# LightSMS, top-up from €1: Phone validation API

> Query phone number information including network operator, validity, portability status, and pricing before sending SMS messages.

LightSMS's phone validation API on its Paysera account top-up plan. It returns 3 of the 9 key fields we check: Validity, Carrier, Porting and roaming.
We haven't run LightSMS through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
This plan starts with a €1 top-up. 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/lightsms/top-up-from-1
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.lightsms.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.lightsms.com/external/get/hlr.php`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.lightsms.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.paysera.com/guides/lightsms/advanced/hlr-operator?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing#hlr-request
- Sold by: LightSMS (https://www.lightsms.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Validity: ✓
- Carrier: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓

## Price

- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- Their pitch: Query phone number information including network operator, validity, portability status, and pricing before sending SMS messages.

## Data

- What it checks: carrier, line in service
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: €1

## Rate limit

- Batch: 100

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone, login, timestamp
- Method: GET
- Path: /external/get/hlr.php

## About the plan

- Plan: Paysera account top-up
- Who can get it: anyone with a Paysera account

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid phone number, carrier, ported, SMS price

## LightSMS's plans (1)

- [LightSMS, top-up from €1](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/lightsms/top-up-from-1/llms.txt): 33% complete

## LightSMS's calls (1)

- `GET /external/get/hlr.php`: [LightSMS, top-up from €1](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/lightsms/top-up-from-1/llms.txt)

## LightSMS's APIs (1)

- [LightSMS: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/lightsms/top-up-from-1/llms.txt)

## LightSMS: phone validation API alternatives

- [Data247, $12 pack, Membership, GET /v3.0, Carrier247 (Carrier Type)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/data247/12-pack-membership-get-v3-0-carrier247-carrier-type/llms.txt): 33% complete, live
- [CallerAPI, $997 pack, Enterprise, GET /api/ported/{phone}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/callerapi/997-pack-enterprise-get-api-ported-phone/llms.txt): 22% complete
- [tyntec, top-up, Pay per number check, GET /gnv](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/tyntec/top-up-pay-per-number-check-get-gnv/llms.txt): 33% complete, live
- [CEQUENS, top-up, Usage-based, GET /discovery/hlr/v1/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/cequens/top-up-usage-based-get-discovery-hlr-v1-number/llms.txt): 33% 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 2026-11-02.

- https://developers.paysera.com/guides/lightsms/advanced/hlr-operator?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://developers.paysera.com/guides/lightsms/error-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.lightsms.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.lightsms.com/en/privacy-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.paysera.com/v2/en/legal?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing