# Persona, $250 monthly: Phone validation API

> The Phone Risk Report assesses the fraud risk of a phone number.

Persona's phone validation API on its Essential plan. It returns 5 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Type, Carrier, Place, Risk.
We haven't run Persona through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
This plan costs $250 a month. We rank 768 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.60 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/persona/250-monthly
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://withpersona.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.withpersona.com/api/v1/reports`
- API key: with the plan, on https://withpersona.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.withpersona.com/api-reference/reports/create-a-report?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: Persona (https://withpersona.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $250

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Phone Risk Report assesses the fraud risk of a phone number.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- What it checks: numbering plan
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $250

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: data.attributes.query.phone-number. Optional: data.type "report/phone-number", data.attributes.account-id, data.attributes.report-template-id
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/reports

## About the plan

- Plan: Essential
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

phone number, carrier, city, country code, subdivision, phone type, risk level, risk recommendation, risk score, SIM swap risk, has match

## Persona's plans (3)

- [Persona, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/persona/250-monthly/llms.txt): 56% complete
- [Persona, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/persona/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 56% complete
- [Persona, contact us, Growth](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/persona/contact-us-growth/llms.txt): 56% complete

## Persona's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/reports`: [Persona, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/persona/250-monthly/llms.txt)

## Persona's APIs (5)

- [Persona: email verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/persona/250-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Persona: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/persona/250-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Persona: phone validation API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/persona/250-monthly/llms.txt)
- [Persona: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/reports, Business Lookup Report](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/persona/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-reports-business-lookup-report/llms.txt)
- [Persona: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, Business Registrations Lookup Report](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/persona/contact-us-enterprise-business-registrations-lookup-report/llms.txt)
- [Persona: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/reports, Business Search Report](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/persona/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-reports-business-search-report/llms.txt)
- [Persona: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/persona/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt)

## Persona: phone validation API alternatives

- [ClearoutPhone, $31 monthly, Monthly 5,000 credits, POST /v1/phonenumber/validate, Instant Phone Number Validation, smart mode](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/clearoutphone/31-monthly-monthly-5000-credits-post-v1-phonenumber-validate-instant-phone-number-validation-smart-mode/llms.txt): 56% complete
- [Telnyx, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/telnyx/5000-monthly/llms.txt): 67% complete, live
- [SEON, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/seon/699-monthly/llms.txt): 56% complete
- [Lookify, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/lookify/199-monthly/llms.txt): 56% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.withpersona.com/2026-09-29/api-reference/reports/create-a-report.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://docs.withpersona.com/2026-09-29/rate-limiting.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://help.withpersona.com/articles/6MsSJ5GQjHhtIN0xxLLeby/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://withpersona.com/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://withpersona.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://withpersona.com/product/reports/phone-email-risk?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://withpersona.com/solutions/know-your-business?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing