How.is pricing: domain WHOIS API
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56% complete: 5 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsWe haven't run How.is through our domain WHOIS API benchmark yet.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.
Plan: Free calls one of How.is's 4 plans
- FreeFree calls$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you goPay per call (x402)$5.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $5Prepaid credit$5.00 per 1,000
- $5 monthlyPrepaid credit, monthly refill$5.00 per 1,000
Call:
POST / How.is's only call for this APIAPI: Domain WHOIS API one of How.is's 3 APIs
About this item
- Live. How.is reads the domain's WHOIS record when you call the API.
- 5 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrar, Created on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses.
- Nothing to pay. You get 20 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
domaintoPOST /. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.v1/ domain/ whois - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
How.is: domain WHOIS API alternatives
How.is alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price
The table starts with How.is's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 domains closest to How.is's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| How.is, pay as you go | WhoAPI, $499 monthly, Business, GET /, Live Whois API | fetcher.cloud, pay as you go | DomainRef, pay as you go, Pay per call, GET /v1/domain/age | ViewDNS.info, $6,039 yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 domains | $5.00 | $4.99 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.032 |
| Completeness | 56% | 78% | 44% | 78% | 89% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go | pay as you go | yearly |
| Pay | per call | $499 | per call | per call | $6,039 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 100,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 1 call | 100,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base | anyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter binding contracts | any agent that can make an HTTP request and hold a wallet with USDC on Base | anyone | persons 18 years or older with the legal capacity to enter into binding contracts, with a ViewDNS.info 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 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Registrant, not in the answer
- Registrar
- Created on
- Updated on, not in the answer
- Expires on
- Name servers
- Statuses
- DNSSEC, not in the answer
- Abuse contact, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 domains | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: URL pre-flight · Read a page (with verdict) · Company card · DNS records · Domain age · Domain availability · Domain change history · TLS certificate · DNSSEC · Email authentication · Security score · Blacklist status · IP intelligence · Site status · Page-change watch · Crawler identity check · Crawler identity check (batch) |
|---|
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Registrar, creation and expiry dates, nameservers and status codes for a domain. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Do not use the service to break the law, attack the hosts you look up, or resell it as a bulk mirror. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 20 requests a day |
| Enough for | 20 calls a day |
| Expires | 00:00 UTC each day |
| Per day | 20 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | domain |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/domain/whois |
| Plan | Free calls |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
registrar, created date, expiry date, name servers, status codes