A score you canrecompute yourself
Six criteria, public weights, one line of reasoning per rating. The number on every review is arithmetic on the ratings below.
Six criteria, 100 points
Each criterion is rated 1 to 5. The weight says how much of the 100 it can move.
What does one code cost for the common services (Telegram, WhatsApp, Google, Facebook) in the common countries, as published?
How many countries and named services does the vendor's own list carry, and are the big ones among them?
Does the vendor state a delivery rate, how long a number is held, whether a repeat code is possible, and what happens when no code arrives?
API, official SDKs, Telegram bot, browser extension, and compatibility with other vendors' request formats.
Prices per country and service, limits and refund rules published in the open, without an account.
Minimum top-up, payment methods, refund policy and how long a balance lives.
Scale
What a review is built on
Every review on this site is built from pages the vendor publishes: the price list, the FAQ, the documentation, the homepage. We read each page, quote what it says, and record the date. The quote and the date sit in the sources list at the foot of the review, numbered, so a reader can check any figure against the page it came from.
We didn't run traffic through any vendor, and no review claims we did. A success rate on this site is always the vendor's own statement and is labelled as such. A speed or latency figure is either a figure the vendor commits to on its pricing page, a ceiling it advertises, or a live counter we read on the day, and the review says which.
How the score is computed
Six criteria, each rated 1 to 5 with one line of reasoning that cites the facts. The score out of 100 is the weighted sum of the ratings (price 25, coverage 20, delivery terms 15, integration 15, transparency 15, terms 10), with 1 of 5 on every criterion scoring 0 and 5 of 5 on every criterion scoring 100. Nothing else enters the number: no editorial adjustment, no rounding toward a vendor, no bonus for being a partner. The weights are in the panel above and are the same for every vendor.
Grades follow the score: 85 and above is excellent, 70 to 84 good, 55 to 69 fair, below 55 weak. A rating of 2 on delivery terms, for instance, means the vendor says nothing about what happens when a code never arrives; a 5 means the refund rule and the hold time are on the price page.
What we don't do
No affiliate links. No paid placements, sponsored reviews or score changes for money. No ranking by traffic or by who asked. A vendor that publishes more gets a higher transparency rating, which is the only way to move a score from the vendor's side: publish the number.
- No affiliate or tracking links to any vendor.
- No payment from any vendor reviewed, in any form.
- No estimates where a vendor publishes nothing; the absence is rated instead.
Updates and corrections
Prices in this market change without notice. Each review carries two dates: the day it was first published and the day its facts were last re-read. When a page changes, the review shows the new number and the new date, and the old figure goes. If a figure here doesn't match the vendor's page today, tell us at [email protected] with the page URL and we'll re-read it.
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Send us the pages that state your prices, countries and refund terms. We read them, score them on the public rubric, and publish the review with the date.