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aql pricing: phone validation API, POST /nl/network_lookup.php, OFCOM reservation reference

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33% complete: 3 of the 9 fields on our checklistSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesWe haven't run aql through our phone validation API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,266 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.55 or less per 1,000 phones. See the best free phone validation API plan.GuGuData's CNY 124 (about $19) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 phones. GuGuData's CNY 124 (about $19) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many phones as GuGuData's rate limit allows. Neutrino API's On-Demand plan costs the least for 10,000 phones a month: $0.80.Trestle, Data247 and Abstract API are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest aql plan for that many phones. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free trial one of aql's 3 plans
Call: POST /nl/network_lookup.php, OFCOM reservation reference one of aql's 2 calls
API: Phone validation API aql's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 9 fields on our checklist. Number, Validity, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300 credits. You spend the credits on aql's other calls. This call is free. aql limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send msisdn to POST /nl/network_lookup.php. You can also send method "1" and contact. The call returns whether the number is valid.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

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aql alternatives: other phone validation API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones.

This planaql, free trial, POST /nl/network_lookup.php, OFCOM reservation referenceTrestle, free trial, GET /3.0/phone_intelAbstract API, freeFoxentry, free trial, POST /phone/validate, Validate phone number (basic)HLR Lookups, free, 100 free lookups, POST /nt-lookupsAgentPhone, free
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%56%89%56%67%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published25 calls, once100 calls a monthnot published100 results, onceabout 555 results
Freshnessunknownstored1 daystoredstoredunknown
Who can get itanyone who signs up for an account: an individual using the services for business use and at least 18 years of age, or a company (terms 6.1.6 and 6.1.7)companies, with a business email addressanyone 18 or olderanyone who signs up and creates an API projectnew accountsanyone at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract, with an account (the terms' section 2)

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.

  1. aql.com/faq
  2. aql.com/products/messaging-old/number-lookups
  3. aql.com/products/network-lookup
  4. aql.com/support/apis
  5. aql.com/support/apis/network-lookup-api
  6. aql.com/terms

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
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Send SMS via SOAP API · vCard API · WAP push API · Voice push API · SMPP protocol
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWe provide a way for you to refer to this information programmatically for free.
Data
CountriesUnited Kingdom
What it checksnumbering plan
Keep datano limit
Use datayou will use Services provided aql only for lawful purposes. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake that: 6.1.1 you will not use the Services in any manner which infringes any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of or, causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any third party, nor will you authorise or permit any other person to do so, 6.1.2 you will not use the Services to post, link to or transmit: (a) any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise objectionable in any way, (b) any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program, and/or (c) any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes any intellectual property right, [...] 6.1.4 you will observe the procedures which aql may from time to time prescribe and shall make no use of the Services which is detrimental to aql’s other customers, 6.1.5 you will procure that the Services are used in accordance with all applicable legislation (including data protection legislation) and in a secure manner, 6.1.6 (if you are an individual), you are using the services for business use and are at least 18 years of age, and 6.1.7 (if you are a company), the Services will not be used anyone under the age of 18 years.
Plan
Pay$0
You get300 credits
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendmsisdn. Optional: method "1", contact
MethodPOST
Path/nl/network_lookup.php
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone who signs up for an account: an individual using the services for business use and at least 18 years of age, or a company (terms 6.1.6 and 6.1.7)
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, MSISDN, country, contact, Ofcom area, Ofcom change date, Ofcom network, Ofcom tariff note, Ofcom use

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