Keepgo vs Lotsotravel: What Does No-Expiry Data Cost? (2026)

Nearly every travel eSIM sells you a gigabyte with a clock attached. Keepgo sells the gigabyte and takes the clock off, and that one decision shapes its whole price list.

Keepgo has been at this longer than most. It was founded in 2011 and now runs its own connectivity platform for business and IoT (connected-device) customers as well as travellers. Its partner-network history goes back to the early 2010s, so it was selling data that outlived your trip while most of today's eSIM brands did not exist.

This comparison comes down to a question any buyer can settle with a calculator. What is the premium for taking the clock off, and is the thing it protects worth that much? On Keepgo's Europe line the premium at 10GB is $11.05, and a whole second 10GB plan from us costs $8.95. The rest of this post is the working.

We are Lotsotravel and we sell the plans with the clock on them, so read this knowing which side of the question we are on, and check the links.

At a glance

Two of those rows do most of the work. Keepgo's data has no clock, and it costs roughly twice as much per gigabyte in the range where most trips sit. The rest of this post works out whether the first row is worth the second.

What "never expires" means in 2026

The internet gets this wrong in both directions.

Keepgo's current position is the strong one. On 30 April 2025 the company published an article announcing that mobile data on its Lifetime Plan now has no expiration date. It covers eSIMs, physical SIMs and its Wi-Fi hotspots alike. The article contrasts that with the 30, 60 and 90-day windows the rest of the category sells. Its FAQ and its product pages repeat it. There are no monthly fees.

The weaker reading is the one in most third-party write-ups: a balance stays valid provided you refill at least once a year, for any amount, even a few dollars. Reseller listings and reviews still describe that rule. MyBestSIM lists a minimum annual recharge among Keepgo's drawbacks, and a 2026 explainer advises topping up periodically and not leaving the line dormant.

Two Keepgo documents complicate the headline. The footnote on its plans page still reads "if refilled at least once a year for any amount". And its terms of service (section 5.3) call an account inactive after 24 months without a purchase, refill or usage, and reserve the right to delete it, lifetime products included, if you do not respond within 30 days of an email notice. So "never expires" holds for an account you touch at least every two years.

We are not going to adjudicate which page governs. The announcement is the most recent statement of the plan itself. The practical advice is the same either way. If no-expiry is the reason you are buying, read the terms at Keepgo's checkout rather than any review of it, this one included. For the arithmetic below we take Keepgo at its word and treat the data as never expiring, the most favourable assumption available to them.

The premium, priced

Keepgo's Europe line trades as Corvus. Keepgo's own Europe pages list 1GB at $3, 5GB at $11 and 10GB at $20. Above that come 25GB at $49, 50GB at $97 and 100GB at $165, none of them with an expiry date. Ours is the v3 Fixed Data catalogue for Europe: 33 countries on one profile, meaning one eSIM you install once. We quote it at the 30-day window because that is the fairest thing to put beside a product with no window at all.

The 25GB and 100GB rows compare tiers that do not line up, and both are flagged. The 5GB, 10GB and 50GB rows are like-for-like on data volume, and they favour us by $4.05, $11.05 and $62.05.

Now put the no-expiry feature on trial, using the 10GB row. Keepgo charges $11.05 more than we do for the same ten gigabytes. That $11.05 protects you against one specific loss: gigabytes you paid for and did not use before the clock ran out. The largest that loss can be is the whole plan, $8.95, if you buy ours and use none of it.

At 50GB the gap is wider still. The $62.05 premium is 1.8 times the price of our whole 50GB plan, so the same money would buy nearly two spare plans.

So the no-expiry premium is worth paying only when it costs less than buying a second plan, and at 10GB and 50GB on this ladder it costs more. If you know roughly how much data a trip uses, you can place yourself in about ten seconds. Our Europe eSIM travel guide has the usage ranges if you do not.

Per gigabyte, the ladders touch at exactly one price

Unit prices show the shape of the two catalogues more clearly than totals do. Keepgo's Europe line runs $3.00 per GB at 1GB and improves steadily to $1.65 per GB at 100GB. Ours starts at $1.65 per GB at 3GB and falls to $0.70 per GB at 50GB.

