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HLR Lookup pricing and alternatives: cached phone validation API

HLR Lookup's sitellms.txtBest phone validation API in 2026
56% complete: 5 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesThe cheapest of the 100 plans we rank by price is seven.io, free, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: 200 free credits one of HLR Lookup's 12 plans
Call: POST /apiv2/validate HLR Lookup's only call for this API
API: Cached phone validation API one of HLR Lookup's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. HLR Lookup may skip the carrier and answer from data it keeps. HLR Lookup doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 5 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Formats, Type, Carrier, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits, which pay for HLR Lookup's other calls. This call costs none of them. HLR Lookup limits how many results you get, but doesn't say how many.
  • One call. You send telephone_number to POST /apiv2/validate. You can also send input_format and output_format.
  • Who can get it: new accounts with a business email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

HLR Lookup: 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.

This planHLR Lookup, freeHLR Lookups, free, 100 free lookups, POST /nt-lookupsNeutrino API, freeseven.io, freeStrale, free
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness56%67%67%56%56%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 results, oncenot publishednot publishednot published
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itnew accounts with a business email addressnew accountsanyoneany seven account, traders only: the customer assures that he is a trader and that the short messages are sent as part of his businessanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email address

Cached phone validation API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. hlrlookup.com/
  2. hlrlookup.com/docs/hlrlookup-docs.html
  3. hlrlookup.com/frequently-asked-questions
  4. hlrlookup.com/hlr-api-v2.openapi.json
  5. hlrlookup.com/knowledge/charging
  6. hlrlookup.com/pricing
  7. hlrlookup.com/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Number
  • Formats
  • Validity, not in the answer
  • Type
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchChecks formatting and network information without performing a live HLR lookup — useful for pre-flight checks before spending credits on a real lookup.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataany, its terms add "Our services are not intended to be used as the sole basis for any business decision"
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits
Rate limit
Concurrent210
Batch80
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendtelephone_number. Optional: input_format, output_format
MethodPOST
Path/apiv2/validate
About the plan
Plan200 free credits
Who can get itnew accounts with a business email address
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

error code, request ID, request parameters, credits charged, phone number, formatted number, line type, original carrier, original MCC-MNC, country, country ISO3 code, location, country calling code, lookup date

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