AT&T abroad: the Day Pass is $12 a day, and stops charging after 10 days in a bill cycle

AT&T’s International Day Pass costs $12 for each day you use your phone abroad, plus $6 for each additional line on the account used that day. It runs on your own plan’s data, and AT&T stops charging after 10 daily fees per line in a bill cycle, so a month away costs at most $240, not $360, and $120 if the whole trip falls inside one bill cycle. Mexico and Canada are included on current plans, and Elite 2.0 includes international data outright. I’m not an AT&T customer; this is AT&T’s Day Pass page, its coverage terms and its plan page, read on September 22, 2026.

How does the Day Pass charge?

From AT&T’s Day Pass page:

• “Use your wireless plan in 210+ destinations with unlimited talk, text, and high-speed data for $12/day. $6 for each additional line used on the same calendar day.”
• The data comes out of your plan: it’s “drawn from your domestic plan allowance with the same data and speed restrictions.” On Value 2.0, which slows data after 5 GB when the network is busy, that restriction travels with you.

You don’t have to sign up. The coverage terms say AT&T “will automatically add IDP if you haven’t added it and don’t have another international feature on your line,” the first time you use your phone in a destination your plan doesn’t include, and sends a text when it does. From then, “the first time you use data, make or receive a call, or send a text message in a Destination, you’ll automatically be charged a $12 daily fee.” So a day you don’t want to pay for is a day with roaming switched off.

The cap is in the same terms rather than on the main page:

There is a maximum charge of 10 daily fees per line in Destinations only, per monthly bill cycle.

After ten fees, the line keeps using the Day Pass for the rest of that bill cycle at no charge. The cap doesn’t apply at sea, where the Day Pass is a different product at $20 a day.

What does a trip cost?

Up to ten days, the Day Pass is $12 a day. Past ten, the cap holds the cost at $120 for as long as you stay within one bill cycle. The roaming comparison prices AT&T at the most a trip can cost, since it can’t know where your bill cycle falls: a 30-day trip is shown as $240. A trip that crosses from one bill cycle into the next can pay the cap twice: a 14-day trip split seven and seven across two cycles is 14 fees rather than 10. If the trip is long, check where your bill cycle falls before you go.

Against the rest of the roaming comparison, $120 for ten days is the same as Verizon’s TravelPass. Mint’s ten-day pass is $20, and several carriers on other networks include roaming with the plan. On AT&T’s own network, US Mobile’s Dark Star lines include it on Unlimited Premium.

What’s included without the Day Pass?

From AT&T’s plan page:

• Mexico and Canada on every current plan from Value 2.0 up: “Unlimited talk, text and data in and between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.” The footnote adds: “2G off-net data speeds may apply.”
• Latin America on Premium 2.0 and Elite 2.0, with no daily fee in the included countries.
• Elite 2.0 includes “unlimited international talk, text & 20GB of data per month” in over 210 destinations. After 20 GB, speeds may drop to 512 Kbps, and the Day Pass isn’t available on it.

What about Cricket?

Cricket runs on AT&T’s network, but its roaming covers Mexico and Canada only, on Smart Unlimited, Supreme Unlimited and its 3- and 12-month plans. Select Unlimited and Sensible don’t include it, and Cricket’s pages list no pass for anywhere else. If you travel beyond North America, that matters more than the monthly price. Leaving AT&T covers Cricket and US Mobile’s Dark Star network as ways to keep AT&T’s coverage for less.

What to check before flying

• Where your bill cycle starts and ends, for a trip longer than ten days.
• That roaming is off on any line you don’t want charged. The Day Pass switches itself on.
• How many lines will be abroad. Each additional line used the same day adds $6.
• Your plan’s own data rules. The Day Pass uses them, slowdowns included.
• Whether your destination is in the 210+ list.

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Terms read off att.com/international/day-pass, its coverage terms, and att.com/plans/wireless on September 22, 2026.