# Melissa, $4.97 pack: Phone validation API

> Ensure you have valid, callable U.S. and international phone numbers and append location data with Melissa Phone Verification.

Melissa's phone validation API on its Monthly Top-off plan, $0.00 per 1,000 phones.
The median plan costs $3.313 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 96% of the 97 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/4-97-pack
- Get it: https://www.melissa.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-reference-guide.html#v4-web-globalphone-doglobalphone
- Sold by: Melissa (https://www.melissa.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-14

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Per: call

## In their words

- Their pitch: Ensure you have valid, callable U.S. and international phone numbers and append location data with Melissa Phone Verification.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: as the separate written agreement or license for its APIs sets, which isn't public
- Use data: as the separate written agreement or license for its APIs sets, which isn't public

## Plan

- Pay: $4.97
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: topped back up to 1,000 on the 1st of each month, never above it

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone, ctry, ctryOrg, opt (CallerID, DefaultCallingCode, PreferDialingCode, TimeToWait, VerifyPhone), t
- Method: GET
- Path: /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone

## About the plan

- Plan: Monthly Top-off
- Who can get it: anyone who passes Melissa's KYC/AML identity check

## The 27 fields in the plan's answer

API version, custom data, error code, entry index, status code, phone number, region, country code, country, carrier, caller name, daylight saving time, international format, language, latitude, longitude, city, international prefix, country calling code, national prefix, area code, subscriber number, postal code, suggestions, time zone code, time zone, UTC offset

## Melissa's plans (5)

- [Melissa, $4.97 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/4-97-pack/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Melissa, $40 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/40-pack/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Melissa, $350 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/350-pack/llms.txt): $35.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Melissa, $3,200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/3200-pack/llms.txt): $32.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Melissa, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/contact-us/llms.txt): stored

## Melissa's calls (1)

- `GET /V4/WEB/GlobalPhone/doGlobalPhone`: [Melissa, $4.97 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/melissa/4-97-pack/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [APILayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [NumLookupAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/numlookupapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Trestle, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/trestle/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Veriphone, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/veriphone/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-14.

- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/licensing.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/privacy-security.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/cloud-api/rate-limiting.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-email/global-email-faq.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-faq.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-reference-guide.html
- https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/result-codes.html
- https://www.melissa.com/phone-verification
- https://www.melissa.com/pricing
- https://www.melissa.com/pricing/developer
- https://www.melissa.com/pricing/lookups
- https://www.melissa.com/refund-policy
- https://www.melissa.com/terms