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WhoAPI pricing: domain WHOIS API

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78% complete: 7 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsWe haven't run WhoAPI 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest WhoAPI plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of WhoAPI's 6 plans
Call: GET /, Whois API one of WhoAPI's 2 calls
API: Domain WHOIS API WhoAPI's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 31 days old. You get WHOIS records from WhoAPI's database.
  • 7 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 requests once. Calls stop once your requests run out. Requests never expire.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /. You set r to "whois". The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter binding contracts. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WhoAPI: domain WHOIS API alternatives

WhoAPI alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price

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

WhoAPI, $504 yearlyHackerTarget, $600 yearlyNetlas, $249 monthlyWhoisFreaks, $1,000 monthly, Monthly Subscription, 1,000,000 API Credits, GET /v2.0/whois/liveWhoxy, $1,000 pack
$ per 1,000 domains$1.05$0.822$0.83$1.00$1.00
Completeness78%89%89%100%78%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$504$600$249$1,000$1,000
Enough for40,000 calls a month2,000 calls a day10,000 calls a day1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls
Freshness31 dayslive45 dayslivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter binding contractsanyone who pays for a membership and is not in the business of creating similar documents, goods or services to provide them for a fee to usersanyone with a registered Netlas 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 13 or older with an account, one account per person or legal entity

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. whoapi.com/api-documentation/
  2. whoapi.com/faq/
  3. whoapi.com/how-to-use-whois-api/
  4. whoapi.com/terms-of-use/
  5. whoapi.com/whois-api-pricing/
  6. whoapi.com/whois-api/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Registrant
  • Registrar
  • Created on
  • Updated on
  • 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 fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur Whois API transforms raw whois into parsed whois JSON and XML output across more than 1500 TLDs.
Data
Freshness31 days
Keep datano limit
Use data"The Site, including all information, data, documents, content, materials, graphics, logos, API code and software (the “Materials”) is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in these TOS." [...] "Without the prior written consent of WhoAPI, or unless specifically allowed by certain paid Services, Users are not allowed to copy, download, print, distribute, republish, sell or otherwise use or make the Materials available to others." [...] "You may not use the Site or any Services provided through or in connection therewith to: [...] (e) harvest or otherwise collect information about third parties, including email addresses, without the express consent of such third parties, [...] (g)email or otherwise transmit, distribute, publish or disseminate any junk email, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or inappropriate solicitations or messages (commercial or otherwise), (h) violate the rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, trademark, naming or publicity rights, or (i) violate any applicable government laws or regulations. [...] You may not use the Site or our Services to advertise, promote, market or solicit offers to acquire goods/services that compete with our Services or Site." [...] "Except materials provided by you and accepted by us (“your data”), you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products, services or benefits obtained from the Site, except as expressly provided herein."
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 requests
Enough for10,000 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddomain, r "whois"
MethodGET
Path/
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter binding contracts
The 60 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, status description, WHOIS server, limit hit, registered, raw WHOIS, disclaimer, premium, generic WHOIS, registry domain ID, registrar IANA ID, created date, expiry date, updated date, domain status, name servers, emails, raw parent WHOIS, WHOIS name, domain name, cached, requests available, registrar name, registrar organization, registrar phone, registrar email, registrar full address, registrant name, registrant organization, registrant street, registrant city, registrant ZIP code, registrant state, registrant country, registrant phone, registrant fax, registrant email, registrant full address, admin name, admin organization, admin street, admin city, admin ZIP code, admin state, admin country, admin phone, admin fax, admin email, admin full address, tech name, tech organization, tech street, tech city, tech ZIP code, tech state, tech country, tech phone, tech fax, tech email, tech full address

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