Phone Specification vs VeriRoute Intel

Phone Specs API is an open-source, keyless wrapper around GSMArena's device database, returning brand lists, per-phone specifications, and search results as JSON — maintained by a single developer (Azhari Muhammad M) and deployed on Vercel. Both README-documented custom domains (api-mobilespecs.azharimm.dev for v1, phone-specs-api-2.azharimm.dev for v2) no longer resolve, but the underlying Vercel deployment is still live and reachable directly: its root endpoint returned a 200 JSON payload confirming auth "None" and https true, and a live OPTIONS preflight carried Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * (cors reconfirmed "yes"); the /brands and /latest routes intermittently 500 with a 429 from the upstream GSMArena scrape target, a source-side rate-limit rather than the API itself being down.

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.