About American Phone Plans

An independent comparison of mobile phone plans in the United States. No carrier owns us, and no carrier can buy a better ranking.

What this site does

It puts every mobile plan we can find in the United States on one page, in one format, so you can sort them by what actually matters to you rather than by what each carrier chooses to advertise. Three carriers own the networks in the United States and dozens of MVNOs resell them. Advertised prices also routinely assume autopay, multiple lines, or both, which makes like-for-like comparison harder than it should be.

Why it exists

Choosing a plan means opening a dozen carrier sites, each with its own layout, its own idea of what counts as "unlimited", and its own set of conditions buried below the price. The information is public, but comparing it is tedious enough that most people give up and overpay.

So we do the tedious part: read the carrier pages, record the plans in a consistent shape, and publish the result with the date we checked attached to every row.

How we know what we know

Plan data is read from carrier websites by a person, not summarised from other comparison sites. Where a carrier blocks us or publishes nothing, we say so by name rather than quietly leaving old numbers looking fresh. Our methodology page lists every carrier, when its plans were last confirmed, and exactly what we could not check.

How the site is funded

Advertising, and affiliate commissions on some carrier links, which are marked with an asterisk (*). Rankings are computed from the plan data and your chosen filters. Affiliate relationships have no effect on them, and several plans we recommend earn us nothing.

Getting in touch

Corrections, questions and press enquiries all go to the same place: hello@americanphoneplans.com. See Contact for what to include.