WhoisFreaks subscription credits expire each period, and 1Lookup credits roll over for 3 months and also pay for phone, email and IP checks, at $0.010 a DNS lookup that finds records.

WHOIS, DNS, SSL, subdomain and ASN lookups from one credit pool. Its DNS tools are a live DNS lookup, historical DNS, a record-based reverse DNS search and a bulk DNS tool that takes up to 100 domains per request or files of up to 3 million. Live queries go to the authoritative name servers directly.

One credit pool for every tool. A live DNS query costs 1 credit per successful query, a bulk DNS query 1, historical DNS 2 per page and the record-based reverse DNS search 5 per page. Credits come as lifetime packs that do not expire ($20 for 5,000 credits, $150 for 50,000, up to $5,400 for 3,000,000) or as monthly subscriptions ($10 a month for 5,000, $75 for 50,000, up to $2,700 for 3,000,000), with a yearly discount. Credits used over a subscription cost $0.0030 each on monthly plans and $0.0025 on yearly ones, and 500 free credits come with sign-up. Checked October 2026.

2 credits per name with records, free when the name has no records. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) a name is about $0.010, which covers 10,000 DNS lookups a month and is $9.90 per 1,000. At the Enterprise end of the rate card it is about $0.004.

No. At 1 credit per live query, WhoisFreaks works out to $2.00 per 1,000 at $10 a month, $1.50 at $75 and $1.00 at $1,000 for 1,000,000 credits, and $3.00 per 1,000 on the $150 lifetime pack, against $9.90 per 1,000 on 1Lookup Starter and $4.00 on Enterprise. The smallest lifetime pack, $20 for 5,000 credits, is $4.00 per 1,000, the same as 1Lookup Enterprise.

WhoisFreaks lists A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, SOA, SPF, CNAME and PTR, as JSON or XML. 1Lookup returns A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA and SOA, and adds two plain labels: the mail provider, read from the MX hosts, and the DNS host, read from the name servers. CAA is not on WhoisFreaks' list, and its pages describe no mail provider or DNS host label.

On price per lookup at every plan it prints, on lifetime packs whose credits never expire, and on the breadth around DNS: historical records, a record-based reverse search, a bulk tool for files of up to 3 million domains, WHOIS, SSL, subdomain and ASN data in the same pool, and SDKs in ten languages. 1Lookup reads the current records of one name or address at a time.

WhoisFreaks lifetime packs do not expire, while credits on a subscription expire at the end of the period, and credits used beyond a subscription cost $0.0030 each on monthly plans with no maximum. On 1Lookup, unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months, and a name with no records costs nothing.

Yes on both. WhoisFreaks says an IP address returns its PTR record, and its record-based reverse DNS search, which finds records by value, costs 5 credits a page. On 1Lookup an IP address goes to the same endpoint as a domain and returns the names published for it, free when it has none.

If you buy a lot of lookups, want credits that never expire or need DNS history and bulk files beside WHOIS and SSL data, WhoisFreaks is the cheaper and wider suite. If you want one call that returns all eight record types, names the mail provider and DNS host, and shares a balance with phone, email and IP checks, 1Lookup's DNS Lookup bills 2 credits for every name with records.

Yes if domain data is a core part of your product: it is cheaper per live DNS query than 1Lookup at every plan printed, and one pool of credits covers WHOIS, DNS, SSL and more. Plan for the expiry of subscription credits, or buy a lifetime pack. If you look up a few thousand names a month to see where their mail and DNS are hosted, compare the per-name price of 1Lookup.