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Plivo pricing and alternatives: phone validation API

Plivo's sitellms.txtBest phone validation API in 2026
67% complete: 6 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$4.00per 1,000 phonesHalf of the 237 plans we rank by price cost $5.401 per 1,000 or less. This plan costs less than 62% of the 237 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is Twilio, top-up, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: Professional one of Plivo's 2 plans
Call: GET /v1/Number/{PhoneNumber} Plivo's only call
API: Phone validation API Plivo's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 6 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Formats, Type, Carrier, Porting and roaming, Place.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $25 or more. You spend all of it on calls. $25 is enough for 6,250 calls.
  • One call. You send PhoneNumber to GET /v1/Number/{PhoneNumber}. You set type to "carrier".
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Plivo: phone validation API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones.

This planPlivo, top-up from $25RealValidito, $50 pack, 25,000 phone lookup creditsCommPeak, top-up from $25ClearoutPhone, $400 pack, One Time 100,000 credits, POST /v1/phonenumber/validateXverify, $400 pack
$ per 1,000$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00
Completeness67%78%78%56%44%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$25$50$25$400$400
Enough for6,250 calls12,500 results6,250 calls100,000 calls100,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone with a Plivo account that Plivo support has subscribed to the Lookup Serviceself-serve signup in supported regionsanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter a binding agreement, with an account on a valid email addressanyoneanyone

Every phone validation API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-25.

  1. plivo.com/docs/faq/account/plans
  2. plivo.com/docs/faq/billing-and-invoices/payments
  3. plivo.com/docs/lookup/overview
  4. plivo.com/docs/lookup/troubleshooting
  5. plivo.com/legal/aup/
  6. plivo.com/legal/tos/
  7. plivo.com/pricing/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Number
  • Formats
  • Validity, not in the answer
  • Type
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$4.00
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Percall
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve carrier, formatting, and portability information for phone numbers
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use data"integrate the Services into any Customer Application that has material value independent of the Services" (Terms of Service 2.1), "only for lawful purposes" (Acceptable Use Policy)
Plan
Pay$25
You get$25
Enough for6,250 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendPhoneNumber, type "carrier"
MethodGET
Path/v1/Number/{PhoneNumber}
About the plan
PlanProfessional
Who can get itanyone with a Plivo account that Plivo support has subscribed to the Lookup Service
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, phone number, country name, country ISO2 code, country ISO3 code, E.164 format, national format, international format, RFC 3966 format, carrier, line type, mobile country code, mobile network code, ported, resource URI

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