Numverify vs VeriRoute Intel

Numverify (an APILayer product) validates phone numbers against international numbering-plan rules and returns carrier, line type, and location data for 232 countries. Its documented base endpoint, apilayer.net/api/validate, answered a live GET with a 200 JSON body carrying access-control-allow-origin: * — resolving the stored "unknown" cors to "yes" — and rejected the request with an invalid_access_key error, confirming auth "API Key"; the same endpoint also answers on https://, confirming the stored https true even though the docs quote the base URL as plain http://. Its pricing page offers a free-forever plan (100 requests/month) alongside paid Basic/Professional/Enterprise tiers — freemium.

VeriRoute Intel is a live phone-intelligence platform offering CNAM caller-ID lookup, LRN/carrier routing lookup, message-provider identification, and spam/fraud scoring for North American numbers, served from verirouteintel.com/api/v1/<service>. A live OPTIONS preflight against its real API host carried no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header at all, resolving the stored "unknown" cors to "no"; a follow-up unauthenticated GET returned a 401 "API key required" JSON error over HTTPS, confirming auth "API Key" and https true. Its pricing page is strictly pay-as-you-go per query (from $0.0005/lookup) with a free sandbox and no subscription requirement — metered.