That table holds the most compact way to describe the gap: Keepgo's best rate is our worst rate. Keepgo's cheapest Europe gigabyte comes in a hundred-gigabyte block for $165. It costs exactly what our most expensive Europe gigabyte costs, bought three at a time for $4.95.

Keepgo also advertises a bonus gigabyte on any purchase of 1GB or more, and it counts in their favour. Apply it to every row and the Europe line becomes $1.83 per GB at 5GB (six gigabytes for $11). At 10GB it becomes $1.82, and at 50GB $1.90. The bonus helps most where the bundle is smallest, barely registers at size, and changes no verdict above.

Going global: one profile or two

Keepgo's real structural advantage is breadth on a single profile. Its Tucana plan advertises global roaming across 230+ networks in 102 countries, a list that includes both Europe and Japan. Andromeda is a 26-country plan built around Asia, the Americas and the Gulf. From Europe it lists only Albania, Italy and Turkey, and it does not list Japan, so it is not a Europe plan. Solaris is sold for the United States alone. We sell nothing like Tucana. Our catalogue is regional: Europe across 33 countries, Asia-Pacific across 12.

On trips that stay inside one of our regions, the difference shows up in price. Keepgo's broad plans carry a broad-plan price:

The second row is the one that matters for a lot of real itineraries. On a trip that goes Europe then Japan, the Keepgo profile that covers both is Tucana, at $60 for ten gigabytes. Ours is a Europe plan plus an Asia-Pacific plan, $8.95 plus $9.95. That buys twenty gigabytes across 45 countries for $18.90, with two profiles to install instead of one. The single profile costs $41.10 more for half the data. Some travellers will pay that for the convenience; most, we think, will install the second profile.

Where Tucana does something our catalogue does not is an itinerary that spans our regions and theirs, say South America, Africa and central Asia on one eSIM, at $6 per gigabyte. We left the Solaris row uncompared on purpose. Single-country US pricing moves independently of our regional plans, and we are not quoting a number we have not re-read on the day.

Where the Europe lists differ

The country list on Keepgo's Corvus page runs to 34 countries and includes Ukraine, served by Kyivstar and Vodafone. Our Europe plan covers 33 countries and leaves Ukraine out, so a trip into it needs a different plan from us. A Global plan that lists Ukraine alongside most of Europe is 15GB over 30 days at $11.95. Lists change, so confirm both on the day you buy.

Asia: the same ladder, steeper

Keepgo's East and Southeast Asia line is a separate price list from Corvus, and it runs higher. The page loads its prices from Keepgo's refill list, from $1 for 100MB up to $140 for 50GB, and none of it expires. Against that we put our Asia-Pacific plan, 12 countries on one profile, at the 30-day window and the same referral rate as before.

Per gigabyte, Keepgo's Asian ladder runs from $4.00 at 1GB to $2.80 at 50GB, so even its best rate is above its Europe rate and above our 3GB entry plan at $1.65. Ours falls to $0.72 per GB at 50GB. The no-expiry premium on the 10GB row is $21.05, more than twice the $9.95 it costs to buy our plan again.

The coverage trade runs both ways. Keepgo's line lists 10 countries and includes mainland China. Our Asia-Pacific plan has no China, but it covers Thailand, Australia and New Zealand, which Keepgo's line does not list. Nine countries appear on both lists: Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Macao, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. Check your itinerary against both country lists rather than the headline count.

What a hoard of gigabytes is worth

No price table shows this part, and it is the strongest argument against the no-expiry model that involves no criticism of Keepgo.

A balance of unused data is an asset you are holding, and its value to you is capped at what it would cost to replace when you next need it. Pay $97 for 50 gigabytes today, use 15 on this trip, and you carry 35 gigabytes forward at a book value of roughly $68. Those 35 gigabytes are worth $68 only if buying 35 gigabytes still costs $68 on the day you travel again.

Our take: that is a bad bet in this market, and our own price list is the evidence. We sell 50 gigabytes of Europe data for $34.95, about half the book value of that carried-forward balance, available today. The whole category has spent years moving one way on price per gigabyte, and a stored balance does not move with it. It is the only asset in your travel budget that cannot get cheaper.

