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WhoisXML API Domain WHOIS API pricing: GET /whoisserver/WhoisService, WHOIS API

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78% complete: 7 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 domainsIn our domain WHOIS API benchmark, the best plan from WhoisXML API scores 63.4 out of 100. WhoisXML API ranks 28th of 53 providers.This plan is free. We rank 587 plans for domain WHOIS APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.54 or less per 1,000 domains. 133 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 WhoisXML API plan for that many domains. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of WhoisXML API's 42 plans
Call: GET /whoisserver/WhoisService, WHOIS API one of WhoisXML API's 2 calls for this API
API: Domain WHOIS API one of WhoisXML API's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 7 days old. You get WHOIS records from WhoisXML API'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 500 credits once. Each call uses one credit.
  • One call. You send domainName to GET /whoisserver/WhoisService. You can also send outputFormat, rdap, maxCacheAgeHours, preferFresh and ignoreRawTexts. The call returns the domain's WHOIS record.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for internal business purposes. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

WhoisXML API: domain WHOIS API alternatives

WhoisXML API alternatives: every domain WHOIS API provider ranked

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

WhoisXML API, $36,000 yearly, Yearly subscription 2,000,000 Queries per month, GET /whoisserver/WhoisService, WHOIS APIOsint, $699 packWhoisFreaks, $75 monthly, Monthly Subscription, 50,000 API Credits, POST /v2.0/bulkwhois/liveWhoxy, $75 pack, 50,000 Whois Lookup API QueriesJsonWhois, $149.29 monthly
$ per 1,000 domains$1.50$1.398$1.50$1.50$1.50
Completeness78%89%100%78%78%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$36,000$699$75$75$149.29
Enough for2,000,000 calls a month500,000 calls50,000 results a month50,000 calls99,500 calls a month
Freshness7 dayslivelivelive1 week
Who can get itanyone, for internal business purposesanyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified 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 entityanyone 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 2026-11-14.

  1. emailverification.whoisxmlapi.com/api/pricing
  2. main.whoisxmlapi.com/terms-of-service
  3. main.whoisxmlapi.com/wxa-one/pricing
  4. whois.whoisxmlapi.com/api/pricing
  5. whois.whoisxmlapi.com/documentation/error-handling
  6. whois.whoisxmlapi.com/documentation/limits
  7. whois.whoisxmlapi.com/documentation/making-requests
  8. whois.whoisxmlapi.com/documentation/output

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 forfrom the same budget: WHOIS API real-time · Bulk WHOIS API
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur Hosted Whois Web Service provides registration details, also known as WHOIS or RDAP records, of domain names, IP addresses or an email address, in JSON or XML.
Data
Freshness7 days
Keep datauntil the Agreement ends: on termination, delete the Data and Whois API Properties
Use dataCustomer’s license to use Whois API’s Services, Data, and other properties is limited to internal business purposes only. Accordingly, Customer shall not: Resell, sublicense, or distribute the Data or Services to any third party, Use the Data in any commercial product or service intended for sale, licensing, or public distribution, Modify or create derivative works intended for public release or commercial gain without the express written consent of Whois API. [...] Customer and its affiliates shall not use, or permit any third party to use, the Data or Parsed Data (including derivatives) for the purpose of AI model training, testing, or development without receiving express, written authorization from Whois API.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough for500 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second200
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.01 s
The call
You senddomainName. Optional: outputFormat, rdap, maxCacheAgeHours, preferFresh, ignoreRawTexts
MethodGET
Path/whoisserver/WhoisService
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for internal business purposes
The 99 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain name, domain name extension, registrar name, registrar IANA ID, WHOIS server, created date, updated date, expiry date, created date normalized, updated date normalized, expiry date normalized, name servers, name server IPs, domain status, domain availability, estimated domain age, contact email, IPs, registrant name, registrant organization, registrant street, registrant city, registrant state, registrant ZIP code, registrant country, registrant country code, registrant email, registrant phone, registrant phone extension, registrant fax, registrant fax extension, registrant raw text, admin contact name, admin contact organization, admin contact street, admin contact city, admin contact state, admin contact ZIP code, admin contact country, admin contact country code, admin contact email, admin contact phone, admin contact phone extension, admin contact fax, admin contact fax extension, admin contact raw text, technical contact name, technical contact organization, technical contact street, technical contact city, technical contact state, technical contact ZIP code, technical contact country, technical contact country code, technical contact email, technical contact phone, technical contact phone extension, technical contact fax, technical contact fax extension, technical contact raw text, billing contact name, billing contact organization, billing contact street, billing contact city, billing contact state, billing contact ZIP code, billing contact country, billing contact country code, billing contact email, billing contact phone, billing contact phone extension, billing contact fax, billing contact fax extension, billing contact raw text, zone contact name, zone contact organization, zone contact street, zone contact city, zone contact state, zone contact ZIP code, zone contact country, zone contact country code, zone contact email, zone contact phone, zone contact phone extension, zone contact fax, zone contact fax extension, zone contact raw text, registrar contact email, registrar contact phone, registrar URL, registry record (created, updated and expiry dates, name servers, status, registrar), raw WHOIS record, stripped WHOIS record, WHOIS header, WHOIS footer, record first collected, record last updated, data error

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