What Neutrino API does

Neutrino API is a privately held, New Zealand-based provider of a general-purpose REST API platform, founded in 2013 and operating with 11-50 employees from Auckland. The company offers approximately 30 cloud APIs organized into seven categories: Data Tools (email and phone validation, bad word filtering, user-agent lookup), WWW (browser automation, HTML cleaning, URL analysis), Telephony (SMS/phone verification, HLR lookup, voice playback), Geolocation (IP info, geocoding), Security and Networking (domain/IP reputation, blocklists, IP probing), E-commerce (BIN lookup, currency conversion), and Imaging (HTML rendering, image manipulation, QR codes). The platform is accessed via multi-cloud endpoints using IP Anycast routing across AWS, GCP, and proprietary infrastructure spanning 9 global regions, with optional geofence endpoints for data residency compliance in the EU, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, and USA. Authentication is via User-ID and API-Key headers, and official SDKs are provided across 11 language variants.

The business model is exclusively usage-based: customers self-serve from neutrinoapi.com, select a tier (Free, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3) with progressive rate limits, and pay per API call or per telephony minute/message. Pricing varies significantly by API and country (e.g., SMS rates from $0.0150/msg in the US to $0.0558/msg in Australia), and Tier 1-3 plans unlock batch processing up to 2,500 requests per call. Telephony coverage extends to 230+ countries. The go-to-market is documentation-driven PLG: comprehensive API docs, code examples, machine-readable specifications (OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman, Insomnia), and SDKs are the primary acquisition channels, with no resellers, marketplace listings, or enterprise sales motion referenced. No named customers, no institutional funding, and no M&A activity are disclosed in the input data. Notable operational signals include 100% uptime on the MultiCloud endpoint over the prior 90 days and third-party recognition as a top phone verification API by Plivo in August 2024.

Name

Neutrino API

Legal name

Neutrino API

Website

https://neutrinoapi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Neutrino API is a New Zealand-based, general-purpose REST API platform providing data validation, telephony, geolocation, security, e-commerce, and imaging APIs to developers, SaaS platforms, and e-commerce businesses via usage-based, self-serve pricing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Auckland

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. API Usage Fees: Pay-per-use pricing model where customers are charged based on API call volume. Different rate structures for different APIs - standard API calls, telephony (SMS/voice) with per-minute/per-message rates varying by country, and premium data services. Tiered plans (Free, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3) with varying rate limits and batch processing capabilities.
2. Batch Processing: Premium batch processing feature allowing up to 2500 API requests in a single call, available on Tier 1-3 plans
3. Telephony Services: Voice and SMS services with country-specific pricing for standard calls, mobile calls, and SMS messages globally. Rates vary by destination country from $0.0128 to $2.8499 per minute/message.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Neutrino API operates a general-purpose cloud-based REST API platform that delivers 30+ individual APIs covering data validation (email, phone, user-agent), telephony verification (SMS, voice, HLR), geolocation (IP, geocoding), security intelligence (IP blocklist, domain reputation, host reputation), e-commerce (BIN lookup, currency conversion), web automation (browser bot, HTML clean, URL info), and imaging (HTML render, image resize, watermark, QR codes). Customers consume the platform through REST calls, official SDKs in 8+ programming languages, or batch processing (up to 2,500 requests per batch), with multi-cloud IP Anycast endpoints and regional geofence options for data residency.

