eSIM plans are small purchases. The cheapest on this site is under a dollar, and a typical trip plan is a few dollars. That changes the calculation: a network fee that is a rounding error on a laptop purchase can be a third of the price of a 500 MB plan. Here is how the coins we accept compare for exactly this kind of buy.
The table
| Coin | Typical fee | Time to deliver | On-chain privacy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monero | under a cent | about 2 minutes (1 block) | Private: sender, receiver and amount hidden |
| Litecoin | a few cents | about 2.5 minutes (1 confirmation) | Public ledger |
| USDT on Tron (TRC20) | fraction of a cent | seconds | Public ledger, centrally issued |
| USDT/USDC on BNB Chain | about a cent | seconds | Public ledger, centrally issued |
| Bitcoin | varies, can exceed the plan price | about 10 minutes (1 confirmation), longer with a low fee | Public ledger |
| Ethereum / ERC20 | varies, often more than a small plan | a few minutes | Public ledger |
If privacy is the point: Monero
Nothing else on the list hides the payment itself. Combined with a shop that collects no identity, a Monero-paid eSIM leaves no trail on our side and none on the chain. Fees are negligible and delivery is about two minutes. This is the default recommendation for anyone who is here for the privacy.
If you want dollars in, dollars out: USDT on Tron
Plans are priced in USD and USDT is a dollar token, so there is no exchange-rate movement while you pay, and TRC20 transfers cost almost nothing and confirm in seconds. It is the most used option here. The trade-off is that the ledger is public and the token is issued by a company. USDT eSIM details.
If you only hold Bitcoin: consider Litecoin instead
We take on-chain Bitcoin and it works fine, but on a busy day the miner fee on a two-dollar plan can be silly. Litecoin is the pragmatic sibling: cents in fees, confirmations every two and a half minutes, supported by every exchange. If you do pay in Bitcoin, pick a slightly larger plan so the fee is a smaller share, and set a fee that will confirm within an hour; we fulfil after one confirmation.
Ethereum: use it for stablecoins when gas is low
ETH itself works. ERC20 USDT and USDC work. But Ethereum gas is often more than a small plan, so we also accept the same stablecoins on Tron and BNB Chain; pick the cheaper network at checkout and send only on that network. Ethereum eSIM details.
All of them share the same rails
Every coin here is processed by our own nodes and invoicing. There is no third-party payment processor holding a copy of your transaction next to your order, which is a privacy property that does not depend on which coin you chose.