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DomScan pricing: domain WHOIS API, GET /v2/whois

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100% complete: all 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsIn our domain WHOIS API benchmark, the best plan from DomScan scores 73.6 out of 100. DomScan ranks 2nd of 13 providers.This plan is free. We rank 316 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.495 per 1,000 domains or less. See the best free domain WHOIS API plan.Searchwire's $10 pack is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 domains. Searchwire's domain WHOIS API costs nothing beyond the plan price.Robtex, DomScan and WhoisFreaks are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest DomScan plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of DomScan's 8 plans
Call: GET /v2/whois one of DomScan's 3 calls for this API
API: Domain WHOIS API one of DomScan's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 9 fields on our checklist. Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC, Abuse contact.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for about 333 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of each UTC calendar month.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /v2/whois. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: Cache results locally (respecting our cache headers). Use data: with conditions.

DomScan: domain WHOIS API alternatives

DomScan alternatives: every domain WHOIS API provider ranked

The table starts with DomScan's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 domains closest to DomScan's.

DomScan, $49 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/whoisWhoisJSON, $100 yearlyDomainIndex, $299 monthlyALAPI, CNY 10 packRDAPAPI, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 domains$0.294$0.278$0.299$0.299$0.30
Completeness100%89%44%67%100%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$49$100$299CNY 10$9
Enough forabout 166,666 calls a month30,000 calls a month1,000,000 results a month5,000 calls30,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknown3 hoursunknownunknown48 hours
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or of legal majority in their jurisdiction), one account per individual or entityanyone who registers an account and is of legal age to make a binding contractanyone who signs upanyone with an 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 2026-11-05.

  1. domscan.net
  2. domscan.net/docs/credits-pricing
  3. domscan.net/docs/products/whois
  4. domscan.net/docs/rate-limits
  5. domscan.net/pricing
  6. domscan.net/terms
  7. domscan.net/v1/openapi.json

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
  • DNSSEC
  • Abuse contact
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 183 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchMerge normalized RDAP with traditional WHOIS enrichment.
Data
Keep dataCache results locally (respecting our cache headers)
Use dataYou may: Use the API for legitimate domain research and monitoring, Integrate our API into your applications, Cache results locally (respecting our cache headers), Build commercial products using our API. You may not: Attempt to circumvent rate limits or authentication, Resell raw API access without adding value, Use the service for illegal activities, Scrape the website instead of using the API, Attack or attempt to compromise our infrastructure, Use the service for spamming or phishing, Abuse RDAP servers through our service
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough forabout 333 calls a month
Expiresat the end of each UTC calendar month
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.57 s
The call
You senddomain
MethodGET
Path/v2/whois
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 45 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registered, available, availability reason, registrar, registrar URL, registrar IANA ID, created date, updated date, expiry date, domain age, newly registered, days until expiry, transfer lock, nameservers, domain status, DNSSEC, registrant contact, admin contact, technical contact, billing contact, privacy protected, privacy service, privacy patterns, raw RDAP link, raw WHOIS, abuse contact, registry domain ID, registrar WHOIS server, traditional contacts, nameserver IPs, checked at, query time, summary, data sources, authoritative source, relay WHOIS used, raw WHOIS available, parse error count, registration age, expires within 30 days, privacy protected summary, contact roles available, abuse contact available, nameserver count

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