Switch to an SMS service that
won't disappear with your balance.
Outages, frozen balances, and providers that vanish overnight taking your deposit with them. asms.ai has run since 2018, with a funded company behind it. Real disposable numbers, pay per code, English support, a clean API, and a native MCP for AI agents.
SMS · Telegram
Your login code is 61824✓ Delivered in 1.8s · balance safe
Why people move off SMS-Activate
The pain is rarely the numbers themselves. It is everything around them.
Services that vanish
When an SMS provider goes down for good, the balance you topped up vanishes with it. Switching to something that has lasted matters.
Outages mid-verification
Codes that never arrive while the site is down cost you accounts and sign-ups at the worst possible moment.
Stuck or frozen balances
Funds locked behind withdrawal limits, obscure payment rails, or a support queue that never answers.
Hard to use in English
A Russian-first UI and support that leaves international users guessing through checkout and errors.
Your balance is only as safe as the company holding it.
Most SMS services are thin operations that can disappear in a year, taking every deposit with them. asms.ai has run since 2018, with a funded company behind it. We are not going anywhere, and neither is the money you top up.
8 years online
Live since 2018, while countless temp-number services came and went.
A funded company behind it
An established, well-capitalised group backs this service. Not a side project that vanishes overnight.
Top up only what you need
Pay per code and get auto-refunded on misses, so there is never a big balance at risk.
SMS-Activate vs asms.ai
Both give you numbers. Here is where the experience diverges.
| asms.ai | SMS-Activate | |
|---|---|---|
| Native MCP server for AI agents | ||
| Auto-refund if a code never arrives | varies | |
| English-first support & dashboard | limited | |
| Card & PayPal top-up (not crypto-only) | limited | |
| Transparent pay-per-code in USD | varies | |
| Funded company behind it | — | |
| Online since 2018 | — |
Comparison reflects common user-reported experience; SMS-Activate also offers a large country catalogue and its own API.
Numbers your agents request on their own.
One Bearer key drives both a clean REST API and a native Model Context Protocol server. Claude and autonomous agents get pricing, order a number, and read the code with no human in the loop.
- Order-and-poll flow maps 1:1 to SMS-Activate scripts
- 7 MCP tools: balance, pricing, order, poll, cancel
- Same key, same wallet, full audit trail
curl -X POST https://asms.ai/api/v1/otp/order \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ASMS_KEY" \
-d '{"service":"telegram","country":"us"}'
# -> { "activationId":"...", "phoneNumber":"+1•••" }
curl "https://asms.ai/api/v1/otp/sms?id=..." \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ASMS_KEY"
# -> { "sms": { "code": "61824" } }{ "mcpServers": {
"asms": {
"url": "https://asms.ai/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer $ASMS_KEY" }
} } }Move over in 60 seconds
Create an account & top up
Fund a wallet with card, PayPal or crypto. Top up only what you need.
Generate your API key
One key for the REST API and the MCP server. Copy it from your dashboard.
Point your workflow at asms.ai
The order-and-poll flow maps one to one to what you ran on SMS-Activate.
SMS-Activate questions, answered
What is the best SMS-Activate alternative?+
asms.ai gives you the same core thing SMS-Activate does: disposable numbers and SMS verification codes, paid per use. On top of that you get English-first support, transparent pay-per-code pricing in USD, automatic refunds when a code never arrives, a clean REST API, and a native MCP server so AI agents can verify accounts on their own. The service has run since 2018, with a funded company behind it.
SMS-Activate is down or not working — what do I do?+
If SMS-Activate is unreachable or codes are not arriving, you do not need to rebuild your workflow. asms.ai is live right now with the same order-and-poll flow. Create an account, top up, generate an API key, and you are receiving codes in about a minute.
Is my balance safe? I lost money when a service disappeared before+
That is exactly the problem we are built to avoid. asms.ai has operated since 2018 and is backed by a funded company, not a side project that can vanish overnight. You top up only what you need, pay per code, and get refunded automatically when a code does not deliver.
Does asms.ai have an API like SMS-Activate?+
Yes. asms.ai ships a documented REST API (check balance, list services, order a number, poll for the SMS) authenticated with a single key, plus a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so tools like Claude and autonomous agents can request numbers and read codes directly.
How do I migrate from SMS-Activate?+
In about 60 seconds. Create an account, fund a wallet with card, PayPal or crypto, generate an API key, and point your integration at the asms.ai endpoints. The service-and-country, order, then poll pattern maps one to one to what you already run.
Stop gambling on services that vanish.
Get a working number and your first verification code in under a minute, on a service that has been here since 2018.
Last updated June 28, 2026