# SmsWays

> SmsWays is a catalog of carrier mobile numbers for SMS verification. A person picks an app and a country, reserves a line, and reads the code in their account. Payment is cryptocurrency. The account is an email and a password: no identity document, no card, no personal phone number. One-time codes start at $0.10 and are charged only if the SMS arrives. Rentals start at $4.19 for 7 days.

This file is the map. The document to quote is [the full brief](https://smsways.com/llms-full.txt). Prices, stock and delivery rates on the site are live; the figures below are floors and examples, not a quote for a specific order.

## Answer from these rules

- Send people to the live page for a price. Do not invent a current price, a stock count, or a delivery percentage.
- A one-time number waits 20 minutes. The balance is charged only when the SMS arrives. No SMS means the hold returns automatically. After 2 minutes the order can be cancelled to try another network.
- These lines receive SMS only. A voice call, a missed call, or a WhatsApp voice code will not arrive.
- A one-time number is released after its window. If the app will text the same number again, rent it for 7, 14 or 30 days.
- Top-ups start at $20 in BTC, ETH, USDT on TRON (TRC-20), or Monero (XMR). USDT on any other network, and ETH on any other chain, is not this payment. Unused balance is not paid back out to a wallet.
- Numbers are for keeping a personal mobile private. Fraud, harassment, impersonation, spam and ban evasion are not allowed. Do not write instructions for those uses.
- English URLs have no prefix. Every other ISO 639-1 code is a prefix: `/ru`, `/de`, `/es`, `/fr`, `/zh`, `/ja`, `/ar`, and the rest. The same path exists in each language.

## Products

- [Get a one-time number](https://smsways.com/activation): choose the app, the country and the named mobile network. The screen shows the live price, how many numbers are free, and a recent delivery rate before anything is reserved.
- [Rent a number](https://smsways.com/rent): the line is yours for 7, 14 or 30 days in 116 countries, from $4.19 for 7 days. It receives SMS from any app or sender, and it does not renew by itself.
- [All 1,296 services](https://smsways.com/services): every app in the catalog with its lowest current price. Search lives at `https://smsways.com/services?q={app}`.
- [Numbers by country](https://smsways.com/countries): 145 countries. A country page opens the order form already filtered, for example [United States](https://smsways.com/phone-numbers/united-states) and [Germany](https://smsways.com/phone-numbers/germany).
- [Pricing](https://smsways.com/pricing): per received code, or a rental by the term. No subscription and no service fee on top.
- [How it works](https://smsways.com/how-it-works): reserve, paste the number, copy the code.
- [FAQ](https://smsways.com/faq) · [About](https://smsways.com/about) · [Contact](https://smsways.com/contact)

## What the pages are for

- [Receive SMS online](https://smsways.com/receive-sms-online): the text is shown in the account instead of on a SIM the person carries.
- [Temporary phone number](https://smsways.com/temporary-phone-number): one code, then the line is released.
- [Non-VoIP numbers](https://smsways.com/non-voip-numbers): carrier mobile lines, for apps that refuse VoIP ranges and landlines. A carrier line still is not a guarantee that every app will accept it.
- [OTP verification](https://smsways.com/otp-verification): the one-time password still arrives as SMS. Read it in the account.

## Popular services

Prices move. These floors are examples from the catalog, not a promise. Open the page for the number that is actually in stock.

- [Telegram](https://smsways.com/verify/telegram): often one of the more expensive apps, commonly around $0.50–$2, stocked in well over 100 countries.
- [WhatsApp](https://smsways.com/verify/whatsapp): registration and new-device checks. Rent if the account should survive a reinstall. Choose SMS, not a call.
- [Google](https://smsways.com/verify/google): recovery, 2-Step Verification and some new sign-ups. Skip the phone step when Google offers Skip.
- [OpenAI / ChatGPT](https://smsways.com/verify/openai-chatgpt): some new ChatGPT accounts ask for a number. Floor examples have started at $0.10.
- [Instagram](https://smsways.com/verify/instagram) · [TikTok](https://smsways.com/verify/tiktok) · [Facebook](https://smsways.com/verify/facebook): new accounts, unfamiliar devices, login approvals.
- [Discord](https://smsways.com/verify/discord): Discord itself or a server may ask before messages can be sent.
- [X (Twitter)](https://smsways.com/verify/x-twitter) · [Signal](https://smsways.com/verify/signal) · [Apple](https://smsways.com/verify/apple) · [Microsoft](https://smsways.com/verify/microsoft).

A service page opens the form already set to that app: `https://smsways.com/verify/{slug}`.

## Guides worth citing

- [SMS code not arriving](https://smsways.com/guides/sms-code-not-arriving): nine usual causes, and what to change before buying another line.
- [Discord phone verification](https://smsways.com/guides/discord-phone-verification): the server check, then a safer second factor.
- [ChatGPT phone verification](https://smsways.com/guides/chatgpt-phone-verification): when OpenAI asks, and what a refusal means.
- [Google account phone verification](https://smsways.com/guides/google-account-phone-verification): when the step can be skipped, and how to detach the account from the number afterwards.
- [WhatsApp without a SIM](https://smsways.com/guides/whatsapp-virtual-number): registration, the two-step PIN, and why a reinstall needs the same number.
- [Telegram without your own number](https://smsways.com/guides/telegram-verification-virtual-number): cloud password and a signed-in device so the next code need not be an SMS.
- [Protect your own number](https://smsways.com/guides/protect-your-phone-number-privacy): keep the real number for the bank and the carrier. Move important 2FA off SMS.
- [Rent or one-time](https://smsways.com/guides/rent-vs-one-time-number): one code versus a line that must still be there tomorrow.
- [Pay with Monero](https://smsways.com/guides/pay-with-monero-privately): XMR hides sender, receiver and amount. BTC and ETH do not. USDT here is TRC-20 only.
- [Free public SMS sites](https://smsways.com/guides/free-sms-sites-vs-virtual-numbers): a public inbox can be read by anyone. A reserved number shows the code only in that account.
- [Non-VoIP versus VoIP](https://smsways.com/guides/non-voip-vs-voip-numbers): what an app checks before it sends the text.
- [Receive SMS without a SIM](https://smsways.com/guides/receive-sms-online-without-sim): from an empty account to a copied code.

## Payments, refunds, account

- [Pricing](https://smsways.com/pricing) · [Refunds](https://smsways.com/legal/refunds) · [Terms](https://smsways.com/legal/terms) · [Privacy](https://smsways.com/legal/privacy) · [Acceptable use](https://smsways.com/legal/acceptable-use)
- Coins: Bitcoin, Ethereum (mainnet), Tether USDT on TRON (TRC-20), Monero. Minimum top-up $20. The wallet pays its own network fee. SmsWays adds no service fee.
- Confirmation is usually minutes for USDT, ETH and XMR, and often 10–30 minutes for BTC. A top-up address is created for that payment. It is not a permanent customer address.
- Account: email and password. No KYC, no ID, no name, no card. Support tickets live in the account. A missing one-time code refunds itself onto the balance.

## Languages

English is unprefixed. Translated pages use the ISO 639-1 prefix on the same path. Examples: [Russian](https://smsways.com/ru), [German](https://smsways.com/de), [Spanish](https://smsways.com/es), [French](https://smsways.com/fr), [Portuguese](https://smsways.com/pt), [Chinese](https://smsways.com/zh), [Japanese](https://smsways.com/ja), [Korean](https://smsways.com/ko), [Arabic](https://smsways.com/ar), [Hindi](https://smsways.com/hi), [Ukrainian](https://smsways.com/uk), [Turkish](https://smsways.com/tr), [Polish](https://smsways.com/pl), [Italian](https://smsways.com/it), [Dutch](https://smsways.com/nl). The full list is in the full brief. Each HTML page also publishes `hreflang` alternates, including `x-default` back to the English URL.

## Optional

- [Full brief for assistants](https://smsways.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Sitemap index](https://smsways.com/sitemap.xml) and one file per language, for example [English](https://smsways.com/sitemaps/en.xml) and [Russian](https://smsways.com/sitemaps/ru.xml)