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HLR Lookups pricing and alternatives: cached phone validation API, POST /nt-lookups

HLR Lookups's sitellms.txtBest phone validation API in 2026
67% complete: 6 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesThe cheapest of the 78 plans we rank by price is seven.io, free, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: 100 free lookups one of HLR Lookups's 10 plans
Call: POST /nt-lookups one of HLR Lookups's 2 calls
API: Cached phone validation API one of HLR Lookups's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. HLR Lookups may skip the carrier and answer from data it keeps. HLR Lookups doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 6 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Validity, Type, Carrier, Porting and roaming, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests once, enough for 100 results.
  • One call. You send numbers to POST /nt-lookups. You can also send route and storage. The provider sends the answer only to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: new accounts. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

HLR Lookups: cached phone validation API alternatives

The table starts with HLR Lookups's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 phones closest to HLR Lookups's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

HLR Lookups, top-up, 10M (or more), POST /nt-lookupsBigDataCloud, $9.95 monthly, Bronze, GET /data/phone-number-validate-by-ipNumLookupAPI, $49.99 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/validate/{number}APIVerve, $99.99 monthlyAPILayer, $629.99 yearly
$ per 1,000$1.013$0.995$0.9998$0.9999$1.05
Completeness67%56%67%78%67%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Payany amount$9.95$49.99$99.99$629.99
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itvolume of 10M or more lookups (an individual over 18 or with parental consent, or a business entity)anyone with an account, giving true and complete information about themselves, their business and their contact detailsanyoneanyone 13 or over (under 18 only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian)anyone

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 2026-10-25.

  1. hlr-lookups.com/en/api-docs
  2. hlr-lookups.com/en/pricing
  3. hlr-lookups.com/en/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, not in the answer
  • Validity
  • Type
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Also pays forfrom the same budget: HLR Lookup (synchronous) · HLR Lookup (asynchronous) · MNP Lookup (synchronous) · MNP Lookup (asynchronous) · NT Lookup (synchronous)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchYour solution for number portability lookups, phone number verification, and mobile network detection.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou will only use the Software and the Service for lawful purposes, and in compliance with all applicable laws including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, intellectual property, obscenity and defamation laws [...], You will not use the Software and the Service for chain letters, junk mail, advertising, spamming in any form or type, You will not use the Software and the Service to compete against VMG, You understand and agree that you will not rent, lease, distribute, sell, resell, assign, or otherwise transfer rights to the VMG software and service, You agree not to publish or disclose to third parties any evaluation of VMG software without VMG's prior written consent
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 results, once
Rate limit
Batch1,000
Speed
Answerby webhook
The call
You sendnumbers. Optional: route, storage
MethodPOST
Path/nt-lookups
About the plan
Plan100 free lookups
Who can get itnew accounts
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

lookup ID, phone number, number type, query status, valid, invalid reason, possibly ported, vanity number, qualifies for HLR lookup, MCC-MNC, MCC, MNC, original carrier, original country, original country code, regions, time zones, info text, cost, timestamp, storage, route

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