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Melissa pricing and alternatives: cached phone validation API, GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone

Melissa's sitellms.txt
56% complete: 5 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phones
Plan: Monthly Top-off one of Melissa's 5 plans
Call: GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone one of Melissa's 2 calls

About this item

  • Stored. Melissa may skip the carrier and answer from data it keeps. Melissa doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 5 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Formats, Carrier, Place, Owner.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 100 calls.
  • One call. You send phone to GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone. You can also send ctry, ctryOrg, opt (CallerID, DefaultCallingCode, PreferDialingCode, TimeToWait, VerifyPhone) and t.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Melissa: 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 planMelissa, free, Monthly Top-off, GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhoneNeutrino API, freeStrale, freeBotoi, freeNumLookupAPI, free, Free, POST /v1/validate
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness56%67%56%44%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 calls a monthnot publishednot published1,000 calls a day100 results a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone who pays the "$4.97 Verification Fee (One-Time)" (a KYC/AML identity check), after it Melissa tops off up to 1,000 free credits a monthanyoneanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email addressanyone 18 or olderanyone

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. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/licensing.html
  2. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/privacy-security.html
  3. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/rate-limiting.html
  4. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-email/global-email-faq.html
  5. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-faq.html
  6. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-reference-guide.html
  7. docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/result-codes.html
  8. melissa.com/phone-verification
  9. melissa.com/pricing
  10. melissa.com/pricing/developer
  11. melissa.com/pricing/lookups
  12. melissa.com/refund-policy
  13. melissa.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, not in the answer
  • Type, not in the answer
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Percall
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Personator · Property Data · BusinessCoder · Global Address Check · Global Name Check · Basic Email Check · Mailbox Email Check · Global IP Locator · Melissa Lookups · Listware · Mailers Online
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWith only a phone number and/or a country entered, Melissa Global Phone can determine whether the phone number is accurate and callable for the region and identify the country of origin from the international access code.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataas the separate written agreement or license for its APIs sets, which isn't public
Use dataas the separate written agreement or license for its APIs sets, which isn't public. Its site terms (“These Terms govern the Site only.”) list what you agree not to do: “You agree not to, and not to permit or enable any third party to: [...] use the Site, any Site content, or any output of a Site demonstration, lookup, sample, or trial to develop, train, fine-tune, benchmark, or improve any machine learning model or artificial intelligence system, or any product or service that competes with Melissa, use any Site lookup, demonstration, sample, free trial, or API key for any purpose other than evaluating Melissa products for your own use, or exceed any usage limit that Melissa publishes or communicates to you, ”
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresthe whole balance resets to 0 after a year with no use or purchase, topped off with up to 1,000 credits at the beginning of each month
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
The call
You sendphone. Optional: ctry, ctryOrg, opt (CallerID, DefaultCallingCode, PreferDialingCode, TimeToWait, VerifyPhone), t
MethodGET
Path/V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone
About the plan
PlanMonthly Top-off
Who can get itanyone who pays the "$4.97 Verification Fee (One-Time)" (a KYC/AML identity check), after it Melissa tops off up to 1,000 free credits a month
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

API version, custom data, error code, entry index, status code, phone number, region, country code, country, carrier, caller name, daylight saving time, international format, language, latitude, longitude, city, international prefix, country calling code, national prefix, area code, subscriber number, postal code, suggestions, time zone code, time zone, UTC offset

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