If you are comparing NumberBarn and NumberGarage, there is a short answer: they are the same company.
Visit numbergarage.com and the server returns an HTTP 301 permanent redirect to numberbarn.com. NumberBarn's own help center quotes a single port-in fee covering "NumberBarn or NumberGarage". There is no second product to evaluate, no price difference, and no support difference.
That leaves one real comparison in the US number-parking market: NumberBarn vs Park My Phone. This article prices both honestly, including the add-ons and minimum terms that the headline numbers leave out, and ends with the one situation where neither of them has a product for you.
The Short Version
| NumberBarn | NumberGarage | Park My Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parking price | $2.99/mo | Same company | $3/mo, or $2/mo on the annual Deep Freeze plan ($24/yr) |
| One-time port-in fee | $5 per number, waived on the annual plan | Same | Not published as a separate fee |
| Receive texts while parked | +$1/mo add-on (not on toll-free) | Same | Add-on |
| Minimum term | None published on monthly parking | Same | 6 months for US numbers, 1 year for Canadian numbers and faxes |
| Can park a number you bought from them | Yes - NumberBarn's own FAQ says an unported number auto-converts to the $2.99 Park plan after 30 days | Same | No - Park My Phone does not sell numbers |
| Can park a number from another carrier | Only by porting it in, and it must be active there | Same | Only by porting it in |
| Buy a brand-new number | Yes - a marketplace, floor $9.95 one-time, typical local numbers $19-$49+ | Same | No |
NumberBarn vs NumberGarage: One Company
This query gets searched often enough to be worth stating plainly. NumberGarage is not a competitor to NumberBarn, an acquisition target, or a cheaper white-label version. The domain resolves to NumberBarn, and NumberBarn's support documentation treats the two names as one service.
If an article ranks a "NumberGarage plan" against a "NumberBarn plan" with different prices in each column, that article is comparing a company to itself.
"Park My Number" Is Not a Company
The other query worth clearing up. There is no vendor called Park My Number. Searches for it land on two different things:
- Park My Phone (parkmyphone.com) - a real, independent parking service, $3/month, or $2/month on an annual Deep Freeze plan.
- NumberBarn's number-parking page - a feature of NumberBarn, not a separate brand.
So "NumberBarn vs Park My Number" almost always means NumberBarn vs Park My Phone, which is the comparison in the table above.
What Parking Actually Costs
The headline prices are close enough that add-ons decide it.
NumberBarn - $2.99/month parking. You get secure storage for the number, a customizable greeting that callers hear, call logs, and call blocking. No forwarding, no outbound calling. Texting is a $1/month add-on and is not offered on toll-free numbers. Porting a number in costs $5 per number, waived if you pay for parking annually.
Park My Phone - $3/month, or $2/month annually. The annual Deep Freeze plan works out to $24 for the year, which is the cheapest published parking price in this comparison. Callers hear a short pre-recorded message saying the number is parked. Texting and a physical SIM are sold as add-ons, at around $2/month or $20/year for the SIM. US numbers carry a 6-month minimum; Canadian numbers and fax numbers carry a one-year minimum.
On a plain 12-month parking of one US mobile number with no texting:
- Park My Phone annual: $24/year
- NumberBarn annual: $35.88/year, port-in fee waived
- NumberBarn monthly: $35.88 + $5 port-in = $40.88 in year one
Add texting to both and NumberBarn goes to roughly $47.88/year; Park My Phone's add-on pricing lands in the same neighbourhood. The gap is real but small - under $25 a year. Pick on the minimum-term terms and the texting add-on, not on the $0.01 difference in the headline.
Which One to Pick
- You want the lowest possible price and can commit to a year → Park My Phone Deep Freeze, $24/year.
- You want month-to-month with no minimum term → NumberBarn parking, $2.99/month.
- You want to keep receiving texts on the parked number → either, with the add-on; check first that your number is not toll-free, which NumberBarn excludes.
- You want the number to actually forward calls → this is no longer parking. NumberBarn's Call Forwarding plan is $6.99/month for 600 minutes; Unlimited Forwarding is $19.99/month.
- You want a physical SIM so the number stays on a real device → Park My Phone, which sells one as an add-on.
Will the Number Receive 2FA Codes?
This is the question that decides most purchases, and NumberBarn answers it honestly in its own documentation, so we can quote it rather than guess.
NumberBarn numbers are classified as wireline (landline) numbers, and its help center states flatly that "this classification cannot be changed by NumberBarn". Many services will only send verification codes to wireless mobile numbers, and NumberBarn publishes a running list of which ones do and do not work.
Reported working: Amazon, Apple ID, DoorDash, Facebook, Instagram, GrubHub, Mailchimp, Schwab, Signal, TikTok. Bank of America works for some alert types; Google and YouTube are listed as "mixed results".
Reported not working: Airbnb, Ally Bank, American Express, Apple Business Manager, Capital One, Chase Bank, ChatGPT, CIBC, Craigslist, Discover Card, E*Trade, Fidelity, Intuit/TurboTax, LastPass, LinkedIn, Login.gov, Microsoft services (including Outlook, Azure, Office 365), PayPal, Steam, Telegram, Ticketmaster, Twitch, US Bank, Venmo, Viber, WhatsApp, Wells Fargo, X (Twitter), Yahoo Mail, Zelle.
