You rent a device, not a number in a pool
The order names the device it ran on. A pool that thousands of buyers share is a pool that every service has already flagged.
Phone sharing / buying
A real line,
by the hour.
Not a disposable number from a pool that every service has already blocked. A named device, rented by the hour at its owner’s rate, with a timestamped log of what the line was used for.
$ handtohuman quote --offer offer_7b21… --units 12
{ "kind": "phone_sharing", "unit": "device_hour",
"unit_cents": 40, "total_cents": 480,
"worker_cents": 408, "source": "offer" }YOU PAY40c / device hour
OWNER GETS34c
EVIDENCEdevice + session log
session_log
timestamped↗The open number
No price behind a form.
A real line for SMS and app verification, rented by the device hour at the owner’s rate, returned with a timestamped session log.
| 12 hours at a 40c listing | $4.80 |
| Of that, to the line owner | $4.08 |
| Of that, platform | $0.72 |
| Per-message pricing | no |
| Named device | yes |
| Timestamped session log | required |
The SMS-code services price per message on shared pools that services routinely block, and publish no payout to the SIM owner. The device-farm services rent handsets by the minute for testing. Neither returns a session log to the buyer. Read on 2026-08-31.
What you are actually promised
Stated once, enforced by the ledger.
The session log is part of the delivery
A phone-sharing delivery is refused unless the evidence carries the device and a timestamped log of the session.
Hours, not messages
One rate per device hour. No per-message surcharge and no minimum top-up.
The owner is paid enough to keep the line online
Thirty-four cents an hour on a 40-cent listing. A supply side that earns nothing goes offline mid-session.
How one order runs
01BrowseLine offers
→02QuoteHours at their rate
→03FundEscrow held
→04SessionOn a named device
→05VerifyThen accept
Every step is a state in the ledger, and the escrow behind the order does not move until the delivery carries its evidence.
Money without mystery
Every cent has a state.
Funding moves credit into escrow. Acceptance releases 85 percent of the total to the line owner and records 15 percent.
85% line owner15% platform
Escrow is funded before work starts and released only on acceptance. A dispute can refund, release, or split the exact total without creating or losing cents.
Read the execution pathOne contract
Rent a line
that still works.
A named device, an hourly rate, and a log of what happened.
Read the contract