# Dev.me, free: Domain WHOIS API

> Monitor 10M+ domains with complete WHOIS data for 1500+ TLDs. Brand protection, ownership tracking, expiration alerts. 99.9% uptime guaranteed.

Dev.me's Free plan for the domain WHOIS API costs $0.00 per 1,000 domains. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields: Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on and 5 more. Dev.me's docs list none of the 9.
We haven't run Dev.me through [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 631 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.663 or less per 1,000 domains. [128 domain WHOIS API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) [WhoisRequest's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisrequest/free-get-api-v1-lookup-whois-domain-name/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 96.9 out of 100.
[Searchwire's $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/searchwire/10-pack/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 domains. Searchwire's domain WHOIS API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [UAPI's CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 domains a month: about $0.73.
[WhoisRequest](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisrequest/free-get-api-v1-lookup-whois-domain-name/llms.txt), [thenetworkery](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/thenetworkery/free/llms.txt) and [FluentEDI](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/fluentedi/free/llms.txt) are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/free
- [Domain WHOIS API in 2026: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.dev.me/v1-get-domain-whois`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.me/open-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing#tag/domain-tools/GET/v1-get-domain-whois
- Sold by: Dev.me (https://dev.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 41 other Dev.me calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Monitor 10M+ domains with complete WHOIS data for 1500+ TLDs. Brand protection, ownership tracking, expiration alerts. 99.9% uptime guaranteed.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain. Optional: parseWhoisToJson
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1-get-domain-whois

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, WHOIS text, parsed WHOIS record

## Dev.me's plans (5)

- [Dev.me, free](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Dev.me, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Dev.me, $35 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/35-monthly/llms.txt): $0.583 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Dev.me, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Dev.me, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

## Dev.me's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1-get-domain-whois`: [Dev.me, free](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)

## Dev.me's APIs (5)

- [Dev.me Domain WHOIS API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Email verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me IP company lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Phone validation API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Web scraping API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)

## Dev.me: domain WHOIS API alternatives

[Dev.me alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/dev-me-alternatives.txt)

We list Dev.me's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Dev.me in price per 1,000 domains.

- [Dev.me, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [DomScan, $49 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/49-monthly-scale-get-v1-whois/llms.txt): $0.294 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [DomainIndex, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domainindex/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [ALAPI, CNY 10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/alapi/cny-10-pack/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [RDAPAPI, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/rdapapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, 48 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

- https://dev.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/json/open-api.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/products/validation-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing