# Spirius, contact us, GET /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status: Phone validation API

> Answers questions about a phone number: which network serves it, whether it was ported and from whom, every port on record, and whether it is reachable right now.

Spirius's phone validation API on its Contact us plan. It returns 5 of the 9 key fields we check: Formats, Validity, Type, Porting and roaming, Place.
We haven't run Spirius through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
Spirius gives this plan's price on request. We rank 935 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.96 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/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number-live-status
- [Phone validation API: the best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://spirius.com/en/messaging/network-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.spirius.com/numberlookup/v1/numbers/{number}/live-status`
- API key: with the plan, on https://spirius.com/en/messaging/network-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.spirius.com/api/numberlookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing#tag/Numbers/paths/~1v1~1numbers~1{number}~1live-status/get
- Sold by: Spirius (https://spirius.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 56%
- Formats: ✓
- Validity: ✓
- Type: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓ 1 day
- Place: ✓

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- Their pitch: Answers questions about a phone number: which network serves it, whether it was ported and from whom, every port on record, and whether it is reachable right now.

## Data

- Freshness: live (service provider, service provider brands, host network MCC, host network MNC, host network name, ported, range holder, range holder MCC, range holder MNC: 1 day)
- What it checks: numbering plan, carrier, line in service
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: number. Optional: If-None-Match header
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status

## About the plan

- Plan: Contact us
- Who can get it: an account Spirius support has enabled for the API and for this view's scope (credentials and scopes come from Spirius support)

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

E.164 format, country, line type, service provider, service provider brands, host network MCC, host network MNC, host network name, ported, range holder, range holder MCC, range holder MNC, findings, data basis, data as of, data valid until, line status, status checked at, status data basis, status data as of, status data valid until

## Spirius's plans (1)

- [Spirius, contact us, GET /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number-live-status/llms.txt): 56% complete, live (service provider, service provider brands, host network MCC, host network MNC, host network name, ported, range holder, range holder MCC, range holder MNC: 1 day)

## Spirius's calls (3)

- `GET /v1/numbers/{number}`: [Spirius, contact us, GET /v1/numbers/{number}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status`: [Spirius, contact us, GET /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number-live-status/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/numbers/{number}/porting-history`: [Spirius, contact us, GET /v1/numbers/{number}/porting-history](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number-porting-history/llms.txt)

## Spirius's APIs (1)

- [Spirius: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/numbers/{number}/live-status](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/spirius/contact-us-get-v1-numbers-number-live-status/llms.txt)

## Spirius: phone validation API alternatives

- [Foxentry, contact us, Above 100 000 req / month, POST /phone/validate, Validate phone number (extended)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/foxentry/contact-us-above-100-000-req-month-post-phone-validate-validate-phone-number-extended/llms.txt): 56% complete, live
- [HLR Lookups, contact us, Postpaid account, POST /hlr-lookups](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookups/contact-us-postpaid-account-post-hlr-lookups/llms.txt): 56% complete, live
- [Data8, contact us, Bespoke deals, POST /PhoneValidation/IsValid.json, IsValid](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/data8/contact-us/llms.txt): 56% complete, live
- [Byteplant, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/byteplant/contact-us/llms.txt): 56% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://developer.spirius.com/api/numberlookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://developer.spirius.com/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://spirius.com/en/messaging/network-lookup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing