Netherlands eSIM with Calls & Phone Number

You can buy an eSIM for the Netherlands right here, with the QR landing by email in minutes — no shop at Schiphol, no queue, no Dutch address needed. Choose a plan, pay by card, then tap the install link or scan the QR code so the eSIM sits next to your normal SIM. Install it at home on Wi-Fi.

This eSIM comes with a phone number, but a French one rather than a Dutch line. This is the version with calls, so you get a real number that can ring, be rung and receive texts, and your own number stays reachable on your normal SIM alongside it. Only the country code is not local.

This eSIM for the Netherlands starts at 28,95€, depending on the plan. The price table above on this page shows each one with its data and its days. The amount displayed is what you pay, in your own currency, before you travel, and it does not renew on its own once the plan has run out.

Yes, the Netherlands has eSIM: an eSIM there is one of the easiest to arrive with, since the country is small and densely built with 5G in the cities. An eSIM for the Netherlands is a digital SIM card built into your phone. Land at Amsterdam Schiphol, Eindhoven, Rotterdam The Hague, Groningen Eelde or Maastricht Aachen, switch on data roaming for the Simbye line, and you are online within a minute or two.

Both calls and texts are included. Alongside the data you can make and take calls and send texts on the number that comes with the plan, which helps when a landlord, a driver or a restaurant wants to ring you back. How many international minutes are included depends on which plan you choose.

You don't choose the network in the Netherlands. Your phone connects by itself to a local Dutch network and stays on whichever comes in best where you are standing. There is no access point to type in and nothing to configure: you only switch data roaming on for the Simbye line and set it as your mobile-data line.

No, there is nothing to register or show in the Netherlands. A Dutch shop will not put you through paperwork for a local line, and here there is nothing to upload, no form and no counter at all. You install the eSIM at home on Wi-Fi and simply arrive with it already working.

If you cross into Belgium or Germany, treat this as a Netherlands plan and check the coverage details shown with it first. Belgium and Germany run their own networks, and a short hop over the line is exactly where people assume too much. If your route covers several countries, pick a plan that names each of them.

You need less data for the Netherlands than you'd guess. Maps, train apps and WhatsApp between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht use a couple of GB a week; add photo uploads from the canals and the bulb fields and you are near five. What actually eats data is streaming, daily video calls and a laptop on the hotspot — that is where the larger sizes on this page pay off.

The best eSIM for the Netherlands comes down to one question: do people need to phone you? This plan runs on Orange and includes calls, texts and its own number — but that number has a +33 dialling code, which surprises local contacts. If you only want data, a plain Netherlands data eSIM is simpler and comes in smaller sizes. Your own number stays in the phone either way.

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.