That is most of US retail banking, most of the big platforms, and the three messengers people most often want a US number for. NumberBarn also notes a carrier migration that left its numbers able to send but not reliably receive short code messages.
How this differs for a VoIP number. IncNumber provisions VoIP numbers rather than wireline ones, and short codes do arrive on them in practice - Google, Stripe and TikTok verification codes among the traffic on live accounts. But VoIP is its own blocked category: PayPal returns an error if you try to add a VoIP number at all, and WhatsApp, Viber and Fidelity explicitly reject both VoIP and wireline. No $3-$7 number is a reliable way to pass bank-grade 2FA. If a specific bank login depends on it, the only dependable answer is a real US mobile SIM, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
Can a Non-US Resident Buy One?
NumberBarn's terms of service are specific:
Subscriber agrees that all payments will be made to NumberBarn via credit or debit card, issued by a US bank, including MasterCard, VISA, American Express, or Discover. ... Subscriber's name and address as it appears on Subscriber's NumberBarn account must also be on the credit account from which Payment is made.
Two requirements, not one: the card has to be issued by a US bank, and the name and address on your NumberBarn account have to match that card. A founder in Tokyo or Tashkent paying with a local Visa meets neither. A US LLC owner who already has a Mercury or Brex card in their own name at a US address probably does.
The terms also carry an INTERNATIONAL USE clause noting that NumberBarn "makes no representation that materials on its web site(s) are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States".
Park My Phone does not publish an equivalent restriction, but it is a port-in service, so the question is moot unless you already hold a US number.
The Case Where None of Them Work
Every service above is port-in only for parking. The number has to be live at a US carrier before you can move it in. NumberBarn states that a number you bring in must currently be active at your existing provider.
So if you are a founder who incorporated a US LLC or C-Corp from outside the United States - through Stripe Atlas, doola, Firstbase, or on your own - and you have never held a US SIM, you have nothing to port. The $2.99 price is not a price you can pay. It is not a question of finding the right plan; there is no plan, because parking presupposes a number you already own.
Your actual options are the ones that provision a number:
| Option | Monthly for a US number that receives SMS | One-time | Can a non-US resident actually buy it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| NumberBarn (Park $2.99 + texting $1) | $3.99/mo | Number price, $9.95 floor, typically $19-$49+ | No - terms require a card issued by a US bank, with a matching name and address |
| Quo, formerly OpenPhone (Starter) | $19/mo, $15 annual | None | Yes |
| Grasshopper (Solo) | $14/mo | None | Yes |
| Google Voice | Free | - | No - verification effectively needs a US-based account |
| IncNumber | $7/mo, SMS forwarded to email | None | Yes - that is what it is for |
NumberBarn is genuinely cheaper per month. $3.99 beats $7, and this article is not going to pretend otherwise. The question is whether you can buy it, and whether the number will receive the texts you need.
Need a US number you never had
IncNumber provisions a new US local number for $7/month and forwards every text to your email. No port-in, no US carrier account, no calls to answer.
Get your US number — $7/mo→The Bottom Line
NumberBarn and NumberGarage are one company, so that comparison resolves itself. Park My Number does not exist; you mean Park My Phone. Between NumberBarn at $2.99/month and Park My Phone at $2-$3/month, the difference over a year is under $25, and the deciding factors are the 6-month minimum at Park My Phone and the $5 port-in fee at NumberBarn.
On price alone, NumberBarn wins even against IncNumber: $3.99/month for a parked number with texting is cheaper than $7. Two things decide it instead.
Payment. NumberBarn's terms of service state that "all payments will be made to NumberBarn via credit or debit card, issued by a US bank", and that "Subscriber's name and address as it appears on Subscriber's NumberBarn account must also be on the credit account from which Payment is made". If you are incorporating a US company from abroad and do not yet have a US card in your own name at a US address, that is a wall before you reach the price.
Text delivery. NumberBarn's numbers are classified as wireline, and its own help center says that classification "cannot be changed by NumberBarn". It publishes a list of services that will not send verification codes to its numbers, and the list is long: Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, American Express, US Bank, Ally, Discover, Fidelity, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, Login.gov, Microsoft, LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp, Telegram, ChatGPT. If the reason you want a US number is to receive one of those codes, $3.99 buys you a number that cannot do it.
IncNumber's numbers are VoIP rather than wireline, and short codes do land on them in practice - Google, Stripe and TikTok verification codes among them. That is a different failure profile, not a perfect one: services that specifically block VoIP, such as PayPal and WhatsApp, will refuse an IncNumber number too. Nobody should sell you a $7 number as a way around bank 2FA. For that, you need a real US mobile SIM.
So: already have a US number and a US card, and just want it kept alive? Park it at NumberBarn or Park My Phone and stop reading. No US card, no US number to port, and you need an address and a working SMS inbox for your new US company? That is the case none of the parking services serve, and it is the only case IncNumber is built for.