vonage-identity-insights
Vonage Identity Insights package
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you need real-time phone number intelligence for fraud detection or identity verification and already use or plan to use the Vonage platform. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and integrates cleanly with the Vonage SDK ecosystem. No security vulnerabilities are known. The main constraint is the requirement for a Vonage account and API credentials.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a Vonage account and valid authentication credentials to make API requests.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution.
- Active maintenance with recent commits and a permissive Apache license.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), allowing commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.
last release 2026-04-22 (114 days) · last repo commit 2026-07-20 · 213 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 251,866 downloads/mo, #8,564 on PyPI
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pip install vonage-identity-insights
from vonage import Vonage, Auth
from vonage_identity_insights import IdentityInsightsRequest, InsightsRequest, SimSwapInsight
client = Vonage(auth=auth)
request = IdentityInsightsRequest(
phone_number="1234567890",
purpose="FraudPreventionAndDetection",
insights=InsightsRequest(sim_swap=SimSwapInsight(period=240))
)
response = client.identity_insights.requests(request)- Whether the package works standalone or requires the main vonage package to be installed
- Rate limits or quota constraints for the Identity Insights API
- Supported phone number formats and geographic coverage
What it is and what it does
vonage-identity-insights is a Python client library for the Vonage Identity Insights API, which provides real-time lookups of carrier, subscriber, and device information tied to phone numbers. It wraps the HTTP API calls and provides typed request/response objects built on pydantic for validation and serialization. The package is designed to integrate with the main vonage SDK but can be used independently to query phone number attributes for fraud detection, identity verification, and subscriber intelligence.
The library depends on vonage-http-client for HTTP communication, vonage-utils for shared utilities, and pydantic for data validation. It supports Python 3.9 through 3.13 and is actively maintained. The API requires a Vonage account and authentication to function; typical use involves constructing an IdentityInsightsRequest with a phone number and desired insight types (such as SIM swap detection), then calling the requests method to retrieve the response.
Use it for
- Detect SIM swap fraud by querying whether a phone number has recently changed carriers or devices.
- Verify subscriber identity during account creation or login by retrieving carrier and device attributes.
- Build fraud prevention rules that flag suspicious phone number activity or mismatches with user profiles.
- Enrich customer data with carrier and device information for segmentation or risk scoring.
- Validate phone numbers in real time before sending SMS or voice communications.
Worth the install?
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Yes, if you need real-time phone number intelligence for fraud detection or identity verification and already use or plan to use the Vonage platform.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and integrates cleanly with the Vonage SDK ecosystem. No security vulnerabilities are known. The main constraint is the requirement for a Vonage account and API credentials.
Install
vonage-identity-insights on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with recent commits and a permissive Apache license. Depends on vonage-http-client, vonage-utils, and pydantic—all standard Vonage SDK components.
Requires a Vonage account and valid authentication credentials to make API requests.
License in practice
Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), allowing commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.
Quickstart
pip install vonage-identity-insights
from vonage import Vonage, Auth
from vonage_identity_insights import IdentityInsightsRequest, InsightsRequest, SimSwapInsight
client = Vonage(auth=auth)
request = IdentityInsightsRequest(
phone_number="1234567890",
purpose="FraudPreventionAndDetection",
insights=InsightsRequest(sim_swap=SimSwapInsight(period=240))
)
response = client.identity_insights.requests(request)Verify before relying
- Whether the package works standalone or requires the main vonage package to be installed
- Rate limits or quota constraints for the Identity Insights API
- Supported phone number formats and geographic coverage
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.9 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesvonage-http-clientvonage-utilspydantic |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 114 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 251,866 / month, #8,564 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software LicenseProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
Evidence: vonage_identity_insights-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
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See also vonage · vonage-number-insight · vonage-numbers · vonage-network-sim-swap · vonage-network-number-verification · vonage-http-client · vonage-verify · vonage-utils · vonage-network-auth · shippo