# Bird, contact us: Phone validation API

> Check email addresses and phone numbers with Bird Lookup. Inspect validation signals, number format, carrier and line type before your application sends.

Bird's phone validation API on its Custom rates plan.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/contact-us
- Get it: https://bird.com/pricing/lookup
- Its API docs: https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-phone-number-lookup
- Sold by: Bird (https://bird.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-14

## Price

- Billing: contact

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check email addresses and phone numbers with Bird Lookup. Inspect validation signals, number format, carrier and line type before your application sends.

## Data

- 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

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone_number, type, Idempotency-Key
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/lookup/phone-number

## About the plan

- 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

## Bird's plans (2)

- [Bird, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/15-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000
- [Bird, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Bird's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/lookup/phone-number`: [Bird, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Abstract API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/abstract-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 1 day
- [APILayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/apilayer/contact-us/llms.txt): stored
- [Byteplant, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/byteplant/contact-us/llms.txt): live
- [HLR Lookup, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/contact-us/llms.txt): live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-14.

- https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-phone-number-lookup
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/idempotency
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/email-addresses
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/overview
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/phone-numbers
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- https://bird.com/docs/knowledge-base/billing/payment-methods-wallet
- https://bird.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
- https://bird.com/legal/product-specific-terms
- https://bird.com/legal/terms
- https://bird.com/lookup-api
- https://bird.com/lookup-api/faqs
- https://bird.com/openapi.json
- https://bird.com/pricing
- https://bird.com/pricing/email-validation
- https://bird.com/pricing/lookup