# Mocean, top-up: Phone validation API

> MoceanAPI's Number Lookup API allows you to query mobile phone numbers about their IMSI number, reachability, ported number, as well as its original and current network operator to ensure accurate and up-to-date data.

Mocean's phone validation API on its Credits plan. It costs $3.939 per 1,000 phones. It returns 4 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Validity, Carrier, Porting and roaming.
€3.50 per 1,000 phones is $3.939 at the European Central Bank's rate of $1.1253 for €1.
In [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt), this plan scores 30.9 out of 100. Mocean ranks 15th of 40 providers.
Half of the 888 plans we rank by price cost $3.376 per 1,000 phones or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 phones than 48% of the 888 plans.
[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/mocean/top-up
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://moceanapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://rest.moceanapi.com/rest/2/nl`
- API key: with the plan, on https://moceanapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://moceanapi.com/docs/v2/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing#request-number-lookup
- Sold by: Mocean (https://moceanapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 44%
- Number: ✓
- Validity: ✓
- Carrier: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 30.9
- Price score: 24
- Accuracy score: 31
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 24

## Price

- $ per 1,000 phones: $3.939
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- Their pitch: MoceanAPI's Number Lookup API allows you to query mobile phone numbers about their IMSI number, reachability, ported number, as well as its original and current network operator to ensure accurate and up-to-date data.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: Worldwide
- What it checks: numbering plan, carrier, line in service
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Your use of the service is subject to all applicable laws and regulations" (4), "You agree not to sell, resell, reproduce, duplicate, copy or use for any commercial purposes any portion of this service, or use of or access to this service" (19)

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by webhook
- Median: 1.13 s

## The call

- You send: mocean-to. Optional: mocean-nl-url
- Method: POST
- Path: /rest/2/nl

## About the plan

- Plan: Credits
- Who can get it: anyone with a Mocean account

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, request ID, phone number, current carrier country, current carrier name, current carrier network code, current carrier MCC, current carrier MNC, original carrier country, original carrier name, original carrier network code, original carrier MCC, original carrier MNC, ported

## Mocean's plans (1)

- [Mocean, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/mocean/top-up/llms.txt): $3.939 per 1,000, 44% complete, live

## Mocean's calls (1)

- `POST /rest/2/nl`: [Mocean, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/mocean/top-up/llms.txt)

## Mocean's APIs (1)

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

## Mocean: phone validation API alternatives

- [AlphaSMS, top-up, Pay per request, POST /api/json.php](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/alphasms/top-up-pay-per-request-post-api-json-php/llms.txt): $3.939 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [Veriphone, $99 monthly, Business, GET /v3/verify, /v3/verify, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/veriphone/99-monthly-business-get-v3-verify-v3-verify-full/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 78% complete, live
- [CallerAPI, $997 pack, Enterprise, GET /api/network-lookup/{phone}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/callerapi/997-pack-enterprise-get-api-network-lookup-phone/llms.txt): $3.988 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [Dexatel, pay as you go, 2M - 5M lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/dexatel/pay-as-you-go-2m-5m-lookups/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-10-28.

- https://moceanapi.com/docs/v2?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/number-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/question/15?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/question/61?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://moceanapi.com/question/77?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing