Creator and commerce decision
eSIM Panel
A single developer can build a narrow, functional eSIM storefront (one provider + Stripe + QR delivery) in a multi‑week effort, but reproducing the full hosted product—multi-provider integrations, uptime SLA, premium add-ons, and managed support—would be costly to match; pay to avoid ongoing provider integration and operations work.
Visit website↗$99/mo
$1,188/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off110 h to build
$100/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All eSIM Panel alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Customer selects eSIM product -> checkout (Stripe) -> system requests activation from provider API -> issue eSIM QR / OTP to customer -> record sale and update analytics/dashboard.
What it still won’t have
- Prebuilt multi-provider integrations and ongoing provider maintenance
- Hosted infrastructure, uptime SLA and hourly backups
- White-label mobile app and premium add-ons (available as paid options)
- Support SLAs, managed fraud/chargeback handling and platform-level SEO features
- Out-of-the-box loyalty/referral wallet and ready-made multilingual store
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal self-hosted eSIM storefront and admin using Next.js (React) for frontend, Node.js + Express for API, and Postgres for storage. Core features in scope: (1) public product pages + SEO-friendly static pages, (2) one-page checkout wired to Stripe Checkout and webhook handling, (3) admin UI to create/edit products, set margins and view orders, (4) one provider API integration for catalog fetch and activation with retry/error handling, (5) eSIM delivery: generate QR/png or activation payload and email to customer, (6) basic analytics dashboard (sales, activations, provider cost vs margin). Out of scope: mobile app, multi-provider orchestration, white-label multi-tenant features, advanced loyalty/wallet, and SLA-backed hosting. Require: secure credential storage, role-based admin auth, idempotent webhook handling, comprehensive error handling, unit and integration tests, and Docker deployment scripts for hosting on a VPS.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 5 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 5
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official producteSIM Panel — product
- official pricingeSIM Panel — pricing
- official docseSIM Panel — white label features
- open sourcebagisto/bagisto
- open sourcenopSolutions/nopCommerce
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
