readynum vs TextVerified

Five behaviours, compared

The honest verdict

The ticks in that table are ours to prove, and each one is a commitment enforced in the product: every displayed rate carries a source label, every price renders in the page before any signup, the minimum deposit never exceeds the price of one order, and a failed delivery refunds your wallet automatically — the full policy is on the refunds page. The dashes are not accusations. They mean exactly what the footnote says: we could not verify the behaviour on TextVerified's public pages, so we print nothing.

We won't claim to be the only site that publishes a success rate — others in the category publish figures too. The claim we will make is about us: every figure on this site names its source, and where we have none we say so. Today that honesty is mostly visible as the sentence “We don't have data for this route yet” across much of our own pricing table. That is the designed launch state, not a defect: figures appear as real orders accumulate, each with its sample size and time window.

And to be fair to the other column: what we did verify about TextVerified is genuinely good. Their homepage prints its starting prices — from $0.25 per verification — with no signup wall. Their FAQ states plainly that credits are only deducted if a verification comes in and that you are refunded if no message arrives (their Terms make refunds case-by-case, so read both). And nowhere on their public pages did we find an advertised success-rate percentage — a restraint worth crediting in this category. All of that was read from their own site on 3 August 2026, and you can re-check every word of it.

When TextVerified might suit you better

This section is not a formality. There are real cases where the incumbent is the sensible choice:

• You only need US numbers. Their FAQ states "Our numbers are all based in the US", that they come "from major US carriers and their affiliates", and that every number is non-VoIP with a physical SIM behind it (their claims, read 2026-08-03 — we have not tested them). If a US number is the whole job, a US specialist is a reasonable pick.
• You want a number for weeks, not minutes. Their homepage sells non-renewable and renewable rentals with public starting-at prices (read 2026-08-03) — check the current figures on their own site, not here.
• You're automating against a US-focused service. They publish an API documentation page (/docs/api/v2 on their domain, read 2026-08-03); its content renders in-app, so evaluate its coverage directly before taking anyone's word for it — ours included.
• Your routes already work there and you hold a funded balance. Switching has a cost. Our minimum-deposit rule exists to make trying us cheap — not to pretend that cost away.

Why every figure here carries a source label

The clearest way to show why is one verified review. We quote it not because TextVerified is uniquely bad — parts of their site are genuinely frank, and we said so above — but because availability that looks real until the moment you pay is this category's standard failure, and it could have been written about most providers:

Our answer to that is not a better advertised number — it's the label. On readynum, a rate is either measured from our own orders and shown with its sample size and window, a named supplier's figure passed through and marked as theirs, or the sentence “We don't have data for this route yet”. Most of our routes show the third state today, and we own that. We would rather print that sentence than sell what the reviewer above paid for.

Questions, answered plainly