Spaw vs Loqate
Loqate sells address capture and address verification alongside email, phone and bank validation, priced per lookup from a pay-as-you-go credit balance, with international data for over 245 countries and territories.
The table uses Loqate's public pricing and documentation pages as checked on 2026-09-22, and Spaw's own pricing page. A row those pages carry no value for is marked "not on the pages read" rather than guessed at, and that is a statement about the reading and not about what Loqate publishes.
| spaw | loqate | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | 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 | 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" and there are no setup costs. The pricing page shows two rate tables headed "New Pricing" and "Old Pricing" 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. |
| Free tier | 100 free credits every month, no card required | A trial rather than a standing tier: "Start your 45-day free trial"; the FAQ adds "You get free credits to test the service" |
| Price per 1,000 at about 10k | $7.80 (Growth pack: 5,000 credits for $39), or $5.80 on the Growth monthly plan (5,000 credits for $29 a month) | £82 to £86 per 1,000 Address Verify lookups on the "New Pricing" table: 8.2p a lookup on the £100, £250 and £500 tiers and 8.6p on the £50 and £1,000 tiers. Address Capture is 8.6p to 4.9p in the UK and 7.1p to 4.1p for the rest of the world. |
| Price per 1,000 at about 100k | $4.49 (Volume pack: 100,000 credits for $449), or $3.49 on the Volume monthly plan (100,000 credits for $349 a month) | £82 to £86 per 1,000 Address Verify lookups on every published tier (8.2p on the £100, £250 and £500 tiers, 8.6p on £50 and £1,000); larger volumes are quoted bespoke ("For more credits or tailor-made plans get in touch"). |
| Addresses no register covered billed | An address that stands as written costs 1 credit whether or not a register carried the building; where no register covers the country, exists answers null rather than a verdict | not on the pages read |
| Addresses that cannot stand billed | No: an address that cannot stand as written is free whatever the reason, and so are repeats within 7 days and rows repeating an address already in the same job | not on the pages read |
| Registers held | Open address registers for 23 countries and territories, each named in the answer with the coverage its own publisher claims. Complete, building by building: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. Partial, building by building: Brazil, France (with French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin and St. Pierre & Miquelon), Germany and United States. Partial, streets only: Great Britain. House-number ranges as well: United States. Absence from a partial register is never read as evidence that an address does not exist. | Not published as a register list. The Address Verify documentation describes "postal authority datasets and proprietary enhanced data covering countries worldwide", and the pricing page offers enhanced UK datasets ("Eircodes, Multi-Residence, Not Yet Built data and Property Attributes data") on request. |
| Country coverage | Postal formats for 207 countries and territories: the line layout for 199 of them, and the required fields and postcode pattern wherever the table records them; 52 postal operators' rules for naming a delivery point that is not a street; open address registers for 23 countries and territories; postcode directories for Great Britain from the ONS Postcode Directory, with Northern Ireland excluded because reusing BT postcodes needs a separate licence, and for 108 more countries and territories from GeoNames' postal codes. | The pricing page states "international data for over 245 countries and territories"; the Address Verify page states "Coverage for 250 countries and territories". |
| Claims post is delivered | No, and every answer says so: is_deliverable, is_cmra, is_vacant and is_residential answer null because that check is licensed and not enabled here. exists is a match in an open address register, never a statement that post arrives. | Not as a yes or no. Every valid Address Verify result carries an Address Verification Code giving the level it was verified to, "broadly to Administrative Area or Locality, or more closely to Thoroughfare, Premise or Delivery Point", and the documentation says some countries can be validated "all the way down to Delivery Point" while others only to a broad Administrative Area level. |
| Bulk limit | 100,000 addresses per bulk job, with an HMAC-signed completion webhook | not on the pages read |
| Batch API | 100 addresses per synchronous request | Offered: Address Verify "Supports individual address validation via API or bulk dataset processing through batch operations"; no limit is stated on the pages read. |
| Rate limit | 50 requests per second per key on the address endpoints | not on the pages read |
| Official SDKs | Python, Node.js, PHP | not on the pages read |
| Data retention | No history row and no log line carrying the address. What a lookup leaves is the 7-day marker that makes a repeat free and the count behind seen_by_you, both kept under a digest, never the address. The address itself is kept only on the account's own suppression list and in its monitors. Bulk input lists and result files are deleted with the job after 30 days. | not on the pages read |
checked 2026-09-22 · sources: Loqate pricing, Loqate Address Verify, Loqate Address Verify documentation
When Loqate fits better
Teams that want address capture in a checkout across many countries, with email, phone and bank validation billed from the same balance.
- Address, email, phone and bank validation all draw on the same credit balance
- Every rate is published per lookup, per tier, on one page, in pounds and in euros
- Address Capture charges only the Retrieve step; the Find requests made while a customer types are free
- Address Verify also runs on premises, on Kubernetes, with no part of the verification needing the internet
- A 45-day free trial
When Spaw fits better
Developers who want a written address parsed against its own country's rules and checked against open registers, where a field nobody could evaluate answers null instead of a guess.
- Loqate prices each service separately per lookup; a Spaw credit buys an answer on any of its six signals at the same rate, or five on IP
- Loqate publishes a country count, not a register list; every Spaw address answer names the register that answered and whether its publisher calls coverage complete or partial
- Spaw returns 61 fields including the delivery-point type, the postcode's status in the national directory and how many companies are registered at the address
- Spaw charges nothing for an address that cannot stand as written, whatever the reason
Questions
Does Spaw charge for addresses no register covers?
An address that stands as written costs 1 credit, whether or not a register carried the building. An address that cannot stand costs nothing, whatever the reason, and a repeat within seven days is free. Where no register covers the country, or where the register that answered covers only part of it, exists answers null — not evaluated — rather than a verdict, and the not_in_register weight cannot fire. Loqate does not publish how it bills them.
Can I move an address list from Loqate to Spaw?
Yes. Upload the CSV in the dashboard or POST it to the bulk endpoint, up to 100,000 addresses a job; Spaw keeps your columns and adds 64 result columns after them (the address as submitted, the answer, the datasets behind it, what the row cost and whether your suppression list answered it), and a country column gives each row its own country. Rows repeating an address already in the list are answered once, cost nothing, and are counted as duplicates.
Is there a free tier?
Every Spaw account receives 100 free credits at the start of each month with no card on file, and unused free credits accumulate. Loqate offers: A trial rather than a standing tier: "Start your 45-day free trial"; the FAQ adds "You get free credits to test the service".
Try Spaw on your own list
Free credits every month, no card. Upload a list, keep your columns, and download only the rows you want. See the pricing page for every rule, or the Loqate alternatives.
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