# Vonage, top-up: Phone validation API

> The Vonage Identity Insights API provides real-time access to a broad range of attributes related to the carrier, subscriber, or device associated with a phone number.

Vonage's phone validation API on its Pay per Request plan, $0.00 per 1,000 phones.
The median plan costs $3.313 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 96% of the 97 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/vonage/top-up
- Get it: https://www.vonage.co.uk/communications-apis/identity-insights/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://developer.vonage.com/en/api/identity-insights
- Sold by: Vonage (https://www.vonage.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-14

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Per: call
- Extra fields: original carrier, original line type, original carrier country code, original MCC-MNC, data status, status message: +$1.17 · current carrier, current line type, current carrier country code, current MCC-MNC, data status, status message: +$8.19

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Vonage Identity Insights API provides real-time access to a broad range of attributes related to the carrier, subscriber, or device associated with a phone number.

## Data

- Keep data: as Vonage's Identity Insights supplemental terms set, whose text its site doesn't serve
- Use data: business use only, the service not resold except within your own application, and as Vonage's Identity Insights supplemental terms set, whose text its site doesn't serve

## Plan

- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: phone_number, insights, purpose
- Method: POST
- Path: /requests

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per Request
- Who can get it: organizations, or individuals acting mainly for business purposes

## The 11 fields in the plan's answer

request ID, country code, country, country calling code, location, time zone, E.164 format, local format, valid, data status, status message

## Vonage's plans (2)

- [Vonage, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/vonage/top-up/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000
- [Vonage, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/vonage/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Vonage's calls (1)

- `POST /requests`: [Vonage, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/vonage/top-up/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Abstract API, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 1 day
- [APILayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/apilayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, stored
- [Byteplant, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/byteplant/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, live
- [HLR Lookup, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/hlr-lookup/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-14.

- https://developer.vonage.com/api/v1/developer/api/file/identity-insights?format=yml
- https://developer.vonage.com/en/account/guides/payments
- https://developer.vonage.com/en/api/identity-insights
- https://developer.vonage.com/en/identity-insights/guides/number-insights-transition
- https://developer.vonage.com/en/identity-insights/overview
- https://developer.vonage.com/en/number-insight/overview
- https://developer.vonage.com/llms.txt
- https://www.vonage.co.uk/communications-apis/identity-insights/pricing/
- https://www.vonage.com/legal/communications-apis/supplemental-terms/identity-insights/
- https://www.vonage.com/legal/communications-apis/terms-of-use/