EuroValidate Alternatives 2026

By Remco from Avatcado

Avatcado publishes this comparison and is one of the alternatives below. Editorial review on November 12, 2026: First review of EuroValidate: pricing, country coverage, outage handling, batch, webhooks, SDKs, integrations and consultation numbers, checked on its site, its OpenAPI document and its package registry pages on November 12, 2026. Pricing retains its November 12, 2026 snapshot. Each source below shows its own access date. These are documented capabilities, not independently measured performance.

EuroValidate is a VAT, EORI and IBAN validation API. EuroValidate validates VAT numbers and also checks EORI numbers and IBANs and looks up company records by LEI, all on one API key. Its paid plans are priced for volume: Starter costs EUR 19 a month for 500,000 requests. Its free tier is 100 requests a month without UK numbers, and during a VIES outage it serves the last verified answer from its cache; its site describes no national register fallback for EU countries.

EuroValidate strengths

  • Starter includes 500,000 requests a month for EUR 19, then EUR 0.00005 per request; paid plans are metered above the quota instead of cut off
  • Batch endpoint for up to 1,000 numbers per request, listed from the Starter plan
  • Monitoring webhooks that re-validate a VAT or EORI number and notify you when its status changes
  • EORI validation (EU, GB and XI), IBAN checks with bank lookup, and GLEIF company lookups on the same key
  • Ready-made Zapier, n8n and Odoo connectors, an MCP server for AI agents, SDKs for Python, Node.js and PHP, and an OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Why teams look for a EuroValidate alternative

  • Free tier of 100 requests a month, with UK (GB) validation only on paid plans
  • No national register fallback for EU countries described: during a VIES outage it serves a cached answer or returns status unavailable
  • No test mode found in the reviewed documentation, only a shared demo key on the free tier
  • Liechtenstein is not listed among the supported countries

Avatcado vs EuroValidate

FeatureAvatcadoEuroValidate
Free tier500 validations/mo, renews monthly100 requests/mo, hard cap, no UK numbers
Countries with live validation32 countries: EU 27 + XI, UK, CH, LI, NO, AUEU 27 + XI, NO, CH, AU on every plan; UK from Starter
Batch validationUp to 50 per request, async up to 1,000 (Pro/Business)Up to 1,000 per request (async above 10), listed from Starter at EUR 19/mo
WebhooksYes (Pro and Business, signed payloads)Yes, batch completion and status-change monitoring
Typed SDKsTypeScript (@avatcado/node) and Python (avatcado)Python, Node.js (TypeScript) and PHP
Test modeYes, magic test numbers on every tierNone found; a shared demo key on the free tier
Outage handlingRetries, eligible national register fallback for 10 EU countries (Pro and Business), eligible cache; otherwise refunded 503Per-country circuit breakers and a 24-hour cache: last verified answer at medium confidence, otherwise status unavailable; no EU national register fallback described
OpenAPI specYes, auto-generated from route definitionsYes, OpenAPI 3.1
HTTPSYes, all tiersYes, TLS 1.2+ with HSTS
Consultation numbersYes, with a requester VAT numberYes, with requester_vat (always a live VIES query)
Entry price (paid)Pro EUR 39/mo (10,000 validations)Starter EUR 19/mo (500,000 requests, then EUR 0.00005 each)
EORI and IBAN validationEORI yes (EU, XI and GB, one number per request), IBAN noYes, EORI (EU, GB, XI) and IBAN with bank lookup
VAT number monitoringNoYes, a webhook when a monitored number changes status
No-code connectorsNone; guides use the HTTP steps in Zapier, Make and n8nZapier app, n8n node, Odoo module and an MCP server
Rate limits20-120 req/min by tier10-6,000 req/min by tier

Scoped feature review: November 12, 2026. Pricing snapshot: November 12, 2026.

EuroValidate pricing

PlanPriceVolumeNotes
FreeEUR 0/mo100 requests/moHard cap (HTTP 429), no UK numbers
StarterEUR 19/mo500,000 requests/moEUR 0.00005 per additional request
GrowthEUR 49/mo2,000,000 requests/moEUR 0.00003 per additional request
ScaleEUR 149/mo10,000,000 requests/moEUR 0.00002 per additional request

All plans are billed monthly in EUR. Paid plans bill requests above the included volume at the rate shown instead of refusing them. UK (GB) validation starts at Starter. Higher volumes are priced through sales.

EuroValidate pricing as of November 12, 2026.

Avatcado's pricing is public: Free is €0 for 500 validations per month, Pro is €39/month (or €29/month billed annually) for 10,000 validations, and Business is €129/month (or €99/month billed annually) for 50,000. Full details on the pricing page.

