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eSIM for Turkey: six services compared with prices

· The Ateo Digital editorial team

Turkey is the best-supplied destination in our eSIM catalogue. Alongside Thailand it is the only country out of two hundred where all six services have a plan. That makes an honest comparison possible: one basket, six prices, with no half the rows reading «no plan».

We compare exactly that way — fix a volume and a duration, and let the calculator pick each vendor's cheapest plan that genuinely covers the basket.

In short

  • At 10 GB over 14 days eSIM Tayyor is cheapest at 559 ₽; Just eSIM is dearest at 1 550 ₽.
  • At 30 GB over 30 days the order flips: eSIM.World comes first at 2 013 ₽.
  • The host networks in Turkey are Turkcell, Vodafone and AVEA / Türk Telekom, and not every vendor names them.
  • Five of six accept payment from Russia.
  • Yesim itself warns that its app may not open in Turkey — and it does not work without the app.

Basket: 10 GB over 14 days

ServicePricePlan selected
eSIM Tayyor559 ₽10 GB / 30 days
eSIM365619 ₽Simple 10 GB / 30 days
eSIM.World1 003 ₽10 GB / 14 days
Yesim1 342–1 565 ₽10 GB / 30 days
Unisim1 343 ₽AVEA / Türk Telekom, 1.15 $/GB
Just eSIM1 550 ₽10 GB / 14 days

Almost threefold between first and last for the same volume in the same country. Yesim's interval appears because it names no full-speed threshold on any plan.

Note the Unisim row: it sells not packages but a single balance drawn down at a per-gigabyte price — 1.15 $ per gigabyte in Turkey. That is the lowest per-gigabyte price in the Turkish section of the catalogue, but without a package discount the total over ten gigabytes comes out higher.

How the winner changes

There is no universal «best service for Turkey». Three baskets on one destination:

BasketFirstSecondThird
5 GB / 7 dayseSIM Tayyor and eSIM365 — 439 ₽ eacheSIM.World 498 ₽Yesim 862–1 006 ₽
10 GB / 14 dayseSIM Tayyor 559 ₽eSIM365 619 ₽eSIM.World 1 003 ₽
30 GB / 30 dayseSIM.World 2 013 ₽eSIM Tayyor 2 559 ₽Yesim 2 549–2 973 ₽

The flip at thirty gigabytes is no accident: eSIM.World has an exact 30 GB / 30 day package, while eSIM Tayyor has to sell you a 50 GB one — you pay for volume you will not use. That is exactly why the catalogue lets you set the basket instead of choosing from presets.

What sits behind the plan: networks

An eSIM runs on a local partner operator's network, and coverage at a specific spot depends on which. In Turkey the vendors name these:

  • eSIM.World — AVEA / Türk Telekom, Vodafone, Turkcell.
  • Unisim — the operator is in each plan's own name, including AVEA / Türk Telekom.
  • eSIM365 — the operator is named on every plan card; for Turkish plans it is Vodafone.
  • eSIM Tayyor, Yesim, Just eSIM — network undisclosed.

This is not a detail for anyone heading beyond Istanbul and Antalya: Turkish operators differ by region, and knowing whose network you are buying is useful.

Payment and installation

Five accept payment from Russia: eSIM Tayyor via SBP, eSIM.World via Russian acquiring, Unisim by MIR and other cards, eSIM365 by MIR card and SBP, Just eSIM via Cloudpayments. Yesim takes a card in the interface currency and does not declare that it works from Russia.

Yesim carries an extra complication in Turkey, and it comes from the vendor itself: the service requires its own app, and its storefront for Turkey and the UAE separately notes that the app may not open in-country. Managing purchased data through an app that needs data is a risk worth weighing before buying.

Installation at all six is by QR code, so it has to be done at home on a working connection. At eSIM.World the profile link lives 89 days before activation; at eSIM365 a profile must not be deleted before its term ends, because it cannot be reinstalled.

The fine print, vendor by vendor

  • eSIM.World — unused traffic is forfeited, liability is excluded entirely with no ceiling. Sources disagree on the post-threshold speed: support and the blog say 512 kbit/s, a third-party review from April 2026 says 384 kbit/s.
  • eSIM Tayyor — an Uzbek service; purchase and QR come straight through Telegram. It publishes prices in roubles and rounds them to …9. Its «unlimited» plans are in fact daily: 1–3 GB a day at full speed, then 512 kbit/s.
  • Unisim — under the agreement the counterparty is a sole trader, while the site footer names Unisim LLC. Clause 2.5 states that information on the site is not an offer. Refunds within 14 days and only for device incompatibility.
  • Yesim — refunds only for an unactivated product, and activation counts from the first connection to a network: you cannot test it and then return it. Legal entity GENESIS GROUP AG, Switzerland.
  • Just eSIM — exclusive jurisdiction of Hong Kong courts regardless of your residence, and you pay their lawyers' fees in a recovery action. Speed after the threshold drops to 32 kbit/s.
  • eSIM365 — the operator is named on every plan; post-threshold speed is 1 Mbit/s. Russian legal entity, operating since 2024.

Price your own basket

In the eSIM table pick Turkey and set the volume and duration you need — you get a price from each of the six with the plan it selected. Row order is determined by cost, not by our commission.

Data collected 31 July – 6 August 2026. Dollar-priced plans are converted at 79.86 ₽ (Central Bank, 1 August 2026).