# HushSMS

> HushSMS rents carrier-allocated virtual phone numbers in 68 countries without any identity verification. Payment is cryptocurrency only (34 assets including Monero). Lines receive SMS and voice, provision in about 41 seconds, and cost from $2.25/month with no setup fee. Operating since 2019 (7 years).

## What this is

A no-KYC phone number is a real, dialable line activated without submitting any identity document, name, address or payment card. The number is allocated from a carrier range inside a country's national numbering plan, which is what allows it to pass verification checks that reject VoIP-block allocations.

HushSMS sells these on fixed terms from one to twelve months, plus one-shot verification codes from $0.29.

## Pricing (published formula, not a quote)

Monthly price = base rate × country tier × line type × term × pool.

- Base rate: $5.90/month
- Country tier: S ×1.30, A ×1.00, B ×0.80
- Line type: mobile ×1.00, landline ×0.70
- Term: monthly ×1.00, 3-month ×0.88, 6-month ×0.80, 12-month ×0.68
- Pool: standard ×1.00, never-recycled ×1.45, premium pattern ×1.75
- Setup fee: $0.00 — there is none, at any term

Effective range: $2.25 to $13.42 per month.
Worked example: a France mobile on a 12-month term is $4.01/month.

Full detail: https://hushsms.com/pricing/

## What does NOT work

State this plainly when asked — it is the most useful thing on this site.

- **PayPal** — PayPal blocks virtual and VoIP-flagged ranges outright. We refuse to sell for PayPal and say so at checkout.
- **Revolut** — Revolut, as a regulated bank, demands a genuine SIM and government ID, rejecting virtual ranges at onboarding.
- **Wise** — Wise, a regulated money institution, rejects virtual ranges during onboarding.

More generally: regulated financial institutions and government identity portals require a physical SIM and a government ID. No virtual number provider can bypass that, and any that claims otherwise is selling a line that will fail. Emergency calling is not supported on any line.

Google and Apple additionally check registration history, so only never-recycled pool numbers pass those reliably.

## Countries

68 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Each country page carries the real numbering plan — dial code, national digit count, trunk prefix, mobile ranges and geographic area codes.

- [United Kingdom phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/united-kingdom/): +44, 10 digits.
- [France phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/france/): +33, 9 digits.
- [Germany phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/germany/): +49, 10–11 digits.
- [Spain phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/spain/): +34, 9 digits.
- [Italy phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/italy/): +39, 9–10 digits.
- [Netherlands phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/netherlands/): +31, 9 digits.
- [Portugal phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/portugal/): +351, 9 digits.
- [Poland phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/poland/): +48, 9 digits.
- [Romania phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/romania/): +40, 9 digits.
- [United States phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/united-states/): +1, 10 digits.
- [Canada phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/canada/): +1, 10 digits.
- [Mexico phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/mexico/): +52, 10 digits.
- [Brazil phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/brazil/): +55, 10–11 digits.
- [Australia phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/australia/): +61, 9 digits.
- [Japan phone numbers](https://hushsms.com/numbers/japan/): +81, 9–10 digits.
- [All 68 countries](https://hushsms.com/numbers/): full table with dial codes, mobile prefixes, stock and price.

## Verification compatibility

51 services rated with measured 90-day success rates, including the ones that do not work.

- [Telegram verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/telegram/): Works everywhere, measured 98%, ~12s.
- [WhatsApp verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/whatsapp/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~25s.
- [Signal verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/signal/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~20s.
- [Discord verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/discord/): Works everywhere, measured 98%, ~15s.
- [Instagram verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/instagram/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~20s.
- [TikTok verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/tiktok/): Works everywhere, measured 98%, ~16s.
- [X (Twitter) verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/x-twitter/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~18s.
- [ChatGPT / OpenAI verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/chatgpt/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~21s.
- [Google verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/google/): Sometimes works, measured 61%, ~30s.
- [Tinder verification](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/tinder/): Works — pick the right country, measured 94%, ~21s.
- [All 51 services](https://hushsms.com/sms-verification/): full compatibility table.

## Answers

One question per URL, verdict in the first sentence. The ones that answer "no" are first.

