Number Portability Lookup pricing: phone validation API
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- FreeTrial account$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-upStarter Pricing - No Commitment$2.50 per 1,000
- Contact usHigh Volume Pricing
POST / npl Number Portability Lookup's only callAbout this item
- Live. Number Portability Lookup checks the phone number you send when you call the API.
- 7 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Formats, Validity, Type, Carrier, Porting and roaming, Place.
- Nothing to pay. You get 5 credits, enough for 5 results. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You send
msisdntoPOST /. You setnpl formatto "json". You can also sendmsc. The call returns whether each number you send is valid. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Number Portability Lookup: phone validation API alternatives
Number Portability Lookup alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked
The table starts with Number Portability Lookup's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 phones closest to Number Portability Lookup's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Number Portability Lookup, top-up | 2Chat, $49 monthly, Basic Plan, GET /open/whatsapp/check-number/{your-number}/{number-to-check}, Check Number | HLR Lookup, £370 pack, 100,000 lookups, POST /apiv2/mnp, MNP-only lookup | Veriphone, $249 monthly, Enterprise, GET /v3/verify, /v3/verify, full | CallerAPI, $2,000 monthly, Enterprise transparency $2,000, GET /api/network-lookup/{phone} | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 phones | $2.50 | $2.45 | $2.467 | $2.49 | $2.50 |
| Completeness | 78% | 33% | 89% | 78% | 44% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | $49 | £370 | $249 | $2,000 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 20,000 calls a month | 200,000 results | 100,000 calls a month | 800,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an account (name, position, business name, business email, website and intended use) and passes its brief verification | anyone with a WhatsApp number connected to 2Chat, for use in the course of a business activity | anyone | anyone | anyone who agrees terms with CallerAPI sales ("Exact terms are set in your agreement") |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Number
- Formats
- Validity
- Type
- Carrier
- Porting and roaming
- Place
- Risk, not in the answer
- Owner, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 phones | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Number Portability Lookup finds the network operator of any cellular phone number and identifies disconnected, invalid, or non-mobile numbers. |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Countries | Worldwide |
| What it checks | carrier, line in service |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | The User must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and network operator requirements. [...] The User must have express or implied permission of the owner of the cellular telephone before performing a network query. Number queries should not be performed in such a way as to invade the privacy or any person or in contravention of any privacy laws or regulations. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 5 credits |
| Enough for | 5 results |
| Concurrent | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 100 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | msisdn, format "json". Optional: msc |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /npl |
| Plan | Trial account |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an account (name, position, business name, business email, website and intended use) and passes its brief verification |
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold
country code, country ISO code, country, error code, error text, IMSI, landline, LRN, local format, mobile, MCC, MNC, MSC, MSISDN, line type, OCN, carrier, original MCC, original MNC, original carrier, PLMN, ported, reachable, SPID, timezone, transaction cost, user balance, valid number