Best eSIM for Peru

Prices in Peru

Mid-range prices, no verification steps from any of the three providers. How the three providers compare across all fifteen destinations is in our main eSIM comparison.

Which network you get

Movistar carries two of the three:

• Airalo shows Movistar as its network with a 4G badge, and 365 days from purchase to start. No 5G or hotspot statement.
• Holafly lists Movistar Peru and Claro Peru, with 5G where available and hotspot sharing capped at 1 GB a day. It warns that coverage is weaker on parts of the Inca Trail and in the Amazon.
• Saily does not name its network; it states 5G depending on the local provider and no hotspot restrictions.

Buying a local SIM instead

The regulator (OSIPTEL) tightened prepaid sales under the Lima and Callao state of emergency, and the rules for foreigners are the strictest in this comparison.

• OSIPTEL’s report on the measures in force since 22 November 2025 states that foreign nationals contract mobile service “in person at service centres, after biometric verification against the database of the National Superintendence of Migration”, with diplomatic ID holders the only exception. A prepaid line with no traffic in its first three days is deactivated, and each person may take one line per operator per calendar month.
• Claro’s prepaid SIM costs S/5 and its requirements document accepts a passport; Bitel sells prepaid packages from S/5. Movistar’s and Entel’s prepaid pages did not load when we checked, so we quote nothing for them.
• We found no operator or airport page stating a SIM counter at Lima’s airport.

Before you land

Peru also keeps a “white list” of phones. OSIPTEL’s 2026 guidance: a phone bought abroad must be registered at the operator’s service centre, free of charge, with the phone, your ID and proof of purchase, and a signed declaration; an unregistered foreign phone used on a Peruvian line receives a warning message and is blocked after two working days. None of the pages we read mentions tourists or roaming, so the registry bites only once a Peruvian SIM is in the phone.

• Install on Wi-Fi at home; Airalo allows 365 days from purchase to start, Saily 180.
• These are data-only plans. Keep your home SIM active for the text messages your bank and your airline send, with data roaming switched off on it.
• Carry your onward reservation in a form that opens without a connection: the check-in desk asks for it before the eSIM is on. Peru’s onward-ticket rules are on their own page, and the free checker covers your passport.