Twilio Lookup alternative: pricing vs Trueguard.

It depends on the data package. Basic formatting and validation is free. Line Type Intelligence is $0.008 per request. SMS Pumping Risk is $0.025 per request outside North America and free in North America. Line Status is $0.007 per request, falling to $0.00385 above 10 million requests. Caller Name is $0.01, Identity Match is $0.10 and varies by country, and SIM Swap is priced through Twilio sales. These figures come from Twilio's pricing page, read on 2 November 2026.

Partly. Twilio states that basic phone number formatting and validation have no per-query charge. The paid packages, such as Line Type Intelligence and SMS Pumping Risk, are billed per request, and the pricing page lists no free monthly allowance for them. Trueguard's free tier is 100 checks a month with every field included, no card required.

Only basic formatting and validation is free. Every other package is billed per request: Line Type Intelligence, SMS Pumping Risk outside North America, Line Status, Caller Name, Identity Match, Reassigned Number, SIM Swap and Call Forwarding. Twilio's Caller Name documentation says a request is billed even when no data comes back, so a lookup on a number without a name still costs $0.01.

Twilio lists one flat price of $0.008 per request and publishes no volume tiers. Canada needs special approval before you can query it. Twilio says enterprise accounts can negotiate committed-use contracts with its sales team, so the price you pay at high volume can differ from the list price.

On Twilio, 100,000 Line Type Intelligence requests cost $800 at list price. Add SMS Pumping Risk outside North America and the total is $3,300. On Trueguard, 100,000 checks cost $249.99 on the Standard plan ($49.99 for the first 20,000, then $0.0025 per check), and every field is included. Trueguard's SMS destination risk is a country level signal, and Twilio's SMS pumping score is per number.

Trueguard fits when you need validity, line type, carrier, disposable history and SMS destination risk at one flat price: $49.99 a month for 20,000 checks. Stay on Twilio Lookup when you need checks against the carrier network, such as Line Status, SIM Swap, Identity Match, US Caller Name or Reassigned Number.

Yes. Trueguard returns line.type as voip and line.voipType as fixed or nonFixed. It also returns line.carrierType, which is cpaasVirtual for communications platform numbers. The example number +14159929960 is a non-fixed VoIP number that belongs to Twilio today and was ported from Lumen, its original carrier.

No. Trueguard has no HLR lookup, no line status and no SIM swap check. A valid number means it matches the numbering plan of its country. If you need to know whether a line is reachable or was recently swapped, use Twilio Line Status or SIM Swap.

Trueguard's risk.smsDestinationRisk rates the SMS pumping risk of the number's country as low, elevated or high. Twilio's SMS Pumping Risk returns a score from 0 to 100 for each number, built from Twilio network data. Twilio says not to use it for US and Canadian numbers and not to cache the score. The two measure different things.

No. Trueguard uses its own API key, which you get from a free account, and it works with any SMS provider. Trueguard does not sell SMS, so it has no reason to keep you sending them.

Yes. Check the number with Trueguard first and send the code only for numbers that pass. Twilio Verify costs $0.05 per successful verification plus channel fees, for example $0.0083 per US SMS, as read on 2 November 2026. Dropping invalid and disposable numbers before the send removes those costs for numbers that were never going to verify.