# BudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached: Phone validation API

> 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.

BudgetSMS's phone validation API on its Pay per use plan. It returns 1 of the 9 key fields we check: Carrier.
We haven't run BudgetSMS through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/botoi/199-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/data247/12-pack-membership-get-v3-0-verify247-phone/llms.txt), [Foxentry](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/foxentry/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-phone-validate-validate-phone-number-extended/llms.txt) and [HLR Lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookups/top-up-1-1m-post-hlr-lookup/llms.txt) are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-hlr-hlr-lookup-cached
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-gateway-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.budgetsms.net/hlr/`, HLR lookup, cached
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-gateway-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/hlr/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: BudgetSMS (https://www.budgetsms.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 11%
- Carrier: ✓

## 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

## BudgetSMS's plans (1)

- [BudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-hlr-hlr-lookup-cached/llms.txt): 11% complete, stored

## BudgetSMS's calls (3)

- `GET /hlr/`, HLR lookup: [BudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-hlr-hlr-lookup/llms.txt)
- `GET /hlr/`, HLR lookup, cached: [BudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-hlr-hlr-lookup-cached/llms.txt)
- `GET /np/`: [BudgetSMS, top-up, Pay per use, GET /np/](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-np/llms.txt)

## BudgetSMS's APIs (1)

- [BudgetSMS: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /hlr/, HLR lookup, cached](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/budgetsms/top-up-pay-per-use-get-hlr-hlr-lookup-cached/llms.txt)

## BudgetSMS: phone validation API alternatives

- [HLR Lookup, £12.50 pack, 2,500 lookups, POST /apiv2/validate](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/12-50-pack-2500-lookups-post-apiv2-validate/llms.txt): 56% complete, stored
- [CheckNumber.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /v1/phone](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/checknumber-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-phone/llms.txt): 56% complete, stored
- [World Text, £11.25 pack, 2,000 credits, GET /hlr/info](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/world-text/11-25-pack-2000-credits-get-hlr-info/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [T2A, top-up, Buy Credits, Validate a mobile phone number](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/t2a/top-up-buy-credits-validate-a-mobile-phone-number/llms.txt): 11% complete

## 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.

- https://www.budgetsms.net/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/faq/budgetsms-account/billing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-gateway-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/error-code/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/hlr/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/sms-http-api/np/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.budgetsms.net/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing