Twilio Lookup alternatives
Twilio Lookup is a phone number API sold as separately priced data packages on top of a Twilio account: validating and reformatting a number is free, and line type, caller identity, line status and risk each cost their own per-request fee. The services below are the other options in the same category, each with the figures its own public pages state as of 2026-09-10. 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, 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) |
| 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) | 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" | No free query allowance; an outbound CNAM listing is listed as free | $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) |
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, with the dataset behind every field named in the answer and the number never leaving the server.
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, with a fixed bill.
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, at the lowest published per-query price.
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