# OVHcloud, free: Phone validation API

> Before sending an SMS message, a Home Location Register (HLR) Lookup request lets you check whether the recipient's mobile number is still valid and active. The result also indicates the operator the number is attached to.

OVHcloud's phone validation API on its 20 free SMS credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 4 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Validity, Carrier, Porting and roaming.
We haven't run OVHcloud through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 888 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.376 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/ovhcloud/free
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/sms/prices/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/sms/{serviceName}/hlr`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/sms/prices/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/sms.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: OVHcloud (https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Send SMS · Clean a receiver list

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Before sending an SMS message, a Home Location Register (HLR) Lookup request lets you check whether the recipient's mobile number is still valid and active. The result also indicates the operator the number is attached to.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Countries: France
- What it checks: carrier, line in service
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Conditions particulières SMS, 3.12: Le Client s'engage à utiliser le Service conformément aux dispositions législatives et règlementaires en vigueur et aux dispositions du présent Contrat. 3.13: Le Client s'engage notamment à ne pas utiliser le Service pour des tentatives d'escroqueries téléphoniques, harcèlement, menaces, méthodes de prospection abusive sans consentement préalable ou pour toute utilisation portant atteinte à l'ordre public ou aux bonnes mœurs et à vérifier la conformité et la légalité de l'utilisation du Service dans le pays de réception du Service. 3.7: Le Client s'engage à respecter l'ensemble des prescriptions de la Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (C.N.I.L.) et du Comité européen de la protection des données. Le Client s'interdit à ce titre tout envoi de SMS à destination d'utilisateurs n'ayant pas expressément accepté la réception de tels messages. Le Client s'engage à veiller au respect de l'ensemble des dispositions légales et réglementaires relatives au traitement des données à caractère personnel ainsi qu'à la protection de la vie privée, notamment en matière de communications électroniques. 3.14: Le Client s'engage à utiliser le service raisonnablement [...] Toute consommation manifestement abusive du service entraînera la possibilité pour OVHcloud de limiter ou de suspendre tout ou partie du Service. Conditions générales de services, 3.5: Le Client utilisera les Services de manière raisonnable [...] Toute utilisation frauduleuse ou illégale des Services, telle que l'envoi de courriels frauduleux ou courriers indésirables (« SPAM ») depuis les Services, est formellement interdite.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 20 credits
- Enough for: 200 calls

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: serviceName. Optional: receivers, receiversDocumentUrl
- Method: POST
- Path: /sms/{serviceName}/hlr

## About the plan

- Plan: 20 free SMS credits
- Who can get it: new OVHcloud customers (SMS offers only in France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Poland)

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

lookup ID, phone number, network MCC-MNC, valid, reachable, ported, roaming, status, created at

## OVHcloud's plans (10)

- [OVHcloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €6 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/6-pack/llms.txt): $6.752 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €29.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/29-50-pack/llms.txt): $6.639 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €58 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/58-pack/llms.txt): $6.527 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €280 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/280-pack/llms.txt): $6.302 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €540 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/540-pack/llms.txt): $6.077 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €2,600 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/2600-pack/llms.txt): $5.852 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €5,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/5000-pack/llms.txt): $5.627 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €24,500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/24500-pack/llms.txt): $5.514 per 1,000, 44% complete, live
- [OVHcloud, €48,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/48000-pack/llms.txt): $5.401 per 1,000, 44% complete, live

## OVHcloud's calls (1)

- `POST /sms/{serviceName}/hlr`: [OVHcloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/free/llms.txt)

## OVHcloud's APIs (1)

- [OVHcloud: phone validation API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ovhcloud/free/llms.txt)

## OVHcloud: phone validation API alternatives

- [Dexatel, pay as you go, 500K - 1M lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/dexatel/pay-as-you-go-500k-1m-lookups/llms.txt): $5.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [HLR Lookup, £1,350 pack, 500,000 lookups, POST /apiv2/mnp, MNP-only lookup, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/1350-pack-500000-lookups-post-apiv2-mnp-mnp-only-lookup-full/llms.txt): $5.401 per 1,000, 89% complete, live
- [VerificarEmails, €240 pack, MNP: 50,000 Phones, GET /phonemnp/validate/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/verificaremails/240-pack-mnp-50000-phones-get-phonemnp-validate-single/llms.txt): $5.401 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [MobileValidate, top-up from $2,000, Top-up of $2,000 to $10,000, POST /lookup, Live network status (HLR) (real-time)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/mobilevalidate/top-up-from-2000-top-up-of-2000-to-10000-post-lookup-live-network-status-hlr-real-time/llms.txt): $5.455 per 1,000, 56% 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 2026-11-03.

- https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/messaging/sms/sms-hlr?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/sms.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_325716a587c64897acbef9a4a4726e38/contracts/52f76d0-contrat_genSms-FR-5.0.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_325716a587c64897acbef9a4a4726e38/contracts/814a669-contrat_genServices-FR-16.0.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/sms/prices/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing