Our top-rated picks
The 5 plans that beat every rival on value, coverage, data, and perks.T-Mobile's top business plan: unlimited premium data, satellite texting and a business network slice.
A family promotion H2O has run at twenty-five dollars a line: unlimited with international calling, and currently absent from its plans page.
15GB with unlimited talk and text to 100 countries for $120 a year: ten dollars a month, and the same annual price as the 5GB plan.
The middle business tier: 200GB of premium data, 200GB hotspot and Threat Protect included.
The plan to buy at AT&T Prepaid: 16GB of priority data and a 10GB hotspot for about twenty dollars a month, which is less than the two monthly tiers that offer neither.
The heavy-user cap and the first tier with 5GB of Mexico and Canada roaming data: 24GB for under nineteen dollars a month on a year.
25GB on T-Mobile's network with unlimited calling to 90+ countries, from $20 a month on a 12-month term or $29 month to month.
Unlimited data with the first 50GB at full speed and calling to 100 countries, for seventeen dollars a month on a year.
The cheapest way onto T-Mobile's own network: unlimited 5G for twenty dollars a month, taxes included, if you prepay six months.
The best-balanced plan in AT&T's postpaid lineup: truly unlimited priority data and 100GB hotspot, and a bargain if you qualify for the 20% discounts.
T-Mobile's flagship: premium data that isn't deprioritized, a 250GB high-speed hotspot, 4K streaming, and 15GB of high-speed data in 215+ countries.
The smartest tier in Verizon's postpaid lineup: truly unlimited priority data, UWB access, and 30GB hotspot without paying for Ultimate's extras.
A year of unlimited data on AT&T's network for $300: the cheapest unlimited plan on AT&T, sold with four conditions worth reading first.
The quiet middle of Ultra's lineup: 8GB on T-Mobile with unlimited calling to 90+ countries for under twelve dollars a month on a year.
8GB on T-Mobile's network with unlimited talk and text to 100 countries, for $108 a year: nine dollars a month, and cheaper annually than the 5GB plan.
Ten gigabytes and ten gigabytes of hotspot for fifteen dollars, with nothing paid upfront.
The cheapest Ultra plan with usable data: 4GB on T-Mobile plus unlimited calling to 90+ countries for just over nine dollars a month on a year.
The biggest capped allowance Lycamobile sells: 25GB with unlimited calling to 100 countries for fourteen dollars a month on a year.
Unlimited high-speed data for twenty-five dollars, which is what Ting also charges for five gigabytes on the legacy plan sitting next to it.
Twenty gigabytes and twenty gigabytes of hotspot, five dollars below Tello's unlimited tier.
One of the best-value unlimited plans on Verizon's network: $25 all-in for Ultra Wideband, premium data and unlimited hotspot, if you bring your own phone.
Total's flagship: UWB, the fastest unlimited hotspot in the lineup (10 Mbps), 1TB cloud, a $10 international calling credit, and Disney+ Premium included.
AT&T's flagship: a 250GB hotspot with no equal in U.S. Wireless, plus truly unlimited priority data and included tablet & watch lines.
Double the full-speed data of the $30 plan, triple the hotspot and four times the talk credit, for a $20 premium.
Verizon's Simplicity mobile plan bundled with Verizon home internet on a single $70/mo bill: all taxes and fees included.
How we score
Every plan earns a single 0–10 score built from four weighted categories: value for money, network & speed, hotspot & features, and customer experience. We verify prices against each carrier's own page and re-score when they change. No carrier pays for placement, and affiliate relationships never move a ranking — they're disclosed on every plan link.
Scores update automatically as we add plans and adjust them in our shared plan data. Ties are broken by value-for-money, then price.
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