Best SMS activation services compared by price and country

OnlineSIM quotes per country rather than per pool, and on 111 service-and-country pairs checked in one day it was the pricier option on 93, with WhatsApp on an Argentine number at $7.00. Its own offer rules out refunds for non-delivery, and a balance left on a deleted account is forfeited.

5Sim sets the lowest floor in this table, from roughly $0.008 for a low-demand code and about $0.06 for WhatsApp across 180+ countries. An account left unused for a year is deleted, and its offer states the balance is not restored.

SimTonet rents VoIP numbers by the month rather than by the code, and the price follows the country: $3.00 for a United States number against $207.90 for the Philippines. It claims 30+ countries and asks for an account before a number is shown.

SMSPool prices every pool separately, so one WhatsApp number in the United States costs $1.20, $1.86 or $2.41 depending on the pool, and the median WhatsApp price across its 152 countries is $1.75. A refund covers only a deposit left completely untouched, inside 14 days.

SMSPVA spans 68 countries at a median of about $0.10 per activation and a floor of $0.02, while its free numbers page showed no new inbox activity for over a month when we checked it in August 2026.

HeroSMS took over the catalogue of the closed SMS-Activate, and we counted it through their own interface in August 2026: 195 countries and 811 services, with a floor price of $0.15 for a WhatsApp activation.

SMS-BUS states a rule aimed at the buyer: keep at least a 6% success rate on the numbers you take, or lose access. Stock is published per service, from 164,264 numbers for WhatsApp down to 1,007 for Telegram.

Receive-SMS has moved to a paid private inbox: $9 a month, or $4.50 a month if you pay for the year, with the United States, United Kingdom and Canada the countries it names. The number stays yours for the term, so repeat codes arrive on the same one.

SMS Activation Service rents one number to a single user for a week up to three months and accepts unlimited incoming SMS on it in 68+ countries, so an account keeps the same number instead of a new one for every code.

SMS-MAN holds a number for about 20 minutes and prices by demand across 200+ countries: a low-demand code starts near $0.10, while WhatsApp and other popular services run $0.50 to $1.50.

GrizzlySMS shows a delivery percentage next to every price, and across the 291 app-and-country pairs it publishes the median of that figure is 21%. Its own FAQ says some services block disposable numbers, so it may take 15 to 20 attempts to succeed; the minimum top-up is $3 and refunds cap at three numbers per country.

PVAPins covers 222 countries with pay-per-code pricing from $0.10 and publishes a success rate for each one: across the 368 pairs it exposes, the median is 28%. Its terms call every transaction final and non-refundable, and a claim on a code that never arrived lapses after five days.

7sim carries free numbers in 106 countries counted in September 2026 and adds new ones every day, with codes shown in the browser and no account needed; the inbox is open to everyone, so a number may already be registered on the service you need.

OnlineSMS states 22+ countries and we counted 20 with live numbers. The site marks which numbers are VoIP and which are not, asks for no account, carries no ads, and names 16 services people use it for, Signal and Reddit among them.

Online-SIM lists 70 countries and opens every inbox without an account; the site names 14 services people use it for, from WhatsApp and Telegram to WeChat and Viber. The pages that show the codes carry ads.

AnonymSMS runs numbers from real SIM cards and adds new ones daily, with no account needed: the code appears in the inbox on the page for anyone who opens it. Only the United States and the United Kingdom are live; renting a number to yourself starts at $4.99.

Quackr runs an open board of roughly 8,900 numbers across 30 countries, though the United Kingdom and the Netherlands hold about 62% of that pool; a private United States number starts at $12.99 for a week.

Receive-SMSS had 42 open numbers across 13 countries when we counted its board in August 2026, while the banner above the board names 50+ countries, four times what was on offer that day.

Receive SMS Online publishes numbers from real SIM cards and shows the codes on the same page, with no account asked. We counted ten countries with active numbers, among them the United States, Spain, Romania, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

SMS24 publishes numbers for 15 countries and keeps the inbox open without registration, with ads on the pages that show the codes. The nine services it lists cover Telegram, WhatsApp and Google alongside Line, WeChat and KakaoTalk.

GetFreeSMSNumber runs an active board, with codes landing seconds before we loaded it, but of the twenty numbers listed only the eight Dutch ones open without an account; the twelve British ones ask for a login.

SMSToMe lists six European countries and no United States numbers, with about 20 numbers per country readable without an account, although the first country page asks for registration that the front page says is not needed.