---
title: "List available phone numbers"
method: GET
path: "/v1/numbers/available"
tags: ["numbers"]
---

# List available phone numbers

`GET /v1/numbers/available`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/numbers/available`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns phone numbers available for purchase in a country. Narrow the search with `number_type`, `capabilities`, and `prefix`. Inventory numbers come first and support pagination. The final page can include a live snapshot of numbers available from suppliers.

Inventory results are newest first by default. When you specify `number_type` and the suppliers on sale in the market are ranked into multiple priority tiers, results follow supplier priority, newest first within each tier. These searches reject `ending_before` and return neither `prev_cursor` nor `refresh_cursor`, so backward and refresh paging are unavailable. Country-only searches and markets with a single tier keep newest-first inventory ordering and support backward and refresh paging.

## Query parameters

- `country_code` string, required
- `number_type` string: Physical type of a phone number. New number types may be added over time, so treat unrecognized values as supported types rather than errors.
- `prefix` string
- `capabilities` string[]
- `limit` integer
- `starting_after` string
- `ending_before` string

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `200`

List of available phone numbers.

- AvailableNumberList
  - `data` AvailableNumber[], required
    - `number` string, required: Phone number in E.164 format.
    - `country_code` string, required: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
    - `number_type` string, required: Physical type of a phone number. New number types may be added over time, so treat unrecognized values as supported types rather than errors.
    - `capabilities` NumberCapability[], required: Capabilities supported by this number.
    - `ownership_registration_required` boolean, required: Whether ownership paperwork must be approved before outbound SMS and voice use. Customer availability accounts for organization exemptions; admin supplier searches report the general country and number-type requirement. You can acquire the number, including Bird stock, and submit paperwork afterward. Any `pricing.setup_price` is charged during purchase, plus any tax. The recurring charge, net of tax `pricing.recurring_price` multiplied by `pricing.intervals_per_charge`, is taken with any tax at assignment and at each renewal, even while approval is pending; assignment may follow completion of a pending supplier order.
    - `ownership_address_scope` string: Where the carrier requires the business address on this number's ownership registration to be. Present only when the carrier itself registers the number before it carries traffic and states a rule; omitted otherwise. An address that does not meet the rule is refused after purchase, and only an address that meets it can fix the registration. - `anywhere`: any business address. - `country`: a business address in the number's country. - `number_area`: a business address inside the number's own area code, for example in Amsterdam for an Amsterdam (020) number.
    - `pricing` AvailableNumberPricing: What your organization pays for an available number, net of tax, in your billing currency.
      - `setup_price` Money, required
        - `amount` string, required: Decimal amount as a string, in major currency units.
        - `currency_code` string, required: ISO 4217 three-letter currency code.
      - `recurring_price` Money, required
        - `amount` string, required: Decimal amount as a string, in major currency units.
        - `currency_code` string, required: ISO 4217 three-letter currency code.
      - `recurring_period` BillingPricingInterval, required: A period: a unit and a count. A day is a fixed 24-hour UTC period. A larger `count` lengthens the period without multiplying the amount quoted for it.
        - `unit` 'day' | 'month' | 'year', required: The recurring interval one subscription charge covers.
        - `count` integer, required: Number of units in the period.
      - `intervals_per_charge` integer, nullable, required: How many `recurring_period`s one charge bills at once. Your organization is charged `recurring_price` multiplied by this at purchase and at each renewal. `null` when `recurring_price` is `null`.
  - `next_cursor` string, nullable, required: Cursor for the next page. Pass back as `starting_after` to advance forward. `null` when no next page exists.
  - `prev_cursor` string, nullable, required: Cursor for the previous page. Pass back as `ending_before` to step backward. `null` when no previous page exists.
  - `refresh_cursor` string, nullable, required: Refresh anchor, the first row of this response. Pass back as `ending_before` to fetch what precedes it in the current sort order. On a newest-first sort those are the items that have appeared since; on any other sort they are the items that sort earlier, so refreshing such a list means re-fetching it instead. Non-`null` whenever `data` is non-empty; `null` only on an empty page. Distinct from `prev_cursor`.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error
- `503`: The service is temporarily unavailable. If `Retry-After` is present, wait for that delay before retrying; otherwise, retry with exponential backoff. Reuse the same idempotency key and request when retrying a mutation.

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