Ideal Postcodes pricing: phone validation API
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44% complete: 4 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesWe haven't run Ideal Postcodes through our phone validation API benchmark yet.This plan is free. 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: Free trial one of Ideal Postcodes's 8 plans
- FreeFree trial$0.00 per 1,000
- £9 pack200 credits$60.008 per 1,000
- £42 pack1,100 credits$50.916 per 1,000
- £155 pack4,300 credits$48.068 per 1,000
- £420 pack12,800 credits$43.755 per 1,000
- £900 pack32,100 credits$37.388 per 1,000
- Contact us, Custom packageCustom package
- Contact us, Registered charityRegistered charity
Call:
GET / Ideal Postcodes's only call for this APIAPI: Phone validation API one of Ideal Postcodes's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 4 of the 9 key fields we check. Formats, Validity, Carrier, Place.
- Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 1 month.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv1/ phone_ numbers current_andcarrier tags. The call returns whether the number is valid. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Ideal Postcodes: phone validation API alternatives
Ideal Postcodes alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked
The table starts with Ideal Postcodes's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 phones closest to Ideal Postcodes's.
| Ideal Postcodes, £900 pack | Postcoder, £46 monthly | Loqate, $300 pack | Listar, top-up from €50,000, Platinum, POST /search/verify-phone-ownership | Openapi.com, €700 yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 phones | $37.388 | $36.805 | $37.00 | $39.386 | $39.386 |
| Completeness | 44% | 56% | 78% | 67% | 78% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay first | yearly |
| Pay | £900 | £46 | $300 | €50,000 | €700 |
| Enough for | 32,100 calls | about 1,666 calls a month | as many as you pay for | about 1,428,571 results | 20,000 calls a year |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | organisations only: the terms' Client "means the organisation named as the 'Client' or 'Business' or 'Company' in the registration form [...]" | anyone | anyone | anyone whose cumulative spend on credits has reached €50,000 excl. tax | anyone acting in the course of their business, entrepreneurial or professional activity |
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.
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/api/api-reference.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/api/phone-number-validation.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/cli/phone.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/guides/phone-validation.md
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/email-validation
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/guides/pricing-plans
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/guides/what-is-a-lookup
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/phone-validation
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/pricing
- terms.ideal-postcodes.co.uk
- terms.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/extended-terms-of-service/payg-lookup-licence
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
- Validity
- Type, not in the answer
- Carrier
- Porting and roaming, not in the answer
- Place
- Risk, not in the answer
- Owner, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 phones | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Resolve Address · Lookup Postcode · Email Validation |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Unlock the ultimate competitive advantage by accessing the most accurate and up-to-date mobile and phone verification solution and verify numbers in real time |
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| Countries | Worldwide |
|---|---|
| What it checks | numbering plan, carrier |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Except to the extent expressly permitted by law or agreed in writing by IDDQD, the Client is prohibited from: re-selling (whether for free or by charging) the Service Output or Service, [...] The Client may not (except to the extent expressly permitted by law or agreed in writing by IDDQD or in Third Party Contracts): use the Service to provide any software or a service which competes with the Software Materials or Service, undertake any data cleansing activities unless expressly permitted by the respective Third Party Contracts, use the Service, API data, or any content obtained through our platform to develop, train, improve, benchmark, enhance or evaluate any artificial intelligence, machine learning, or automated decision-making systems, whether directly or indirectly. [...] The Service and Software Materials are provided solely for the Client's own use. The Client may not resell or attempt to resell the Service Output, or market or otherwise distribute the Software Materials or Service without IDDQD's express written permission. [...] Lookups are not transferable to third parties, nor may it be used for the benefit of third parties by the Client. [...] Any test balance disbursed on Your account (including Your initial free balance) may only be used for testing and evaluation purposes. |
| Pay | £0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 50 credits |
| Enough for | 50 calls, once |
| Expires | 1 month |
| Per second | 30 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: current_carrier, tags |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/phone_numbers |
| Plan | Free trial |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | organisations only: the terms' Client "means the organisation named as the 'Client' or 'Business' or 'Company' in the registration form [...]" |
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold
valid, national format, international format, 3-letter ISO country code, 2-letter ISO country code, country, current carrier network code, current carrier name, current carrier country, current carrier network type, original carrier network code, original carrier name, original carrier country, original carrier network type, response code, message