# ParseAPI, free, GET /carrier/{number}: Phone validation API

> Look up the phone carrier, distinguish mobile, landline and VoIP, and flag known burner apps. Give your messaging and signup flows the facts they need.

ParseAPI's Free plan for the phone validation API costs $0.00 per 1,000 phones. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. ParseAPI's docs list 5: Number, Validity, Type, Carrier, Place.
We haven't run ParseAPI through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,334 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.867 or less per 1,000 phones. [See the best free phone validation API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
[GuGuData's CNY 124 (about $19) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/gugudata/cny-124-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 phones. GuGuData's CNY 124 (about $19) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many phones as GuGuData's rate limit allows. [UAPI's CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 phones a month: about $0.73.
[Trestle](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/trestle/top-up-from-10-self-serve-pay-as-you-go-get-3-0-phone-intel-phone-validation-api/llms.txt), [Signal House](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/signal-house/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) and [Data247](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/data247/12-pack-membership-get-v3-0-verify247-phone/llms.txt) are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-carrier-number
- [Phone validation API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://parseapi.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.parseapi.com/carrier/{number}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://parseapi.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://parseapi.com/docs/carrier?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing#lookup
- Sold by: ParseAPI (https://parseapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 56%
- Number: ✓
- Validity: ✓
- Type: ✓
- Carrier: ✓
- Place: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: Mailbox verification: 100 a month · HLR Lookup API: 50 a month · Caller ID API: 100 a month · Email API · Name API · Phone Number API · Card API · Company API · Industry API · DNS Lookup API · Domain API · IP Address API · MX API · Useragent API · Currency API · Emoji API · Language API · Address API · City API · Continent API · Country API · District API · Postal API · State API · Elevation API · Point API · Weather API · Date API · Holiday API · Time API · ASN Lookup API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Look up the phone carrier, distinguish mobile, landline and VoIP, and flag known burner apps. Give your messaging and signup flows the facts they need.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: Worldwide
- What it checks: numbering plan, carrier
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free-plan users must include a link to ParseAPI on their website, app, or project documentation. A footer, about page, credits page, or another reasonable location is fine. [...] Don't use ParseAPI to: Break the law, harm people, or run fraud / abuse campaigns, Test generated or guessed email addresses to discover people's inboxes, Prepare purchased, rented, or scraped contact lists for unsolicited bulk messaging, phishing, or harassment, Attack, overload, or disrupt the service (or anyone else's), Scrape, reverse engineer, or rebuild our datasets for a competing product, Resell raw API access or bulk responses without our written permission, Share keys or let others burn through your plan without authorization. [...] Use Email and Bulk for contacts you are authorized to process, such as customer records, subscriber lists, and user-submitted signups. Verification does not establish permission to send messages. [...] You get a limited right to use the API as documented while your account is in good standing.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: number. Optional: country
- Method: GET
- Path: /carrier/{number}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

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

phone number, valid, country, line type, carrier, burner, issuing city, state code, state name

## ParseAPI's plans (7)

- [ParseAPI, free, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-carrier-number/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, $14 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/14-monthly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, $20 monthly, Start, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/20-monthly-start-get-carrier-number/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, $20 monthly, Phone Carrier Lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/20-monthly-phone-carrier-lookup/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, $100 monthly, Pro, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/100-monthly-pro-get-carrier-number/llms.txt): 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, $250 monthly, Scale, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/250-monthly-scale-get-carrier-number/llms.txt): 56% complete, stored
- [ParseAPI, contact us, Custom, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/contact-us-custom-get-carrier-number/llms.txt): 56% complete, stored

## ParseAPI's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /carrier/{number}`: [ParseAPI, free, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-carrier-number/llms.txt)
- `GET /hlr/{number}`: [ParseAPI, free, GET /hlr/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-hlr-number/llms.txt)
- `GET /phone/{number}`: [ParseAPI, free, GET /phone/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-phone-number/llms.txt)

## ParseAPI's APIs (6)

- [ParseAPI: tech stack API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/parseapi/free/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: domain WHOIS API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/parseapi/free/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: IP company lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/parseapi/free/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: phone validation API pricing, 7 plans, GET /carrier/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/parseapi/free-get-carrier-number/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: email verification API pricing, 6 plans, GET /email/{email}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/parseapi/free-get-email-email/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: email verification API pricing, 6 plans, POST /email/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/parseapi/free-post-email-verify/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/domain/{domain}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/parseapi/free-get-company-domain-domain/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/cik/{cik}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/parseapi/free-get-company-cik-cik/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/id/{id}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/parseapi/free-get-company-id-id/llms.txt)
- [ParseAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans, GET /company/ticker/{ticker}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/parseapi/free-get-company-ticker-ticker/llms.txt)

## ParseAPI: phone validation API alternatives

- [ProWebLook, $3.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/proweblook/3-99-monthly/llms.txt): $7.98 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [Foxentry, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /phone/validate, Validate phone number (basic)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/foxentry/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-phone-validate-validate-phone-number-basic/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, stored
- [Xverify, $40 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/xverify/40-pack/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, stored
- [Tomba, $1,620 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/tomba/1620-monthly/llms.txt): $8.10 per 1,000, 11% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://parseapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/carrier?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/docs/carrier?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/docs/usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://parseapi.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing