SMS-Activate Shut Down — A Working Alternative With Live Stock and a Real API

Sim7 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:40:40 +0000

SMS-Activate went dark in late December 2025. If your scripts or daily activations broke overnight, you are not alone. Their site now shows an official closure notice: operations stopped as of December 22, and they point former users elsewhere.

I've been using Sim7 as a replacement. What mattered for me:

145 countries, catalog refreshed hourly from live inventory
1200+ services (Telegram, Google, Instagram, OpenAI, etc.)
Pay-as-you-go from about $0.008 — no subscription
Refund when the SMS never shows up
Public REST API + webhooks

Example:

curl -s https://sim7.org/api/v1/numbers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SIM7_KEY" \
  -d service=telegram \
  -d country=russia

How I migrate in practice:

Create an account and top up a few dollars
Map old service/country codes to the Sim7 catalog
Prefer webhooks over polling when you can
Keep a second provider as failover — never single-source OTPs again

Disclosure: I work on Sim7.

Start here: https://sim7.org/

DEV Community: Sim7

SMS-Activate Shut Down — A Working Alternative With Live Stock and a Real API