A Virtual Phone Number for Canada — Live Today, From $6.95/Month

How much does a virtual phone number in Canada cost?

A virtual phone number for Canada costs $6.95 per month with eTollfree. That's the Call Forwarding plan, and it includes the number itself — a Canadian local number or a North American toll-free number — plus 100 minutes a month (5.9¢/min after that), voicemail-to-email, auto-attendant, call recording, and the same 100+ features every plan gets. Setup is $0. There's no contract — month-to-month, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

If your team is on the phone all day, unlimited calling is $14 per user/month on eBizLine Lite (our most popular plan, with call forwarding at 2¢/min). The full system — automations, Microsoft Teams integration, lead management — is $24.95 per user/month (forwarding at 1.2¢/min).

One note for Canadian buyers: our prices are in US dollars. North American numbering and toll-free billing run on the US system, so that's how we bill — no separate CAD price list, no surprise conversion line on your invoice. Your card issuer handles the exchange the same way it would for any US subscription.

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Is there a free virtual phone number in Canada? (what "free" actually costs)

Yes, and for some people free is genuinely the right answer. Google Voice gives individuals a free number (Canada availability is limited and it's a personal product, not a business one), TextNow offers free ad-supported Canadian numbers, and most free VoIP apps will hand you a number in a couple of minutes. If you just need a second number so your personal mobile stays private — take the free one. Seriously.

Here's what changes the moment that number represents a business:

Our take, plainly: free is fine for personal use. For a business, $6.95 a month — about 23 cents a day — buys the number, the full 100+ feature phone system, real humans on support, and the right to port the number out free of charge whenever you want. That's the whole difference.

(Outgrowing a free Google Voice number? Here's our Google Voice alternative guide.)

Which Canada virtual phone number provider should you choose?

Here's how the most-searched providers line up on the things that show up on your monthly bill. Every company below is a legitimate choice — which one is right depends on how many people need a line, whether you want Canadian local numbers or a toll-free number, and how much you mind an annual commitment.

Competitor details reflect publicly published pricing and terms at the time of writing and can change — always confirm current rates directly with each provider. Prices shown are advertised starting points; per-user plans scale with the number of users.

Run the year: $6.95 × 12 = $83.40 with eTollfree, versus roughly $240 a year at the ~$20/user providers — and at $240 you're usually locked into annual billing to get that rate. Add a second user and eBizLine Lite is $14 × 2 × 12 = $336/year for unlimited calling on both lines, still month-to-month. Read the full provider comparison →

How do I get a virtual phone number in Canada? (3 steps, live today)

1. Search available numbers. Open our number search, pick the Local Number tab, choose Canada, and enter an area code — or leave it blank to see everything available right now across Canada. Prefer national reach? The Toll-Free tab covers all of Canada and the US on one number.
2. Check out online. About three minutes, $0 setup, and your number activates the same day. Month-to-month from $6.95, cancel any time inside 30 days for your money back.
3. Point it anywhere. Forward calls to a Canadian mobile, a landline, an office anywhere in the world, or answer in our desktop and mobile apps. Change the destination yourself whenever you like.

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Which Canadian area codes can you actually get right now?

Straight answer that most providers won't give you: the famous big-city area codes are effectively sold out. Nobody has fresh 416 or 647 (Toronto), 604 (Vancouver), 514 (Montreal), 403 (Calgary) or 613 (Ottawa) numbers sitting in inventory — those blocks were exhausted years ago, which is exactly why Canada added overlay codes on top of them. The overlays are what's actually available, they serve the same cities, and Canadians dial ten digits everywhere anyway, so nobody notices the difference.

Here's what we could pull from live inventory today:

Verified against our live number inventory on September 5, 2026.

Availability moves daily, so treat that as a snapshot, not a promise — run the live search and you'll see exactly what's free this minute. Whichever code you land on, the price is the same $6.95/month with $0 setup.

Want the Toronto look specifically? A 365 or 289 number is a Greater Toronto Area number — it rings the same, it costs the same $6.95/month, and local customers recognise it. If a marquee 416 is non-negotiable for your brand, the honest move is to buy it on the secondary market from whoever holds it; we'll happily host and route it for you once you do.

Canadian local number or North American toll-free — which should you get?

Pick a Canadian local number when you want to look like you're there: a 289 for Toronto customers, a 778 for Vancouver, a 450 for Montreal's south shore. Local numbers build trust with local buyers, and they're $6.95/month.

Pick a North American toll-free number when you sell across the country or on both sides of the border. One number, free for the customer to dial, works identically from Halifax, Vancouver, New York and Dallas — also $6.95/month. That cross-border coverage is our strongest suit: one number, one bill, one rate for US and Canadian inbound calls.

Plenty of businesses run both — a local number for the neighbourhood and a toll-free number on the website. Adding a second number is another $6.95/month.

Selling nationwide across Canada? Our Canadian toll-free service page covers that side in full — prefixes, coverage, and how Canadian callers reach you at no charge.

Can I get a Canadian phone number if I'm not in Canada?

Yes — and you don't need a Canadian office, a Canadian landline, or a Canadian bank account. A virtual number lives in the cloud, so a business in Dallas, London or Manila can carry a Canadian number and answer it wherever the team actually sits. Calls forward to any destination worldwide or ring straight into our apps over the internet, from $6.95/month.

It works the other way too. Canadian businesses selling into the United States use a US virtual number for exactly the same reason — see our guide to US virtual phone numbers, also $6.95/month, or take one North American toll-free number and cover both countries at once.

One honest caveat: some Canadian local area codes can carry registration requirements depending on the block. If anything applies to the number you pick, we'll tell you during checkout — there's no paperwork ambush after you pay.

Is a virtual number the same as a VoIP number or a virtual phone system?

Mostly the same thing, three different words for it:

• A virtual number is a phone number that isn't tied to a desk, a SIM, or a copper line.
• A VoIP number describes how it works — the call travels over the internet instead of the phone network.
• A virtual phone system is the number plus everything behind it: auto-attendant, extensions, business-hours routing, voicemail-to-email, call recording, analytics.

With eTollfree you get all three for $6.95/month — we don't charge separately for "the system." A one-person business gets the same auto-attendant a 40-person call centre gets, because all 100+ features are standard on every plan. That's the enterprise-grade side without the corporate headaches.

If you'd rather not answer at all, add the AI Receptionist to any plan: as low as $6.95/month (that's the plan fee, and it includes your number) plus 15¢/minute, dropping to 13¢ on eBizLine Lite and 10¢ on Business Phone Basic. It picks up every call, answers questions about your business, and books work while you're on a job.

What's included with every eTollfree Canadian number?

• Same-day activation — search, check out, take calls
• Forward anywhere — any Canadian mobile, landline, or international destination
• Desktop and mobile apps — answer from anywhere
• Voicemail-to-email so nothing sits in a mailbox nobody checks
• Business texting (SMS) on eBizLine Lite and above
• Call recording for training and disputes
• Auto-attendant / IVR — "press 1 for sales, press 2 for service"
• Team extensions and business-hours routing
• Porting in and out at no charge — the number is yours to take
• Optional AI Receptionist — as low as $6.95/mo plan + 15¢/min (13¢ / 10¢ on higher plans)
• 24/7 human support, US-based, since 2004
• 100+ features standard on every plan — no nickel-and-diming