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 Zambia
Using docs in Zambia? You are on the local edition — key facts for Zambia (capital Lusaka, dial code +260) are below. esimgomobile plans for Zambia are live now — monthly plans from $8/mo and one-time travel packs from $3.65, with live checkout.
| Capital | Lusaka |
|---|---|
| Dial code | +260 |
| Currency | Zambian kwacha (ZMW) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 |
| Main languages | English |
Plans are live — see plans and pricing.
Up close
esimgomobile in action.
A visual walkthrough built for this page — mockups of the exact experience plus photography from the field.
- 1A real support transcript: the question, then the specific answer.
- 2This is what 'AI support' actually looks like in practice.
curl https://api.esimgomobile.com/v1/esims \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"country":"ZA"}'- 1Checkout shows the full price before you pay. Nothing hidden.
- 2Amazon Pay handles payment securely; taxes are calculated for you.
- 1Coverage status at a glance: data live, number available, 5G ready.
- 2Green means go — no guessing about what's supported.
- 1Mockups illustrate the product flow — captions describe what's real.
- 2Figures labeled as examples show sample data, never live telemetry.
- 24/7 support
- One-tap top-up
- Keep WhatsApp number
- 1The roaming math, made visible: one price versus per-day carrier fees.
- 2This is the comparison most travelers never see until the bill.
- 1The plan card shows exactly what you're buying — data, days, destination.
- 2One tap starts the two-minute QR install.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1The plan card shows exactly what you're buying — data, days, destination.
- 2One tap starts the two-minute QR install.
- 1The Tele Agent answers in plain language — no telecom jargon.
- 2Every answer is specific to your trip, not a generic FAQ.
- 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.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1Checkout shows the full price before you pay. Nothing hidden.
- 2Amazon Pay handles payment securely; taxes are calculated for you.
- 1The plan chip: name, allowance and destination in one line.
- 2Everything you need to confirm you're on the right plan.
- 1A real traveler quote, tied to the destination it mentions.
- 2Reviews reference actual trips, not generic praise.
- 1Signal widget: network generation and destination, always visible.
- 2Five bars, zero ambiguity about what you're connected to.
- 1Mockups illustrate the product flow — captions describe what's real.
- 2Figures labeled as examples show sample data, never live telemetry.
- 1Illustrative speed readout: sample carrier, city and latency figures.
- 2The meter demonstrates the readout — figures are examples, not live measurements.
- 1The Tele Agent answers in plain language — no telecom jargon.
- 2Every answer is specific to your trip, not a generic FAQ.
- 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.
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
- Pick your plan
- Choose data for your trip length — 5 GB covers a long weekend, 20 GB a fortnight, 50 GB or Unlimited a month of heavy use.
- Checkout takes about two minutes through the secure Amazon Pay checkout.
- Scan the QR code
- Your eSIM arrives instantly. Open your phone camera, scan, and the plan installs itself.
- No store visit, no plastic SIM, no waiting for the post.
- Land connected
- Turn on data roaming for the eSIM line when you land — you're online before baggage claim.
- The eSIM finds the local partner network automatically.
Explainer
Good to know
- Set a data alert at 80% so a top-up never surprises you mid-trip.
- Turn off auto-play on social apps before you fly; it quietly eats roaming data.
- Screenshot your hotel address and booking confirmations — you'll want them with no signal.
- WhatsApp, iMessage and FaceTime keep your existing number on a data eSIM — no need to tell anyone a new number.
- Save your eSIM QR code somewhere safe (email it to yourself) in case you switch phones mid-trip.
- Hotspot sparingly: one laptop tethered all day can burn through a week of phone 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.
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.
The Tele Agent closes the remaining gap: a question at midnight in a foreign terminal gets an answer in seconds, not a support ticket.
Charts & explainers
The numbers behind Zambia.
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.
Your Zambia plan is two minutes away
Join thousands of travelers who land connected. Your eSIM installs in two minutes.