France eSIM: daily caps, throttling and hotspot, brand by brand
Of 24 travel eSIM brands with a rule that applies to France, 11 publish a daily full-speed allowance, 10 publish the speed you drop to afterwards and 5 state a hotspot rule (1 block hotspot outright). 3 rows rest on dated customer reports rather than the brand's own page and are marked unverified. Every number links to its source with the date it was observed; last review 2026-10-19.
France has strong 4G and 5G on Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free, so the limiting factor for a travel eSIM is the brand's fair-use rule rather than the network. Paris transit navigation, museum audio guides and video messaging home add up fast against a daily bucket. The table shows each brand's published France or Europe rule and the speed you drop to afterwards.
What other brands publish for France
One row per brand: the most specific rule that applies (5 country-specific, 4 regional, 15 worldwide). The full dataset, with every scope, is at /dataset.
Published and reported fair-use limits for major travel eSIM brands
Plan facts fetched . Prices and the buy buttons are on the plan page.
What to watch for in France
Alpine and rural areas depend on which host network the eSIM roams onto; compare the carrier column, not only the cap.
Several brands cap hotspot on regional Europe plans at a few hundred MB a day.
After-cap speeds below 256 kbps make ride-hailing and ticket apps unreliable.
We sell eSIMs. Competitor limits shown here are sourced and dated; corrections are welcome. Dataset licence CC BY 4.0; cite the dataset page, not this summary.