Instacart virtual numbers for SMS verification

Picking the right country for Instacart

An Instacart number is in stock in 3 countries right now, 721K lines in total, and the entry price is $0.07 in United States. The price gap between countries is not arbitrary: it follows what the local networks charge and how often they actually deliver, which is why the table above shows both next to each other.

Sorting by price and taking the cheapest of the 3 countries is the most common way to spend more than you meant to. Cheap tracks abundance, and abundance usually tracks the places a platform has already learned to distrust. The top of the table is ordered by what delivers rather than by price alone, which is why it is the sensible place to start even when something further down is a few cents less.

The reason most people take a number for Instacart is not that they lack one. It is that a personal line attached to an account is a permanent link between the two, and there is no way to undo it later. A one-time line covers the verification step and disappears, which leaves the account without that link.