Seven IMEI check providers side by side: price, registered office, languages, invoicing and GDPR transparency. All details about the other providers come from their own public pages; the retrieval date is stated with each provider.
What we compared
What a given IMEI check actually queries is impossible to verify from the outside — nobody publishes which database they hit. So we compare only what anyone can check for themselves: what a check costs, who operates the service, which languages it is available in, whether you get an invoice, and whether a data controller is named at all.
The providers in detail
IMEI Safe (our service)
Price: Fixed price, no account: €4.90 (basic report), €9.90 (pro report). Dealers can additionally top up credit from €10, single lookups from €0.02.
Invoice: Invoice sent automatically by email after every payment
GDPR / transparency: Imprint and privacy policy naming the controller, provider based in Germany
Details retrieved on: 8 August 2026
imeicheck.com
Price: Prepaid balance, billed per lookup in US dollars. Public price list includes: blacklist USD 0.01, blacklist PRO USD 0.06, “Apple Full Info + Carrier” USD 0.12, MDM check USD 0.25, “Apple Full + MDM + GSMA PRO” USD 0.75.
Registered office: No company or legal form stated; the only address given is “Ireland – Wexford – Main street”.
Languages: 25 language versions, including German
Invoice: The privacy policy mentions “invoices/receipts” for paid accounts; no invoicing process is documented on the site.
GDPR / transparency: Privacy policy present (dated 28 Jan 2026) but without a named controller or address. No imprint found.
Price: Not obtainable on the reference date: the site returns a database error (“Brak połączenia z serwerem MySQL”). Prices on the professional portal pro.imei24.com are only visible after registration.
Registered office: No company or address information found.
Languages: Not verifiable, main site unreachable (error message in Polish)
Price: Per-lookup pricing in US dollars, list is public: GSMA blacklist PRO USD 1.99, carrier and SIM lock check USD 2.49, MacBook iCloud check USD 3.99 (reseller rates from USD 1.00). Unlocking services go beyond USD 250.
Registered office: No company or address; contact only via Telegram (+40, Romania) and email. The site states “since 2012”.
Languages: 13 language versions, including German
Invoice: No information on invoicing
GDPR / transparency: The footer links to neither a privacy policy nor an imprint or terms.
Price: Basic lookups (model, TAC) are free. Paid checks require an account; the only public figure is the API at “Simple Info from USD 0.02” per request with a USD 5 minimum top-up. Premium check prices appear only after login.
Registered office: No company or address; the privacy policy names both the controller and the data protection officer only as “IMEI.info”.
Languages: 20 language versions, including German
Invoice: No information on invoicing
GDPR / transparency: Privacy policy present, but without an identifiable controller or address.
Price: Prepaid balance, billed per lookup in US dollars. Public price list with free checks (model/TAC lookup among others) and paid lookups from USD 0.11 (Apple basic) to USD 2.20 (Apple SIM-lock status), plus one free check per day.
Registered office: “IMEI.org Ltd.”, 57 2nd Ave Suite 34, New York, USA — stated in the privacy policy; no separate imprint page
Languages: 8 language versions, including German
Invoice: Not stated on the website
GDPR / transparency: Privacy policy present and names the operator; no data controller designated in the GDPR sense
Most IMEI services bill per lookup in US dollars and require a pre-funded balance. That is cheap if you check daily — for a single check before a used purchase it means registering, paying up front and taking an exchange rate. IMEI Safe takes the other route for consumers: a fixed price per device (4,90 € or 9,90 €), purchase without an account, invoice by email. Anyone checking regularly can still top up credit and pay per lookup.
Provider transparency is where the services differ most: of the six compared competitors, only imei.org names a legal entity with a postal address — and it does so in its privacy policy rather than on a dedicated imprint page. The other five state nothing. That matters in the EU the moment warranty, an invoice or a GDPR data request is involved.