Product overview

Neutrino API is a general-purpose API platform providing a unified suite of cloud-based APIs organized into seven product categories: Data Tools (email validation, phone validation, bad word filtering, user-agent lookup), WWW/Web processing (browser automation, HTML cleaning, URL analysis), Telephony (SMS/phone verification, HLR lookup, voice playback), Geolocation (IP intelligence, geocoding), Security & Networking (domain/blocklist lookup, IP probing, host reputation), E-commerce (BIN lookup, currency conversion), and Imaging (HTML rendering, image manipulation, QR codes). The platform operates through REST APIs accessible via multicloud endpoints with IP anycast routing across global data centers, offering regional geofence endpoints for data residency compliance. SDKs are available in 11 language variants (C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Rust). Several legacy APIs remain available for existing users while newer replacements are offered. The service is priced on a per-API-call basis with tiered plans (Free, Tier 1-3) and batch processing capabilities for high-volume operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bad Word Filter API Detects bad words, swear words, and profanity in text using NLP that decodes content while ignoring punctuation, case, and formatting. Applies word transformations to detect obfuscation (leetspeak, repeating characters) and scans against large catalogs of bad words with strict and obscene catalog options.
• Email Validate API Parses, validates, and cleans email addresses with RFC822/2822 syntax checks, DNS and MX record validation, automatic typo fixing for common TLD and freemail domains, and detection of freemail, disposable, role-based, and darknet addresses.
• Phone Validate API Parses, validates, and retrieves location information about phone numbers including line type, carrier, country, and international/local format conversion.
• UA Lookup API Parses and validates user-agent strings or HTTP client hints to determine device type, mobile detection, browser, engine, operating system, brand, model, and screen dimensions.
• Browser Bot API Automates a real web browser to extract content, interact with keyboard and mouse events, and execute JavaScript on any website with DOM querying support and optional TLS certificate error bypass.
• HTML Clean API Cleans and sanitizes untrusted HTML content with configurable output levels from plain text to advanced HTML, removing potentially malicious elements while preserving safe formatting.
• URL Info API Parses, analyzes, and retrieves content from URLs including HTTP status, server information, content type, load time, geographic location, and security details.
• HLR Lookup API Connects to the global mobile cellular network to retrieve the status of a mobile phone number including active network, roaming status, porting information, and device validity.
• Phone Playback API Makes automated calls to any valid phone number and plays back an audio message in MP3, WAV, or OGG format for voice notifications or announcements.
• Phone Verify API Makes automated calls to any valid phone number and plays back a unique security code for two-factor phone verification, supporting multiple languages for code playback.
• SMS Verify API Sends a unique security code to any mobile device via SMS for phone verification, supporting multiple languages and custom brand names in the message body.
• Verify Security Code API Verifies security codes sent via SMS Verify or Phone Verify APIs, with optional brute-force protection by limiting verification attempts per unique identifier.
• Geocode Address API Geocodes an address, partial address, or place name to latitude and longitude coordinates with fuzzy search, autocomplete, and structured address parsing.
• Geocode Reverse API Converts geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) into a real-world address with multiple zoom levels from precise street address up to country level.
• IP Info API Retrieves location information about an IP address including city, country, region, coordinates, timezone, and currency with optional reverse DNS (PTR) lookups.
• Domain Lookup API Retrieves domain name details and detects potentially malicious or dangerous domains including phishing, malware, spam, and anonymizer activities via blocklist sensors.
• Email Verify API Performs in-depth SMTP-based email address verification including username and mailbox existence checks, catch-all detection, and deferred delivery identification.
• Host Reputation API Checks the reputation of an IP address, domain name, or URL against a comprehensive list of DNSBL (DNS Blacklist) blocklists with list ratings and zone-specific filtering.
• IP Blocklist API

Quantifiable outcome

• 50ms average latency for Email Validate API
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IPinfo: IPinfo offers IP address intelligence APIs including geolocation, ASN, privacy detection, and carrier data — overlapping with Neutrino API's IP Info and IP Probe capabilities and serving the same developer and security buyer.
• MaxMind: MaxMind provides IP geolocation, network intelligence, and fraud-detection data feeds, directly comparable to Neutrino API's IP Info, IP Blocklist, IP Probe, and Host Reputation APIs for security and geo-intelligence use cases.
• Numverify: Numverify delivers phone-number validation and lookup as a REST API on a freemium usage-based model, a focused direct peer for Neutrino API's Phone Validate capability.
• Veriphone: Veriphone is a focused phone-number validation and verification API provider serving SaaS developers, matching Neutrino API's Phone Validate core use case on a similar pay-per-call model.
• APILayer: APILayer markets a marketplace of independently-priced APIs across geolocation, finance, communication, and security categories, directly comparable to Neutrino API's 30+ API horizontal marketplace and developer-first positioning.
• AbstractAPI: AbstractAPI offers a broad suite of cloud APIs covering email validation, phone validation, IP geolocation, currency conversion, and similar data utilities on a pay-per-use model, making it the closest direct competitor to Neutrino API's general-purpose positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Twilio: Twilio is the dominant cloud communications platform providing SMS, voice, verification, email, and adjacent APIs; its Verify API directly competes with Neutrino's SMS Verify and Phone Verify but at much larger scale.
• Vonage (Ericsson): Vonage, now part of Ericsson, provides enterprise-grade communications APIs including SMS, voice, and verification at scale, comparable to Neutrino API's telephony products but serving larger enterprise contracts.
• Plivo: Plivo is a cloud communications API provider for SMS, voice, and verification flows, comparable to Neutrino API's telephony suite and notably the source that ranked Neutrino among top phone verification APIs in 2024.
• Telesign: Telesign is a larger communications-platform-as-a-service incumbent delivering SMS and voice verification, identity, and fraud APIs, directly comparable to Neutrino's Phone Verify/SMS Verify stack but with broader enterprise reach and partner ecosystems.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/NeutrinoAPI
• Facebookfacebook.com/neutrino.api
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/neutrino-api

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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