# The Data Group, free: Phone validation API

> The Data Group’s Phone Verification service ensures that your phone data is accurate and reliable, with match rates up to 90% at a cost of only $0.02 per record.

The Data Group's phone validation API on its Free test plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 phones. It returns 4 of the 9 key fields we check: Number, Validity, Type, Porting and roaming.
We haven't run The Data Group through [our phone validation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 768 plans for phone validation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.60 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/free
- [Phone validation API: 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-phone-validation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://thedatagroup.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Request: Docs on request from sales
- API key: with the plan, on https://thedatagroup.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://thedatagroup.com/data-verification-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- Sold by: The Data Group (https://thedatagroup.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: ✓
- Type: ✓
- Porting and roaming: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 phones: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Data Group’s Phone Verification service ensures that your phone data is accurate and reliable, with match rates up to 90% at a cost of only $0.02 per record.

## Data

- Keep data: "All Data provided under this Agreement is only available for Licensee’s one-time use." [...] "Licensee shall not make or cause to make any copies of the Data for any reason." [...] On termination or expiration: "Licensee shall not retain any portion of the Data and shall discontinue all use of the Data and, within thirty (30) days, erase, purge, destroy and/or return to Data Group any and all Data"
- Use data: "Licensee agrees that it shall use the Data only for its own internal and lawful direct marketing purposes." [...] "Licensee shall not provide the Data, in whole or in part, nor shall it provide any subset of the Data, to any third party as a stand-alone product, file or database." [...] "Licensee is prohibited from reselling, sublicensing, or otherwise providing the Data to any third-party." [...] "Licensee shall not use any Data as a factor in determining a consumer’s credit qualifications for (a) credit or insurance used primarily for personal, family or household purposes, (b) employment purposes, or (c) other purposes set forth in Section 604 of the FCRA" [...] "Licensee shall not use the Data as part of an application that provides name or phone number lookups to companies providing live-operator directory assistance services."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## The call

- You send: Docs on request from sales

## About the plan

- Plan: Free test
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

line type, record type, phone owner, ported, reassigned, disconnected, last validation date

## The Data Group's plans (3)

- [The Data Group, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 44% complete
- [The Data Group, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 44% complete
- [The Data Group, contact us, Pay per lookup](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/contact-us-pay-per-lookup/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 44% complete

## The Data Group's calls for this API (1)

- Docs on request from sales: [The Data Group, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)

## The Data Group's APIs (6)

- [The Data Group: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: email finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: phone finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: phone validation API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: reverse email lookup API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/the-data-group/free/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /append/demographic](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/the-data-group/free-test-post-append-demographic/llms.txt)
- [The Data Group: people enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /lookup/phone](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/the-data-group/free-test-post-lookup-phone/llms.txt)

## The Data Group: phone validation API alternatives

- [Trestle, top-up from $10, Self-Serve, pay as you go, GET /3.0/phone_intel, Phone Validation API, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/trestle/top-up-from-10-self-serve-pay-as-you-go-get-3-0-phone-intel-phone-validation-api-full/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [RealValidito, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/realvalidito/20-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 78% complete
- [2Chat, $40 monthly, Single Plan, GET /open/whatsapp/check-number/{your-number}/{number-to-check}, Check Number](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/2chat/40-monthly-single-plan-get-open-whatsapp-check-number-your-number-number-to-check-check-number/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [SearchBug, top-up from $10, Monthly, Do Not Call List](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/searchbug/top-up-from-10-monthly-do-not-call-list/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 11% complete

## 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://thedatagroup.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://thedatagroup.com/data-verification-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://thedatagroup.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing
- https://thedatagroup.com/terms-condition?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=phone-validation-api-pricing