Best Verizon Prepaid Plans

For context, here’s all the postpaid Verizon plans available right now.

When you’re comparing prepaid and postpaid Verizon plans, the main variable you want to look at is the amount of data you get every month. All of these Verizon plans come with unlimited talk and unlimited text, but the data is what pushes the monthly price up. Verizon offers one limited data prepaid plan that offers 15 GB of data while the rest offer unlimited data.

You’ll get the most value out of the cheapest and most expensive Verizon prepaid cell phone plan. We recommend either the $35 Prepaid Phone plan or $60 Prepaid Phone plan.

Okay, if prepaid plans are so much cheaper than postpaid plans, how come everyone isn’t on a prepaid plan? The catch with prepaid cell phone plans is that you have to pay at the beginning of the month instead of the end, and you usually don’t get the same perks you would get with a postpaid plan.

For example, Verizon’s postpaid unlimited plans come with a Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ subscription, and free Apple Music for six months. Verizon’s $65 Prepaid Unlimited Welcome cell phone plan is positively perkless. It’s only a $15 difference between Verizon’s $65 Prepaid Unlimited cell phone plan and Verizon’s $80 Unlimited Plus plan. In this case, it would probably be better to go with the basic postpaid Verizon unlimited plan rather than the Verizon prepaid plan because the perks outweigh the price difference.

This is one of those delightful situations where a prepaid plan can both save you money and give you more monthly data. The $35 Prepaid Phone plan comes with unlimited talk, unlimited text, and 15 GB of data. This is a great choice for someone who doesn't need unlimited data, especially since all of Verizon's other postpaid plans are unlimited data.

Now, compare that with the cheapest postpaid unlimited data plan that costs $65 a month. So, to recap, you pay $30 less a month with the prepaid plan and you get the right amount of data every month. No need to pay almost double the cost when you don't need unlimited mobile data.

You don’t even need to stress about missing any cool perks, either. Verizon’s big perks only kick in when you opt for a postpaid unlimited plan. So if you’re not interested in a Verizon unlimited plan, the only real downside here is that you’re paying at the beginning of the month instead of the end of the month.

If you’re saving $30 every month, who really cares when you pay?

The other Verizon prepaid plans are the Unlimited for $50 and the Unlimited Plus for $60. Compared to the $35 Prepaid plan, you pay an extra $15–$25 a month for unlimited data and 25 GB hotspot data (when you choose Unlimited Plus.) As a friendly reminder of why prepaid plans rule, a comparable Verizon postpaid plan, Unlimited Plus, gets you 30 GB of hotspot data, but it costs $80 a month—$20 more a month than what you would pay for the 25 GB of hotspot data on the $60 Prepaid Verizon plan.

This plan doesn’t come with any cool perks, but if you ask me, saving money is a pretty cool perk in and of itself. You can use that extra money to buy your own dang perks.

If you want a prepaid unlimited plan that works on Verizon’s awesome network, we highly recommend Visible Wireless. Visible, an MVNO wireless provider that operates on Verizon’s network, offers an unlimited data plan that costs $45 a month.

To make a long story short, if you’re on a Verizon limited-data postpaid plan, you’re doing it wrong, friend. You can save $10–$20 every month by switching from a Verizon postpaid plan to a Verizon prepaid plan.

Stick with either the $35 Verizon Prepaid plan or $60 Verizon Prepaid plan to get the most value, and whatever you do, avoid the $50 Verizon Prepaid plan because it's terrible.

So, what are you going to do with that extra money you’ll save every month by switching to a prepaid plan? Have you noticed any downsides by switching to a Verizon prepaid plan?