# Periskope, $35 monthly: Phone validation API > Custom APIs and Webhooks for WhatsApp groups, chats and numbers (no Business API required) Periskope's Pro plan lets you call the phone validation API. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields: Number, Formats, Validity, Type and 5 more. Periskope's docs list none of the 9. You pay $35 a month. Periskope limits how many calls you get but gives no number. We haven't run Periskope through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet. This plan costs $35 a month. We rank 1,342 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.867 or less per 1,000 phones. [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. [Keyronne's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/keyronne/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 phones a month: $0.20. [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/periskope/35-monthly - [Phone validation API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) - Get it: https://periskope.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Request: `POST https://api.periskope.app/v1/contacts/check` - API key: with the plan, on https://periskope.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Its API docs: https://docs.periskope.app/api-reference/contacts/check-contact?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Sold by: Periskope (https://periskope.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing) - Checked: 2026-11-09 ## In the answer - Completeness: 0% ## Price - Per: call - Billing: monthly - $ a month: $35 ## Aggregators - Aggregators: none ## Charges - Also pays for: 100 other Periskope calls ## Not found - $ per 1,000: $0.00 ## In their words - Their pitch: Custom APIs and Webhooks for WhatsApp groups, chats and numbers (no Business API required) ## Data - Freshness: live - What it checks: messaging apps - Keep data: no API terms - Use data: no API terms ## Plan - Pay: $35 ## Rate limit - Per second: 100 ## Speed - Answer: in the call ## The call - You send: contact_ids. Optional: x-phone - Method: POST - Path: /v1/contacts/check ## About the plan - Plan: Pro - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over ## The 2 fields the plan's answer can hold contact ID, registered on WhatsApp ## Periskope's plans (3) - [Periskope, $35 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/periskope/35-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live - [Periskope, $300 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/periskope/300-yearly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live - [Periskope, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/periskope/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, live ## Periskope's calls (1) - `POST /v1/contacts/check`: [Periskope, $35 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/periskope/35-monthly/llms.txt) ## Periskope's APIs (1) - [Periskope: phone validation API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/periskope/35-monthly/llms.txt) ## Periskope: phone validation API alternatives - [uazapi, R$29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/uazapi/r-29-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live - [WAME API, $59.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/wame-api/59-90-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live - [WSAPI, $5 monthly, Single Instance, GET /users/{phone}/check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/wsapi/5-monthly-single-instance-get-users-phone-check/llms.txt): 0% complete, live - [Fonnte, $2.50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/fonnte/2-50-monthly/llms.txt): 0% 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 2026-11-09. - https://docs.periskope.app/api-reference/authorization?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://docs.periskope.app/api-reference/contacts/check-contact?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://periskope.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://periskope.app/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing