# NetIntel, pay as you go: Domain WHOIS API

> WHOIS domain lookup via RDAP — domain registration data: registrar, registration and expiry dates, last-updated date, nameservers, and status flags from the authoritative registry, plus an actionability score so agents can assess domain trustworthiness, ownership, or availability risk.

NetIntel'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. NetIntel's docs list 6: Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses.
We haven't run NetIntel through [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) yet.
We rank 495 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.575 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan costs less per 1,000 domains than 28% of the 495 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. [C99.nl's $25 yearly plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/c99-nl/25-yearly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 domains a month: $2.08.
[WhoisJSON](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/whoisjson/120-monthly/llms.txt), [Enterno](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/enterno/free-open-api/llms.txt) and [IPAddress.to](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ipaddress-to/free/llms.txt) are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go
- [Domain WHOIS API in 2026: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://netintel.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://netintel.dev/whois-rdap/lookup`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://netintel.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing#/paths/~1whois-rdap~1lookup
- Sold by: NetIntel (https://netintel.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Registrar: ✓
- Created on: ✓
- Updated on: ✓
- Expires on: ✓
- Name servers: ✓
- Statuses: ✓

## 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: WHOIS domain lookup via RDAP — domain registration data: registrar, registration and expiry dates, last-updated date, nameservers, and status flags from the authoritative registry, plus an actionability score so agents can assess domain trustworthiness, ownership, or availability risk.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Responses are provided as-is, aggregated from public sources, for use in your own applications and agent inference. [...] API responses are licensed for inference use, training, fine-tuning, or distillation on NetIntel responses is not permitted.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain
- Method: GET
- Path: /whois-rdap/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), with no account or API key, its terms license the responses for use in your own applications and agent inference

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, TLD, RDAP URL, registrar, registrar IANA ID, created date, updated date, expiry date, days until expiry, name servers, status, status has abuse flags, score, grade, findings, raw RDAP URL

## NetIntel's plans (1)

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

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

- `GET /whois-rdap/lookup`: [NetIntel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## NetIntel's APIs (6)

- [NetIntel: GitHub repository API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email-intel/analyze](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-intel-analyze/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-verify/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /page-extract/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-page-extract-read/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /web/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-web-extract/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /web/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-web-fetch/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /ip-geo/locate](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-ip-geo-locate/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /ip-risk/score](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-ip-risk-score/llms.txt)
- [NetIntel: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /asn-lookup/analyze](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/netintel/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-asn-lookup-analyze/llms.txt)

## NetIntel: domain WHOIS API alternatives

- [DomScan, $10 pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/whois/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domscan/10-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-whois-bulk/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [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
- [ipv4.fr, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ipv4-fr/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [Nightshift Labs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /v1/domain/whois](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nightshift-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-whois/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 89% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/.well-known/agent-fair-trade.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- https://netintel.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing