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APILayer pricing and alternatives: cached phone validation API

APILayer's sitellms.txt
67% complete: 6 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phones
Plan: Free Plan one of APILayer's 8 plans
Call: GET /validate APILayer's only call

About this item

  • Stored. APILayer may skip the carrier and answer from data it keeps. APILayer doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 6 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Formats, Validity, Type, Carrier, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Unused requests expire: not carried over from one monthly period to the next.
  • One call. You send number to GET /validate. You can also send country_code. The call returns whether the number is valid.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use only. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

APILayer: cached phone validation API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

This planAPILayer, freeNeutrino API, freeStrale, freeBotoi, freeAPIVerve, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%56%44%78%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 calls a monthnot publishednot published1,000 calls a day20 calls a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use onlyanyoneanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email addressanyone 18 or olderanyone 13 or over (under 18 only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

  1. api.swaggerhub.com/apis/apilayer-863/numverify-api/1.0.0/swagger.json
  2. docs.apilayer.com/numverify/docs/api-documentation
  3. docs.apilayer.com/numverify/docs/getting-started
  4. numverify.com
  5. numverify.com/billing-overages-documentation
  6. numverify.com/faq
  7. numverify.com/permitted-prohibited-use
  8. numverify.com/pricing
  9. numverify.com/service-agreement
  10. numverify.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Number
  • Formats
  • Validity
  • Type
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat freenever
Percall
Also pays forfrom the same budget: /countries
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCapture only good leads, keep your user database clean and fight fraud by validating phone numbers at the point of entry into your system
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataYou shall not: [...] use, store, or access any numverify API Data & Services, or the numverify API after the termination of this Agreement, You do not permit Your end users to store [...] numverify API Data & Services for any other purposes
Use dataYou are hereby permitted to receive, process, and display numverify API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use numverify API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use, You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit numverify API Data & Services for any other purposes. [...] You are permitted solely to use numverify API Data & Services for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of numverify API Data & Services outside of your application(s). [...] You shall not: reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit numverify API Data & Services or the numverify API, make access to numverify API Data & Services or the numverify API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute numverify API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet, [...] use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export numverify API Data & Services, or the numverify API, or, use numverify API Data & Services or the numverify API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person. [...] You also agree not to: [...] redistribute any Information And Content in any manner whatsoever [...] to any person, organization, corporation or other entity, including within your own organization or externally, except for the limited Permitted Uses, [...] present, archive, cache, frame, scrape, or mirror any Information And Content from any part of the Services within another web site, except with express written permission [...], [...] embed or import any data provided in, on or through the Services into any information services (whether or not web-based), data files, or application software, including without limitation accounting and payroll systems, except as specifically permitted in writing by apilayer.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresnot carried over from one monthly period to the next
Rate limit
Batch1
The call
You sendnumber. Optional: country_code
MethodGET
Path/validate
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use only
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, phone number, local format, international format, country calling code, country code, country, location, carrier, line type

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