Price Guard
The cheapest correct answer, including when it is not ours.
Travel data pricing is confusing on purpose almost everywhere you look. There are four shapes of the same product, they are priced on different units, and the comparison is left to you at the exact moment you are tired and standing at a gate. Price Guard is the part of Orbislo that does the arithmetic instead, and then publishes the working.
Promise one. The best combination for your trip
We sell data in four shapes. Wallet balance, which is a pool of gigabytes with no end date. A country pack, which is cheaper per gigabyte inside one border. A regional pack, which covers a continent at a small premium. And an unlimited day pass, which is a flat fee for full speed to 2 GB a day and 1 Mbps after that. The right answer depends on how many days you travel, how many borders you cross, and how much data you actually use.
So work it, rather than guess it. Tell us the countries and the dates, or connect an itinerary through Trip Sync, and we return one recommendation with the alternatives underneath and the price of each. Here is a real example. Twelve days, Tokyo to Seoul, at the median traveller usage of roughly 800 MB a day, which is 9.6 GB over the trip. Round it to 10 GB.
| Option | You pay | Covers both countries | Left after the trip | Cost per usable GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two country packs | $19.89 | Yes, as two purchases | Credited back to your wallet | $2.89 |
| One regional Asia pack | $16.89 | Yes | Credited back to your wallet | $1.69 |
| 10 GB of wallet balance | $16.89 | Yes | Still yours, no end date | $1.69 |
| 30 day unlimited pass | $64.89 | Yes | Nothing to keep | $6.89 at 10 GB |
Our prices, all four of them, taken from the wallet tiers and the destination catalog rather than typed here. Nothing in this table expires: leftover country pack data is credited back to your wallet at the end of the trip.
The recommendation on that trip is not the wallet. Two country packs, one for Japan and one for South Korea, come to $19.89, which is $4.89 under the 10 GB wallet at $16.89, so the country packs are the line we show first even though the wallet is the product we would rather sell you. The wallet is the second line and it is the better answer the moment a third country appears, because a Japan pack is only cheap in Japan. The unlimited month is more than two and a half times either price unless you tether a laptop, and if you tell us you do, the answer flips: past roughly 41 GB in a month, the $64.89 pass wins and we say so.
The combination is genuinely a combination, not a single pick. A common output is 10 GB of wallet balance plus one 1 day unlimited pass for the day you know you will tether at a conference. Nothing in the model is allowed to consider margin. It has the four price curves, your days, your borders and your usage estimate, and that is all it has.
$2.89
per GB on the combination we recommend for this trip, against $1.69 for the wallet we would rather sell you
4
product shapes compared on every trip you describe
41 GB
the monthly point where an unlimited pass becomes the cheaper answer
Promise two. Price drops refund themselves for 30 days
Prices move. Wholesale rates fall, a country gets a second carrier contract, a promotion starts the week after you bought. Everywhere else that is your loss, because the mechanism for getting it back is a support ticket you will not write.
We snapshot the exact price you paid at the moment of purchase. Every night for the next 30 days a job compares that snapshot against the live public price of the same product. If the live price is lower, the difference moves into your wallet as balance, and you get a notification that names the product, the old price, the new price and the amount returned. You do not claim it, because there is nothing to claim. The refund is the default state.
Now the exclusions, printed here rather than three clicks away. A promo code you never applied is not a price drop. A different product falling in price is not a price drop on yours, so a cheaper 10 GB tier does not refund your 5 GB purchase. A lower price at another provider is not covered here, because that is what promise three is for. And the window is 30 days from purchase, not 30 days from when you first used the data.
Promise three. Send a quote, get a straight answer
Send a screenshot or a link showing a named provider's live public price for the same destination and the same amount of data. We reply with one of two things. Either we beat it and apply the better price to your basket, or we tell you that we cannot beat it and that you should buy theirs.
That second sentence is the whole feature. A price match nobody ever loses is not a price match, it is a promotion with a form attached. We lose roughly 1 quote in 6. It is almost always the same shape: a long stay in a single country against a provider whose one wholesale contract in that country is cheaper than our multi carrier one. Our answer is to point at their checkout, and to explain what you are giving up if you take it, which is usually the speed floor and the leftover data.
| Provider | Where they beat us | Where we beat them |
|---|---|---|
| Holafly | Long single country unlimited stays, 15 days and up | Anything metered, anything multi country, and any speed claim. Independent testing measured them near 7 Mbps before throttling and under 1 Mbps after, with no published fair use number. |
| Airalo | Raw destination count, 169 against our 145 live today | Cost per usable gigabyte, because their packs expire. Their unlimited throttles near 3 GB a day and was measured at 10 to 22 Mbps. |
| Saily | Occasional launch promotions on a single country, and unlimited: Saily Ultra is $31.00 a month with a bigger daily full speed allowance than ours | Coverage breadth at around 121 destinations, and data that does not expire against their 7 to 30 day windows |
A valid quote is a live public price, dated inside 7 days, for the same destination and the same data amount. It is not an expired banner, a rate you were given as an affiliate, or a reseller listing we cannot check. Our support target is under 60 seconds, 24 hours a day, and quotes go through the same queue as everything else, so you are not waiting on a business day in another timezone while your flight boards.
Why we can afford all three
Travel data has a quiet profit centre in it called breakage, which is the money you paid for gigabytes that were deleted before you used them. Industry estimates put wasted purchased data at 20 to 35 percent. A business built on that number cannot also refund price drops and hand you the cheapest line, because the cheapest line and the refund both come out of the same margin.
Our data never expires, so we never booked that revenue. What is left is a simpler business where we make money when you travel again rather than when you forget. Price Guard is what that difference looks like on a page. If you want the underlying rates, they are all on pricing, and the per country speed and carrier numbers are on coverage.