eSIM Plus review: a number from $8 a month, and 13 countries in the verification builder

eSIM Plus strengths: 20 countries

• Same monthly line kept for the whole rental, so repeat SMS across the rental land in one inbox.
• The catalogue is upfront: the products are virtual numbers living inside an app, and the brand publishes its own comparison with a physical SIM rather than hiding the difference.
• Flat $8 a month covers a wide set of European and North American countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Israel, Czechia, Slovakia, Lithuania and Puerto Rico.
• The eSIM Plus interface runs in eleven languages, so non-English users can manage rentals in their own language.
• Bundled naturally with eSIM Plus travel data, so travellers pair local mobile data with a foreign line in one place.

eSIM Plus pricing: a number from $8 a month, not a price per code

Pricing is per phone number per month, not per SMS. The floor is $8 a month across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Israel, Czechia, Slovakia, Lithuania and Puerto Rico. Above the floor, the same product costs $11 for Australia, Latvia and Mexico, $21 for Chile and $26 for Portugal. The price jump between countries is not explained on the buyer side.

eSIM Plus review: inside the dashboard

The dashboard lives inside the app, not on a website. From there users pick a country, buy a monthly subscription, and read incoming verification codes as they arrive in the app inbox. There is no separate web console.

How to receive a code on eSIM Plus

1. Install the eSIM Plus app from the App Store or Google Play and create an account.
2. Open the phone numbers section and pick a country from the 20 on the pricing table.
3. Confirm the monthly price, which starts at $8 for common countries and rises to $26 for Portugal.
4. Pay the subscription, and the phone number is added to the account for a month.
5. Trigger the SMS from the target online service and read the verification code in the app inbox.

Coverage is 20 countries for a number, with 100+ on the banner meaning data eSIMs

Country choice on eSIM Plus is narrower than the banner suggests. The '100+ countries' claim covers the eSIM data business; the phone numbers side lists 20 countries, and inside the verification builder for online services the list narrows further to 13. The 20 countries are mostly Europe and North America: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Israel, Mexico, Chile and Puerto Rico.

Payment options

eSIM Plus phone numbers are sold as a monthly subscription managed inside the eSIM Plus app, and registration is required. There is no free tier and no per-code option. The minimum commitment is a month, whether the verification code arrives in the first minute or never at all. The public catalogue does not list specific payment methods for this service.

How eSIM Plus performed in our tests

We reviewed eSIM Plus by reading the live catalogue on esimplus.me, walking the pricing table, opening the in-app verification builder to see which online services and countries it actually offers, and cross-checking public reputation signals on Trustpilot and the App Store rating quoted on the brand's own pages. All checks were done on 2026-08-11. We ran no activations against this service; the observations describe what eSIM Plus publishes and what third-party pages show.

SMS Verification Number is our top-rated pick, so we use it as the reference column. The numbers come from our own hands-on testing above; a competitor's availability changes over time, so your results may vary.

Pros and cons

When eSIM Plus is not the right choice

• Buyers who need one verification code and nothing else, because a monthly $8 minimum is heavy for a single activation.
• Users who need Microsoft, Venmo, Discord, Google, Amazon or CashApp across many countries, because the per-service list is very short.
• Developers who need an API to pull phone numbers and SMS codes at scale, because eSIM Plus does not expose one.
• Anyone leaning on Trustpilot ratings to decide before buying, given the 2.7 out of 5 score there.

What our test team observed

eSIM Plus verdict: app-first and thin for verification, priced as a subscription

eSIM Plus is app-first and thin for verification. It is an eSIM data brand that also sells long-lived phone numbers as a monthly add-on, packaged for people who already run their travel data inside the same app. If the job is to collect verification codes on WhatsApp or Google, the country list is short, per-service coverage inside the verification builder is uneven, and independent reviews on Trustpilot sit at 2.7 out of 5 across 221 reviews. For a single SMS activation eSIM Plus is expensive and narrow, and the overall rating lands at 2.9 out of 5. Anyone shopping for a dedicated SMS service will quickly notice that the numbers add-on plays second fiddle to the data plans, and the verification service itself lacks the depth that specialist providers deliver on demand.

What is eSIM Plus?

eSIM Plus is mainly a travel eSIM brand that advertises data plans in more than 100 countries, and it sells virtual phone numbers as a secondary product managed inside the same app. The site describes the product as living in the app rather than on any physical SIM card, and the brand publishes a page comparing a virtual number with a physical SIM. It is aimed at travellers and long-term expats who want to keep a foreign line attached to their data eSIM, not at users buying a single SMS code.