Alibaba Cloud pricing: phone validation API, POST /
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$1.496per 1,000 phonesCNY 10.00 per 1,000 phones is $1.496 at the European Central Bank's rate of $0.14956 for CNY 1.We haven't run Alibaba Cloud through our phone validation API benchmark yet.Half of the 888 plans we rank by price cost $3.376 per 1,000 phones or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 phones than 59% of the 888 plans.Botoi's $199 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 phones: as little as $0.0066. Botoi's $199 monthly plan covers up to 1,000,000 phones a day.Data247, Foxentry and HLR Lookups are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go) Alibaba Cloud's only plan
Call:
POST /, DescribeEmptyNumber one of Alibaba Cloud's 7 calls for this APIPOST /, DescribeEmptyNumberPay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)$1.496 per 1,000GET /Pay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)$14.956 per 1,000POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForAccountPay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForPublicPay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForRealPay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForSmsPay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForVoicePay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go)
API: Phone validation API one of Alibaba Cloud's 3 APIs
- Web search API
- Phone validation API
- Email verification API
POST /, SendValidateFile - Email verification API
POST /, ValidateEmail
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Validity.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay monthly.
- One call. You call
POST /. You sendAuthCode,InputNumberandMask. You setActionto "DescribeEmptyNumber" andVersionto "2020-02-17". The call returns whether the number is valid. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Alibaba Cloud: phone validation API alternatives
Alibaba Cloud alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones.
| This planAlibaba Cloud, pay as you go, 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go), POST /, DescribeEmptyNumber | APIVerve, $29.99 monthly | ProWebLook, $15 pack | ReefAPI, $15 monthly, Pro monthly, POST /phone-validate/v1/validate | CheckNumber.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /v1/tasks, US Carrier Advanced | |
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| $ per 1,000 phones | $1.496 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $1.50 |
| Completeness | 22% | 78% | 67% | 67% | 44% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | monthly | $29.99 | $15 | $15 | $20 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 20,000 calls a month | 10,000 calls | 10,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | 1 day | stored | stored | live |
| Who can get it | an Alibaba Cloud account (a RAM user only when granted the API's permission) whose application for the call's tag in the 号码百科 console's 标签广场 has been approved | anyone 13 or over (under 18 only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian) | anyone | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
- api.aliyun.com/meta/v1/products/Dytnsapi/versions/2020-02-17/api-docs.json
- help.aliyun.com/en/direct-mail/user-guide/email-address-validity-verification
- help.aliyun.com/zh/cpns/developer-reference/api-dytnsapi-2020-02-17-describeemptynumber
- help.aliyun.com/zh/cpns/product-overview/billing-overview
- alibabacloud.com/help/en/legal/latest/alibaba-cloud-international-website-product-terms-of-service-v-3-8-0
- alibabacloud.com/product/directmail
- alibabacloud.com/product/directmail/pricing
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Number
- Formats, not in the answer
- Validity
- Type, not in the answer
- Carrier, not in the answer
- Porting and roaming, not in the answer
- Place, not in the answer
- Risk, not in the answer
- Owner, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 phones | $1.496 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | 通过AI算法，预测手机号是否为空号。 |
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| Countries | China |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations for using the Products (including without limitation, any applicable data protection, import, re-import, export, strategic goods control, and re-export control laws [...]) (3.6), it is solely your responsibility to establish a legal basis for the processing of such data under local law, including providing adequate privacy notices and obtaining any required consents (3.7) |
| Pay | monthly |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | Action "DescribeEmptyNumber", Version "2020-02-17", AuthCode, InputNumber, Mask |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | / |
| Plan | 按量付费 (Pay-as-you-go) |
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| Who can get it | an Alibaba Cloud account (a RAM user only when granted the API's permission) whose application for the call's tag in the 号码百科 console's 标签广场 has been approved |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
request ID, response code, message, status, phone number