# Pinnacle, pay as you go, Basic lookup: Phone validation API

> Identify if a phone number can receive RCS ahead of time, number lookup for deliverability, and get higher throughputs with secondary vetting and short codes

Pinnacle's Basic lookup plan for the phone validation API costs $10.00 per 1,000 phones. We check each provider's docs for 9 fields. Pinnacle's docs list 5: Formats, Validity, Type, Carrier, Place.
We haven't run Pinnacle through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,266 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.55 or less per 1,000 phones. This plan costs less per 1,000 phones than 24% of the 1,266 plans.
[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. [Neutrino API's On-Demand plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/neutrino-api/pay-as-you-go-on-demand/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 phones a month: $0.80.
[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), [Data247](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/data247/12-pack-membership-get-v3-0-verify247-phone/llms.txt) and [Abstract API](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/abstract-api/19-monthly-starter-5000-requests-month/llms.txt) are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/pay-as-you-go-basic-lookup
- [Phone validation API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://pinnacle.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.pinnacle.sh/phone-numbers/details`
- API key: with the plan, on https://pinnacle.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.pinnacle.sh/api-reference/phone-numbers/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: Pinnacle (https://pinnacle.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 phones: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Send SMS Message · Send MMS Message · Send RCS Message · Blast SMS to Audience · Blast MMS to Audience · Blast RCS to Audience

## In their words

- Their pitch: Identify if a phone number can receive RCS ahead of time, number lookup for deliverability, and get higher throughputs with secondary vetting and short codes

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Countries: United States
- What it checks: numbering plan, carrier
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free licence to access the Services solely for your internal business purposes, except as otherwise expressly authorized by Pinnacle in writing

## Plan

- Pay: monthly

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone, level "basic" or "advanced". Optional: options.force, options.risk, options.enhanced_contact_info.context
- Method: POST
- Path: /phone-numbers/details

## About the plan

- Plan: Basic lookup
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a contract (Terms of Service section 3)

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

valid, line type, international format, national format, raw format, country, country code, country dialing prefix, location, carrier, registered name

## Pinnacle's plans (3)

- [Pinnacle, pay as you go, Basic lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/pay-as-you-go-basic-lookup/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 56% complete, 3 hours
- [Pinnacle, pay as you go, Advanced lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/pay-as-you-go-advanced-lookup/llms.txt): $700.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [Pinnacle, contact us, One plan. Every feature., POST /phone-numbers/details](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/contact-us-one-plan-every-feature-post-phone-numbers-details/llms.txt): 67% complete, 3 hours

## Pinnacle's calls (2)

- `POST /phone-numbers/details`: [Pinnacle, pay as you go, Basic lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/pay-as-you-go-basic-lookup/llms.txt)
- `POST /rcs/capabilities`: [Pinnacle, contact us, One plan. Every feature., POST /rcs/capabilities](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/contact-us-one-plan-every-feature-post-rcs-capabilities/llms.txt)

## Pinnacle's APIs (1)

- [Pinnacle: phone validation API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/pinnacle/pay-as-you-go-basic-lookup/llms.txt)

## Pinnacle: phone validation API alternatives

- [1Lookup, $1,999 monthly, Enterprise, POST /bulk/jobs, Create a bulk job (type hlr_lookup)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/1lookup/1999-monthly-enterprise-post-bulk-jobs-create-a-bulk-job-type-hlr-lookup/llms.txt): $9.995 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [RealValidito, $10 pack, 1,000 phone lookup credits](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/realvalidito/10-pack-1000-phone-lookup-credits/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 1 day
- [Omkar Cloud, $16 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/omkar-cloud/16-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [HLR Lookup, £12.50 pack, 2,500 lookups, POST /apiv2/mnp, MNP-only lookup, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/12-50-pack-2500-lookups-post-apiv2-mnp-mnp-only-lookup-full/llms.txt): $10.001 per 1,000, 89% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://docs.pinnacle.sh/api-reference/phone-numbers/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://pinnacle.sh/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing