# Phone verification API pricing

Source: https://jointextkit.com/pricing/verify
Index: https://jointextkit.com/llms.txt

**TextKit Verify costs $0.025 per
successful verification, and nothing for attempts that never verify.** Wrong
codes, expired codes, abandoned flows and attempts our fraud checks block are
free. A verification is charged once, whichever channels its codes went out
on (text, or email as a fallback).

## What you pay for

| | Price |
| --- | --- |
| A code that is verified | $0.025 |
| A wrong, expired or abandoned code | Free |
| An attempt blocked by our fraud checks | Free |
| Sending the code by email instead of a text | Included in the one charge |
| A phone number to send from | Not needed |

Every response tells you whether it was charged (`charged`).

## What a month costs

The charge depends only on how many codes are verified, not on how many you
send:

| Verified a month | Cost |
| --- | --- |
| 1,000 | $25.00 |
| 10,000 | $250.00 |
| 100,000 | $2500.00 |

A user who asks for a second code and then verifies is one verification.

## Rules we enforce for you

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Code lifetime | 10 minutes |
| Check attempts | 5, then the code is dead |
| Resend cooldown | 60 seconds per number |
| Per number | 5 an hour, 10 a day, counted per account |

These limits stop code-pumping fraud before it reaches your bill. Attempts
they block are free.

## Free to start

10 verifications a month on the free tier, and
unlimited verifications in the sandbox with a test key.

## How it works

Two calls: `POST /v1/verify` sends the code, `POST /v1/verify/check`
checks it. Codes last 10 minutes and allow 5 attempts; we rate-limit per
number for you. The [Verify docs](/docs/verify) have the whole integration, and
the [migration guide](/docs/migrate-from-twilio) maps another provider's verify calls to these, one by one.

## Before you verify real users

A live key needs a live account. An account goes live when the carriers verify
its toll-free number (see [toll-free verification](/toll-free-verification)),
usually in 3 to 7 business days. Build and test with a test key until then.

Sending your own texts too? See [SMS pricing](/pricing/sms/us).