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89% complete: 8 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsWe haven't run WhoisJSON 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 WhoisJSON plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Basic one of WhoisJSON's 17 plans
Call: GET /whois WhoisJSON's only call
API: Domain WHOIS API WhoisJSON's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 3 hours old. You get WHOIS records from WhoisJSON's database.
  • 8 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on, Expires on, Name servers, Statuses, DNSSEC.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests do not carry over to the next billing period.
  • One call. You send domain to GET /whois. You can also send format and _forceRefresh. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WhoisJSON: domain WHOIS API alternatives

WhoisJSON alternatives: other domain WHOIS API providers by price

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

WhoisJSON, $1,200 yearlyEnterno, ₽33,516 yearlyWhoisJsonAPI, $2,990 yearly, Enterprise, GET /v1/{domain}HackerTarget, $2,400 yearlydomainIQ, $149.95 monthly, Expert, GET /api, 15,000 requests a day
$ per 1,000 domains$0.012$0.011$0.125$0.329$0.333
Completeness89%89%78%89%56%
Billingyearlyyearlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$1,200₽33,516$2,990$2,400$149.95
Enough for8,640,000 calls a month100,000 calls a day2,000,000 calls a month20,000 calls a day15,000 results a day
Freshness3 hourslive24 hourslivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or of legal majority in their jurisdiction), one account per individual or entityanyone with an accountanyoneanyone 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 18 or older

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. whoisjson.com
  2. whoisjson.com/bulk-whois-api
  3. whoisjson.com/documentation
  4. whoisjson.com/faq
  5. whoisjson.com/openapi.json
  6. whoisjson.com/pricing
  7. whoisjson.com/terms-of-service
  8. whoisjson.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
  • Abuse contact, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free3 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Reverse WHOIS · DNS Records · SSL Certificate · Domain Availability · Subdomain Discovery · Email Domain Intelligence
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchEnterprise-grade WHOIS lookups with sub-200ms response times. Normalized JSON or XML across 1,500+ TLDs, RDAP-ready, with bulk query support. One API key for WHOIS, DNS, SSL, availability, and monitoring.
Data
Freshness3 hours
Keep datano limit
Use data"You agree to use the WhoisJSON API only for lawful purposes and in compliance with these Terms." [...] "Displaying API data within your products, provided you attribute the source to WhoisJSON where feasible." [...] "The following actions are strictly prohibited and will result in the immediate and permanent suspension of all associated accounts, without prior notice, warning, or refund: [...] Reselling, sublicensing, redistributing, or sharing your API key or the data obtained through the API, unless explicitly authorized under a commercial agreement. [...] Using the Service to facilitate spam, phishing, harassment, stalking, or any form of malicious activity. Conducting bulk data harvesting or scraping for the purpose of building a competing service or product."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 requests a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Expiresunused requests do not carry over to the next billing period
Rate limit
Per second0.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senddomain. Optional: format, _forceRefresh
MethodGET
Path/whois
About the plan
PlanBasic
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or of legal majority in their jurisdiction), one account per individual or entity
The 92 fields the plan's answer can hold

server, domain name, IDN name, status, client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited, is active, is on hold, is pending delete, is pending transfer, is in redemption period, nameservers, nameserver count, nameserver list, detected DNS providers, detected DNS provider count, unique nameserver domains, mixed infrastructure, single infrastructure, self-hosted nameservers, IP addresses, creation date, updated date, expiration date, age in days, age in months, age in years, newly registered, young domain, days until expiration, expiring soon, expired, registered, DNSSEC, WHOIS server, registrant handle, registrant type, registrant name, registrant organization, registrant email, registrant street address, registrant ZIP code, registrant city, registrant region, registrant country, registrant phone, registrant fax, registrant creation date, registrant updated date, admin handle, admin type, admin name, admin organization, admin email, admin street address, admin ZIP code, admin city, admin region, admin country, admin phone, admin fax, admin creation date, admin updated date, tech handle, tech type, tech name, tech organization, tech email, tech street address, tech ZIP code, tech city, tech region, tech country, tech phone, tech fax, tech creation date, tech updated date, registrar ID, registrar name, registrar email, registrar URL, registrar phone, raw WHOIS data, network, exception, parsed contacts, ask WHOIS server, lookup protocol

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