Buyer's Guide
TCPA Compliance Software: Who Sells What, and What It Costs
Which TCPA compliance software should I buy?
Short answerThere is no single answer, because “TCPA compliance software” is four separate jobs: DNC registry scrubbing, litigator screening, phone validation, and consent capture. Almost every vendor sells one or two and quietly leaves the rest to you. The practical split is between self-serve, per-number tools that publish rates -- roughly $0.019 to $0.20 a number -- and enterprise platforms that publish nothing and route you to a demo. Pick by which of the four jobs is actually binding on you, not by feature-list length.
On this page
Search for TCPA compliance software and you get a list of products that do meaningfully different things at prices ranging from two-tenths of a cent to whatever an enterprise contract turns out to be. The category label hides the only distinction that matters, which is which check you are actually buying.
There are four separate jobs, covered in depth in what TCPA tools actually check. This page is the other half: who sells which of them, and what they charge.
Who covers what
| Vendor | DNC registry | Litigator | Validation | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gryphon | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Yes |
| PossibleNOW | Yes | Yes (add-on) | Not stated | Yes (separate) |
| RealPhoneValidation | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| DNC.com | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Not stated |
| TCPA Litigator List | Yes | Yes | Billed apart | No |
| Blacklist Alliance | No | Yes | Not stated | No |
| IPQualityScore | Add-on (sales) | Add-on (sales) | Yes | No |
| ActiveProspect | Third-party | Third-party | Yes | Yes -- core |
| NumberBroom | No | Yes | Yes | No |
"Not stated" means exactly that: the vendor's own pages did not say, and we would rather leave a cell blank than fill it with an assumption. Two rows deserve reading twice. ActiveProspect is a consent company that resells other people's scrubbing, so comparing it to a scrub tool on price answers the wrong question. And NumberBroom has a "No" in the first column, which is not an oversight -- registry access runs under your own SAN and no vendor removes that obligation.
What they charge, where they say
| Vendor | Published price | Buy without sales? |
|---|---|---|
| DataZapp | $0.005/number, $125 minimum order | Yes |
| RealPhoneValidation | $0.019 to $0.06/validation; first 100 free | Yes |
| Blacklist Alliance | $300 block (~$0.03/number); subs from $600/mo | Partly; pricing pages are noindex |
| IPQualityScore | $99 to $999/month tiers; free tier | Yes |
| ActiveProspect | Per-certificate rates; contracted tier needs $24k+/yr | Yes |
| TCPA Litigator List | $199 to $4,999/month | Subscription only |
| NumberBroom | $0.20/number, $5 minimum | Yes |
| Gryphon | None published | No -- "Talk to an Expert" |
| PossibleNOW | None published | No -- demo or quote form |
| DNC.com | None published | No -- "Schedule a Meeting" |
On unit price, we are not the cheapest, and it would be silly to pretend otherwise
RealPhoneValidation publishes rates from $0.019 a validation, includes a litigator flag at no extra charge with its DNC products, sells self-serve with no sales call, and gives the first 100 validations free. Per number, that is roughly a tenth of $0.20.
What a per-number rate does not tell you is the cost of the job in front of you. A 25-number list is $5 here and a rounding error there -- but so is the effort of registering, entering a SAN, and picking between eight product SKUs. Cheap per unit and cheap for one afternoon are different purchases.
The SAN question sorts the field faster than price
Anything that queries the National Do Not Call Registry runs under the seller's own Subscription Account Number, obtained annually from the FTC. Vendors are consistent about this once you read the contract rather than the marketing: Gryphon's Master Services Agreement requires the customer to provide its SAN, RealPhoneValidation asks for the SAN, Organization ID and expiry before a first DNC check, and PossibleNOW's quote form asks whether you already hold registry access.
So the honest first question is not which vendor is best. It is whether you need registry scrubbing at all. If you do, you need a SAN and a registry vendor, and roughly half this table drops out. If you do not -- because your exposure is dead numbers and serial filers rather than registry matches -- the field is much smaller and much cheaper.
How to choose without reading nine websites
- Do you need to prove consent? That is a records problem, and ActiveProspect's TrustedForm is the category leader. No scrub tool substitutes for it.
- Do you need the DNC registry? Then get a SAN first, and choose among the registry vendors. RealPhoneValidation is the cheapest self-serve route we verified; Gryphon and PossibleNOW are the enterprise end.
- Is your problem the list itself -- dead numbers, landlines, serial filers? That is validation plus litigator screening, no registry and no SAN. Compare on the total cost of your actual volume, including minimums.
- Is it a one-off? Minimum orders and monthly commitments dominate the arithmetic below a few thousand numbers. This is the only case where $0.20 with a $5 floor beats $0.019 with a $125 one.
For the same vendors compared on price alone, see what DNC and litigator scrubbing actually costs.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest TCPA compliance software?
On published per-number rates, RealPhoneValidation is the lowest of the vendors we could verify: its quote wizard lists DNC Lookup from $0.02 a validation, Scrub at $0.019, and Wireless ID at $0.006, with volume discounts above 10,000 prepaid (scraped 8 September 2026). DataZapp lists $0.005 a number but attaches a $125 minimum order. Cheapest per unit and cheapest for your actual job are different questions, though: if you have 300 numbers and no ongoing programme, a $125 minimum order costs more than the list is worth checking, which is the gap a $5 floor exists to fill.
Which TCPA vendors let me buy without talking to sales?
Of those checked: RealPhoneValidation ("No sales calls. No setup meetings."), IPQualityScore, DataZapp, ActiveProspect (self-serve alongside a sales track) and NumberBroom. Gryphon, PossibleNOW and DNC.com are demo-gated, and none of the three publishes a price anywhere on its site. Blacklist Alliance sits in between: real Stripe checkout links exist, but its pricing pages are marked noindex and every visible call to action is "Schedule a Demo".
Do I need my own SAN to use TCPA compliance software?
For anything touching the National DNC Registry, yes, and the vendor cannot supply it for you. Registry access runs on the seller's own Subscription Account Number from the FTC. Gryphon's own Master Services Agreement says it plainly: the customer "shall provide Gryphon its federally assigned Subscription Account Number (SAN)". RealPhoneValidation requires you to enter your SAN, Organization ID and expiry before your first DNC check. PossibleNOW's quote form asks whether you already have registry access. Products that do not touch the registry -- litigator screening and phone validation, including NumberBroom's -- need no SAN at all. See what a SAN actually gates.
Is ActiveProspect a list scrubbing tool?
Not really, and it is the vendor most often miscategorised here. ActiveProspect's core products are TrustedForm, which certifies and stores proof of consent, and LeadConduit, which validates and routes leads. DNC scrubbing and litigator screening appear as third-party add-ons in its marketplace -- including Blacklist Alliance's litigator feed and Trestle -- rather than as its own data. If your problem is proving you had consent, that is squarely their product and nothing on this page substitutes for it. If your problem is a list full of dead numbers and serial filers, it is the wrong shape.
Does any one vendor cover all four jobs?
Gryphon comes closest of those checked: its compliance pages name federal and state DNC, curfews and frequency, a litigator database, Reassigned Numbers Database lookups, consent and preference management, and call analytics. PossibleNOW covers registry work, litigator screening and consent through a second platform. Both are enterprise platforms that publish no pricing and sell through a demo, which is the trade. And even then, consent is not really a thing you buy -- it is a record you keep. No vendor can hold it for you.
