Call any country. See the rate first.

Each country page answers the same five questions with that country's own numbers: what a minute costs to a landline and to a mobile, what a call of one, five, ten, thirty or sixty minutes costs, how far each credit pack goes at that rate, how to dial the number correctly, and when it is a reasonable hour to ring.

The prices are per minute in US dollars and they are the whole price. Billing is per second with no connection fee, so a call that ends at four minutes twelve seconds is charged as four minutes twelve seconds — not rounded up to five. Credit does not expire, so a pack bought for one call keeps its value until the next.

Landline and mobile are quoted separately because in most countries they genuinely cost different amounts to reach, and the difference is often large. Where you have a choice of number to call, that is the cheapest decision available to you and it is worth checking before you dial.

The price is mostly not set by the company selling it. It is the wholesale termination rate: what the operator at the far end charges to accept the call onto their network and deliver it. Your provider pays that, adds a margin, and quotes the total.

Those rates are set by regulation and negotiation and they vary enormously. Where a regulator has driven mobile termination towards cost — North America, Mexico, India — the wholesale price is a fraction of a cent. Where termination is still a protected revenue stream, it can be a hundred times higher. Distance is essentially irrelevant; the terminating operator's tariff is essentially all of it.

The practical consequence: a service that is cheapest to one country tells you nothing about another. Compare on the corridor you actually call, which is why every country here has its own page rather than a shared one.

Wholesale termination rates are renegotiated and re-regulated regularly, and retail prices follow them in both directions. A rate on this site is what it is today rather than a commitment about next quarter, and it is worth reading it that way.

When one changes it changes everywhere at once. Prices are read from a single file at build time and rendered into every page that mentions them, so the destination page, the rate table, the calculator, the hero and the app cannot drift apart. There is no separate marketing copy holding an older number.

Credit you already bought is unaffected in the sense that matters: the balance is a dollar amount, not a minute bundle, so a rate change alters how far it goes rather than removing value you paid for. It also never expires, so there is no deadline pushing you to spend it before a change.

If a rate on a page does not match what the app charged, that is a bug rather than a policy, and we would rather hear about it — write to us with the country and the figure.