IPQualityScore Phone Validation alternatives
IPQualityScore Phone Validation is the phone side of a fraud-scoring service: one API returns validity, carrier, line type and a 0 to 100 fraud score, with live-line, identity, do-not-call and SMS-pumping data as add-ons, on the same monthly plans as its IP, email and URL checks. The services below are the other options in the same category, each with the figures its own public pages state as of 2026-09-27. Spaw is listed first because this is Spaw's site; the side-by-side comparison has the full table.
| service | pricing model | free tier | price per 1,000 at ~10k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spaw | Pay-as-you-go credit packs whose credits never expire, or optional plans, billed monthly or yearly, that deposit the same credits every month for less and roll unused plan credits over up to three months' allowance; both through Stripe Checkout | 100 free credits every month, no card required | $7.80 (Growth pack: 5,000 credits for $39), or $5.80 on the Growth monthly plan (5,000 credits for $29 a month) |
| Abstract Phone Validation | Monthly request quotas on three plans that differ by the data returned: Starter (validation, location, carrier) from $19 a month for 5,000 requests to $199 for 150,000; Standard (adds messaging) from $19 for 3,000 to $199 for 100,000; Professional (adds registration and risk) from $19 for 2,000 to $199 for 50,000. Annual billing saves 10%; the pricing page quotes $3.40 per 1,000 requests at Starter's entry volume, billed annually | 100 requests a month with no card, on the full response including registration and risk | not on the pages read |
| ClearoutPhone | Credits that never expire, bought one time or through monthly or annual subscriptions that add them each period and carry them forward. One Time, each shown as a starting price: 5,000 credits from $35, 10,000 from $58, 100,000 from $400 and 1,000,000 from $1,200. Standard validation is 1 credit; Smart validation is 1 credit for most numbers and up to 5 when it runs a deeper real-time check | 100 free credits on sign-up, one validation each | $5.80 per 1,000 one time (10,000 credits for $58), $5.20 on the monthly plan (10,000 credits for $52 a month) or $3.20 on the annual plan as its tab rendered ("Buy 120,000 credits for $384 billed yearly", 10,000 a month), although the page labels annual billing "Save 20%" against one-time prices; a Smart validation that runs the deeper check costs up to 5 credits |
| Loqate Phone Validation | Pay-as-you-go credit purchases of £50, £100, £250, £500 and £1,000 (or 75€, 150€ and 300€), each buying a published per-lookup rate for every service, plus bespoke plans; "Credit is valid for 12 months after the purchase date". Phone Validation on the "New Pricing" table is 7.1p, 6.7p, 5.6p, 4.7p and 4.1p a lookup across the pound tiers and 8.6c, 7.8c and 6.6c across the euro ones. The page also shows an "Old Pricing" table without saying which accounts each applies to; the figures here are from "New Pricing". Its usage-example selector also lists a £2,500 plan that neither table prices, and all prices exclude VAT. | A trial rather than a standing tier: "Start your 45-day free trial"; the FAQ adds "You get free credits to test the service" | £47 per 1,000 (4.7p a lookup) on the £500 credit, which buys about 10,600 lookups; the smaller credits run from 7.1p (£50) to 5.6p (£250) |
| numlookupapi | Monthly subscription tiers by request quota: Free $0 for 100 requests, Basic $9.99 for 5,000, Pro $49.99 for 50,000, Scale $109.99 for 250,000, and Custom by contact; the page offers yearly billing at 20% off. Scale and Custom list "Overages" with no overage price shown, and the quota documentation says a request over the monthly quota answers 429 until the plan is upgraded or the month ends. | 100 requests a month on one API key, at 10 requests a minute | not on the pages read |
| numverify | Monthly subscription tiers by request quota: Free 100 requests, Basic $14.99 for 5,000, Professional $59.99 for 50,000, Enterprise $129.99 for 250,000, each with a published overage price per call ($0.011992, $0.0047992 and $0.00207984 respectively); annual billing saves up to 15%, and custom pricing is offered above the Enterprise quota | 100 API requests a month, for non-commercial use | not on the pages read |
| Telnyx Number Lookup | Per query, priced per lookup type, with "$0 platform fee"; pay as you go gets "Automatic tier discounts as usage crosses thresholds", committed plans start at $500 a month, and inbound CNAM is $0.40 per number per month | An outbound CNAM listing at no charge; the pages read list no free query allowance | $1.50 per 1,000 for a local routing number query ($0.0015 a query), $2.50 for MCC/MNC ($0.0025) and $3.00 for CNAM ($0.003) |
| Twilio Lookup | Per request, priced per data package on a Twilio account ("Pricing current as of August 2026"); line status and reassigned number risk are tiered by query volume, and SIM swap and call forwarding are contact sales | Formatting and validation are listed as Free, and so is the SMS Pumping Risk Score for North American numbers; no free allowance is published for the other packages | $8.00 per 1,000 for line type intelligence ($0.008 per request), $10.00 for inbound caller identification ($0.01, US only), $100.00 for identity match ($0.1, which the page says varies by country) |
