drain batteries faster.
These are the details that separate a smooth trip from a stressful one — small, unglamorous, and worth more than any feature list.
Explainer
Why travelers switch
The Tele Agent closes the remaining gap: a question at midnight in a foreign terminal gets an answer in seconds, not a support ticket.
Roaming bills taught a generation to fear their phones abroad. The eSIM generation simply never learned that fear — data is prepaid, visible and finite.
And because everything is prepaid through Amazon Pay, the commercial relationship is simple: you pay for data, you get data, it ends when it ends.
See the math
The numbers behind Benin.
Docs — data dashboard
The product's headline numbers, switchable by dataset.
Hover any bar or point for its exact value. Tabs switch datasets — everything on this panel is computed from live product data unless labeled illustrative.
Start your Benin trip online
Join thousands of travelers who land connected. Your eSIM installs in two minutes.