Phone validation API
Bird, $15 pack
$5.00per 1,000 phonesThe median plan costs $3.313 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 36% of the 97 priced plans.
Plan: Phone number lookup one of Bird's 2 plans
Call:
POST / v1/ lookup/ phone-number Bird's only callAbout this item
- Freshness. Bird's pages don't say how fresh an answer is.
- You buy a pack of credits, then spend them on calls. You pay $15 for $15 of credit, enough for 3,000 calls. Unused credit expires: 1 year from purchase.
- One call. You send phone_number, type, Idempotency-Key to
POST /. The call returns whether the number is valid.v1/ lookup/ phone-number - Who can get it: businesses only: commercial use, not personal or consumer use. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Compare with similar plans
Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000.
| This planBird, $15 pack | APILayer, $14.99 monthly | HLR Lookup, $490.38 pack | Abstract API, $429 yearly, Standard, 84,000 requests / year | Neutrino API, pay as you go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $5.00 | $2.998 | $4.904 | $5.107 | $7.00 |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | yearly | pay as you go |
| Pay | $15 | $14.99 | $490.38 | $429 | monthly |
| Enough for | 3,000 calls | 5,000 calls a month | 100,000 results | 7,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | not published | stored | live | 1 day | live |
| Who can get it | businesses only: commercial use, not personal or consumer use | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone paying by Visa, Mastercard or SWIFT |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-14.
- bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-phone-number-lookup
- bird.com/docs/guides/idempotency
- bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/email-addresses
- bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/overview
- bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/phone-numbers
- bird.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- bird.com/docs/knowledge-base/billing/payment-methods-wallet
- bird.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
- bird.com/legal/product-specific-terms
- bird.com/legal/terms
- bird.com/lookup-api
- bird.com/lookup-api/faqs
- bird.com/openapi.json
- bird.com/pricing
- bird.com/pricing/email-validation
- bird.com/pricing/lookup
Product details
We list each column of this plan's row on the sheet that has a value.
| $ per 1,000 | $5.00 |
|---|---|
| Billing | pay first |
| Repeat free | 3 hours |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Extra fields | line classification, data status: +$8.00 · ported date, ported date approximate, porting history, data status: +$7.00 · reachable, data status: +$7.00 · roaming, roaming mobile country code, roaming mobile network code, data status: +$10.00 · credibility score, data status: +$25.00 |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Check email addresses and phone numbers with Bird Lookup. Inspect validation signals, number format, carrier and line type before your application sends. |
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| Keep data | the agreement's term: data derived from the Services is licensed for it, and returned or destroyed when it ends |
|---|---|
| Use data | commercial use only, data derived from the Services only for your own use of them, the Services not resold or made available to third parties |
| Pay | $15 |
|---|---|
| You get | $15 |
| Enough for | 3,000 calls |
| Expires | 1 year from purchase |
| Per second | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | phone_number, type, Idempotency-Key |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/lookup/phone-number |
| Plan | Phone number lookup |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | businesses only: commercial use, not personal or consumer use |
The 10 fields in the plan's answer
E.164 format, country code, carrier, mobile country code, mobile network code, original carrier, original mobile country code, original mobile network code, ported, line type