That is our opinion, and it is no knock on the product. No-expiry solves a real problem for the traveller whose trips are small, infrequent and unpredictable. Picture someone who needs 400 megabytes twice a year in two different countries and finds every 30-day plan slightly absurd. For that person a dormant balance is exactly right. The expensive mistake, we think, is the large carried-forward hoard, because the thing you are storing gets cheaper while it sits in the warehouse.

Buying, delivery, the app and refunds

Keepgo runs an account-based model: you buy a balance, it sits in your account, and you spend it down and refill it. That fits its product better than a plan-per-trip model would. It sells through its website and ships a Keepgo eSIM app on iOS and Android. Independent reviews note that, unlike some app-first rivals, Keepgo does not strictly require the app. Hotspot tethering is advertised across the range, and the plans are data-only, with no calls or SMS.

We sit at the simple end: website only, no app, no account balance to manage. You buy the plan for the trip. The QR code is delivered by email and on the website, so you can set up a traveller's phone from a laptop. WhatsApp and email are there for support.

Refunds are the other place the two models differ in shape. Keepgo's terms of service (section 1.5) and its returns and refunds page set out four rules:

• A refund request for an eSIM that was never installed or activated must be submitted within 30 days of purchase.
• Every refund except a crypto payment carries a 10% fee, which Keepgo says covers card and payment-processing costs.
• Refills are not refundable, though Keepgo asks you to contact support if you could not use data you bought.
• Crypto payments are not refundable in most cases.

None of that is unusual for prepaid balances. It matters more here because the model pushes you toward buying a large balance up front. The 10% fee on a $97 Europe 50GB bundle is $9.70, which is more than the $8.95 our whole Europe 10GB plan costs.

Neither approach wins in the abstract. A balance model rewards a long relationship and makes refilling trivial. A plan model leaves nothing to maintain and nothing to remember between trips. If you are installing an eSIM for the first time with either company, read our device compatibility guide before you buy.

What we're not measuring

Five things, listed so you can go and check them yourself:

• Customer support. Neither of us publishes a controlled, comparable dataset on resolution times, so any claim we made here would be marketing dressed as a metric. We do not compare it in any post. Published independent reviews of Keepgo discuss it, two of which are in our sources; we are not summarising them into a score.
• Network speed and latency. Speed depends on the partner carrier, the tower, the hour and your handset, and we ran no matched tests.
• Keepgo's other price ladders. Keepgo runs several product lines with different prices for the same gigabytes. We compared Corvus, Tucana and Solaris and left the rest out.
• Single-country pricing. Our country-level plans and Keepgo's Solaris and North America lines move independently of the regional ladders compared here. The Europe and Tucana rows are the ones we stand behind today.
• The exact validity terms. Keepgo's announcement says no expiration date; its plans page footnote and third-party reviews describe an annual refill condition, and its terms allow deleting an account after 24 months of inactivity. We assumed the announcement's version. Read the checkout terms if that distinction is what you are buying.

Making the call

Keepgo built the most honest answer in the category to a real annoyance: prepaid travel data has always been sold with an expiry date that serves the seller. Taking the clock off is a better idea than most of what passes for innovation in travel eSIMs. Keepgo has sold lifetime data since before the current crop of brands existed.

The trouble is what the clock costs to remove. On Europe at 10GB it is $11.05, against $8.95 to buy the plan again. The insurance is priced above the loss, so at that size the structure cannot pay however carelessly you buy data. Above 10GB the gap widens with every tier, until 50GB of Europe data costs $97 from Keepgo and $34.95 from us.

So the recommendation turns on one question, and it is about you rather than either company. How much data does a trip cost you? If the answer is a few hundred megabytes a couple of times a year, buy a small Keepgo balance, leave it on the phone, and stop thinking about it. If the answer is five gigabytes or more, price per gigabyte matters more than the clock, and on that number we are between 37% and 64% lower across the range.

The best setup uses both of us. Keep a dormant Keepgo balance as the fallback profile you never delete, and buy a regional plan from whoever prices the trip you are taking. On every tier we both sell, we think that is us. Every number above is linked so you can check before you spend anything.