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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 lookup, cachedWe 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

Top-up, Pay per usePay per use

Call: GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached one of BudgetSMS's 3 calls

API: Phone validation API BudgetSMS's only API

Phone validation API

About this item

Stored. BudgetSMS may answer from BudgetSMS's stored data instead of asking the carrier. BudgetSMS doesn't say how old the data is.
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 set cache to "7".
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.

	This planBudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached	HLR Lookup, £12.50 pack, 2,500 lookups, POST /apiv2/validate	CheckNumber.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /v1/phone	World Text, £11.25 pack, 2,000 credits, GET /hlr/info	T2A, top-up, Buy Credits, Validate a mobile phone number
Completeness	11%	56%	56%	22%	11%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	any amount	£12.50	$20	£11.25	any amount
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	unknown
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone	anyone who creates an account (“Create Account” on its pricing page), the account “must be enabled for HLR lookups”	software developers only, a business or organisation buying credits (terms: "T2A IS A SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS ONLY")

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.

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
Per	call
Billing	pay first

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: NP lookup · Send SMS

In their words
Their pitch	This 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
Freshness	stored
Countries	Worldwide
What it checks	carrier, line in service
Keep data	no API terms
Use data	no API terms

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	to, cache "7"
Method	GET
Path	/hlr/

About the plan
Plan	Pay per use
Who can get it	anyone

The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

mobile country code, mobile network code, SMS price