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API Ninjas pricing and alternatives: phone validation API, GET /v1/phonelookup

API Ninjas's sitellms.txtBest phone validation API in 2026: pricing compared

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33% complete: 3 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesWe rank 623 plans by price. 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, Abstract API and Listar are the best phone validation API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API Ninjas's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/phonelookup one of API Ninjas's 2 calls for this API
API: Phone validation API one of API Ninjas's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. API Ninjas may answer from API Ninjas's stored data instead of asking the carrier. API Ninjas doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 3 of the 9 key fields we check. Formats, Validity, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 3,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send number to GET /v1/phonelookup. You can also send country. The call returns whether the number is valid.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API Ninjas: phone validation API alternatives

The table starts with API Ninjas's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 phones closest to API Ninjas's.

API Ninjas, $2,388 yearly, Professional, GET /v1/phonelookupTwilio, top-up, Pay-as-you-go, GET /v2/PhoneNumbers/{PhoneNumber}, Basic LookupBotoi, $49 monthlyNeutrino API, $50 monthlyReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /phone-validate/v1/batch
$ per 1,000 phones$0.02$0.00$0.016$0.017$0.02
Completeness67%67%44%67%67%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$2,388any amount$49$50$50
Enough for10,000,000 calls a monthno limit100,000 calls a day100,000 calls a day2,500,000 results a month
Freshnessunknownstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone 18 or overbusinesses and professionals onlyanyone 18 or olderanyoneanyone

Every phone validation API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. api-ninjas.com
  2. api-ninjas.com/api/phonelookup
  3. api-ninjas.com/error-codes
  4. api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
  5. api-ninjas.com/pricing
  6. api-ninjas.com/tos

Product details

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

  • Number, not in the answer
  • Formats
  • Validity
  • Type, not in the answer
  • Carrier, not in the answer
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 283 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Phone Lookup API returns line intelligence for a phone number — carrier, line type, VOIP status, and MCC/MNC — worldwide.
Data
Freshnessstored
CountriesWorldwide
What it checksnumbering plan
Keep datafor as long as your paid Subscription Plan remains active: once it ends or is canceled, you must immediately cease all commercial use of the Services and Output, and you may not continue to display, use, or provide Output in your commercial applications, products, or to your clients. Data caching/storing allowed: Yes on Business, Professional and Enterprise, No on Developer and Free
Use dataIf you are using the Free Subscription Plan, you may use the Services and Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and for development, testing, or evaluation of your Customer Applications. You may NOT: Use the Services or Output in any commercial environment. Use the Services or Output in any commercial product, service, or application, whether internal or external Share, distribute, or make available any Output or content from the Services to any third party in any form [...] Commercial use of the Services or Output is permitted while your paid Subscription Plan remains active. [...] You are strictly prohibited from using any information or Output from the Services to develop, train, maintain, or operate any API, software, database, or service that competes with API Ninjas—regardless of whether it is available on our platform or elsewhere. This prohibition extends to repackaging, redistributing, or making the Output or data accessible in any way that would compete with or substitute for our Services. [...] You agree NOT to use the Services for any purpose that: [...] Resells, redistributes, or sublicenses API access without authorization Creates competing products or services using our APIs White-labels or rebrands Output as your own data source Uses the Free plan for commercial purposes Shares or transfers API Keys to unauthorized parties [...] Attribution required: Yes (Free plan)
Plan
Pay$0
You get3,000 requests a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second0.028
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.32 s
The call
You sendnumber. Optional: country
MethodGET
Path/v1/phonelookup
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, E.164 format, country, country code, region code, location

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