When EuroValidate is the better choice

  • You run hundreds of thousands of checks a month: EUR 19 covers 500,000 requests, where Avatcado Business covers 50,000 for EUR 129
  • You also validate IBANs, or want a VAT number, an IBAN and an EORI number checked in one call
  • You want a ready-made Zapier, n8n or Odoo connector, or an MCP server for an AI agent
  • You want a webhook when a customer's VAT number changes status
  • You need batches of 1,000 on an entry-level plan, or a first-party PHP SDK

When Avatcado is the better fit

  • You want a larger free tier: 500 validations a month with UK numbers included, against 100 requests without them
  • You want a national register to answer when VIES is down, for the 10 EU countries Avatcado covers that way (Pro and Business)
  • You want a deterministic test mode for CI instead of a shared demo key
  • You validate Liechtenstein numbers

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Other EuroValidate alternatives

  • VATstack (full VAT compliance platform)
  • vatlayer (budget EU-only validation API)
  • VATsense (broad-coverage validation and rates API)
  • vatapi.com (UK-focused validation and invoicing API)
  • APIStax (multi-API platform with VAT validation)
  • taxid.dev: A single-purpose, USD-priced VAT validation API with Redis caching and a free tier of 100 validations per month. Documents batches of up to 25 numbers per request; webhooks and SDK packages were not found in the reviewed sources.
  • vatnode.dev: EU-focused validation (EU 27 plus Northern Ireland only) with VAT ID monitoring, webhook alerts when a number becomes invalid, and an MCP server for AI agents. Free tier of 100 requests per month.

For a seven-way feature matrix across all of these, see the full VAT validation API comparison.

Frequently asked questions

How do EuroValidate and Avatcado prices compare at high volume?

EuroValidate's paid plans include much larger volumes. Starter costs EUR 19 a month for 500,000 requests, Growth EUR 49 for 2,000,000 and Scale EUR 149 for 10,000,000, and requests above the included volume are billed per request (EUR 0.00005, 0.00003 and 0.00002) instead of being refused. Avatcado Pro costs EUR 39 a month (EUR 29 billed annually) for 10,000 validations and Business EUR 129 (EUR 99 billed annually) for 50,000, with a hard monthly limit. Between 100 and 500 checks a month, Avatcado's free tier costs nothing where EuroValidate needs Starter. Above 500, EuroValidate's Starter plan costs less than Avatcado Pro, and the gap widens with volume. If you need UK numbers, EuroValidate's free tier does not include them.

What does EuroValidate return when VIES is down?

It answers from its cache. EuroValidate keeps VAT results for 24 hours and runs a circuit breaker per country, so when a member state's VIES backend is down it returns the last verified answer for that number with confidence "medium" and upstream_status "degraded". If it holds no cached answer, it returns status "unavailable" within seconds, and its docs advise treating the check as pending and re-checking later. Its site describes no national register fallback for EU countries. Avatcado retries VIES, answers from an eligible stored result on every plan, and on Pro and Business can ask the national register for 10 EU countries. When none of these can answer, it returns a refunded 503. Each API labels the origin of an answer: EuroValidate in meta.source (for example vies_live or vies_cached), Avatcado in meta.source and meta.source_status. Store those fields next to the result.

Does EuroValidate validate UK and Liechtenstein VAT numbers?

UK numbers on paid plans; Liechtenstein is not listed. EuroValidate checks GB numbers against HMRC from the Starter plan (EUR 19 a month), and its free tier covers the EU 27 plus Northern Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and Australia. Liechtenstein appears on none of the pages we reviewed, including its OpenAPI document. It also runs a format and check-digit test, returned as "unverified", for Chile, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, Canada and the Philippines. That test confirms a number is well formed; it does not query a register. Avatcado validates 32 countries live on every tier, Free included: the EU 27 plus Northern Ireland, the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Australia.

What can EuroValidate check besides VAT numbers?

EORI customs numbers (EU numbers through the European Commission's service, GB numbers through HMRC, and XI), IBANs (an offline MOD-97 check with bank and BIC lookup), and company records from the GLEIF database, by LEI or through a best-effort search by VAT number. One POST /v1/validate call can check a VAT number, an IBAN and an EORI number together. For Germany and Spain, whose VIES answers carry no name or address, it fills those fields from GLEIF when the company holds an LEI. Avatcado validates VAT and GST numbers, checks EORI numbers for the EU, XI and GB one per request, and serves VAT rates. It has no IBAN checks, no combined call and no webhook for EORI status changes. If your onboarding flow also needs bank details checked, EuroValidate covers more of it with one key.

Related guides

The free tier includes 500 validations per month, and VAT rates lookups are always free and unlimited. Get an API key or read the API documentation.

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