15 percent, a 90 day cookie, paid monthly. No email required.

What one order actually pays

A percentage is meaningless until you see it against a real basket. Every price in the table below comes from the same file that prices the store, so the commission column cannot drift away from what a customer is charged.

The last column is aloSIM, which pays a flat $5.89 a sale whatever the sale is. On a small order that beats us. On a 50 GB order it pays $5.89 where we pay $10.89, which is why a flat fee quietly discourages a writer from recommending the plan that suits the reader best. We think that is the wrong incentive to put in front of somebody who is trying to give honest advice.

What one order pays you

Every price in this table is read from the same file that prices the store, so it cannot drift from what a customer is actually charged. Commission is calculated on net revenue, so the figures shown are before refunds and payment processing are deducted.

What that adds up to in a month

Our median order is the 10 GB wallet at $16.89. The table works from that, so it is arithmetic rather than a projection. Nothing here assumes a conversion rate we have not measured.

The band shifts at 250 orders in a calendar month. It moves automatically when you cross it, backdated to the first of that month, rather than when somebody remembers to ask for a raise.

What that adds up to in a month

Worked at our median order value. Orders are counted in a calendar month, and the band moves automatically on the first of the month you cross the threshold.

Where this sits against the rest of the category

We surveyed every published affiliate rate in this category on 31 August 2026. The band runs from 10 to 20 percent and the midpoint is about 15 percent, which is where we sit as standard.

The interesting column is the second one. Of the 10 programmes we checked, only 5 publish a cookie window at all, and the longest of those runs 30 days. The single most asked question about an affiliate programme is how long the cookie lasts, and most of the category declines to answer it in public.

A further 3 sellers publish no rate at all. Holafly, GigSky and BNESIM make you write in and ask. Holafly is one of the two brands that dominate branded search in this category, which means the writers with the most traffic are negotiating in the dark against a partner manager who does this all day.

Every published rate in the category

Read off each provider's own affiliate page on 31 August 2026. A blank is not a short window, it is a programme that does not say. Rechecked when the price index is rebuilt.

The cookie window, and why ours is longer

90 days, last click. That is the longest published window we found, and it is deliberate.

Travel data is bought late and researched early. Somebody reads your comparison in February, books the flights in March, and buys the eSIM the night before the flight in May. A 30 day window pays you nothing for that, even though your article is the only reason they know our name.

Last click means a later click from a different partner takes the attribution. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What we will not do is let a coupon extension that fires on the checkout page overwrite the writer who caused the visit, which is a large part of why coupon and extension traffic is priced the way it is further down this page.

Tracking is server side with a cookie as a convenience rather than a dependency. A browser that deletes third party storage does not delete your revenue, and neither does an in app browser that strips query strings.

The threshold, the schedule and the money

An order clears a 30 day refund hold, then falls into the next monthly close and is paid on net 15. From your first cleared sale to your first payment is about 45 days. That is slower than we would like and it is the honest number rather than the marketing one.

The threshold is $50.89. Below it the balance rolls over, it does not expire, and it is not forfeited if you stop promoting us.

You are paid by bank transfer or PayPal in US dollars. If you would rather have data than money, wallet credit carries a 15 percent uplift, so $50.89 of commission becomes $57.89 of gigabytes that never expire.

Commission is calculated on net revenue, which is the order value after refunds, chargebacks and payment processing fees. Refunds are deducted in the month they happen. That includes the automatic refunds we issue inside 60 seconds when provisioning fails, which are our fault rather than yours and which we publish the rate of in the annual truth report.

Who can join, and what each type is paid

We pay by the kind of traffic you send rather than by a single rate for everyone, because a writer who spends a week testing an eSIM in Tokyo and a browser extension that injects a code on the payment page are not doing the same job.

This is the model Sim Local uses and it is the right one. A single flat rate across every partner type means content partners are quietly funding coupon sites out of their own commission.

There is no traffic minimum and no follower count to clear. If you have an audience that asks which eSIM to buy, apply. We answer inside 2 working days with a yes and a band, a no and a reason, or a suggestion that the creator track or the reseller track fits you better.

What each partner type is paid

What we run the tracking on, and the part you will not like

We run our own platform. Not Impact, not ShareASale, not CJ. Links, codes, postbacks and reporting are ours, first party and server side.

The upside is real. No network takes a cut of your commission before it reaches you, there is no second minimum balance to clear on the network's side, and there is no thirty day network lag between our data and yours. The dashboard shows clicks, orders, refunds and the amount owed, updated every 1 hour, broken down per link and per destination.

The downside is real too, and here it is. You get one more login. We do not appear in the Impact dashboard you already have open, so if you run forty programmes through one network we are the one you have to check separately. We offer an S2S postback and a CSV and API export so you can pull our numbers into whatever you already use, but that is a workaround and not the same thing. If a single dashboard matters more to you than the rate, a network programme is a legitimate choice and we will say so.

What we will not pay for

Said plainly here so it is not a surprise in a statement later.

• Bidding on our brand name in paid search, or any variant of it.
• Cookie stuffing, forced clicks, or an iframe that fires on page load.
• A browser extension that overwrites an existing attribution at checkout.
• Incentivised clicks, including anything that pays a user to click.
• A coverage or speed claim we cannot support with a measurement, including any unqualified claim that we are the fastest anywhere, because in several countries we are not.
• Traffic that converts below 0.4 percent for two consecutive months, at which point we are paying for impressions and calling it performance.

How to apply

Send us the address where you would publish, your rough monthly audience, and the countries your readers travel to. That is all we need. There is no call and no deck.

You get an answer inside 2 working days. Approved partners get a link, a code, a dashboard login and the raw coverage dataset, which is public and machine readable, so you can build your own comparison table rather than reprint ours.

Buy a plan first if you can. Partners who have actually installed the thing write better than partners who have not, and we would rather pay for the first kind.

Questions affiliates ask before applying