# SMSGatewayHub, contact us: Phone validation API > This method allows you to get the Number Context information for the requested phone numbers over HTTP. SMSGatewayHub's phone validation API on its Custom rate card plan. It returns 4 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Validity, Carrier, Porting and roaming. We haven't run SMSGatewayHub through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet. SMSGatewayHub gives this plan's price on request. 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/smsgatewayhub/contact-us - [Phone validation API: 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) - Get it: https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Request: `POST https://vapi.smsgatewayhub.com/number/1/query` - API key: with the plan, on https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Its API docs: https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/HLR-LOOK-UP-API-DETAILS.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - Sold by: SMSGatewayHub (https://www.smsgatewayhub.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing) - Checked: 2026-11-04 ## In the answer - Completeness: 44% - Number: ✓ - Validity: ✓ - Carrier: ✓ - Porting and roaming: ✓ ## Price - Billing: contact ## Aggregators - Aggregators: none ## Charges - Also pays for: nothing else ## In their words - Their pitch: This method allows you to get the Number Context information for the requested phone numbers over HTTP. ## Data - What it checks: carrier - Keep data: no limit - Use data: Without prior written consent, the User shall not: (i) allow or facilitate use of the APIs by any person other than itself, (ii) develop or build any product or service using the APIs for use by others, or (iii) redistribute, resell, or reuse the APIs, or any product/service built using them. [...] The User shall not, without smsgatewayhub's prior written consent, [...] nor reproduce, redistribute, or sell any information, Software, Services, or benefits obtained from the Site except as expressly provided herein. [...] The User shall not use the Services to: [...] harvest third-party information, including e-mail addresses, without express consent, [...] violate any Applicable Law. ## Speed - Answer: in the call ## The call - You send: to, Content-Type header "application/json", Accept header "application/json" - Method: POST - Path: /number/1/query ## About the plan - Plan: Custom rate card - Who can get it: anyone who registers an account, for itself and not as an intermediary acting for a third party ## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold phone number, bulk ID, MCC MNC, IMSI, original network name, original network prefix, original network country, original network country prefix, ported, ported network name, ported network prefix, ported network country, ported network country prefix, roaming, roaming network name, roaming network prefix, roaming network country, roaming network country prefix, serving MSC, status group ID, status group name, status ID, status name, status description, status action, error group ID, error group name, error ID, error name, error description, error permanent ## SMSGatewayHub's plans (1) - [SMSGatewayHub, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/smsgatewayhub/contact-us/llms.txt): 44% complete ## SMSGatewayHub's calls for this API (1) - `POST /number/1/query`: [SMSGatewayHub, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/smsgatewayhub/contact-us/llms.txt) ## SMSGatewayHub's APIs (2) - [SMSGatewayHub: email verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /cpaas/v1/email-verify.ashx, Verify a list](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/smsgatewayhub/free-post-cpaas-v1-email-verify-ashx-verify-a-list/llms.txt) - [SMSGatewayHub: email verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /cpaas/v1/email-verify.ashx, Verify one address](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/smsgatewayhub/free-post-cpaas-v1-email-verify-ashx-verify-one-address/llms.txt) - [SMSGatewayHub: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/smsgatewayhub/contact-us/llms.txt) ## SMSGatewayHub: phone validation API alternatives - [HLR Lookups, contact us, Postpaid account, POST /mnp-lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookups/contact-us-postpaid-account-post-mnp-lookups/llms.txt): 44% complete, live - [CallerAPI, contact us, Enterprise transparency $40,000+, GET /api/network-lookup/{phone}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/callerapi/contact-us-enterprise-transparency-40000-get-api-network-lookup-phone/llms.txt): 44% complete, live - [Addressfinder, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/addressfinder/contact-us/llms.txt): 44% complete, live - [Trestle, contact us, Enterprise, GET /2.0/real_contact, Real Contact API, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/trestle/contact-us-enterprise-get-2-0-real-contact-real-contact-api-full/llms.txt): 44% complete, stored - [Route Mobile, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/route-mobile/contact-us/llms.txt): 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 2026-11-04. - https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/HLR-LOOK-UP-API-DETAILS.pdf?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/communications-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing - https://www.smsgatewayhub.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing