# Minerva, free: Phone validation API

> Use this endpoint to infer country location by analyzing email domains and phone number country codes.

Minerva's phone validation API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 2 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Place.
You get 100 results. You spend the results on Minerva's other calls. This call is free. Minerva limits how many results you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Minerva through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) 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](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/minerva/free
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.minerva.io/v2/infer_record_country`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/infer-record-country?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: Minerva (https://www.minerva.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 22%
- Number: ✓
- Place: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 phones: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Enrich v2 · Get LinkedIn Contact Info · Validate Emails · Person Search · Async Person Search · Contact Append · Contact Prospect · Resolve v2

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use this endpoint to infer country location by analyzing email domains and phone number country codes.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- What it checks: numbering plan
- Keep data: "Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement: (i) the rights granted pursuant to Section 4(a) and Section 8 will terminate, and (ii) Customer will return or destroy, at Minerva’s sole option, all Minerva Confidential Information in its possession or control" [...]
- Use data: "a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except in compliance with Section 13(b)) right to use (and permit Authorized Users to use) the Services and Output Data in accordance with the Documentation and the terms of this Agreement for Customer’s internal business purposes." [...] "Customer will not and will not permit any person or entity (including, without limitation, Authorized Users) to, directly or indirectly:" "I. Use the Services or Output Data to develop or supplement a “Consumer Report” that is subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act [...]" "II. Copy, modify or create any derivative work of any portion of the Services, Output Data or the Documentation, " "IV. Frame, mirror, sell, resell, market, sublicense, publish, distribute, reproduce, assign, transfer, rent, lease or loan any portion of the Services or Output Data to any other person or entity [...]" "VII. Access or search the Services (or download any data or content contained therein or transmitted thereby, including Output Data) through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, or any other similar data mining tools) other than software or Services features provided by Minerva for use expressly for such purposes, "

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 results
- Expires: 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1,000

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: records[].record_id, records[].phones, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: records[].emails, records[].first_name, records[].last_name, records[].middle_name, records[].full_name, records[].name_suffix
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/infer_record_country

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone: "No card required. 100 records free in your trial."

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, international, most likely country, inferred countries, email address, email valid, email international, email country code, email country, phone number, phone valid, phone international, standardized phone, phone country code, phone country

## Minerva's plans (8)

- [Minerva, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/400-monthly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $1,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/1200-monthly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/2000-monthly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $4,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/4000-yearly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $12,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/12000-yearly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $20,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/20000-yearly/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored
- [Minerva, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/contact-us/llms.txt): 22% complete, stored

## Minerva's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/infer_record_country`: [Minerva, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)

## Minerva's APIs (7)

- [Minerva: email verification API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people enrichment API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone validation API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: reverse email lookup API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/search-jobs](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search-jobs/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/contact-append](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-append/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)

## Minerva: phone validation API alternatives

- [Foxentry, free trial, POST /phone/validate, Validate phone number (basic)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/foxentry/free-trial-post-phone-validate-validate-phone-number-basic/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [HLR Lookups, free, 100 free lookups, POST /nt-lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookups/free-100-free-lookups-post-nt-lookups/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [seven.io, free, GET /api/lookup/format](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/seven-io/free-get-api-lookup-format/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [HLR Lookup, free, 200 free credits, POST /apiv2/validate](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/free-200-free-credits-post-apiv2-validate/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/billing-usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/infer-record-country?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing