The Good Guys.
On duty · 187ms p50 · 99.99% SLA

We're the good guys.
Meet the bad ones.

One API to spot spam callers, disposable inboxes, Tor exits and VPN proxies before they touch your users. Phone HLR, email deliverability and IP threat intel — all in under 300ms.

No credit card required Credits roll over 3 months MCP-native for AI agents
Live sandbox — try any input
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187ms
Median Latency
P50 across 12 regions
812
Networks Covered
Global HLR carriers
4.1B
IPs Classified
Refreshed hourly
40+
Signal Sources
Threat + carrier feeds
Live · updated every 4s

Meet the bad ones.We block them so your users don't have to.

PHONE
130,547
Spam callers blocked
last 24h
EMAIL
61,151
Disposable inboxes blocked
last 24h
IP
3,359
Tor exit nodes blocked
last 24h
IP
43,027
Sneaky VPN proxies blocked
last 24h
PHONE
8,768
Port-out scams blocked
last 24h
Capabilities

One credit. Any verification. Zero surprise bills.

Every phone, email, or IP lookup consumes exactly 1 credit. Bulk it, stream it, or plug it into your AI agent — the pricing is the same across the board.

Phone HLR & Carrier Lookup

Real-time HLR pings across 800+ mobile networks. Line portability, spam reputation, and DNC checks in under 300ms.

Email Deliverability Intel

Syntax + MX + SMTP handshake in one call. Detects disposable, role, catch-all and free providers with confidence scoring.

IP Threat Intelligence

Geolocate any IPv4 or IPv6, then flag Tor exits, residential proxies, commercial VPNs and datacenter ranges instantly.

AI Agent Connector (MCP)

Native Model Context Protocol server with OAuth 2.1 — plug The Good Guys into Claude, ChatGPT & LangGraph without keys.

Fraud Signal Aggregation

Cross-referenced feeds from carrier systems, blocklists, and global threat databases update every 60 seconds.

Bulk CSV & Streaming

Drop a CSV of 100k rows and stream verified output. Or hit us at 200 QPS from your own pipeline.

For developers

A REST API you actually want to use.

HTTPS. Bearer tokens. JSON in, JSON out. No SDK required — but we ship idiomatic ones for JS, Python, Go and Ruby.

  • One universal endpoint per validator
  • Deterministic response schema — never a breaking change
  • MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, LangGraph agents
  • Rate-limited free tier plus 25 browser tools
curl · phone HLR lookup
$ curl https://api.thegoodguys.app/api/validate/phone \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer gg_live_9J2..." \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"value":"+14155552671"}'

{
  "kind": "phone",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "result": {
    "e164":       "+14155552671",
    "carrier":    "Verizon Wireless",
    "line_type":  "mobile",
    "country":    "United States",
    "ported":     false,
    "spam_risk":  "low",
    "hlr_status": "active"
  }
}
Trusted at scale

Fraud teams shipping with The Good Guys.

"We cut signup fraud 68% in six weeks. The HLR + IP risk combo is the cleanest fraud signal we've integrated in ten years of ops."

Elena Rostova
Elena Rostova
Head of Fraud Engineering, FinPay

"Their MCP connector was live in our AI agents in under an hour. The latency budget for enrichment used to be our bottleneck — no longer."

Marcus Vance
Marcus Vance
VP Security Operations, DataSphere

"One credit, three verification types, zero surprises. The rollover policy actually respects developers — that alone is refreshing."

Arjun Patel
Arjun Patel
Lead API Architect, CloudScale

Ship trust signals in the next hour.

Register for free, generate a Bearer token, and hit any of our validators with your first request. 500 credits are on us.