OpenCNAM

Telo isn't new to this space. OpenCNAM has been around for nearly 5 years and EveryoneAPI was launched a year ago. We have just been doing some updates and now offer a free $0.50 trial.

Record availability probably would have been a better way to phrase it rather than speed. While I am not familiar with the latency of the FullContact API, I have experience a sort of fulfillment period (come back later) for records that require more sourcing efforts. That is unless that has changed. We focus on real-time responses that span nearly the entire NANPA dialing plan (US, Canada, Caribbean and part of Central America). In terms of the data-points and focus you are correct that our focus is on the data associated with the phone number query. We do plan to expand our phone coverage to international dialing plans outside of NANPA (NPA-NXX-XXXX) by the end of the year and will be offering a forward append service for name and address as well.

We do not have that sort of collateral drafted yet, but it is something we would like to be able to offer folks such as yourself. Real time results are something that jumps out at me with respect to Full Contact. There are times where they do not have the record immediately and that can hinder some businesses depending on the use case. The added data-points offered is also something that stands out to me with respect to both. Perhaps the carrier or line provider data is important because you may need to know if a phone number is a Google Voice number. Or if you are looking for address and some bit of social data such as hometown or education, that might be a combination you can only find with EveryoneAPI.

As I mentioned we will be working to develop some collateral to that end. After well over 10 years in the data space I would say that the best way to compare is to do a batch > 1000 records head to head. :)

You shouldn't have encountered an issue with a 502 unless it was during the window of time where our front end deploy failed.

Unfortunately, we only support NPA-NXX-XXXX numbers for sign up at this time. If you contact us directly at support@telo.com, we can provision you an account if you are still interested. We plan on offering international coverage outside of the NANPA / NPA-NXX-XXXX dial plan by the end of the year.

Please reach out to us directly if you are working on fraud mitigation. We have extensive insight into fighting fraud and the data that can be used to that end. Additionally, there is a special permissible use-case endpoint we are working on for specific business applications such as fraud mitigation. You may reach us at support@telo.com.

We do not currently offer a file upload feature. The API can handle mutlithreaded requests for quicker batch processing.

A script using the API and whatever output you needed should do the trick.

Edit:

Our goal is to compete based on offering a superior product rather than to disparage competing services.

The site is back up. We had attempted a hotfix that did not deploy correctly to the front end. In terms of comparisons, while we do not like to mention competitors in a negative light, we can say that our data is returned in milliseconds. Additionally, our coverage is extremely accurate and built from authoritative sources. We also provide a more robust set of data-points that are not offered by those services.

We are back up now.

We are back up.

Please standby. We attempted a hotfix for some user reported issues that did not deploy correctly. We will be back up in a minute or two. Sorry for the inconvenience.

That is the intent behind allowing a $.50 free test credit. So that you may test drive the service before paying.

Please standby. We attempted a hotfix for some user reported issues that did not deploy correctly. We will be back up in a minute or two. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Would you mind sending over more information to support@telo.com? I would love to solve this issue for you.

We have a number of data sources including our own proprietary data, telecom sources, public records, graph data and user supplied data.

That statement in our terms is something that we will revisit. ;)

Accuracy, along with being developer friendly, is our focus. Thank you.

There are some data-points that will provide additional data-points for free. For example a current carrier dip will include the original carrier for free. We have made it a la carte so that developers can use it as needed without having to pay for data they may not want.

@minot I cannot reply to a reply of a reply apparently. To answer your question, the Try It area uses the endpoint directly. You are charged for any number it returns results for based on the data-points returned. (No hit, no charge)

As for querying the same number twice, yes you are charged. We work to ensure that data is as accurate and up to date as possible and it may change depending on the line owner.

Right now the coverage footprint is NPA-NXX-XXXX. This includes US, Canada, Caribbean and parts of Central America (excluding Mexico). We anticipate international coverage by the end of the year.

Pavel, you are correct. We are troubleshooting a more graceful failover.

This could be a result of Adblock or similar services. We use angular on the frontend and are troubleshooting this / working on a graceful failover. In the meantime, we recommend turning off Adblock or similar services to allow the site to load.

Are you still having issues? What OS/browser/device are you using?

Hi pgib (and everyone else),

Thanks for the opencnam mention. We are about to launch www.everyoneapi.com -- version 2. The current everyoneapi offers the same lookups that Twilio offers, but we will be lowering our price and adding even more data-points. Our reverse phone append product offers a lot more than just linetype and carrier. The parent company to both opencnam and everyoneapi is telo (www.telo.com). If anyone has any questions or requests, feel free to contact support@telo.com!