> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rent a number from Vocily

> Buy a phone number inside Vocily without holding a carrier account.

If you do not have a telephony account of your own, Vocily can rent a number on your
behalf. Vocily holds the provider relationship and bills you through your Vocily wallet.

A rented number has **two** charges:

* **US\$5.00 per number, per month** - the rental. The first month is charged as soon as the
  purchase is confirmed, and every month after that on the renewal date shown against the
  number. It is charged whether or not you make any calls.
* **US\$0.0040 per minute of calling** - the telephony charge, billed on 30-second blocks for
  both outbound and inbound. Vocily pays the carrier for the traffic and passes it through.
  See [Voice call pricing](/account-workspace/voice-pricing).

A number from your **own** carrier account has neither: your carrier bills you directly.

<Note>
  Renting is **Owner-only**. It spends real money on Vocily's provider account, and
  releasing is irreversible. Admins can still allocate a rented number to a workspace
  once it exists.
</Note>

## Before you buy

Indian numbers require an **accepted compliance application** before you can buy - this
is a regulatory requirement, not a Vocily one. See
[Compliance](/phone-numbers/compliance).

You can browse available numbers before filing anything. Searching reserves nothing and
needs no paperwork; only the purchase is gated.

## Buy a number

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Phone Numbers → Organization">
    In **Organization phone numbers**, select **Buy number**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the business">
    Pick the compliance application the number will be bought under. The number belongs
    to that business permanently.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Find a number">
    Filter by region, or type a prefix the number should start with. Results load twenty
    at a time - use **Load more** to see further into the provider's inventory.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a workspace">
    Assign it straight away, or leave it in the organization pool.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm">
    The button shows the monthly price before you commit.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  A number is bought under one business and stays with it. Moving it to a different
  business means releasing this number and buying a new one - you cannot reassign the
  compliance behind a number.
</Warning>

Searching does not reserve anything. If someone takes a number between your search and
your confirmation, Vocily tells you and asks you to pick another.

## After the purchase

The number appears in the list with the source **Rented**, its monthly price, and its
renewal date. From there it behaves exactly like a number from your own account: assign
it to a workspace, and attach an agent from the agent's
[Deploy](/building-agents/deploy) tab.

## Renewal

Each rented number is charged US\$5.00 to your organization wallet every month on its
renewal date. Renewal charges appear in
[Transactions](/account-workspace/billing-transactions-payments) alongside call usage.

Keep the wallet funded so renewals go through - see
[Auto-recharge](/account-workspace/billing-auto-recharge).

## Release a number

Releasing gives the number back to the provider and stops the monthly charge.

<Warning>
  **Releasing is irreversible.** The number returns to the provider's pool and cannot be
  recovered - not by you and not by support. If someone else rents it afterwards, it is
  theirs. Billing stops after the current month; the remainder of a month already paid
  for is not refunded.
</Warning>

Because it cannot be undone, release asks you to type the full number to confirm, and
refuses while an agent, a default outbound number, or a live batch still points at it.
Detach those first.

A released number stays visible in your history as a billing record. Tick **Released** in
the Status column filter to see them.

## Rented or your own?

|                        | Rented from Vocily                                                       | Your own carrier account                   |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
| Carrier account needed | No                                                                       | Yes                                        |
| Billing                | US$5.00/month **plus** US$0.0040/min of calling, from your Vocily wallet | Your provider bills you directly           |
| Indian KYC             | Filed inside Vocily                                                      | Handled in your provider account           |
| Giving the number up   | Release - irreversible                                                   | Remove from Vocily; the number stays yours |

## What's next

* File Indian KYC in [Compliance](/phone-numbers/compliance).
* Bring an existing account instead in [Carrier accounts](/phone-numbers/carrier-accounts).
* Route the number to an agent in [Deploy](/building-agents/deploy).