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cm-phone-lookup vs SouthAfricanIDValidator
A verified, side-by-side comparison. Both records are status-checked by Wycord, so you are comparing what each actually offers today, not a stale listing.
Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools
Type
Validators
Validators
Country
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇿🇦 South Africa
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open-source
Free / open-source
Verified
Unverified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
pan-african, validation, typescript, phone, operator-detection
kyc, php, south-africa, id-validation, luhn
Summary
A TypeScript library for multi-country African mobile operator detection and phone-number validation, covering countries such as Cameroon, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Ghana with 18 or more operators. It exposes a fluent API for operator lookup, validation, and formatting with rich metadata. Published on npm under the @williamtessa27 scope.
A PHP package that validates South African ID numbers by checking structural rules, the embedded birth date, gender and citizenship digits, and the Luhn checksum. It is actively maintained with a substantial test suite. Installable via Composer.
cm-phone-lookup vs SouthAfricanIDValidator at a glance
cm-phone-lookup and SouthAfricanIDValidator are both listed under Validators in Wycord's Developer Tools index.
cm-phone-lookup is based in Cameroon and SouthAfricanIDValidator in South Africa.
Both currently show the status "Docs live".
On access, both are marked "No approval needed".
Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.
How they differ
- Country: cm-phone-lookup, Cameroon; SouthAfricanIDValidator, South Africa.
Topics
Only cm-phone-lookup: pan-african, validation, typescript, phone, operator-detection.
Only SouthAfricanIDValidator: kyc, php, south-africa, id-validation, luhn.
Common questions
- Which has better uptime, cm-phone-lookup or SouthAfricanIDValidator?
- Wycord does not yet have enough probe results for both to compare uptime.
- Do cm-phone-lookup or SouthAfricanIDValidator need approval before use?
- Both are marked "No approval needed".
- Is the documentation for cm-phone-lookup and SouthAfricanIDValidator working?
- Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
- Where are cm-phone-lookup and SouthAfricanIDValidator based?
- cm-phone-lookup is based in Cameroon; SouthAfricanIDValidator is based in South Africa.