# Grokzilla, pay as you go: Domain WHOIS API

> Domain registration lookup via IANA RDAP DNS bootstrap only (registrar, status, nameservers, events). Rejects IP literals and private names.

Grokzilla's x402 pay per call plan for the domain WHOIS API costs $3.00 per 1,000 domains. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. Grokzilla's docs list 6: Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC.
We haven't run Grokzilla through [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) yet.
We rank 631 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.663 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan costs less per 1,000 domains than 30% of the 631 plans.
[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/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go
- [Domain WHOIS API in 2026: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grokzilla.shop/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://grokzilla.shop/api/skills/whois-rdap`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://grokzilla.shop/try/whois-rdap?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Sold by: Grokzilla (https://grokzilla.shop?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Registrant: ✓
- Registrar: ✓
- Created on: ✓
- Name servers: ✓
- Statuses: ✓
- DNSSEC: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Domain registration lookup via IANA RDAP DNS bootstrap only (registrar, status, nameservers, events). Rejects IP literals and private names.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use public-data skills lawfully and within the source sites' terms.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain. Optional: request_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/skills/whois-rdap

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, no account or API key

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, handle, LDH name, status, registrar, registrant, name servers, registration date, last changed date, secure DNS, RDAP conformance, as of, summary, confidence, sources, generated at, data as of, warnings

## Grokzilla's plans (2)

- [Grokzilla, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Grokzilla, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/grokzilla/1-pack/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Grokzilla's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/skills/whois-rdap`: [Grokzilla, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Grokzilla's APIs (5)

- [Grokzilla Domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla Email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla IP company lookup API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla News API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Grokzilla Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grokzilla/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Grokzilla: domain WHOIS API alternatives

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

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 domains. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [WhoisFreaks, $150 pack, 50,000 API Credits, POST /v2.0/bulkwhois/live](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisfreaks/150-pack-50000-api-credits-post-v2-0-bulkwhois-live/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Macaroon Network, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/macaroon-network/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, live
- [OnchainCheck, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/onchaincheck/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [NoJunk, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nojunk/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://grokzilla.shop/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/api/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/docs/mcp/spend-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://grokzilla.shop/try/whois-rdap?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing