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SMSEO

A phone number in every country.

Rent a real number wherever you need one, receive the verification code in seconds, and pay only when the code actually lands. Prices below are live.

No code, no charge 20-minute rentals REST API + webhooks from $0.01
countries 1,298 services 8.4s median delivery 99.2% code success No subscription
The problem

Every signup wants a number.
Yours shouldn't be the number.

One phone number is now the key to your bank, your messages and your identity — and every app you try asks for it before it will let you in.

Without SMSEO

Hand over your real number

  • It ends up in marketing databases, data brokers and the next breach.
  • A second SIM means a monthly fee, physical shipping and exactly one country.
  • Public "free SMS" inboxes are shared, indexed by Google and blocked everywhere.
  • And the service you want often refuses the one country you actually live in.
With SMSEO

Rent one for the minute you need it

  • A fresh number on a real carrier in 150+ countries, issued in about a second.
  • Held exclusively for you and quarantined afterwards — nobody else sees the messages.
  • Billed on delivery, from a cent. If no code arrives, the hold is released in full.
  • Same thing from the dashboard or from a single API call, at the same price.
Step one

Pick what you're verifying.

Live from the carrier pool: 1,298 services, priced and counted right now. These are the ones with the deepest inventory today.

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Step two

Then pick the country.

Real inventory and real prices, pulled from the carrier pool as you read this. Pick the service to price against — the column follows it.

How it works

Three taps to a code.

01

Choose service and country

Pick the app you're signing up for and where the number should live. The price is locked before you pay a cent.

Telegram $0.21
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 412,884
02

The number is yours

Issued instantly and held for twenty minutes. Nobody else can see it, or anything it receives, while it's yours.

+44 7488 812 04919:52
Waiting for SMS…
03

The code lands, you pay

Median 8.4 seconds. Nothing inside the window and the rental cancels itself — the balance never leaves your account.

492183✓ charged $0.21
Repeat codes on this number are free
For builders

One endpoint,
every country.

Rent, poll and release numbers programmatically. REST plus webhooks, keyed per project, priced exactly like the dashboard.

RESTWebhooks99.98% uptime~140ms p50
smseo — rent a number
# rent a UK number for Telegram
curl https://api.smseo.dev/v1/numbers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer smseo_live_9f3…" \
  -d '{ "service":"telegram", "country":"gb" }'

← 201 Created
{
  "id": "num_8Kq2vTr",
  "number": "+447488812049",
  "country": "gb",
  "price": 0.43,
  "expires_in": 1200,
  "status": "waiting"
}

# 6.2s later — the webhook fires
{
  "event": "sms.received",
  "id": "num_8Kq2vTr",
  "code": "492183",
  "text": "492183 is your Telegram code",
  "charged": 0.43
}
What we guarantee

The boring parts, settled.

No code, no charge

The amount is held, not taken. It's charged the moment an SMS arrives and released in full if none does.

One number, one person

Exclusive for the length of the rental, then quarantined. Nothing you receive is ever visible to another account.

Top up in 30 seconds

Card, Apple Pay, SEPA, USDT or SOL. Credited on confirmation, never expires, spendable a cent at a time.

Free sandbox keys

Deterministic numbers and instant codes on a test key, so you can build the whole flow before spending anything.

Questions

Good to know.

How long do I keep the number?

Twenty minutes from the moment it is issued — the window services use for a one-time code. If you need it for longer, for a recurring login or a marketplace account, switch the rental to long-term in the dashboard and keep the same number for 7, 30 or 90 days.

What happens if the code never arrives?

Nothing leaves your balance. The amount is held rather than charged, and released the moment the rental expires. You can also cancel by hand in the first two minutes and the number goes straight back to the pool.

Can I receive more than one code on the same number?

Yes. Every message that lands inside the window is shown, and repeat codes for the same service on the same number are free. A different service needs a new rental.

Which countries are cheapest?

It moves hourly, which is why the table above is live rather than a price list. Virtual operators in Indonesia, India and Brazil are usually the floor; Japan, Singapore and the Gulf states sit at the top because inventory there is thin. Pick the service first — the same country can be ten times dearer for one app than another.

Is there a subscription?

No. You top up a balance and spend it per code. No monthly fee, no minimum, no expiry on unused credit.

What is this not for?

SMSEO is for verification you own — your own accounts, your own testing, your own product's onboarding. Bulk account creation, impersonation and anything designed to defraud a service or a person gets the key revoked and the balance frozen.

Ready

Your first code is thirty seconds away.

Top up two dollars, pick a country, watch it land. No approval queue, no waiting list, no card on file.

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