Best eSIM for Tanzania: Real Prices Compared for Zanzibar, the Serengeti and Beyond

Serengeti game drives, the climb up Kilimanjaro, and the beaches of Zanzibar make Tanzania one of the more physically spread-out trips on this list — you're often days apart from the nearest city, which makes reliable data genuinely more important here than on a compact city break. We checked live pricing across 115 providers we track for Tanzania, so here's what the actual pricing looks like today.

Quick-answer picks

• Cheapest way to get connected: SimOptions' 1GB / 1-day plan at currently unavailable — a solid light-use option for a short stretch.
• Best value for a week on safari or in Zanzibar: Yatelo's 1GB / 7-day plan at $3.80.
• Best for a longer trip or a full month: BNESIM's 1GB / 30-day plan at $3.52.
• Best raw price per GB: Yatelo's 20GB / 30-day plan at $29.45, working out to roughly $1.47 per GB — the strongest deal for real data volume.
• Cheapest unlimited, priced by the day: Superalink's Unlimited / 1-day plan at $1.00, or $13.50 for a genuine 5-day stretch.
• Best unlimited for a full month: Maya Mobile's flat rate at $49.99.

Tanzania price comparison

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Yatelo $3.80 Superalink $1.00 Cheapest BNESIM $3.52 Maya Mobile $9.99

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Live Tanzania deals right now

Public promo codes from providers selling Tanzania eSIMs — pulled live from our deals list, so this section updates itself and disappears when nothing is running.

Telekonek

15% off your first order — WELCOME15

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Stay connected in 200+ countries the moment you land — skip the roaming bills and SIM swaps on your very first trip.

Public promo Ends Oct 21, 2026

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Airalo

15% off your first Airalo eSIM with NEWTOAIRALO15

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New customers only, first order; the discount is capped at $3 per Airalo's terms.

Public promo Ends Dec 31, 2026

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Eskimo

Welcome Discount — 50% off your first purchase

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Get 50% off your first purchase, capped at $15. Applied automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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Provider-by-provider breakdown

SimOptions (from currently unavailable for 1GB/1 day) and Superalink (the same rate for a full day of genuinely unlimited data) sit at the cheapest end of the catalog — Superalink in particular is worth a close look even for a standard trip, since unlimited at that price beats most fixed-data tiers outright.

eSIMGlobe (from currently unavailable for 500MB/1 day) has one of the largest single lineups we track for Tanzania — useful if your trip length or data need doesn't line up with anyone else's standard tiers.

Yatelo is the standout value pick for a real week-long trip: $3.80 for 1GB/7 days, and still the best price-per-GB in the whole catalog once you scale up to 20GB/30 days at $29.45 — the pick if you're planning to upload a lot of safari photos and video.

BNESIM takes over as the best value for a full month, at $3.52 for 1GB/30 days — a genuinely strong price for month-long coverage if you're combining Zanzibar with a longer mainland stay. They currently run a real discount code too:

BNESIM -15% ESIMKART1015 First payment only

15% off, up to €10, first purchase only

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eSIMo (from $5.90 for 1GB/7 days), eSIMCard (from $4.41 for 1GB/3 days), and MobiMatter (from $4.49 for 1GB/7 days) all sit in the middle of the comparison — reasonable fallback options if a specific tier shape or network happens to suit a particular part of your itinerary better.

Maya Mobile doesn't compete on the smallest tiers, but its flat global rate of $49.99 for 30 days of unlimited data is the best full-month unlimited option here — and if Tanzania is one stop on a wider East Africa trip, the same rate applying everywhere Maya operates is a genuine convenience.

Why prices vary this much

A cheap day-pass and a genuinely unlimited month both show up under "Tanzania eSIM," but they're solving different problems on a trip that's often spread across very different environments — a city stopover in Dar es Salaam, days without a real town in sight on safari, and a beach stretch in Zanzibar. SimOptions and eSIMGlobe compete hardest on the smallest, cheapest tiers. Yatelo's real strength is pricing efficiently across the whole range, which is why it wins on both the weekly and price-per-GB comparisons. Superalink and Maya Mobile take a third approach entirely, pricing unlimited access by the day or with one flat global rate — genuinely useful here specifically because a safari itinerary often means uploading a lot of photo and video with no predictable pattern to your usage.

If you're not sure how much data a multi-region Tanzania trip actually needs, our data usage guide is worth a look before defaulting to unlimited.

Which plan fits your trip

• A short stopover in Dar es Salaam or Zanzibar Town: SimOptions' 1GB/1-day plan or Yatelo's 1GB/7-day plan, depending on your actual stay length.
• A standard week combining Zanzibar and a short safari: Yatelo's 1GB/7-day plan at $3.80 is the clear default.
• A longer trip covering the mainland, Kilimanjaro, and Zanzibar over a full month: BNESIM's 1GB/30-day plan at $3.52, or Yatelo's 20GB variant at $29.45 if you'll be uploading heavily.
• Heavy safari photography and video, or long stretches away from wifi: Superalink's unlimited day-rate, or Maya Mobile's flat $49.99 rate for a full month.

A few practical notes

Coverage is genuinely strong in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and Zanzibar, and reasonably good along the main safari circuit roads — but deep in the Serengeti or on remote stretches of the Kilimanjaro climb, expect real gaps regardless of which eSIM you choose. This isn't a provider-specific limitation; it's the same reality a local Tanzanian SIM would face in the same remote areas, so download offline maps as a backup for any serious safari or trekking itinerary.

Install your eSIM before you fly — every provider above activates only once you land and connect to a local network, so there's nothing to gain by setting it up early at the airport. If this is your first time using an eSIM, our beginner's guide to how eSIMs work covers installation and activation from the very start.

See the full, live list of Tanzania eSIM plans sorted by price, if you want to compare exact tiers side by side.