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An IPQualityScore alternative for smaller teams
IPQS is a full fraud platform with plans that start well above $100 a month. If you need solid IP, email and phone checks without the platform, TrustLookup covers them from $19.
The short version
Pick TrustLookup if
- You need IP, email and phone checks at a few thousand to a hundred thousand lookups a month.
- You want live phone status (HLR) and porting as ordinary checks, not add-ons you ask an account manager to enable.
- You want a paid plan you can start without a sales call.
Stay with IPQualityScore if
- Fraud is your core problem and you need the deepest proxy and VPN data, including residential proxies.
- You want device fingerprinting, URL scanning or dark-web leak checks.
- You want fraud scores built from a shared network of other customers’ data.
Side by side
| TrustLookup | IPQualityScore | |
|---|---|---|
| VPN, proxy and Tor detection | Yes, from public lists and network data | Yes, residential proxies from the SMB+ plan |
| IP risk score | Risk score, 0 to 100 | Fraud score |
| Email validation | Yes, 1 credit | Yes, with leak and recent-abuse flags |
| Phone validation and line type | Yes, 1 credit | Yes, with prepaid and risky flags |
| Live phone status (HLR) | 5 credits | Paid add-on, enabled by your account manager |
| Ported or not | 3 credits | Part of a paid add-on |
| Device fingerprinting | No | Yes |
| URL scanning and dark-web leaks | No | Yes |
| Free allowance | 250 credits a month | 1,000 lookups a month |
| Smallest paid plan | $19 a month for 7,500 credits | $139.99 a month for 5,000 lookups |
What it costs
TrustLookup charges 1 credit per IP lookup. IPQS plans are listed by monthly lookups, shared across its APIs.
| Lookups a month | TrustLookup | IPQualityScore |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19 Starter | Free (up to 35 a day) |
| 5,000 | $19 Starter | $139.99 (Startup) |
| 10,000 | $79 Growth | $599.99 (SMB Basic) |
| 75,000 | $249 Scale | $1,149.99 (SMB+) |
IPQS prices as listed on its plans page, billed monthly; yearly plans are cheaper. The plans also include IPQS features TrustLookup doesn’t have, so this compares price, not like for like.
Switching takes one request
Send the IP to /v1/lookup. results.ip.data has the country, city, network (ASN) and flags for VPN, proxy, Tor and hosting, and the top-level risk score sums them up. Emails and phone numbers go to the same endpoint.
TrustLookup
curl https://api.trustlookup.io/v1/lookup \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TRUSTLOOKUP_KEY" \
-d q="185.220.101.4" \
-d checks="ip,ip_blacklist"Questions
Is TrustLookup’s proxy detection as good as IPQS?
No, and we won’t claim it is. IPQS runs its own honeypots and shares data across a large customer network. TrustLookup uses public VPN, Tor and data-centre lists with network data, which catches the common cases at a much lower price.
Can I check phone reachability without an add-on?
Yes. HLR live status is an ordinary check on every paid plan, for 5 credits.
Do I need to talk to sales?
No. Every TrustLookup plan is self-serve, and you can change or cancel it from the dashboard.
Sources
IPQualityScore details come from its public pages, checked on 27 October 2026: IPQS plans, Proxy and VPN detection, Phone validation fields, Email validation fields. Prices change, so check them before you decide. IPQualityScore is a trademark of its owner; TrustLookup isn’t affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Write to [email protected].
Try it on your own data
250 free credits every month, no card. Run the same numbers or emails through both and compare.