Yape and Plin payments
Peruvians split bills and pay street vendors with Yape and Plin, both linked to a local mobile number.
Yes — you can get a real Peru mobile number (+51) online in under a minute. It is a genuine mobile line, not VoIP: unlimited incoming SMS, 500 outgoing texts and 1,000 calling minutes a month from $4.89. Sign up with just an email, pay in crypto and keep it as long as you renew.
In Peru, paying someone often means scanning a QR code in Yape or Plin, and both apps depend on a Peruvian mobile number. Lima’s food scene and the road to Cusco and Machu Picchu bring in millions of visitors, who arrange much of their trip by WhatsApp. A +51 number also serves the large Peruvian communities in Chile, Argentina, Spain and the US.
Monthly
$4.89
per month
Yearly
$24.45
per year
Plans: unlimited incoming SMS & calls, 500 SMS + 1,000 minutes out every month. Renew as long as you want.
Digits are masked. The full number is shown once it is assigned to your account.
Included in every plan
Plan allowances apply to numbers you keep (monthly or yearly). Single-use OTP numbers are a separate product: one code, refunded automatically if no code arrives.
If your number has not sent or received a single SMS or call, you can get a full refund within 7 days of purchase — no questions asked.
Open the number in your dashboard and press “Request refund”. Eligible refunds are returned to your wallet instantly. Refund policy
Use cases
Peruvians split bills and pay street vendors with Yape and Plin, both linked to a local mobile number.
Travellers on the Sacred Valley and Inca Trail circuit use a +51 number to coordinate with guides and hotels.
Communities in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Miami keep a Peruvian number for family and banking at home.
How it works
No SIM card, no store visit and no ID. The whole process takes about a minute once your wallet is funded.
Get startedCreate an account
Sign up with just an email and a password — no phone number, no ID.
Top up with crypto
Add funds with BTC, USDT, ETH, LTC and more. Your wallet is credited on confirmation.
Choose Peru
Pick a monthly ($4.89) or yearly ($24.45) plan for a +51 number you keep, or a single-use OTP number for one code.
Use it right away
SMS and codes appear in your live inbox within seconds; calls work from the dashboard.
Prices by service
Single-use OTP numbers for Peru, priced per code. A number you keep receives SMS from all of these at no extra cost.
| Service | OTP price |
|---|---|
| Threads | $0.35 |
| Truth Social | $0.29 |
| VK | $0.29 |
| OK.ru | $0.24 |
| Twitch | $0.26 |
| Bluesky | $0.26 |
| Coinbase | $0.68 |
| Kraken | $0.59 |
| Bybit | $0.56 |
| OKX | $0.56 |
| KuCoin | $0.53 |
| Bitget | $0.53 |
| PayPal | $0.74 |
| Revolut | $0.71 |
| Wise | $0.68 |
| Stripe | $0.59 |
| Cash App | $0.65 |
| Microsoft | $0.35 |
| Outlook | $0.32 |
| Yahoo | $0.26 |
| Proton | $0.32 |
| Tuta (Tutanota) | $0.26 |
| Zoho | $0.26 |
| Yandex | $0.29 |
| Mail.ru | $0.24 |
| Naver | $0.44 |
| Dropbox | $0.26 |
| Claude | $0.50 |
| Gemini | $0.41 |
| Perplexity | $0.35 |
| eBay | $0.35 |
| Shopify | $0.32 |
| Alibaba | $0.32 |
| AliExpress | $0.29 |
| Temu | $0.26 |
| Shein | $0.26 |
| Walmart | $0.35 |
| Etsy | $0.32 |
| Craigslist | $0.38 |
| Vinted | $0.29 |
| OLX | $0.24 |
| Nike | $0.32 |
| Adidas | $0.29 |
| Mercado Libre | $0.29 |
| Tinder | $0.50 |
| Service | OTP price |
|---|---|
| Bumble | $0.47 |
| Hinge | $0.47 |
| Badoo | $0.29 |
| Happn | $0.29 |
| Grindr | $0.35 |
| OkCupid | $0.32 |
| Steam | $0.29 |
| Blizzard / Battle.net | $0.32 |
| Epic Games | $0.29 |
| Roblox | $0.24 |
| Riot Games | $0.29 |
| PlayStation | $0.32 |
| Xbox | $0.29 |
| Nintendo | $0.29 |
| Uber | $0.44 |
| Lyft | $0.41 |
| Bolt | $0.32 |
| Grab | $0.32 |
| Gojek | $0.29 |
| DoorDash | $0.38 |
| Deliveroo | $0.35 |
| Glovo | $0.29 |
| Airbnb | $0.41 |
| Netflix | $0.29 |
| Spotify | $0.26 |
| AWS | $0.38 |
| Booking.com | $0.32 |
| Cloudflare | $0.29 |
| Crypto.com | $0.59 |
| DigitalOcean | $0.32 |
| Fiverr | $0.32 |
| foodpanda | $0.26 |
| GitHub | $0.29 |
| Indeed | $0.26 |
| Payoneer | $0.65 |
| Shopee | $0.26 |
| Skrill | $0.59 |
| Slack | $0.26 |
| Uber Eats | $0.35 |
| Upwork | $0.35 |
| Venmo | $0.65 |
| YouTube | $0.35 |
| Zoom | $0.26 |
| Any other service | $0.29 |
A Peru number is only useful if it is still yours next year. WhatsApp and Facebook — and most banks, marketplaces and exchanges — send codes to the number again when you switch phones, reset a password or log in from somewhere new.
Renew monthly ($4.89) or yearly ($24.45) and the same +51 number stays on your account for as long as you want. Nobody else is assigned it while you hold it, and auto-renew from your wallet means it never lapses by accident.
Peruvian carriers register each line to an identity document, so visitors need a passport to activate a prepaid SIM.
With PhoneBorn you skip the SIM counter entirely: the Peru number lives in your browser, so it works before you land, while you are there and after you leave — no roaming charges on incoming SMS.
Cusco and Machu Picchu trips: Travellers on the Sacred Valley and Inca Trail circuit use a +51 number to coordinate with guides and hotels.
FAQ
Create an account with just an email, top up with crypto and get a real mobile number — SMS and calls included — in under a minute.