Mint abroad: $20 buys ten days and 10 GB in 180+ countries

Mint sells roaming as passes: $5 for a day, $10 for three days and $20 for ten days, in 180+ countries, with 1 GB of high-speed data per day of pass. Canada is the exception: Mint includes free talk, text and 3 GB of high-speed data there. I haven’t taken a Mint line overseas; this is their roaming terms read on September 21, 2026.

How much are Mint’s international passes?

Four options, covering 180+ countries:

After the high-speed allowance, you’re slowed rather than cut off on the 3 and 10-day passes. Wi-Fi calling back to the US is included at no extra cost, which quietly makes the talk minutes go much further than they look.

You can buy a pass before you leave and activate it on arrival, or buy it once you’ve landed. Pre-purchased passes send you a text to activate when you get there.

How does $20 for ten days compare?

Put it next to a carrier that charges by the day. Visible’s Global Pass is $10 a day on the base plan, with 2 GB per day.

A ten-day trip:

• Mint: one 10-day pass, $20, 10 GB of high-speed data
• Visible: ten Global Pass days at $10, $100, 20 GB of data

Visible gives you twice the data and unlimited talk and text, and Visible+ members get days included, which changes the calculus for someone who travels once a year. Against a day-rate carrier on raw cost, Mint wins easily.

It isn’t the cheapest option on this site, though. Several carriers include roaming with the plan, so a trip costs nothing extra, and US Mobile sells a roaming add-on at $15 for the month, though that buys 1 GB against the 10 GB in Mint’s $20 ten-day pass. The roaming comparison puts all of them side by side for any trip length.

This is the kind of thing that doesn’t show up in a plan comparison, because roaming lives on a different page from pricing and nobody reads both.

Where does it fall short?

• Talk and text are metered. 500 minutes over ten days is plenty for most people, but it’s a cap, and Visible’s is unlimited.
• Ten days is ten days. There’s no 14 or 21-day pass. Fourteen days works out to a 10-day, a 3-day and a 1-day pass, $35 in total.
• No local number. Same as every carrier roaming product. If your destination wants a local number for deliveries, banking or bookings, roaming doesn’t solve it and a local eSIM does.
• You’re on Mint’s underlying network abroad, which is T-Mobile’s roaming agreements. Coverage in any given country is theirs, not Mint’s choice.
• It’s a separate purchase outside Canada. Nothing else is included the way Visible+ includes days, so you buy a pass for every trip beyond Canada. Mint’s roaming page also lists “Free Roaming in Canada”: “free unlimited talk & text, and 3GB of high-speed data while visiting Canada.”

What it means for the plan you pick

Mint’s domestic pricing doubles at renewal: $15/mo for the first term, then $30 on a 12-month Unlimited plan, or $40 on a 3-month one. Where that sits against everyone else is on the price cliff table, and it isn’t the worst of them. Roaming doesn’t change any of it, but it does change who Mint suits.

If you travel internationally once or twice a year and you were going to buy a travel eSIM anyway, Mint’s $20 pass is worth real money against that cliff. Two trips a year on Visible at $10/day for ten days is $200; the same two trips on Mint is $40. That $160 swallows a year of the price difference between them.

Nobody puts that in a comparison table, because it requires reading the roaming page and the pricing page and doing the subtraction.

What I’d check before flying

• That your destination is on the eligible list. 180+ is broad but not universal, and Mint says rates and destinations change without notice.
• Whether 500 minutes covers you, or whether Wi-Fi calling will carry most of it.
• Whether your trip fits the pass lengths without buying an awkward second pass.
• Whether you need a local number for anything.

If you’ve used a Minternational Pass and the data or the coverage worked differently from this, tell me and I’ll correct the page.

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Terms read off mintmobile.com on September 21, 2026. Their roaming page blocks plain requests, so this was read in a real browser; the price log tracks their plan page daily.