Azure Communication Services pricing: phone validation API, Phone Numbers - Operator Information Search
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56% complete: 5 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesWe haven't run Azure Communication Services 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 and 9 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 phones of the 888 plans.Data247, Foxentry and HLR Lookups are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay-as-you-go Azure Communication Services's only plan
Call:
POST /, Phone Numbers - Operator Information Search one of Azure Communication Services's 2 callsPOST /, Phone Numbers - Operator Information SearchPay as you go, Pay-as-you-go$0.00 per 1,000operatorInformation/ :search POST /, Phone Numbers - Operator Information Search, fullPay as you go, Pay-as-you-go$5.00 per 1,000operatorInformation/ :search
API: Phone validation API Azure Communication Services's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 9 key fields we check. 2 are in the plan's price: Number, Formats. 3 cost extra: Type, Carrier, Place.
- Nothing to buy first. This call is free. Extra fields on this call cost requests. Azure Communication Services limits how many results you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
phoneNumberstoPOST /. You setoperatorInformation/ :search api-versionto "2025-06-01". You can also sendoptions.includeAdditionalOperatorDetails. - Who can get it: anyone with an Azure account that has an active subscription. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Azure Communication Services: phone validation API alternatives
Azure Communication Services alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones.
| This planAzure Communication Services, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /operatorInformation/:search, Phone Numbers - Operator Information Search | Foxentry, free trial, POST /phone/validate, Validate phone number (basic) | HLR Lookups, free, 100 free lookups, POST /nt-lookups | Abstract API, free | seven.io, free test credit, GET /api/lookup/hlr | Affiliate SMS, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 phones | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 56% | 56% | 67% | 89% | 78% | 44% |
| Billing | pay as you go | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | monthly | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | not published | 100 results, once | 100 calls a month | not published | not published |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | stored | 1 day | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with an Azure account that has an active subscription | anyone who signs up and creates an API project | new accounts | anyone 18 or older | new accounts of traders: the customer assures that he is a trader and that the short messages are sent as part of his business | anyone who registers an account, promotional credits are given at the discretion of Affiliate-SMS |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/communication-services/
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/pay-as-you-go
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/numbers/number-lookup-concept
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/pricing
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/concepts/service-limits
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/quickstarts/telephony/number-lookup
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/review-individual-bill
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/communication/phonenumbers/phone-numbers/operator-information-search
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName%20eq%20%27Azure%20Communication%20Services%27%20and%20contains(meterName,%27Lookup%27)
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Number
- Formats
- Validity, not in the answer
- Typecosts more
- Carriercosts more
- Porting and roaming, not in the answer
- Placecosts more
- Risk, not in the answer
- Owner, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 phones | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | result |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Extra fields | number type, country code, operator, mobile country code, mobile network code: +$5.00 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
| Their pitch | Azure Communication Services Number Lookup enables you to retrieve insights and look up a specific phone number. It's part of the Phone Numbers SDK and can be used to support customer service scenarios, appointment reminders, two-factor authentication, and other real-time communication needs. |
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| What it checks | numbering plan |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | monthly |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | api-version "2025-06-01", phoneNumbers. Optional: options.includeAdditionalOperatorDetails |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /operatorInformation/:search |
| Plan | Pay-as-you-go |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with an Azure account that has an active subscription |
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold
phone number, national format, international format