# Plivo, top-up from $25: Phone validation API

> Retrieve carrier, formatting, and portability information for phone numbers

Plivo's phone validation API on its Professional plan. It costs $4.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 6 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Formats, Type, Carrier, Porting and roaming, Place.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/twilio/top-up/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/plivo/top-up-from-25
- [Best phone validation API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://www.plivo.com/docs/lookup/overview#look-up-a-phone-number
- Sold by: Plivo (https://www.plivo.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-25

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Number: ✓
- Formats: ✓
- Type: ✓
- Carrier: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓
- Place: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $4.00
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: call

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve carrier, formatting, and portability information for phone numbers

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 for: 6,250 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: PhoneNumber, type "carrier"
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/Number/{PhoneNumber}

## About the plan

- Plan: Professional
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Plivo's plans (2)

- [Plivo, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/plivo/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Plivo, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/plivo/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete

## Plivo's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/Number/{PhoneNumber}`: [Plivo, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/plivo/top-up-from-25/llms.txt)

## Plivo's APIs (1)

- [Plivo: phone validation API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/plivo/top-up-from-25/llms.txt)

## Plivo: phone validation API alternatives

- [RealValidito, $50 pack, 25,000 phone lookup credits](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/realvalidito/50-pack-25000-phone-lookup-credits/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [CommPeak, top-up from $25](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/commpeak/top-up-from-25/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 78% complete, live
- [ClearoutPhone, $400 pack, One Time 100,000 credits, POST /v1/phonenumber/validate](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/clearoutphone/400-pack-one-time-100000-credits-post-v1-phonenumber-validate/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 56% complete
- [Xverify, $400 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/xverify/400-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 44% 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 2026-10-25.

- https://www.plivo.com/docs/faq/account/plans
- https://www.plivo.com/docs/faq/billing-and-invoices/payments
- https://www.plivo.com/docs/lookup/overview
- https://www.plivo.com/docs/lookup/troubleshooting
- https://www.plivo.com/legal/aup/
- https://www.plivo.com/legal/tos/
- https://www.plivo.com/pricing/