eSIM Austria
Austria eSIM from 1,95€ on the A1, Magenta and Drei networks, from 1 to 50 GB or unlimited, prepaid with no contract and no registration – you are online the moment you land at Vienna Airport.
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2GB highspeed/day, then unlimited at 1Mbps
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Your plan only starts counting when the eSIM first connects at your destination — so you can buy today and travel in three weeks.
How does Simbye eSIM work for Austria?
Get connected in under 2 minutes
Set it up before you fly
You buy the eSIM, get the email and set everything up at home on Wi-Fi – one tap on the link or the QR code from the mail. The clock does not start there: it starts when the eSIM first connects in Austria.
Switch it on after you arrive
Whether you land at Vienna-Schwechat, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Linz or Klagenfurt, or arrive by train via Salzburg or Kufstein: airplane mode off, set mobile data to the Simbye line and switch data roaming on for it. One or two minutes later you are on one of the three networks.
Keep an eye on your data
You can see your usage any time in the app or on your order page. When it runs low, you top up in seconds – same eSIM, nothing to reinstall. Using the hotspot for a laptop, tablet or a travel companion's phone is allowed.
Check Device Compatibility
Make sure your device supports eSIM before purchasing
Which networks will you be on in Austria?
Your eSIM picks the Austrian network on its own – nothing to set up, no operator to choose.
The Simbye eSIM uses 3 networks in Austria: A1 · Magenta · Drei.
Magenta
Source: nPerf averages, 01.04.2025 – 31.03.2026.
Austria has three networks of its own: A1, Magenta (formerly T-Mobile Austria) and Drei. Your eSIM can use all three. After you land, your phone picks the one with the best signal by itself and switches again later if another one fits better. There is nothing to enter and nothing to choose. Only if reception is odd in one spot can you go into your settings and try one of the three networks manually.
In the cities – Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Villach and Bregenz – at Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck airports and along the motorways and main rail lines, coverage is dense, 5G included. In the tourist regions of Tyrol, in Salzburger Land, in Carinthia around Lake Wörthersee and in Styria near Schladming you are fine in the villages and at the lifts. Narrow side valleys, high alpine terrain in the Hohe Tauern and hiking trails away from the lifts are the exception: there the signal is weak or simply absent.
eSIM or a local SIM card in Austria?
Go with the eSIM in Austria: it is running before you land, with nothing to register. An Austrian prepaid card means a shop visit and an ID check since 2019 — and on Sundays almost everything is shut.
Why roaming on your home contract gets expensive in Austria
Roaming is the expensive, opaque option. Many home plans bill a day pass for every day you are abroad, others charge per megabyte, and almost none tell you where you stand while you travel – you find out on the invoice. Travellers from Turkey, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Balkans, the Gulf states and Asia all run into the same thing in Austria: the line works, but every look at the map costs.
Even plans that simply keep running abroad almost always cap how much data you may use outside your home country. Two weeks of navigating, uploading photos and hanging a laptop off the hotspot every evening gets you there faster than you would think – and past that cap each gigabyte is billed separately.
The second reason has nothing to do with roaming. Since 2019 an Austrian prepaid card only comes with registration and an ID check. If you would rather skip that, if you need a clean second line for a work phone, or if you simply run out of data on day ten, you buy data here prepaid and are done in a few minutes. And we will say just as plainly what you do not get: no Austrian phone number, no SMS, no calls over the network.
Where the networks actually reach
In Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Villach and Bregenz you will barely notice a difference between A1, Magenta and Drei. 4G is practically everywhere, 5G in the cities and along the main corridors: the West motorway Vienna–Linz–Salzburg, the South and Tauern motorways, the Inn valley and Brenner routes. On the train between Vienna and Salzburg you have signal almost the whole way – in long tunnels such as the Arlberg or under the Tauern the connection can drop.
It gets more interesting in the mountains. In the big ski areas – Sölden, Ischgl, St. Anton, Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Zell am See-Kaprun, Schladming, Kitzbühel, Nassfeld – coverage is dense, because tens of thousands of people are out there at once in winter. A1 traditionally covers the most ground and reaches furthest into the side valleys.
It thins out where hardly anyone lives: the far ends of the Ötztal, the Lechtal or the Defereggental, the Hohe Tauern away from the roads, hiking trails with no lift beside them. At many mountain huts you have no signal at all, and no eSIM changes that. Download your map, your ticket and your route plan before you set off.
How much data do you need in Austria?
So you can work it out instead of guessing: how much an hour costs in the apps you actually use on holiday.
Just staying reachable
1–3 GB
Messages, the map now and then, checking mail. Everything else runs on the hotel Wi-Fi.
An ordinary holiday
5–10 GB
Navigating, social media, uploading photos, a few videos in the evening.
Out a lot, or a laptop along
20 GB and up
Streaming in the evening, video calls home, keeping a laptop or tablet online through your phone.
Data used per hour
The Netflix and Spotify figures come from the providers themselves (Netflix Help Center, Spotify Support, retrieved 28 Aug 2026). The rest are network-operator estimates (o2, Vodafone, EE) and vary with picture quality and reception.
What does an eSIM for Austria cost?
Simbye offers 9 plans for Austria from €1,95 to €46,95 — data packs from €1,95, unlimited from €18,95. Prepaid, no contract.
Plans for Austria range from 1 GB to 50 GB, plus unlimited options.
Validity runs from 7 to 180 days and starts with your first connection in Austria.
| Plan | Validity | Price | Per travel day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | 7 days | €1,95 | €0,27 |
| 5 GB | 30 days | €5,95 | €0,19 |
| 3 GB | 30 days | €9,95 | €0,33 |
| 10 GB | 30 days | €11,95 | €0,39 |
| 20 GB | 30 days | €17,95 | €0,59 |
| Unlimited | 7 days | €18,95 | — |
| Unlimited | 15 days | €32,95 | — |
| 50 GB | 180 days | €37,95 | €0,21 |
| Unlimited | 30 days | €46,95 | — |
- Networks
- A1 + Magenta + Drei
- 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
- Prepaid instead of a contract — useful as a second line, or when your own data allowance is used up
Frequently Asked Questions about Austria eSIM
Data, calls, real phone numbers, top-ups and setup — everything you need to know before you buy a Simbye eSIM.
