Costa Rica eSIM with Calls & Phone Number

You can buy an eSIM for Costa Rica with a phone number right here in a few minutes: choose a plan above, pay by card or PayPal, and the install link lands in your email. One tap installs the profile next to your usual SIM, and the plan brings its own number on the French +33 dialling code. Install it at home, before you fly to San José.

Yes, eSIM works in Costa Rica. An eSIM for Costa Rica is a digital SIM card built into your phone. The line roams onto the Costa Rican networks, so an eSIM-capable phone is registered before you have collected your bag at Juan Santamaría or at Daniel Oduber in Liberia. Nothing is bought or signed at a counter in Costa Rica. You switch on data roaming for the Simbye line and that is the whole job.

An eSIM for Costa Rica starts at 30,95€; the final price depends on the plan you choose. The price table above on this page lists each one with its data allowance and validity, and calls and texts are part of it rather than an extra. That figure is the full cost: no contract, no activation fee and nothing billed afterwards.

Yes, this plan includes calls and texts - that's the point of it. Calls and texts come with the plan on a number of its own, so you can ring a hotel in Manuel Antonio or a tour operator in La Fortuna straight from the phone's dialler rather than through an app. The plan details above show what each option includes.

The phone number you get with it is on the French +33 dialling code, not a Costa Rican +506 one. People can call and text you on it, and it works from the phone's normal dialler. Your own SIM stays in the phone at the same time, so your everyday number carries on receiving your usual calls and messages.

You can't get a local Costa Rican number for tours and taxis with this plan, which carries a French number instead. Drivers, hosts and tour operators can still ring you back on it, and WhatsApp is what most visitors use anyway. What stays out of reach is any local service that insists on texting a +506 number to verify you.

No, you don't need to register the line with SUTEL. That registry covers prepaid lines sold locally in Costa Rica, which are tied to an identity document, a cedula, a DIMEX or a passport for visitors, and that is why a shop asks for papers. Your eSIM is a visiting line that connects when you land, so there is no store to find and no document to upload.

The networks it uses in Costa Rica are the Costa Rican mobile networks, picked up the same way local phones do, so there is nothing to choose on arrival: no APN, no profile, no app to open first. If the bar stays empty, toggle airplane mode for ten seconds, then turn off automatic network selection and pick another network by hand.

The data you need for Costa Rica, on a two-week road trip with maps, WhatsApp and the odd booking, comes to a few gigabytes, since navigation and messengers together rarely pass a gigabyte a week. Uploading photos and video from Arenal, Monteverde or Manuel Antonio every evening lifts that noticeably. Streaming at the lodge or running a laptop off the hotspot is what empties a plan fastest. Sizes are in the table above.

The eSIM that is best for Costa Rica depends on whether you need to be reachable by phone. This one includes a number with calls and texts, handy when a lodge or shuttle driver rings back, but it carries a +33 dialling code, not a Costa Rican one. Data runs over Orange Worldwide and covers San José and the tourist spine. If you only need data, the plain Costa Rica eSIM is simpler.

Yes. Because you get a real phone number, SMS verification codes arrive directly on your phone — so you can sign up for or verify WhatsApp, Telegram, banking apps and almost any service. No extra app required.

No. This is a real eSIM with a real number that works natively on your phone — calls use your normal dialer and texts land in your phone's Messages app. The Simbye app is optional and only used to manage your plan.

Yes. You can make and receive calls and SMS with your included number — just like a local SIM, with no contract and no roaming bills. International calls are included as a set number of minutes depending on your plan.