eSIM Balkan
The Balkan eSIM from 2,95€ runs on 30 networks across eleven countries, with 1 to 20 GB, prepaid, no contract and no registration – you are online minutes after landing in Belgrade or Split.
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Coverage · Balkan
How does Simbye eSIM work for the Balkans?
Set it up at home
After your purchase you get an email with a link and a QR code. Install the eSIM calmly on Wi-Fi; it takes about two minutes. The clock is not running yet – validity starts only when you first connect to a network on the ground.
Switch it on after landing
Whether you land at Belgrade (BEG), Zagreb (ZAG), Split (SPU), Dubrovnik (DBV), Athens (ATH), Thessaloniki (SKG), Tirana (TIA), Podgorica (TGD), Tivat (TIV), Sarajevo (SJJ), Skopje (SKP), Sofia (SOF), Varna (VAR), Bucharest (OTP), Ljubljana (LJU) or Chișinău (KIV): turn on data roaming for the Simbye line and wait a moment. The network connects by itself, and no manual access point is needed.
Travel on and top up
At every border the eSIM moves to the next network on its own – you do nothing. When your data runs low, top up in the app or through the link in your email: same eSIM, no new QR code, no new setup.
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Which networks will you be on in the Balkans?
The eSIM for the Balkans picks a partner network on its own in each of the eleven countries – you change nothing when you cross a border.
| 30 networks in AL, BA, BG, GR, HR, MD, ME, MK, RO, RS, SI |
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A Balkan trip rarely stays in one country. Zagreb, Sarajevo, Kotor, Tirana, Ohrid, Belgrade – that is five borders in a single week. This eSIM is built for exactly that: it can use 30 networks across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. You select nothing. The moment you cross a border, your phone looks for a partner network in the new country and connects. That can take a few minutes, especially at mountain land crossings. If nothing happens after five minutes, switch airplane mode on and off once – that usually settles it.
You are connected before you leave the arrivals hall – in Belgrade (Nikola Tesla), Tirana (Rinas), Zagreb (Franjo Tuđman), Split, Podgorica, Skopje, Sofia or Athens. In the cities and along the coasts, coverage is solid: Novi Sad, Dubrovnik, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Mostar, Budva, Kotor, Durrës, Saranda, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, Chișinău. The holiday regions are well served too – Istria and Dalmatia, the Bay of Kotor, the Albanian Riviera between Vlora and Saranda, the Greek islands from Corfu to Crete and the Cyclades, the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It thins out inland and in the mountains, and we would rather say so plainly – which legs are affected is spelled out further down.
eSIM or a local SIM card in the Balkans?
One plan beats several cards across the Balkans: it covers eleven countries and switches network by itself, while local SIMs mean a new card, a new currency and a passport check to register in Serbia.
| Feature |  Simbye eSIM |
Local SIM card |
|---|---|---|
| ID and registration | None. Buy online, use it straight away. | In Serbia and several neighbouring countries you must show your passport to register, sometimes with a photo. |
| When it starts | Set up at home, active from your first connection in the country. | Only after arrival: find a shop, queue, fill in a form, wait. |
| Crossing borders | One plan for eleven countries, the network switches automatically. | Buy a new card in each country – or pay expensive roaming from the neighbour's network. |
| Buying and price | Buy online at a fixed price you know before you travel. | Airport counters in Tirana, Podgorica or Belgrade are usually dearer than shops in town. |
| Payment | Card, online, in your own currency. | Often cash in dinar, lek, lev, leu, mark or denar – five currencies on one trip. |
| Your own number | Stays active in your phone, people still reach you. | You swap the SIM and go offline on your own number. |
| Local phone number | None. Data only, no calls, no text messages. | You get a local number and can make calls and receive texts. |
| Topping up | Online any time, same eSIM, no new QR code. | Buy a voucher at a kiosk and type codes in the local language. |
For most travelers the eSIM is the simpler choice: set up before departure, no queuing on arrival.
How much data do you need in the Balkans?
