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WhoisRequest Domain WHOIS API pricing: GET /api/v1/lookup/whois/{domain name}

Is WhoisRequest yours? We score domain WHOIS APIs. WhoisRequest ranks #1 overall and #1 for accuracy. Put the WhoisRequest Best Overall and Most Accurate badges on your site. Write to us about our scores for this plan. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.

0% complete: none of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields

$0.00per 1,000 domainsIn our domain WHOIS API benchmark, this plan scores 96.9 out of 100. WhoisRequest ranks first of 48 providers.We rank 631 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.663 or less per 1,000 domains. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 domains of the 631 plans. 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.WhoisRequest, thenetworkery and FluentEDI are the best domain WHOIS API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest WhoisRequest plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free WhoisRequest's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/lookup/whois/{domain name} one of WhoisRequest's 2 calls for this API
API: Domain WHOIS API one of WhoisRequest's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. WhoisRequest reads the domain's WHOIS record when you call the API.
  • Returns none of the 9 fields on our checklist: Registrant, Registrar, Created on, Updated on and 5 more.
  • Nothing to pay. WhoisRequest limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send domain name to GET /api/v1/lookup/whois/{domain name}. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no account or API key. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WhoisRequest: domain WHOIS API alternatives

WhoisRequest alternatives: every domain WHOIS API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 domains. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planWhoisRequest, free, GET /api/v1/lookup/whois/{domain name}thenetworkery, freeFluentEDI, freeEnterno, free, ScoutIPAddress.to, free
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%100%67%89%89%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0₽0$0
Enough fornot publishednot publishedno limit200 calls a dayno limit
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, no account or API keyanyone, to check systems they own, run or are authorised to testanyoneanyone with an accountanyone

Sources

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

  1. whoisrequest.org/
  2. whoisrequest.org/docs/api
  3. whoisrequest.org/methodology
  4. whoisrequest.org/privacy-policy
  5. whoisrequest.org/rdap
  6. whoisrequest.org/terms
  7. whoisrequest.org/tools/asn-lookup
  8. whoisrequest.org/whois

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, not in the answer
  • Created on, not in the answer
  • Updated on, not in the answer
  • Expires on, not in the answer
  • Name servers, not in the answer
  • Statuses, not in the answer
  • DNSSEC, not in the answer
  • Abuse contact, not in the answer
Score
Overall score96.9
Price score100
Accuracy score93
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score93
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 domains$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forRDAP Lookup · IP WHOIS Lookup · Domain Availability Check · DNS Lookup · DNS Report · DNSSEC Check · Nameserver Lookup · Reverse DNS Lookup · IP to ASN Lookup · Hosting Lookup · Website Uptime Check · SSL Certificate Check · HTTP Headers Check · IDN and Punycode Converter
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA WHOIS lookup retrieves the registration text published by the responding registry or registrar, while preserving the source server, referral path and observation time.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse WhoisRequest.org for lawful registration research, network diagnostics and operational troubleshooting. Access to a public lookup does not grant permission to misuse the returned data or the upstream service. Do not use the service for harassment, bulk personal-data harvesting, credential attacks, unauthorized surveillance, service disruption, automated load, or attempts to reach private infrastructure. Respect the policies and rate limits of the original data provider.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.10 s
The call
You senddomain name
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/lookup/whois/{domain name}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, no account or API key
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, WHOIS server, parsed fields, raw text, checked at, methodology URL, tool

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