Phone validation API
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Plan: Custom rates 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.
- No public price. You ask Bird for one.
- 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 no public price.
| This planBird, contact us | Abstract API, contact us | APILayer, contact us | Byteplant, contact us | HLR Lookup, contact us | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing | contact | contact | contact | contact | contact |
| Enough for | not published | not published | no limit | not published | not published |
| Freshness | not published | 1 day | stored | live | live |
| Who can get it | businesses only: commercial use, not personal or consumer use | anyone | anyone | businesses and professionals | anyone |
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.
| Billing | contact |
|---|
| 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 |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | phone_number, type, Idempotency-Key |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/lookup/phone-number |
| Plan | Custom rates |
|---|---|
| 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