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who.is Domain WHOIS API pricing: GET /v1/whois/{domain}, Parsed WHOIS record

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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 who.is through our domain WHOIS API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 631 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.663 or less per 1,000 domains. 128 domain WHOIS API plans on our price sheet are free. WhoisRequest's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 96.9 out of 100.Searchwire's $10 pack 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 costs the least for 10,000 domains a month: about $0.73.WhoisRequest, thenetworkery and FluentEDI are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest who.is plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of who.is' 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/whois/{domain}, Parsed WHOIS record one of who.is' 4 calls
API: Domain WHOIS API who.is' only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 days old. You get WHOIS records from who.is' database.
  • 5 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrar, Created on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /v1/whois/{domain}. You can also send live. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

who.is: domain WHOIS API alternatives

who.is alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price

The table starts with who.is' cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 domains closest to who.is'. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

who.is, $199 monthly, Scale API Access, GET /v1/whois/{domain}, Parsed WHOIS recordHTMLWeb, ₽5,400 packWhoisFreaks, $200 monthly, Monthly Subscription, 150,000 API Credits, POST /v2.0/bulkwhois/liveOsint, $699 packJsonWhois, $362.29 monthly
$ per 1,000 domains$1.327$1.289$1.333$1.398$1.452
Completeness56%11%100%89%78%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$199₽5,400$200$699$362.29
Enough for150,000 calls a month50,000 calls150,000 results a month500,000 calls249,500 calls a month
Freshness30 days10 dayslivelive1 week
Who can get itanyoneanyone with a registered accountanyone over the age of 13 with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating, the alcohol industry, defense or military organizationsanyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified accountanyone with a JsonWHOIS 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 2026-11-10.

  1. api.who.is/v1/openapi.json
  2. who.is/docs/api
  3. who.is/docs/api/terms

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
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Normalized RDAP record · Domain history summary · Current DNS records · Current TLS certificate · Nameservers at or under a name · Nameserver summary · Domains on a nameserver
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet parsed WHOIS records, normalized RDAP data, DNS records, and TLS certificate details for any domain, all as clean JSON over HTTPS.
Data
Freshness30 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe API is provided so you can look up and integrate parsed WHOIS, normalized RDAP, and DNS and TLS certificate data for individual domains into your own application, workflow, or research. You may query domains you have a legitimate reason to query and display or store the results within your own product, subject to the restrictions below and to the rate limits and quotas for your plan. What you may not do: "You may not resell, sublicense, redistribute, or otherwise make the API responses available to third parties as a standalone data product or feed.", "You may not use it to systematically harvest, mirror, or reconstruct our database, the historical archive, or any substantial portion of it, and you may not circumvent the per-key quotas (for example by rotating keys or creating multiple free accounts).", "No using the API to send unsolicited communications, to facilitate unlawful activity, to attempt to de-anonymize or re-identify redacted registrant data, or to probe, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure."
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddomain. Optional: live
MethodGET
Path/v1/whois/{domain}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, registrar, WHOIS server, referral URL, status, snapshot time, created date, expires date, name servers, contact role, contact name, contact organization, contact address, contact city, contact state or province, contact postal code, contact country, contact phone, contact fax, contact email

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