Saily in Asia: the hotspot plan

The verdict buy it for the cap, not for the gigabytes

Saily is a NordVPN product and behaves like one: clean app, refunds that actually process, the best Trustpilot record in this comparison, and a marketing habit of telling you the outcome rather than the mechanism.

Its fixed-data plans are priced above everyone else here, sometimes far above: $26.99 for 10GB in China against Yesim's $21.61 and Nomad's $17. On price per gigabyte there is no argument to make for it.

The unlimited plans are a different product. A published 5GB per day cap is nearly double Airalo's and it is the only allowance in Asia that comfortably absorbs a working day of laptop tethering. If that is your trip, Saily is the answer and the price is fair.

The unlimited plans the reason to be here

Single-country Saily unlimited is cheaper and mostly identical: $18.99 for five days in most of the 14 countries here, though the cap itself shrinks to 3GB a day in India and Sri Lanka. Most providers vary the price by country; Saily varies the cap instead, quietly.

Two things make this the best unlimited product in Asia. The cap is published, so you can plan around it instead of discovering it. And it is a daily cap that resets at local midnight, so one heavy day does not kill the plan the way a monthly bucket would.

What it is not: unlimited. Past 5GB in a day, speed drops until midnight. The full cap comparison is here.

Saily country by country note the middle column

That middle column is not a data-collection failure on our side. Saily publishes no network list for any of these 14 countries, so there is nothing to record. Every other provider in this comparison publishes one for nearly every country.

What Saily will not tell you and why it matters in Asia

Two facts decide whether an eSIM works well in Asia: which local carrier it rides, and where its traffic exits. Saily publishes neither.

The network. In Japan, Docomo reaches the mountains and SoftBank does not. In Thailand, AIS reaches the islands and dtac fades. In the Philippines, Smart and Globe cover different islands. Buying Saily means buying whichever of those you get, and finding out when you are standing somewhere it matters.

The exit country. A traveler review recorded on esimdb reports Saily's Japan traffic exiting through Hong Kong, which broke ChatGPT for that user. We cannot verify that against any published record, because there is no published record. For China specifically, where the exit country decides whether the firewall applies to you, Saily markets a bypass and documents nothing.

This is not an accusation of poor service. Saily's Trustpilot record is the best in this comparison and its refunds work. It is a statement about what you can check before you buy, which for a network product is most of what matters.

Saily against the field same sizes, same week

Trustpilot scores and review counts as of 2026-08-31. Saily's 4.7 across 30,000 reviews is the strongest trust signal in this comparison by a clear margin.

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