Cape is $99 per month, with all taxes and fees already included in the price. Unlike other carriers, we promise no surprises, no hidden costs, and no bill shock. Read more.

Right now, Cape is acknowledging the support of our early adopters by discounting Cape service to just $70 per month for life, for everyone who joins us this year or before. It applies automatically, so you don’t need to apply a promo code or do anything else. And all of your other discounts, like referrals, remain active.

On January 27th, 2026, Cape exited our beta and launched several new features.

Cape’s family plan comes in the form of a referral program. Rather than linking you and your family’s account to one another, instead, every Cape subscriber has a unique referral code that they can share with their family, friends, or even strangers, to give you and your referral $20 off your monthly bill.

Learn more here.

We support the vast majority of recent phone models such as Google Pixel (including GrapheneOS), Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus, and iPhone XR or 11 and higher. For Android devices, your OS must be Android 13 or higher.

See our full list of compatible devices here.

No, it's completely optional. However, we highly recommend turning it on. Without Last-Mile Encryption, group chats in your iPhone's Messages app that include Android members may become de-threaded, meaning messages are sent or received individually instead of as part of the group thread.

We are working towards a long-term solution, but for now we recommend enabling Last-Mile Encryption to ensure your group chats work as expected. Last-Mile Encryption also keeps your SMS and MMS messages more secure. iMessages are not impacted as those are already end-to-end encrypted.

Yes! Most recent phone models allow multiple eSIMs, so you can keep your current number and get a Cape line as well, all on the same phone.

Cape also includes 2 free Secondary Numbers (currently for texting only, voice coming soon) in your plan, so you can consolidate all of your phone numbers with Cape. Cape numbers are Last-Mile Encrypted and more secure.

Cape uses the app to generate a cryptographic public-private key pair for secure authentication. The private key is stored locally on your device and is never known by Cape. This protects you against SIM swaps, and avoids using notoriously insecure usernames, passwords, and PIN codes.

The app also allows us to provide you with enhanced signaling protection, and a better and faster onboarding experience.

As a mobile carrier, we’re required to be responsive to requests from law enforcement, and are fully compliant with CALEA, the federal wiretap law. However, we seek to minimize the amount of data we collect and retain so that we can only turn over what (little data) we have.

That said, we push back on any law enforcement requests that are not backed by legal process, and we do challenge requests that are not narrowly tailored.

In addition, before making any disclosure, Cape will notify its subscribers of receipt of any legal process seeking disclosure related to their accounts, thereby giving you the opportunity to challenge that request. In cases where we are explicitly prohibited by law or court order from notifying a subscriber about a government request, we will challenge any such request that is not narrowly tailored or otherwise lawful.

Read our full privacy policy here.

While there is no "silver bullet" for privacy on cellular networks—which were inherently designed for interoperability—our strategy is to provide a layered defense that collectively frustrates tracking attempts.

We use the physical infrastructure (cell phone towers) of other carriers, but route all traffic through our own mobile core—the “central nervous system” of a network. This gives us control over policy, logic, and what data enters and leaves your phone.

The details of what our carrier partners can see is outlined in a table in our Privacy Policy. We “add noise” to their data by rotating your IMSI daily and spreading traffic among multiple carrier partners. By ensuring this data is messy, fragmented, and disconnected from your personal information, we reduce the monetary incentive for carriers to attempt to re-identify you, especially when they already have access to an abundance of “clean” data from users with stable identifiers.

Additionally, when you use our Secondary Numbers feature, all associated traffic is transmitted as encrypted data. Because this information is encrypted over our network, the underlying carrier cannot see phone numbers or message contents.

VPNs and secure messaging apps encrypt your data usage, but the metadata associated with your calls and texts are still logged by your mobile carrier. Most mobile carriers collect a lot of personal information when you sign up and link it together with all your activity to build behavioral profiles of their customers. They share or sell these profiles to third-parties who may use it for anything from ad retargeting to hiking your insurance premiums or denying your mortgage loan.

Additionally, all major US mobile carriers have had major data breaches, allowing this information to fall into the hands of bad actors who may use it to attack you individually. Cape is the only privacy-focused MVNO with its own mobile core, enabling us to solve these problems at the network layer by collecting less information and ensuring what we do collect is stored as securely as possible.

A mobile core is the “central nervous system” of a network. It controls policy, logic, and major systems that have evolved over decades to manage the complexity of connecting people moving (often at speed) across network nodes, operators, and countries. Running our own core allows us to control and implement protections over what data enters and leaves your phone. It also allows us to implement modern, expert-vetted cryptography and security protocols to secure your account.

Read more here.