Trip length
How you use your phone
What does an eSIM for the Balkans cost?
from 2,95€
5 plans · 7–30 days
Simbye offers 5 plans for the Balkans from 2,95€ to 33,95€ — prepaid, no contract.
Plans for the Balkans range from 1 GB to 20 GB.
Validity runs from 7 to 30 days and starts with your first connection in the Balkans.
Data plans
- 1 GB 7 days 2,95€ 0,42€ per travel day
- 3 GB 30 days 3,95€ 0,13€ per travel day
- 5 GB 30 days 11,95€ 0,39€ per travel day
- 10 GB 30 days 19,95€ 0,66€ per travel day
- 20 GB 30 days 33,95€ 1,13€ per travel day
Good to know
- Networks
- 30 networks in AL, BA, BG, GR, HR, MD, ME, MK, RO, RS, SI
- Setting it up
- A link in your email, or the QR code — one tap is enough
- Network technology
- 4G/LTE — and 5G where the network already offers it
- APN and settings
- Nothing to set. The eSIM brings everything with it
- Hotspot
- Allowed — for a laptop, tablet or a travel companion
- Adding more data
- Top up any time, without setting anything up again
- Calls and texts
- Not included — WhatsApp calls run over the data
- Your own number
- Stays in the phone and stays reachable
- Contract
- None. The plan ends by itself
- Worth knowing
- Roaming on your home contract gets billed here — this eSIM is prepaid, so nothing is added afterwards
Frequently Asked Questions about Balkan eSIM
Data, calls, real phone numbers, top-ups and setup — everything you need to know before you buy a Simbye eSIM.
Yes, one eSIM works in all eleven Balkan countries. The plan covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, and can use 30 networks there. You change nothing when you cross a border.
You can buy an eSIM for the Balkans online, ideally before you fly. An eSIM for the Balkans is a digital SIM card built into your phone. After you buy it, the QR code arrives by email and you set the eSIM up calmly at home – prepaid, no contract, no registration. Nothing is used up until you connect on the ground.
Yes, the eSIM switches networks automatically at borders. Driving from Croatia into Bosnia, or from Montenegro into Albania, your phone finds a partner network in the new country by itself. It can take a few minutes. Toggling airplane mode once speeds it up.
No, you can't make calls or receive text messages with this eSIM. This is a data-only plan with no phone number of its own. Calls and messages go through WhatsApp, Viber or Signal. SMS codes from your bank or from apps still arrive on your usual number, so keep your normal SIM in the phone.
No, you don't need your passport for a Balkan eSIM itself. For a local Balkan SIM card you do: several countries in the region require registration with an ID document, and in Serbia a photo is sometimes taken too. None of that applies here – no shop, no local currency.
You'll have signal mainly in the cities and along the coasts, not so much in the Balkan mountains themselves. Inland it thins out: Durmitor, the Tara canyon, the road between Theth and Valbona and longer ferry crossings between the Greek islands all have dead spots. Download your maps offline beforehand.
Yes, you can get an eSIM for the Balkans as a tourist - every country this plan covers runs 4G and 5G networks that support eSIM, so your phone connects the moment you land. You need an eSIM-capable, carrier-unlocked phone and nothing else. The profile is downloaded over Wi-Fi before you travel and picks a partner network automatically at each border you cross.
A Balkan eSIM starts at 2,95€; the final price depends on data size and the number of days you choose, shown in the table above in your own currency. A few gigabytes cover maps, messaging and photos for a short city trip, while a longer route through several countries needs a bigger bundle.
The eSIM that is best for the Balkans is whichever follows your whole route across the borders. This eSIM can use 30 networks in eleven countries, from Croatia and Slovenia through Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia to Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Greece, so you change nothing at a crossing. It is data only, though: for a local number it is the wrong plan.
Ready for the Balkans?
Pick a plan, tap the link in your email — you are online from the moment you land.
Choose a planPrepaid, no contract. The plan simply ends on its own.
