# PhoneValidator, free trial, GET /api/v4/phonesearch, Fake Number Check: Phone validation API

> Know what kind of number you're dealing with before you text it, call it or let it sign up. One REST call returns the line type, phone company, number origin and a fake-number flag.

PhoneValidator's phone validation API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 2 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Validity.
We haven't run PhoneValidator 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/phonevalidator/free-trial-get-api-v4-phonesearch-fake-number-check
- [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.phonevalidator.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.phonevalidator.com/api/v4/phonesearch`, Fake Number Check
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.phonevalidator.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.phonevalidator.com/docs/api/v4?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing#quickstart
- Sold by: PhoneValidator (https://www.phonevalidator.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 22%
- Number: ✓
- Validity: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Know what kind of number you're dealing with before you text it, call it or let it sign up. One REST call returns the line type, phone company, number origin and a fake-number flag.

## Data

- Countries: Worldwide
- What it checks: numbering plan
- Keep data: "keep them in your own records and systems, such as your CRM" for your own internal business purposes, "use results to create, enrich or sell a database, list, directory or data product" is not allowed
- Use data: "for your own internal business purposes", "you may not: sell, license, rent, publish or otherwise provide results, or access to the Service, to third parties, use results to create, enrich or sell a database, list, directory or data product" (except as its Reselling section allows), not as a factor in eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any other purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 25
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone, type "fake", region
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v4/phonesearch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

phone, cost, search date, status code, status message, report date, fake number, fake number reason

## PhoneValidator's plans (2)

- [PhoneValidator, free trial, GET /api/v4/phonesearch, Fake Number Check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/phonevalidator/free-trial-get-api-v4-phonesearch-fake-number-check/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 22% complete
- [PhoneValidator, top-up, Fake Number Check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/phonevalidator/top-up-fake-number-check/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 22% complete

## PhoneValidator's calls (2)

- `GET /api/v4/phonesearch`, Fake Number Check: [PhoneValidator, free trial, GET /api/v4/phonesearch, Fake Number Check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/phonevalidator/free-trial-get-api-v4-phonesearch-fake-number-check/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v4/phonesearch`, Line Type + Fake Number Check: [PhoneValidator, free trial, GET /api/v4/phonesearch, Line Type + Fake Number Check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/phonevalidator/free-trial-get-api-v4-phonesearch-line-type-fake-number-check/llms.txt)

## PhoneValidator's APIs (1)

- [PhoneValidator: phone validation API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/v4/phonesearch, Fake Number Check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/phonevalidator/free-trial-get-api-v4-phonesearch-fake-number-check/llms.txt)

## PhoneValidator: phone validation API alternatives

- [RealValidito, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/realvalidito/1000-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [SilverLining, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/silverlining/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [Xverify, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/xverify/1000-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 44% complete, stored
- [2Chat, $480 yearly, Basic Plan, GET /open/whatsapp/check-number/{your-number}/{number-to-check}, Check Number](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/2chat/480-yearly-basic-plan-get-open-whatsapp-check-number-your-number-number-to-check-check-number/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://www.phonevalidator.com/docs/api/v4?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.phonevalidator.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.phonevalidator.com/phone-validator-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.phonevalidator.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://www.phonevalidator.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing