1Lookup validates emails and phones for under half a cent each,while Loqate charges 3.1 to 5 cents.
Loqate excels at address validation and location intelligence. 1Lookup checks phones, emails and IPs on one key, with a fraud score on every email and IP check, and its email checks cost $2.00 to $4.95 per 1,000 against Loqate's $29 to $47.
Phone, Email, and IP Validation
While Loqate focuses on address validation and location services, 1Lookup provides complete user validation including phone, email, and IP addresses, with a fraud score on every email and IP check and a risk level on every phone check.
About $100 buys 20,000 email checks on 1Lookup and 2,000 on Loqate.
Loqate charges 5 cents an email check on its $100 pack and 3.1 cents on its $1,000 pack. 1Lookup's Starter plan is $99 a month for 20,000 credits, and an email check is 1 credit.
Location Intelligence vs. User Validation
Different approaches to data validation
| Feature | 1Lookup | Loqate | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
Service Focus Different validation focuses | Phone + Email + IP validation | Address validation & location intelligence | |
Integration Complexity Simple integration vs. complex address workflows | Simple unified API | Complex address platform | |
IP lookup Check the IP behind a signup too | IP lookup with a fraud score and proxy, Tor and hosting flags | No IP lookup product | |
Pricing Model One balance covers phone, email, IP and every other product | One credit balance shared by 44 products on one key | Prepaid packs that expire after 12 months | |
Use Case Scope Different validation scopes | Phone, email and IP checks with risk signals | Address validation & geocoding |
Every phone check returns a risk level, not just valid or invalid.
A number can be well formed and still be disconnected, a VoIP line, or on the Do Not Call list. 1Lookup's phone validation returns a risk level with the reasons behind it, the line type, a VoIP flag and Do Not Call status on the same call, for 1 credit, and Phone Spam Check adds a spam score and spam reports for 1 more.
Risk level on every check
A risk level and the risk factors that set it, on every phone validation
Do Not Call status
Know a number is on the Do Not Call list before you call or text it
Spam reports
Phone Spam Check flags numbers reported for spam and robocalls
Example response
One credit balance
Every product below draws from the same credits, at $0.00200–$0.00495 per credit depending on plan.
- Phone validation1 credit
- Email verification1 credit
- IP intelligence1 credit
- Spam and risk score1 credit
Buy credits once, spend them on whatever you need to check
Most validation tools sell one channel, so a team checking phones, emails and IPs ends up with three vendors, three invoices and three unused balances. 1Lookup bills all of them from a single credit pool on a monthly plan, with no contract, and leftover credits carry into the next quarter instead of expiring at midnight.
Phone, email and IP on one API
One key, one balance, one integration
Phone data refreshed daily
From FCC and carrier sources
No contract
Monthly plans, with three-month credit rollover
A full line profile, not a status code.
Phone validation returns the carrier, line type, porting status and time zone for 1 credit, and HLR Lookup adds whether the mobile is switched on, the network it is on now and whether it is roaming, for 5. That is the difference between knowing a number is formatted correctly and knowing whether a message sent to it will arrive.
Complete Phone Profile
Simple Migration from Loqate
key: process.env.LOQATE_API_KEY
});
// Address validation only
const result = await loqate.find({
text: addressString,
countries: 'US,CA,GB'
});
`https://app.1lookup.io/api/v1/phone`,
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {'Authorization': `Bearer ${key}`},
body: JSON.stringify({phone_number: phone})
}
);
What migrating from Loqate actually involves
Both are REST APIs returning JSON, so the move is a URL, a key and a field mapping rather than a rewrite. The call above is the real shape of each request. Where the work usually goes is the response: our field names differ, and anything you were deriving from a status code may already be a field you can read directly.
One endpoint per channel
Phone, email and IP, same key and same balance
Email Support to Dedicated CSM
Support level rises with the plan, not with a separate fee
Try before you migrate
7-day free trial with credits, no contract to unwind
Address Validation vs. User Validation
Choose based on your validation needs
Loqate is best for:
- • Address validation and autocomplete
- • Location intelligence and geocoding
- • Postal address verification
- • Shipping and logistics applications
1Lookup is best for:
- • User registration and authentication
- • Phone, email, and IP validation
- • Fraud scores on email and IP checks
- • Customer verification workflows
Different Validation Needs
Loqate excels at location and address validation. 1Lookup checks the phone, the email and the IP behind a user. Choose based on your specific validation requirements.
Loqate vs 1Lookup FAQ
Common questions about Loqate and switching to 1Lookup
What is Loqate?
Loqate is an address verification and location intelligence service, offered as a GBG solution, that captures, validates, and standardizes postal addresses around the world. It combines multiple data sources into a single best-record address and adds capabilities like address autocomplete, geocoding, and broader data quality tooling. Enterprises typically use Loqate to reduce failed deliveries and keep customer address data clean and accurate.
How much does Loqate cost?
Loqate pricing is credit- and lookup-based, and the per-lookup rate generally decreases as your volume increases. Larger or global deployments are typically quote-driven through its sales team rather than a single flat published rate, so you fund an account balance and draw down credits as you verify addresses. Loqate also offers a free trial, so you can test the service before committing to a paid plan.
What is the best Loqate alternative?
The best alternative depends on what you actually need to verify. If your priority is validating phone numbers, emails, and IP addresses rather than cleansing postal addresses, 1Lookup is a strong Loqate alternative because it handles all three through a single API and one universal credit system. Its data is sourced from FCC and carrier records, and a 7-day free trial lets you test it before you pay.
How is 1Lookup different from Loqate?
Loqate specializes in address verification and location data quality, standardizing and enriching postal addresses across many countries. 1Lookup instead focuses on real-time validation of phone numbers, emails, and IPs from one API, with built-in fraud scoring and data sourced from FCC and carrier records. In short, Loqate is address-centric, while 1Lookup unifies phone, email, and IP verification (plus carrier/HLR, reverse, and IP fraud lookups) under a single credit balance.
Can I try 1Lookup for free?
Yes. 1Lookup offers a 7-day free trial so you can validate phone numbers, emails, and IPs before committing to a paid plan. You can sign up and start testing the API right away, using one universal credit system across all lookup types.
Validate Users, Not Just Addresses
While addresses tell you where users are, phone, email, and IP validation tell you who they are. Get full user validation, with a fraud score on every email and IP check.
7-day free trial • Phone + Email + IP • One credit balance
1Lookup vs Loqate: the same criteria, side by side
Both products measured on identical criteria, with Loqate’s numbers taken from its own published pricing.
1lookup1lookup.ioMulti-channel validation- Phone
- IP
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- Loqate · Starts at
- $100 one-time credit pack; 5c per phone or email validation under the new pricing (2,000 validations, $0.05 each)
- 1Lookup: $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise)
- Loqate · Cheapest published per 1,000
- $31.00 at their largest published tier
- 1Lookup: $2.00 per 1,000 at 1,000,000 lookups/mo
- Loqate · Free trial
- 45-day free trial, no credit card required, cancel any time (the live pages no longer state a credit amount; July said 700 credits)
- 1Lookup: 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today
- Loqate · Do credits expire?
- Credit is valid for 12 months after the purchase date
- 1Lookup: Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year
| Criteria |  1Lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| Contact-data coverage | EmailPhoneIP | EmailPhoneIP |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Pay-as-you-go prepaid credit packs at $100, $300 and $1,000 with per-lookup rates that drop as the pack grows. The live page shows a "New Pricing" table (phone or email validation 5c, 3.7c, 3.1c; US and Canada address capture 5c, 4.5c, 4.3c; international address capture 10.8c, 7.4c, 6.1c; Address Verify 6c, 4.9c, 4.1c) next to an "Old Pricing" table (phone or email validation 4.8c, 3.6c, 2.9c). Bespoke pricing above that via sales. |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise) | $100 one-time credit pack; 5c per phone or email validation under the new pricing (2,000 validations, $0.05 each) |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | None published |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today | 45-day free trial, no credit card required, cancel any time (the live pages no longer state a credit amount; July said 700 credits) |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Credit is valid for 12 months after the purchase date |
Cost per 1,000: Loqate and 1Lookup
Published rates only, drawn on one shared scale that starts at $0.
- 1Lookup rate card
- Loqate published tiers
Loqate, per published tier
2,000 phone or email validations ($100 pack at 5c each)
$50.00About 8,100 phone or email validations ($300 pack at 3.7c each)
$37.00About 32,300 phone or email validations ($1,000 pack at 3.1c each)
$31.00
1Lookup, reference band (a range, not a bar from $0)
All 4 plans, 20,000 lookups/mo to 1,000,000 lookups/mo
Cost per 1,000
| Product | Volume tier | Price | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loqate | 2,000 phone or email validations ($100 pack at 5c each) | $100 one-time | $50.00 |
| Loqate | About 8,100 phone or email validations ($300 pack at 3.7c each) | $300 one-time | $37.00 |
| Loqate | About 32,300 phone or email validations ($1,000 pack at 3.1c each) | $1,000 one-time | $31.00 |
| 1Lookup | 20,000 lookups/mo | $99/mo (Starter) | $4.95 |
| 1Lookup | 85,000 lookups/mo | $299/mo (Growth) | $3.52 |
| 1Lookup | 250,000 lookups/mo | $799/mo (Professional) | $3.20 |
| 1Lookup | 1,000,000 lookups/mo | $1,999/mo (Enterprise) | $2.00 |
What Loqate costs at volume
| Volume | Loqate price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 2,000 phone or email validations ($100 pack at 5c each) | $100 one-time | $50.00 |
| About 8,100 phone or email validations ($300 pack at 3.7c each) | $300 one-time | $37.00 |
| About 32,300 phone or email validations ($1,000 pack at 3.1c each) | $1,000 one-time | $31.00 |
For scale: 1Lookup’s plans work out to $4.95 per 1,000 lookups on Starter down to $2.00 per 1,000 on Enterprise, with every lookup type (phone, email, IP, spam) drawing from the same credits. Pricing models differ (subscription vs pay-as-you-go), so compare at your real monthly volume.
The same month, priced both ways
Pick one of Loqate’s own published volumes. Their figure is their published price at that tier; ours is the cheapest plan on our rate card that covers it. Nothing here is interpolated.
1Lookup
$299/mo
The Growth plan, 85,000 credits a month at $3.52 per 1,000. Using 32,300 of them is 38% of the plan, so $9.26 per 1,000 lookups effective.
Loqate
$1001.30
Their published price for “About 32,300 phone or email validations ($1,000 pack at 3.1c each)”, at $31 per 1,000.
$702.30
cheaper with 1Lookup at 32,300 a month, and the same credits work across all 44 1Lookup data products, not just this one.
Loqate rates as published on loqate.com, verified October 2026. Check their pricing page
Loqate’s pricing page, as we read it
Every Loqate figure above is taken from this page. It is reproduced here so you can check the numbers against the source instead of trusting our transcription of them, and the caption links straight to it. Prices change; the capture date says how fresh this is.
Before you sign: Loqate and 1Lookup on the operational terms
The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. A blank means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.
| Term | 1Lookup | Loqate |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum commitment | None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time | None published for pay-as-you-go; the pricing page states "Cancel any time" and "No credit card required". Bespoke plans are quote-only with no published term. |
| Going over your quota | — | No overage rate is published. Usage draws down purchased credits and all pay-as-you-go plans include "Balance alerts"; buyers top up manually unless they enable auto top-up, which the en-GB pricing FAQ describes as meaning "you will never run out of credit and don't need to log in and top up manually each time" (no schedule or threshold published). |
| API access | Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it | "Full API integration" is listed as included on all three published pay-as-you-go tiers ($100, $300, $1000). |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests per minute on standard accounts, with higher limits available on request | — |
| Compliance | — | ISO 27001 certified (GBG), with "some areas of our business also covered by PCI-DSS, Cyber Essentials and/or Cyber Essentials Plus". GDPR Article 13/14 obligations described. SOC 2 is not named anywhere on the pages loaded. |
| Support | Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM | "24/7 support" listed as included on all pay-as-you-go plans. "Dedicated technical support" is listed only under Bespoke Pricing. A customer support page and service status page are linked publicly. |
Loqate fine print worth reading twice
Published terms that change what Loqate costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the Loqate page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.
Purchased credit expires 12 months after the purchase date.
Read it on Loqate’s siteAll listed prices exclude VAT.
Read it on Loqate’s siteAddress Verify is shown as "POA - Price on Application" on all three published pay-as-you-go tiers, so that product has no published per-lookup price.
Read it on Loqate’s siteService-level agreements are listed as a Bespoke Pricing feature, not part of any published pay-as-you-go plan.
Read it on Loqate’s siteBespoke/enterprise plans have no published pricing and require contacting sales.
Read it on Loqate’s site
Loqate’s API reference
Their public developer documentation, so you can judge the integration before you start one.
1Lookup
Loqate
Where 1Lookup wins
- 44 data products on one API key and one credit balance: phone, email and IP checks, people and company data, social data and more
- Carrier, line type and a risk level on every phone validation, for 1 credit
- Live HLR status, DNC and TCPA litigator scrub, reverse phone lookup and skip trace on the same key
- An MCP server for AI agents, plus live Zapier, Make and n8n apps
- Self-serve up to 1,000,000 lookups a month at $0.0020 each, with no contract and 3-month credit rollover
Where Loqate wins
- Address capture, email validation, phone validation, geocoding, and store finder lookups all draw from one prepaid credit balance and one account
- International address capture published self-serve: 9.4c at $100 tier down to 5.8c at $1,000
- 45-day trial with 700 free credits and no credit card required
- Credits stay valid 12 months, so no monthly subscription or use-it-or-lose-it monthly quota
- Owned by GB Group plc (GBG); site advertises 20K+ global customers and 3B+ address verifications per month
Loqate pricing and product facts verified against loqate.com as of October 2026. Prices change; always confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who this is for
A quick, honest read on which tool fits your use case.
Choose 1Lookup if: your priority is validating phone numbers, emails, and IP addresses rather than cleansing postal addresses, all in one API.
Consider Loqate instead if: you specifically need global postal address verification, autocomplete, and geocoding to cut failed deliveries.