# Loqate alternatives for address verification

Address verification APIs to consider instead of Loqate, with the pricing model, free tier and price per 1,000 lookups each vendor publishes. Figures come from public pricing pages checked on 2026-09-10.

| Service | Pricing model | Free tier | Price per 1,000 at about 10k |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Spaw](https://spaw.co) | Pay-as-you-go credit packs, or optional monthly plans that deposit the same credits every month for less; both through Stripe Checkout, credits from either never expire | 10 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) |
| [Postcoder](https://postcoder.com) | Credit packs (500 to 200,000 credits, "valid for 12 months from purchase") or monthly plans (1,000 to 100,000 credits, with unused credits not carried over). "Your credits can be used for any Postcoder request." The pack prices themselves render as placeholders ("£--") on the page. | A free trial is offered; its duration and allowance are not stated on the pricing page | £100 per 1,000 UK address lookups pay-as-you-go (10.00p a request, 2.0 credits) or £45 per 1,000 on a monthly plan (4.50p). This is the address comparison, so only the address rate is quoted: the same account buys email and mobile validation at their own per-request rates, which are read off the same page. |
| [Smarty](https://www.smarty.com) | Annual lookup bundles on the Professional plan from $552 a year, sized 12K, 60K, 120K, 300K, 600K, 1M or 2M lookups; a monthly option and bespoke Custom pricing are offered. Only the $552 entry price is shown on the page. | A free trial rather than a standing tier: "42 days" and "1,000 address lookups", "No credit card required" | not on the pages read |

## 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 address side reads a written address against its own country's format, names the kind of delivery point behind it, checks the postcode against the national directory and follows the building into that country's own address register where one is installed.

## Postcoder

Postcoder is a UK-first address lookup API sold as credits that any of its services can spend: address lookup, bank validation, email validation, mobile validation and OTP verification, each costing a published number of credits per request.

Comparison: https://spaw.co/compare/postcoder

## Smarty

Smarty sells US address verification against postal data: a lookup validates to the secondary level and returns delivery-point metadata that open registers cannot answer, including a DPV match code, the residential indicator and vacancy status.

Comparison: https://spaw.co/compare/smarty

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Reference: https://spaw.co/alternatives/loqate