{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "vanity-number",
 "name": "Vanity Number",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "vanitynumber.com",
 "category": "Communication & Voice",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Marketplace for memorable North American local and toll-free phone numbers, sold as a one-time purchase and ported to the carrier or VoIP service you already use.",
 "best_for": "US and Canadian businesses that want a memorable local or toll-free number for advertising, vehicles or signage and keep it on the carrier they already use",
 "skip_if": "you need the phone service itself (call routing, a business phone app or minutes), you are outside North America, or you want the option of a refund",
 "honest_knock": "Refunds are not possible, and not every carrier accepts every number, so the buyer has to confirm the port with their own carrier first. You are buying the number only: calls, lines and any phone system stay on your existing carrier bill. What you get is the right to use the number at your carrier, not a title to it; let service lapse everywhere and the FAQ says it eventually returns to the pool. We have not bought a number ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$99.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "cheapest number · one-time search and acquisition fee per number, rising with how memorable it is",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-11 on vanitynumber.com and its FAQ page, USD) VanityNumber.com sells memorable North American local and toll-free phone numbers as a one-time purchase, not phone service. The FAQ says the price is a single search and acquisition fee to source the number, secure it and transfer it to the carrier you choose; there is no monthly subscription, renewal or fee for keeping the number, and your carrier keeps billing you for lines and calls as before. Prices start at $99.99 and rise with how memorable the number is. The catalogue is browsable by price band, from under $250 through $251 to $500, $501 to $1,000, $1,001 to $2,500 and $2,501 to $10,000 to over $10,000, and the rarest numbers are quoted on request. On the home page that day, numbers on sale were listed at $199.99 and $299.99 against $359.99, and at $200 against $290; double-repeater VIP numbers were listed at $2,000 to $3,000, and a banner offered 30% off specially marked numbers. The FAQ says refunds are not possible.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Calilio",
  "why": "Calilio is in our dossiers too, and it sells the phone service: per-user plans with numbers, minutes and SMS included. VanityNumber.com sells only the number, once, and you port it to the carrier or VoIP service you already pay. If you need both, you can buy the number here and run it on a service such as Calilio, provided that service accepts the port; check that before buying, because the number is non-refundable."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/vanity-number.json",
  "review": "https://zerotouchsupport.com/vanity-number-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/vanity-number/",
  "vendor_site": "https://vanitynumber.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=129993&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "vanity-number:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "vanity-number:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "vanity-number:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "vanity-number:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}