Understanding quotes
What price, stock, success rate and typical delivery mean — and how the Best, Cheapest and Fastest strategies rank them.
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A quote is one offer for one service in one country. Search for a service and you get a quote for every country that sells it, ranked for you.
What each figure means
| Figure | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Price | What this order costs you, after any account discount. Charged when you buy; refunded in full if no SMS arrives. |
| Stock | How many numbers are ready for this service in this country right now. Zero means sold out, and those quotes sink to the bottom. |
| Success rate | The share of orders on this offer that we expect to receive a code. It's an estimate for the offer as a whole, not a promise about your order. |
| Typical delivery | How long codes usually take to arrive on this offer once the service sends them. |
Note
Demo offers are charged and refunded like any other, but their stock, success rate and delivery figures are simulated. They always carry the Demo inventory label.
Strategies
A strategy decides how quotes are ranked. Whichever you choose, offers that are in stock always come first.
- Best (the default) ranks by success rate first, then price, then speed. Success rates are compared in 5-point bands, so a $2.40 offer at 97% doesn't outrank a $0.40 offer at 96% — they're in the same band, and the cheaper one wins.
- Cheapest ranks by price, then success rate, then speed.
- Fastest ranks by typical delivery time, then success rate, then price.
The top in-stock quote is marked Recommended. When you order without choosing a country, that's the quote we buy.
Searching
The search box reads a service and, optionally, a country from one line: whatsapp us, telegram germany, discord uk. It tolerates typos and knows common nicknames for services and countries.
Setting a price ceiling
In the API, pass max_price with an order. If nothing in stock costs that much or less, the order is refused with price_above_max and nothing is charged. See Error codes.