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Telesign pricing: phone validation API

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56% complete: 5 of the 9 key fields we checkSee the 9 fields
$0.00per 1,000 phonesWe haven't run Telesign through our phone validation API benchmark yet.This plan is free. 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 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, Foxentry and HLR Lookups are the best phone validation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free trial account one of Telesign's 4 plans
Call: POST /v1/phoneid/{complete_phone_number} Telesign's only call
API: Phone validation API Telesign's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 9 key fields we check. Number, Validity, Type, Carrier, Place.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit, enough for about 454 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You send complete_phone_number to POST /v1/phoneid/{complete_phone_number}. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send account_lifecycle_event, external_id, originating_ip, addons and consent. The call returns whether the number is valid.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Telesign: phone validation API alternatives

Telesign alternatives: every phone validation API provider ranked

The table starts with Telesign's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 phones closest to Telesign's.

Telesign, top-upVeriphone, $129.90 yearly, Starter, GET /v3/verify, /v3/verify, fullZelNum, $200 pack, Pay as you go, $200 top-up, POST /realtime/check/{series}, Viber Number Checker (realtime)Databar, $10,507 yearlyBlockRun, pay as you go, Enterprise
$ per 1,000 phones$11.00$10.825$10.909$10.945$11.00
Completeness56%78%11%33%22%
Billingpay firstyearlypay firstyearlypay as you go
Payany amount$129.90$200$10,507monthly
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000 calls a monthabout 18,333 calls960,000 calls a yearas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itany company with an upgraded account (the Client is the company entered in the sign-up page's Company Name field)anyoneanyonebusinesses, universities and other organizations, not consumersanyone given access (its FAQ: sign-in is not yet open, reach out on Telegram for early access), outside the countries and regions under comprehensive U.S. sanctions

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. developer.telesign.com/enterprise/docs/phone-id-get-started
  2. developer.telesign.com/enterprise/reference/submitphonenumberforidentity
  3. support.telesign.com/s/article/How-does-my-Telesign-trial-account-work
  4. telesign.com/acceptable-use-policy
  5. telesign.com/pricing/identity-pricing
  6. telesign.com/products/phone-id
  7. telesign.com/telesign-terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Number
  • Formats, not in the answer
  • Validity
  • Type
  • Carrier
  • Porting and roaming, not in the answer
  • Place
  • Risk, not in the answer
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 phones$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Send an SMS message · Send SMS verification code · Submit a phone number to evaluate · Get contact details
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchTap into the world’s largest, most comprehensive mobile identity dataset. With Phone ID you can verify user identities on a global scale, strengthen internal risk models, and optimize your messaging framework.
Data
CountriesWorldwide
What it checksnumbering plan
Keep datano limit
Use dataClient agrees to use the Self-Service Services solely for its own internal analysis to evaluate and determine the acceptability of the Self-Service Services and whether Client has an interest in obtaining, as appropriate, the Self Service. Services from Telesign for use by Client. Client is prohibited from using the Self-Service Services for any other purposes whatsoever (including any commercial purpose), until and unless Client Upgrades its account
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough forabout 454 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendcomplete_phone_number, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: account_lifecycle_event, external_id, originating_ip, addons, consent
MethodPOST
Path/v1/phoneid/{complete_phone_number}
About the plan
PlanFree trial account
Who can get itanyone who signs up for a trial account (no credit card required), Phone ID runs on verified test phone numbers only
The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

reference ID, external ID, status code, status description, status updated on, city, state, ZIP code, metro code, county, country name, country ISO2 code, country ISO3 code, latitude, longitude, time zone name, time zone UTC offset minimum, time zone UTC offset maximum, original complete phone number, original country code, original phone number, cleansed country code, cleansed phone number, cleansed code, minimum length, maximum length, line type code, line type, blocked, block code, block description, carrier name

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