Abstract API alternatives
If you are weighing up a move off Abstract API, here are the options that actually exist, what to check before you commit, and the cases where staying put is the right call.
Common reasons to shop around
- You are managing a separate subscription and quota per endpoint, and the admin overhead exceeds the value.
- You want one balance that moves with your mix instead of guessing each product's volume in advance.
- You need the compliance-side products, sanctions and company screening, from the same vendor.
What you can move to
Veriastra
details →One credit balance across every product, including sanctions screening and SEC company enrichment.
Abstract API
Broad catalogue of small utility APIs beyond validation, including some we do not offer such as exchange rates and screenshots.
1Lookup
The closest single-balance competitor to us, with a wider people-data catalogue and a heavier reliance on resold vendors.
Three things worth checking
One balance or many quotas
Per-endpoint quotas mean stranded credit in the products you used less than expected.
Which parts are resold
Multi-service catalogues are often thin wrappers over other vendors. Ask which engines are theirs; the answer predicts both price stability and support quality.
Compliance coverage
Sanctions and registry screening are rarely present in general-purpose utility catalogues, and adding a second vendor later costs more than choosing once.
What the switch actually involves
- 01
Count the quotas you are juggling
Their model is a separate product and a separate allowance per API. If you use three of them, you are managing three quotas; here it is one balance across every product.
- 02
The endpoints
POST /api/verify-email, /api/lookup-phone, /api/lookup-ip and /api/lookup-domain. Same authorisation header, same response shape, same credit balance.
- 03
What changes in the answers
Email carries the domain's SPF, DMARC and DKIM posture; phone carries complaint history and your own suppression list; IP carries BGP routing and RPKI validation. None of those are in a general-purpose utility catalogue.
- 04
What you must keep them for
Everything that is not contact data — VAT numbers, exchange rates, screenshots, holidays. We do not sell any of it and are not going to.
- 05
Run both for a week
Point a copy of your traffic at both and compare only the disagreements per product.
When to buy something else
If you want a grab-bag of unrelated utility endpoints, currency conversion, screenshots, geocoding, we are narrow on purpose and will not cover them.