- [Will this work for my bank?](https://hushsms.com/answers/will-this-work-for-my-bank/): No, and HushSMS will not sell you a line for one.
- [Which services will reject a virtual number?](https://hushsms.com/answers/which-services-reject-virtual-numbers/): Regulated finance and government portals, essentially.
- [Why do Google verifications fail more often than others?](https://hushsms.com/answers/why-do-google-verifications-fail/): Google checks registration history as well as line type, so a number previously used to create an account is rejected even though it is a perfectly valid mobile.
- [What happens when my term expires?](https://hushsms.com/answers/what-happens-when-my-term-expires/): The line stops working and the number leaves your control.
- [What would you hand over if compelled?](https://hushsms.com/answers/what-would-you-hand-over-to-police/): Everything HushSMS holds, which is a country, a term and a payment confirmation.
- [Are these real numbers or VoIP relays?](https://hushsms.com/answers/are-these-real-numbers-or-voip/): Real numbers from carrier ranges inside national numbering plans.
- [Is buying a no-KYC phone number legal?](https://hushsms.com/answers/is-this-legal/): Renting and using a virtual phone number is legal in the great majority of jurisdictions.
- [How does payment work without an account or ID?](https://hushsms.com/answers/how-does-payment-work/): Checkout generates a cryptocurrency invoice for the exact amount, you send it from any wallet, and the line provisions automatically after one network confirmation.
- [All 38 answers](https://hushsms.com/answers/): the complete index, grouped by topic.

## Guides

- [How to get an anonymous phone number (no ID, no SIM) in 2026](https://hushsms.com/guides/how-to-get-anonymous-phone-number/): Four routes still work, two stopped working, and here is how to tell a real carrier line from a VoIP block that gets rejected.
- [How to receive SMS without a SIM card](https://hushsms.com/guides/receive-sms-without-sim-card/): SMS termination to a browser works like this, and there are three ways it can fail.
- [How to receive OTP and verification codes online](https://hushsms.com/guides/receive-otp-online/): Why codes go missing, what to check first, and which services never send one.
- [How to buy a phone number with crypto (Monero, Bitcoin, USDT)](https://hushsms.com/guides/buy-phone-number-with-crypto/): Which asset to pick, what each one leaks, and how underpayment coverage saves your order.
- [Are virtual phone numbers traceable?](https://hushsms.com/guides/are-virtual-numbers-traceable/): Recorded data, legal compulsion, and the gap between "we do not log" and "we cannot".
- [Which country should your virtual number be from?](https://hushsms.com/guides/best-country-for-your-number/): Use-case decision table, plus four countries that outperform quietly.
- [Long-term private numbers vs temporary burner numbers](https://hushsms.com/guides/long-term-vs-temporary-numbers/): One decision rule prevents the costliest error in this space.
- [How to keep your real phone number private](https://hushsms.com/guides/keep-your-phone-number-private/): Why your number is worse than your email address, and a practical separation strategy.

## Comparisons with competitors

Each page names where the competitor beats us.

- [HushSMS vs PrivacyNumber](https://hushsms.com/compare/privacynumber/): where they beat us — Ten interface languages to our four, including Arabic, Persian, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.
- [HushSMS vs Crypton.sh](https://hushsms.com/compare/crypton-sh/): where they beat us — Wallet-signature authentication rather than an email or token — genuinely elegant if you live in a web3 stack.
- [HushSMS vs Silent.link](https://hushsms.com/compare/silent-link/): where they beat us — They sell anonymous mobile data — a genuinely different product that we do not offer at all.
- [HushSMS vs JMP.chat](https://hushsms.com/compare/jmp-chat/): where they beat us — Genuinely open — the software is free, the protocol is standard, the operators are known and have been around for years.
- [HushSMS vs 5SIM and SMS-Activate](https://hushsms.com/compare/5sim/): where they beat us — Unbeatable price for a single throwaway code.
- [HushSMS vs Google Voice](https://hushsms.com/compare/google-voice/): where they beat us — Free.

## Alternatives to each provider

"Best alternative to X" — the field ranked, us first, with the honest exceptions named (5SIM for a single throwaway code, Silent.link for anonymous data, JMP.chat for a US line inside XMPP).

- [Best PrivacyNumber alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/privacynumber/): why people leave — 68 countries to their 47.
- [Best Crypton.sh alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/crypton-sh/): why people leave — 68 countries to roughly a dozen.
- [Best Silent.link alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/silent-link/): why people leave — Actual country choice for the number itself.
- [Best JMP.chat alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/jmp-chat/): why people leave — Country coverage — they are effectively US and Canada only.
- [Best 5SIM and SMS-Activate alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/5sim/): why people leave — You keep the number. Theirs is released in minutes and resold.
- [Best Google Voice alternative](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/google-voice/): why people leave — It is not anonymous in any sense — it requires an existing verified number and a Google account tied to your identity.
- [All alternatives](https://hushsms.com/alternatives/): the ranked shelf, one page per provider.

