United States eSIM: daily caps, throttling and hotspot, brand by brand
Of 24 travel eSIM brands with a rule that applies to United States, 12 publish a daily full-speed allowance, 10 publish the speed you drop to afterwards and 6 state a hotspot rule (1 block hotspot outright). 5 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.
In the United States most travel eSIMs ride T-Mobile or AT&T, and the gap between brands is not coverage but the fair-use rule: how many GB per day at full speed, how slow it gets afterwards, and whether tethering a laptop is allowed at all. Several brands publish a worldwide rule and nothing US-specific; those rows are marked by scope.
What other brands publish for United States
One row per brand: the most specific rule that applies (13 country-specific, 0 regional, 11 worldwide). The full dataset, with every scope, is at /dataset.
Published and reported fair-use limits for major travel eSIM brands
The same three numbers for our United States plans
Plan
Full speed per day
After that
Hotspot
Networks
United States 500MB/Day (USIP) · 1 days
500 MB/day
512 kbps
same as data
Verizon, AT&T
Plan facts fetched . Prices and the buy buttons are on the plan page.
What to watch for in United States
Video-heavy days (sports, long drives with navigation and music) hit a 1 to 3 GB daily bucket by the afternoon.
Hotspot blocked at the brand level is the most common surprise for people working remotely from the US.
5G access varies by plan even on the same network; the table does not score speed, only the published limits.
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.