BoraPhone
Best for browser calling & transparencyOur service, so judge this entry accordingly — but the model is easy to state: pay-as-you-go calls to landlines and mobiles in 180+ countries from $0.02/min, entirely in the browser. Email-only signup, the exact rate on screen before you dial, $5 minimum top-up, no subscriptions or auto-renewing anything, and a 100% refund if a call fails. The honest limits: no mobile app (the dialer runs in any browser, including on phones), billing is per minute (partial minutes round up), and there are no unlimited plans — heavy single-country callers can do better on a flat plan elsewhere.
Rebtel
Best for: Heavy callers to one covered countryCountry plans like Mexico Unlimited $3/month are real value above ~3 hours/month. Below that, auto-renewals and non-rollover minutes make it expensive — and calling is app-only, with no browser or desktop support.
Full Rebtel comparison, with live ratesYolla
Best for: Mobile-app callers on Yolla’s cheapest corridorsAmong the lowest headline rates to India and Mexico, in a well-built app. Skip the discounted bundles (they auto-convert to monthly subscriptions after 7 days) and stick to plain credit.
Full Yolla comparison, with live ratesViber Out
Best for: Families already living on ViberFree Viber-to-Viber calls plus cheap headline rates to landlines. But the full rate table only exists in-app, idle credit freezes at 6 months, and Trustpilot is full of failed-call and billing complaints.
Full Viber Out comparison, with live ratesBoss Revolution
Best for: Cash top-ups and no-internet callingRetail cash top-ups and access-number calling from any phone — unique in this list — plus strong corridor bundles. No desktop/browser calling, and watch the toll-free surcharge and auto-recharge enrollment.
Full Boss Revolution comparison, with live ratesTalk360
Best for: Phone-first callers to AfricaLocal-currency top-ups through 60+ payment methods and strong African routes, in a well-maintained app. No desktop or browser calling, rates only visible in-app, and a 365-day credit expiry clock.
Full Talk360 comparison, with live ratesPopTox
Best for: Occasional ultra-short free callsFree browser calls to real numbers with no signup — but a few short calls a day at most, ads around the dialer, and monthly subscriptions as the only paid path. A demo, not a daily driver.
Full PopTox comparison, with live ratesWhat calls actually cost on BoraPhone right now
Live rates, fetched from our billing source as this page loaded — the same numbers you would see before dialing.
| Destination | Landline | Mobile | 10-min call from |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | $0.11/min | $0.11/min | $1.11 |
| Mexico | $0.04/min | $0.11/min | $0.40 |
| Philippines | $0.46/min | $0.65/min | $4.61 |
| Nigeria | $0.51/min | $0.52/min | $5.10 |
| United Kingdom | $0.04/min | $0.07/min | $0.40 |
| Pakistan | $0.35/min | $0.40/min | $3.50 |
Billing is per minute (partial minutes round up), with no connection fees. Every country: full rate list.
How this list was made
Every service here was assessed on the same four questions: can you see the price before you commit, what auto-renews, what happens to idle credit, and what do its own users report at volume on Trustpilot and the app stores. Competitor pricing was taken from each provider's published pages in July 2026 and is linked from the individual comparison pages — pricing changes, so verify before you buy.
We excluded services we could not honestly recommend for any caller type: KeKu (exited the calling business, with users reporting stranded credit) and free-tier sites whose caps make them demos rather than tools — the full stories are on the KeKu page and the PopTox page.
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