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BudgetSMS pricing: phone validation API, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup

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11% complete: 1 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
Top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookupWe haven't run BudgetSMS through our phone validation API benchmark yet.This plan costs . We rank 768 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.60 per 1,000 phones or less.Botoi's $199 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 phones: as little as $0.0066. Botoi's $199 monthly plan covers up to 1,000,000 phones a day.Data247, Foxentry and HLR Lookups are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay per use BudgetSMS's only plan
Call: GET /hlr/, HLR lookup one of BudgetSMS's 3 calls
API: Phone validation API BudgetSMS's only API

About this item

  • Live. BudgetSMS checks the phone number you send when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 9 key fields we check. Carrier.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
  • One call. You send to to GET /hlr/. You can also send cache.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

BudgetSMS: phone validation API alternatives

BudgetSMS alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans that you pay for up front. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planBudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookupData247, $12 pack, Membership, GET /v3.0, Verify247 (Phone)CEQUENS, top-up, Usage-based, GET /discovery/hlr/v1/{number}SMSPartner, top-upVerificarEmails, €10 pack, HLR: 1,000 Phones, POST /phone/validate/multiple
Completeness11%22%33%22%0%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Payany amount$12any amountany amount€10
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone with an account who adds a payment method and tops it upprofessional use only (Services uniquement destinés à un usage professionnel)anyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

  1. budgetsms.net/
  2. budgetsms.net/faq/budgetsms-account/billing/
  3. budgetsms.net/sms-gateway-pricing
  4. budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/error-code/
  5. budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/hlr/
  6. budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/np/
  7. budgetsms.net/terms/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Number, not in the answer
  • Formats, not in the answer
  • Validity, not in the answer
  • Type, not in the answer
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
Percall
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: NP lookup · Send SMS
In their words
Their pitchThis allows you to fetch detailed information on mobile numbers worldwide. It will return the actual MCC and MNC of a subscriber. This will also work with subscribers who are ported to another operator.
Data
Freshnesslive
CountriesWorldwide
What it checkscarrier, line in service
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendto. Optional: cache
MethodGET
Path/hlr/
About the plan
PlanPay per use
Who can get itanyone
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

mobile country code, mobile network code, SMS price

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