Mint Mobile International: What the Minternational Pass Costs and Where It Works

A fourth pass, $5 for 30 days, carries calls and texts with no data. Mint charges you when you buy a pass, and once a pass's time runs out, you need another pass to keep using your phone abroad.

If your trip needs more high-speed data than a pass includes, a HelloRoam travel eSIM for your destination can carry it while your Mint number stays on the phone.

We checked the Mint prices and rules in this guide on Mint's own pages on October 27 and November 5, 2026, and in Mint and T-Mobile announcements and an FCC filing on November 5, 2026. Mint says its international rates and destinations can change at any time without notice, so check its International Roaming page before you fly.

Mint Mobile international pass prices, data and minutes

Mint sells four Minternational Passes. Each one starts when you activate it, not when you buy it, so you can buy at home and switch it on after you land.

Mint says speeds drop once the high-speed data is used, and it lists unlimited data only on the 3-Day and 10-Day passes. The 1-Day Pass lists just 1 GB of high-speed data, so budget as if that 1 GB is all you get that day. The 10-Day Pass works out to $2 a day and about 1 GB of high-speed data a day.

A pass is an add-on, not a plan. You need an active Mint plan that was activated in the US to buy one, and Mint's trial plans can't add a pass.

Minternational Pass time runs in hours, and a new pass ends the old one

The clock matters more than the price. These are Mint's rules, from its help page on traveling internationally.

• Time counts in hours from the moment you activate: 24, 72, 240 or 720, depending on the pass.
• Activating a new pass ends the active one right away, even if it still has data or minutes left.
• If you run out of minutes first, your leftover data and texts keep working until the pass's time ends. The same goes if data or texts run out first.
• You can pre-buy up to two passes. Once one is running, you can buy another and keep two stored.
• Unused passes expire 360 days after you buy them, so Mint suggests buying close to your trip.
• Using the Mint app or your online account doesn't touch pass data, and calls to Mint's Care team don't use pass minutes.

On a Mint Family plan, you can buy a pass yourself or request one from the primary account holder.

Mint international roaming costs for trips of 3 days to a month

Since a new pass cuts off the current one, the cheapest setup is a mix of passes whose hours add up to your trip, each activated after the last one ends. Here's what that costs at Mint's prices, on top of your monthly Mint plan.

For a week away, one 10-Day Pass at $20 beats seven 1-Day passes at $35, or two 3-Day passes and a 1-Day at $25. Because you can only hold two stored passes, buy the third one of a long trip once the first is running.

Mint's app shows the minutes, texts and data left on your active pass, plus each pass's expiration date, so check it before you activate the next one.

What a Mint line needs in the 5 countries Americans visit most

Mexico and Canada lead the list of places Americans visit, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office's 2024 figures. Here's what a Mint line needs in each of the top five.

Mexico is easy to get wrong. Mint advertises free calling to Mexico, Canada and the UK, but Mint defines international calling as calls you make from the US. Using your phone while you're in Mexico is roaming, and Mint's plans include free roaming in Canada only.

So a week in Cancun on Mint means a pass, the same as Paris or Rome. If you'll want more than 10 GB, compare Mexico plans with more data for the same number of days.

Mint covers Canada with free roaming instead of a pass

Since July 1, 2024, Mint plans include Free Canada Roaming: unlimited talk and text plus 3 GB of high-speed data each month to use in Canada. Existing customers got it when their plan data next refreshed.

You don't buy anything. When Mint launched it in July 2024, it said you'd get a text confirming you're covered as soon as you cross the border. Keep Data Roaming on: Apple says that's the setting that gives you internet in places your carrier's network doesn't cover.

For a longer stay or a data-heavy road trip, price a bigger Canada plan against Mint's 3 GB a month.

Mint international roaming countries: check yours before you buy

Mint says the pass works in over 180 countries, but not all of them. Its help page answers "Can I use a Minternational Pass anywhere?" with "Almost," and adds: "Be sure to check if your destination is eligible before you buy a pass." The checker on Mint's International Roaming page takes one country at a time, so run each stop on your route.

Where the checker says no, a pass gives you nothing, so you're on Wi-Fi unless you bring another plan, such as a travel eSIM for that country.

Mint also says Minternational Passes can't be used on cruise ships or airlines.

How to buy and activate a Minternational Pass

Check your destination in Mint's country checker first. If you bought a pass ahead of time, Mint texts you on arrival so you can activate it, or you can do it yourself in any of these three ways.

In the Mint app

• Tap Account in the lower right corner, scroll to Minternational Pass, pick a pass and tap Buy Now.
• To start it, go back to Minternational Pass, open My Current Passes, tap Activate and confirm with Activate Pass. The status changes from Stored to Active.

