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 Sri Lanka
Using docs in Sri Lanka? You are on the local edition — key facts for Sri Lanka (capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, dial code +94) are below. esimgomobile plans for Sri Lanka are live now — monthly plans from $8/mo and one-time travel packs from $3.65, with live checkout.
| Capital | Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte |
|---|---|
| Dial code | +94 |
| Currency | Sri Lankan rupee (LKR) |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 |
| Main languages | Sinhala, Tamil |
Plans are live — see plans and pricing.
How it works
The product, up close.
Twenty product screens and twenty field photos — this is what traveling connected looks like.
- 1The roaming math, made visible: one price versus per-day carrier fees.
- 2This is the comparison most travelers never see until the bill.
- 1Three plans side by side so the trade-off is obvious.
- 2Pick by trip length, not by decoding fine print.
- 1Live usage ring: see remaining data at a glance, no mental math.
- 2Top-up button sits right where you need it when data runs low.
- 1Illustrative speed readout: sample carrier, city and latency figures.
- 2The meter demonstrates the readout — figures are examples, not live measurements.
- 1A real support transcript: the question, then the specific answer.
- 2This is what 'AI support' actually looks like in practice.
- 1Usage ring compresses the whole plan into one glanceable number.
- 2Percent remaining is the only metric most travelers check.
- 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.
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
curl https://api.esimgomobile.com/v1/esims \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"country":"SR"}'- 1Three plans side by side so the trade-off is obvious.
- 2Pick by trip length, not by decoding fine print.
- 1Illustrative speed readout: sample carrier, city and latency figures.
- 2The meter demonstrates the readout — figures are examples, not live measurements.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
- 1The dashboard keeps every eSIM, every trip, in one place.
- 2Rows show data left, days left and current city at a glance.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1Coverage pins show where partner networks are live.
- 2The map answers the only question that matters: will it work there?
- 1Mockups illustrate the product flow — captions describe what's real.
- 2Figures labeled as examples show sample data, never live telemetry.
- 1Mockups illustrate the product flow — captions describe what's real.
- 2Figures labeled as examples show sample data, never live telemetry.
- 1The plan card shows exactly what you're buying — data, days, destination.
- 2One tap starts the two-minute QR install.
- 1Usage ring compresses the whole plan into one glanceable number.
- 2Percent remaining is the only metric most travelers check.
Explainer
Docs: the full picture
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.
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.
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
- Check that your phone is carrier-unlocked before you buy any eSIM — locked phones can't add one.
- Hotspot sparingly: one laptop tethered all day can burn through a week of phone data.
- Screenshot your hotel address and booking confirmations — you'll want them with no signal.
- Set a data alert at 80% so a top-up never surprises you mid-trip.
- If a page won't load, toggle airplane mode for ten seconds — it forces a fresh network attach.
- Turn off auto-play on social apps before you fly; it quietly eats roaming data.
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
Roaming bills taught a generation to fear their phones abroad. The eSIM generation simply never learned that fear — data is prepaid, visible and finite.
The Tele Agent closes the remaining gap: a question at midnight in a foreign terminal gets an answer in seconds, not a support ticket.
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
Sri Lanka, visualized.
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 Sri Lanka trip online
Pick a plan, check out securely, scan the QR code — you're online before you land.