| Veriphone | One-time credit packs that never expire, from 10,000 credits for $24 to 5,000,000 for $999, or monthly plans whose credits reset each month: Starter $12.99 for 10,000, Professional $39 for 50,000, Business $99 for 250,000 and Enterprise $249 for 1,000,000. A standard validation is 1 credit and a Current Carrier Lookup 10 | 1,000 free credits a month with no card, not carried over; on the free plan a Current Carrier Lookup draws on purchased credits only | $2.40 per 1,000 on the 10,000-credit pack ($24, credits never expire), or $1.30 on the Starter plan (10,000 credits a month for $12.99, reset each month). A Current Carrier Lookup takes 10 credits, so ten times those figures |
Spaw
Verification API that bills per answered lookup across six signals on one key and one balance: Email verification, Phone intelligence, IP intelligence, Address verification, Business verification against open registers, and Cross-signal consistency, which runs any subset of the first four in one call and names where they agree and where they do not. The phone side reads the numbering plan and the regulators' own allocation tables to name the line type, the block holder and the blocks nobody holds, and flags the numbers that are not a person's handset.
Developers who want the numbering plan and the regulators' own allocation tables read for them, the dataset behind every field named in the answer, and an SMS policy that turns the evidence into ok_to_send and blocked_by — a fraud and deliverability decision, not consent and not a do-not-call scrub. Every answer is made on the server: the opt-in live carrier-network check, the one call that would send a number to a partner, is not enabled on the service.
Abstract Phone Validation
Abstract Phone Validation is a phone API from Abstract sold as monthly request quotas on three data tiers, returning carrier, line type and location, with messaging from Standard up and registration and risk on Professional and the Free plan; the Professional example response also carries breach history.
Teams already on Abstract's other APIs that want phone validation, and on the Professional plan registration, risk and breach fields, under a monthly quota.
ClearoutPhone
ClearoutPhone is a phone validation service from Clearout sold as credits that never expire, with a 1-credit Standard mode and a Smart mode that runs a real-time telecom query, at up to 5 credits, where static data is uncertain.
Sales and marketing teams cleaning CSV or XLSX contact lists before calling or texting, with a real-time check they can switch on for numbers static data cannot settle.
Loqate Phone Validation
Loqate Phone Validation checks a number's format, carrier and, for mobile numbers, its live network status through an HLR lookup, priced per lookup from the same pay-as-you-go credit balance as Loqate's address, email and bank validation.
Teams already using Loqate for address capture that want a live network check on mobile numbers at the form, billed from the same credit balance.
numlookupapi
numlookupapi is a phone number validation API sold as a monthly request quota: one validate endpoint returns validity, formats, country, location, carrier and line type.
A form or a script that needs validity, formats, country, carrier and line type at a small monthly volume on a fixed bill, or an AI agent calling it over MCP.
numverify
numverify is a phone number validation API sold as a monthly request quota, returning validity, country and location, carrier and line type.
A form or a script that needs validity, country, carrier and line type at a small monthly volume, on a monthly plan with per-call overage.
Telnyx Number Lookup
Telnyx Number Lookup is a per-query number API sold beside Telnyx's carrier services, priced separately for local routing number (portability and carrier), MCC/MNC, and CNAM caller name.
Teams that need to know who serves a number today, on numbers that have been ported, priced per dip from $0.0015 a query.
Twilio Lookup
Twilio Lookup is a phone number API sold as separately priced data packages on top of a Twilio account: formatting and validation are free, and line type, caller identity, line status and the risk packages are each priced on their own, per request (the SMS Pumping Risk Score is free for North American numbers) or through sales for SIM swap and call forwarding.
Teams already sending messages through Twilio that want line type, caller identity and SMS-pumping risk billed on the same account as their traffic.
Veriphone
Veriphone is a phone validation API sold as credit packs or monthly plans, returning validity, carrier, line type and region from national numbering plans, with a 10-credit Current Carrier Lookup read from national portability registries.
Teams that want numbering-plan validation with carrier and line type at a low per-number price, and the carrier serving a number today from portability registries when they pay for it.
Start with the free grant
Every Spaw account gets free credits every month with no card. Verify a sample from your list and compare the verdicts before you commit to anything.
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