# OrionCMD, pay as you go: Domain WHOIS API

> Pay-per-call website checks for agents: TLS certificate (from CT logs), DNS, email authentication (SPF/DMARC/DKIM/MTA-STS), HTTP security headers, domain expiry, a site-health bundle, an A-F domain security grade, and a $2 full site audit report with a prioritized fix list, a 2-cent domain threat check (IOC feed + ransomware claims), a 50-cent bulk IOC check of 100 domains/IPs, and a 30-cent 30-day watch of 25 domains with webhook threat alerts.

OrionCMD's Pay per call with x402 plan for the domain WHOIS API costs $10.00 per 1,000 domains. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. OrionCMD's docs list 4: Registrar, Created on, Expires on, Name servers.
We haven't run OrionCMD through [our domain WHOIS API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt) yet.
We rank 400 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan costs less per 1,000 domains than 7% of the 400 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.
[Enterno](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/enterno/free-open-api/llms.txt), [IPAddress.to](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ipaddress-to/free/llms.txt) and [Robtex](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/robtex/free/llms.txt) are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/orioncmd/pay-as-you-go
- [Domain WHOIS API: the 19 best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-domain-whois-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.orioncmd.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.orioncmd.com/v1/expiry`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.orioncmd.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing
- Sold by: OrionCMD (https://orioncmd.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=domain-whois-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 44%
- Registrar: ✓
- Created on: ✓
- Expires on: ✓
- Name servers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 domains: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Pay-per-call website checks for agents: TLS certificate (from CT logs), DNS, email authentication (SPF/DMARC/DKIM/MTA-STS), HTTP security headers, domain expiry, a site-health bundle, an A-F domain security grade, and a $2 full site audit report with a prioritized fix list, a 2-cent domain threat check (IOC feed + ransomware claims), a 50-cent bulk IOC check of 100 domains/IPs, and a 30-cent 30-day watch of 25 domains with webhook threat alerts.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domain
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/expiry

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call with x402
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base (x402)

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, found, registrar, registration date, expiry date, days until expiry, EPP status, name servers, findings, fixes

## OrionCMD's plans (1)

- [OrionCMD, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/orioncmd/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 44% complete

## OrionCMD's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/expiry`: [OrionCMD, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/orioncmd/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## OrionCMD's APIs (1)

- [OrionCMD: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/orioncmd/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## OrionCMD: domain WHOIS API alternatives

- [Unstuckapi, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/unstuckapi/10-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [Pipeworx, pay as you go, Pay-per-call (x402), POST /domains/mcp](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/pipeworx/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-domains-mcp/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [Percall API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/percall-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 56% complete
- [DomainDrift, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/domaindrift/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, 102 days

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

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