September 13, 2026
Best phone plan deals right now — and how we pick them
How we choose the best phone plan deals from 57 live U.S. plans across 23 carriers, and what separates a real deal from a headline price.
Every price below comes from an operator feed we import, with the date it was last verified. Links marked “See this deal” are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you, and it never changes our ranking.
The deals leading today
Sorted purely by verified monthly price per line, Tello 2GB leads at $8 with 2 GB of high-speed data. The cheapest unlimited plan we track is US Mobile Unlimited Flex (annual) at $17.50.
The full table of every live plan, with activation fees and coverage networks, sits on the deals page and updates with each import.
What makes a deal a real deal
A price is only a deal if you can actually get it. We show the conditions attached — autopay, paperless billing, porting a number, buying several lines — beside the price rather than folding them into it.
10 of the plans we track state that taxes and fees are included; on the rest they are added at checkout, which can change the ranking.
Short-term travel eSIM packs are kept out of the monthly plan tables entirely, because a seven-day pack price is not a monthly rate.
How we rank
Position is decided by the verified price and the plan's own attributes. Commercial relationships never move a plan up, and no plan is excluded for lacking one. Prices are re-checked daily and each plan carries its last verified date.
Prices change daily. Read the latest round-up or compare every live plan.