The FTC publishes every reported call as a raw record, and 1Lookup turns one phone number into its count, subjects and months for $0.010.

The reports people file with the FTC about unwanted calls, published as a data set. It comes two ways: daily CSV files on the FTC's data page and an API that needs an api.data.gov key. Each record carries the number that called, the date the report was created, the date of the call, the consumer's city, state and area code, the subject and whether it was a recorded message or robocall. The FTC says the data is typically updated each weekday by about noon Eastern time.

The FTC's data page and API page print no price. The CSV files are download links on the page, and the API asks for a valid api.data.gov API key on every request. Checked October 2026.

2 credits per number with reports, free when the number has no reports. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) a number is about $0.010, which covers 10,000 numbers a month and is $9.90 per 1,000. At the Enterprise end of the rate card it is about $0.004. The FTC prints no price, so the difference is the work: 1Lookup does the paging, the matching and the adding up.

Its documented filters are the date created, the date of the call, state, city, area code and the robocall flag. A filter by the number that called is not listed: the phone number is a response field only. A count for one number is therefore something you build from the records, paging 50 at a time (the page says 50 is also the maximum allowed). 1Lookup takes the number and returns the count.

It does the lookup by number and the arithmetic. You send a phone number and get the number of reports, how many said a recorded message or robocall and their share, the subjects with their counts, a count for each month, the latest report date, the day the count starts from and the day the data runs to, in one JSON payload or one CSV row per number.

Every individual report: the date created, the date of the call, the consumer's city, state and area code, and the subject, for every number at once. It also offers the whole data set as daily CSV files and filters by date, state, city and area code. 1Lookup returns counts and the top subjects for one number at a time, never an individual report or a consumer's location, and has no filter by state, area code or date range.

Reports that people filed, nothing more. The FTC says none of the information about the reported calls is verified, and caller numbers can be spoofed, so a count says how often a number was reported, not who called or whether the reports are right. 1Lookup returns the counts as filed and states the same in every answer.

The FTC says its data is typically updated each weekday by about noon Eastern time, with weekend data in Monday's file. 1Lookup reads its own copy of that public data, and every answer shows data_through (the newest day the data runs to), counted_from (where the count starts) and window_complete (whether that window is full). A repeat lookup of the same number within one day is answered from the saved result at no charge.

Yes. Register for an api.data.gov key, page through the reports 50 at a time, keep the ones for your numbers and count them by month and subject, or load the daily CSV files into your own database and query it. For analysis across every number, state or area code, or if you already hold the data, that is the better route. For checking numbers as they arrive, one call is quicker.

There is no other source for these reports, so this is a different way in rather than a replacement. If you need the reports themselves or a bulk download, use the FTC. If you want a phone number turned into a finished count, billed only when the number has reports and on the same key as phone, email and IP checks, 1Lookup's Reported Number Check does that.

On depth and source. It is the official record, returns every individual report with its date, subject and location, offers the whole data set as CSV and prints no per-request price. 1Lookup charges per number with reports and returns counts and subjects only.