On Mint's website

• Log in, choose Minternational Pass under Add Ons, open Your Passes and tap Purchase on the pass you want, then Pay Now.
• Activate it from Your Passes whenever you're ready.

By text

• Text GO to 6700 and reply GO1DAY, GO3DAY or GO10DAY. You need a saved payment method with consent checked, or enough money in your Mint wallet.
• Text ACTIVATE to 6700 to start your earliest stored pass, and text GOROAM to 6700 for what's left on it.

For the 1-Day, 3-Day and 10-Day passes, Data Roaming must be on too. On an iPhone, go to Settings, then Cellular, then Cellular Data Options, and turn on Data Roaming. With two lines, tap your Mint number first, as Apple's data roaming steps show.

Mint international texting and Wi-Fi Calling abroad

Some of what you do abroad costs nothing on Mint.

• Receiving texts abroad is free. Replying uses texts from your pass.
• With Wi-Fi Calling on, calls and texts to US numbers over Wi-Fi are free and don't use your pass. Wi-Fi Calling comes with every Mint plan. Mint says it works once your phone supports it, you've turned it on, and you're in a country that allows it.
• Mint's free texting to 190+ countries and destinations, and its free calls to Mexico, Canada and the UK, cover messages and calls you send from the US. They're not roaming.

If you're on Wi-Fi at the hotel, Wi-Fi Calling handles calls home, and your pass minutes stay for when you're out.

Mint international roaming not working: Mint's own fixes

Mint's troubleshooting page lists these steps, in this order.

• Confirm your pass shows as active and hasn't expired, in the app, online or by text.
• Turn Airplane Mode on, wait 10 seconds and turn it off.
• Turn Wi-Fi on, wait 10 seconds and turn it off, then try again on cellular.
• Restart the phone. If your Wi-Fi signal is weak, keep Wi-Fi off while you test, since Mint says Wi-Fi Calling can get in the way.
• Check that Data Roaming is on and that the APN settings are right.

Still stuck? Call Mint's Care team at (800) 683-7392, ideally from another phone or line, as Mint suggests.

Mint's rules for long stays and for phones bought from Mint

Mint says its international features aren't for extended international use. No Mint page we read sets a day limit, and Mint sells its 30-Day No Data Pass to users "on extended leave", so ask Mint before a stay of several months.

If you bought your phone from Mint, check its lock before you rely on another eSIM. Under the conditions the FCC set on T-Mobile's purchase of Mint, a Mint phone must be unlocked after 60 days on T-Mobile's network. A phone on a financing plan isn't covered until you pay it off.

An iPhone has to be unlocked to use another carrier's eSIM abroad. Go to Settings, General, About: "No SIM Restrictions" next to Carrier Lock means it's unlocked, as Apple's guide to eSIM while traveling explains.

When a travel eSIM costs less than Mint roaming

Mint's own options make sense for short trips, for calls and texts on your own number, and for Canada, where 3 GB a month is already in your plan. A HelloRoam eSIM carries your data, while calls and texts on your Mint number still use a pass or Wi-Fi Calling.

A travel eSIM tends to come out ahead in these cases.

• Mint's checker says no for your destination.
• You'll use more than about 1 GB a day, the high-speed share of a 10-Day Pass.
• Your trip runs to a month or more: data passes for 30 days cost $60, and Mint says its international features aren't for extended international use.

To compare fairly, match the data and the days. Mint's 10-Day Pass is $20 for 10 GB of high-speed data over 10 days. A week in London? Check 10 GB plans for the UK. Ten days in Rome? Do the same with Italy plans of the same size. Some destinations come out cheaper on a travel eSIM and some don't.

For Paris, run the same check on mobile data plans for France, and browse every destination we cover, A to Z, for the rest of your route.

Install it at home: our plan pages, read the same day as Mint's, say a HelloRoam plan only starts once your phone connects to a network where you land.

Then set your phone to use it for data and leave your Mint line on.

• iPhone: go to Settings, Cellular, Cellular Data and pick the travel eSIM. Turn on Data Roaming for that line, and leave Allow Cellular Data Switching off so your data stays on it.
• Google Pixel: go to Settings, Network & internet, SIMs, choose the travel eSIM under Mobile data and turn off Automatic data switching. Only one SIM can be the default for data, as Google's dual SIM help notes.
• FaceTime and iMessage keep working on your Mint number while the travel eSIM carries the data, Apple says.

We sell travel eSIMs, so weigh our view with that in mind. Our editorial policy explains how we deal with that conflict, and our side-by-side comparison with Mint covers price and coverage country by country.

For the wider picture, read what US data roaming costs, then how an eSIM and roaming differ.