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DomainDrift Domain WHOIS API pricing: GET /v1/whois/{domain}

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89% complete: 8 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsIn our domain WHOIS API benchmark, the best plan from DomainDrift scores 87.9 out of 100. DomainDrift ranks 7th of 53 providers.This plan is free. We rank 587 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.54 or less per 1,000 domains. 133 domain WHOIS API plans on our price sheet are free. WhoisRequest's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 96.9 out of 100.Searchwire's $10 pack 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 costs the least for 10,000 domains a month: about $0.73.WhoisRequest, thenetworkery and FluentEDI are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest DomainDrift plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Registered one of DomainDrift's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1/whois/{domain} one of DomainDrift's 3 calls for this API
API: Domain WHOIS API one of DomainDrift's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 hour old. You get WHOIS records from DomainDrift's database.
  • 8 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, DNSSEC, Abuse contact.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 20 requests a day. Unused requests do not roll over.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /v1/whois/{domain}. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a DRM3 account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

DomainDrift: domain WHOIS API alternatives

DomainDrift alternatives: every domain WHOIS API provider ranked

The table starts with DomainDrift's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 domains closest to DomainDrift's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

DomainDrift, $5 monthly, DomainDrift WHOIS, GET /v1/whois/{domain}ParseAPI, $250 monthlyGadgetHumans, $15 monthlyEnterno, ₽33,516 yearlyOsint, $1,999 pack
$ per 1,000 domains$0.0033$0.005$0.005$0.011$0.20
Completeness89%67%78%89%89%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$5$250$15₽33,516$1,999
Enough for1,500,000 calls a month50,000,000 calls a month100,000 calls a day100,000 calls a day10,000,000 calls
Freshness1 hour1 hourlivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone with an accountanyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified account

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.

  1. domaindrift.io
  2. domaindrift.io/acceptable-use
  3. domaindrift.io/agents
  4. domaindrift.io/api
  5. domaindrift.io/docs/api
  6. domaindrift.io/docs/plans-and-limits
  7. domaindrift.io/llms-full.txt
  8. domaindrift.io/solutions
  9. domaindrift.io/terms
  10. domaindrift.io/v1/openapi.json
  11. drm3.io/terms

Product details

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

  • Registrant
  • Registrar
  • Created on
  • Updated on
  • Expires on
  • Name servers
  • Statuses, not in the answer
  • DNSSEC
  • Abuse contact
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Latest signal snapshot for domain · DNS records · Name servers · Certificates · Hosting · CDN · Mail · Email authentication · Verification services · Subdomains · DNSSEC · Domain changes · Snapshot history · Provenance receipts · Latest signed observation per plane · List tracked domains · Global change feed · SSE event stream · Printable evidence report for a domain · Bulk WHOIS · WHOIS raw RDAP · WHOIS history · Domain availability · IP registration · AS number registration
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGET /v1/whois/:domain returns the registration for any registrable domain, in the catalog or not
Data
Freshness1 hour
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use DomainDrift, its data, or its API to: Facilitate unauthorised access to any system, network, or account. Develop, stage, or deliver exploits, malware, ransomware, or command and control infrastructure. Conduct credential attacks, including stuffing, spraying, and brute force. Evade, defeat, or map out access controls, rate limits, WAFs, bot management, or other security measures. Impair availability of any system, including denial of service and any use that degrades a third party's infrastructure. Build, register, or operate phishing, spoofing, impersonation, or fraud infrastructure, including using our change data to identify expiring domains, dangling delegations, or weakened email authentication for takeover. Misrepresent a DomainDrift observation, receipt, or signature, including presenting an altered record as ours or implying we have verified something we have not. Harass, stalk, threaten, dox, or surveil any individual. Compile profiles of natural persons, or combine our data with other sources to identify or locate individuals. Target anyone based on a protected characteristic, or target journalists, activists, dissidents, or other at-risk people. Use registration contact data for unlawful profiling, or in a way that violates applicable data protection law. Circumvent rate limits, allowances, or entitlements, including rotating IP addresses, accounts, keys, or payment identities to exceed them. Systematically extract the catalog, or resell, redistribute, or sublicense bulk data except under a written agreement that permits it. Register a webhook you do not control, or use webhook delivery to send traffic to a third party. Use the service to scan, probe, or route requests at infrastructure you are not authorised to test. Violate any applicable law, sanction, or export control. Infringe intellectual property or contractual rights.
Plan
Pay$0
You get20 requests a day
Enough for20 calls a day
Expiresdoes not roll over
Rate limit
Per day20
Per second1.67 (100 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.65 s
The call
You senddomain
MethodGET
Path/v1/whois/{domain}
About the plan
PlanRegistered
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a DRM3 account
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registrar, registrar IANA ID, created date, updated date, expires date, name servers, domain statuses, DNSSEC, registrant organization, registrant name, registrant country, abuse email, observed at, last checked at, signed receipt

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