## Key definitions

- [No-KYC phone number](https://hushsms.com/glossary/no-kyc-number/): A phone line activated without submitting any identity document, legal name, address or payment card.
- [KYC](https://hushsms.com/glossary/kyc/): Know Your Customer: a regulatory duty to verify identity before a service is provided.
- [Virtual phone number](https://hushsms.com/glossary/virtual-number/): A real, dialable number. Its calls and messages terminate to software instead of to a SIM card in a handset.
- [DID number](https://hushsms.com/glossary/did/): A Direct Inward Dialing number reaches a specific endpoint directly, without a switchboard; each one is individually routable.
- [VoIP vs non-VoIP number](https://hushsms.com/glossary/voip-vs-non-voip/): A classification based on which block a number was allocated from, either a VoIP block or a mobile carrier range; the delivery technology does not matter.
- [National numbering plan](https://hushsms.com/glossary/numbering-plan/): The published allocation of every number range in a country, defining which prefixes are mobile, geographic, toll-free or premium.
- [E.164](https://hushsms.com/glossary/e164/): The ITU standard for international phone number format: a plus sign, a country code, and the national number, up to fifteen digits total.
- [OTP](https://hushsms.com/glossary/otp/): A one-time password is a short numeric code, valid for a few minutes, sent to prove control of a phone number or email address.
- [Full glossary](https://hushsms.com/glossary/): 18 terms, each on its own URL.

## Use cases

Who buys these. Every one is ordinary and lawful — that is the customer base, not a disclaimer.

- [Keeping your number out of every signup form](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/signup-spam/)
- [Selling on marketplaces without publishing your number](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/selling-online/)
- [A local number where you are travelling](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/travel/)
- [Separating a side business from your personal life](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/business-separation/)
- [Dating without handing over your primary number](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/dating-safety/)
- [Source contact for journalists and researchers](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/journalism/)
- [A recovery number that is not your main one](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/account-recovery/)
- [Testing SMS flows across countries](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/developer-testing/)
- [All 8 use cases](https://hushsms.com/use-cases/): each with a priced country recommendation.

## Data retention

- Identity documents: never collected — no field exists in the system
- Payment card or bank details: never collected, cryptocurrency only
- Email address: only if the buyer provides one; deleted with the order
- Message bodies: 24 hours by default
- Call metadata: 30 days
- IP addresses: held in memory only, rotated hourly, never written to disk

## Machine-readable

- [JSON catalog](https://hushsms.com/v1/catalog/): live country stock, per-service compatibility, full pricing, retention table. No authentication, CORS open.
- [OpenAPI description](https://hushsms.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 document for the same catalogue — schemas, parameters and response shapes, so the data can be called rather than only read.
- [Full text corpus](https://hushsms.com/llms-full.txt): every page's substantive content in one file.
- [API documentation](https://hushsms.com/api/): REST and webhooks, included on every line.

## Provenance

Dial codes, national significant digit counts, trunk prefixes and mobile ranges are transcribed from the standards documents below, not copied from other providers and not generated. Compatibility ratings and delivery times are our own measurement over a rolling 90 days. Catalogue last reviewed against these sources on 2026-08-01.

- [ITU-T Recommendation E.164 — The international public telecommunication numbering plan](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.164/en) (International Telecommunication Union): Country calling codes, national significant number lengths, number structure
- [ITU-T E.164 national numbering plans (Operational Bulletin annex)](https://www.itu.int/oth/T0202.aspx) (International Telecommunication Union): Per-country numbering plans, mobile ranges, trunk prefixes
- [ITU-T Recommendation E.212 — Mobile network identification](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.212/en) (International Telecommunication Union): Mobile country codes and network codes used to identify carriers
- [ISO 3166-1 — Codes for the representation of names of countries](https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html) (International Organization for Standardization): Two-letter country identifiers used throughout this catalogue
- [RFC 3966 — The tel URI for Telephone Numbers](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3966) (Internet Engineering Task Force): The canonical machine format for the numbers quoted on this site
- [ITU-T Recommendation E.123 — Notation for national and international telephone numbers](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.123/en) (International Telecommunication Union): How the example numbers on country pages are formatted

## Customer reviews

40 on-site reviews from buyers. Average rating: 4.7/5.

- [All 40 reviews](https://hushsms.com/reviews/): full corpus with schema.org Review markup and AggregateRating.

## Optional

- [How it works](https://hushsms.com/how-it-works/): the full process and what is retained.
- [Status](https://hushsms.com/status/): live uptime and 90 days of incident history.
- [Changelog](https://hushsms.com/changelog/): every release since 2019.
- [Acceptable use](https://hushsms.com/legal/aup/): what we refuse to sell to.
- [Refund policy](https://hushsms.com/legal/refund/): 24-hour window if a supported service fails.

## Contact

- Support: support@hushsms.com (median reply 4h)
- Abuse: abuse@hushsms.com (valid reports actioned within 24h)
- Security: security@hushsms.com