# Bird, top-up from $15: Phone validation API

> A number tells you more. Know what to do with it. Add network signals to the base number record. Know how to contact or verify the customer next.

Bird's phone validation API on its Phone number lookup plan. It costs $5.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 7 of the 9 key fields we check. 5 are in the plan's price: Formats, Type, Carrier, Porting and roaming, Place. 2 cost extra: Validity, Risk.
The median plan costs $5.00 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 49% of the 195 priced plans.
The cheapest plan is [Twilio, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/twilio/top-up/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/top-up-from-15
- 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: 2026-10-18

## In the answer

- Completeness: 78%
- Formats: ✓
- Validity: ✓ costs more
- Type: ✓
- Carrier: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓
- Place: ✓
- Risk: ✓ costs more

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $5.00
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- 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
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create an email address lookup · Create a batch of email address lookups · Get an email address lookup by URL

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A number tells you more. Know what to do with it. Add network signals to the base number record. Know how to contact or verify the customer next.

## Data

- Keep data: “a worldwide, limited-term, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license during the applicable Term to access and use the Provider Data” (“any data that is derived from the use of the Services”) [...], on termination or expiration of the Agreement, “you will immediately either return or destroy (at our discretion) all Provider Data”
- Use data: “solely for your use of the Services in accordance with the Agreement”, “designed and intended for commercial use only and [...] not intended for personal or private individual or consumer use”, “You will not transfer, resell, lease, license, or otherwise make the Services available to third parties”, “You may not use the Services to send, store, or process (as applicable): [...] messages to: [...] recipient contact information programmatically generated or scraped from the Internet”

## Plan

- Pay: $15
- You get: $15
- Enough for: 3,000 calls
- Expires: 1 year after the purchase date

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Phone number lookup
- Who can get it: a company or business: the account is created by someone “legally able to represent the company or business contracting our Services”, and the Services are “designed and intended for commercial use only and are not intended for personal or private individual or consumer use”

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

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, top-up from $15](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/top-up-from-15/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [Bird, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/contact-us/llms.txt): 56% complete

## Bird's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/lookup/phone-number`: [Bird, top-up from $15](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/top-up-from-15/llms.txt)

## Bird's APIs (2)

- [Bird: phone validation API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/top-up-from-15/llms.txt)
- [Bird: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email-batch/llms.txt)
- [Bird: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/lookup/email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email/llms.txt)
- [Bird: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/lookup/email/{address}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-get-v1-lookup-email-address/llms.txt)

## Bird: phone validation API alternatives

- [VerificarEmails, €440 pack, MNP: 100,000 Phones, GET /phonemnp/validate/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/verificaremails/440-pack-mnp-100000-phones-get-phonemnp-validate-single/llms.txt): $4.951 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [1Lookup, $19,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /bulk/jobs, Create a bulk job (type mnp_lookup)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/1lookup/19990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-bulk-jobs-create-a-bulk-job-type-mnp-lookup/llms.txt): $4.997 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [CheckThatPhone, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/checkthatphone/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 78% complete, live (deactivation date, state DNC: 7 days)
- [Xverify, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/xverify/250-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

- https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-phone-number-lookup
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/idempotency
- 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/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/lookup