Top 10 Bulk Email Verification and Validation Services Compared

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1. Victor December 10, 2014

   We have been using Email Answers for about a year now and I would recommend them for email list verify service. They also have a new platform called Purelist for real-time list scrubbing.

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2. Micheal Loy December 28, 2014

   Hello Rahul,

   I honestly think that Bulk Email Checker at #8 should be ranked much higher up on the list. With their 95% deliverability guaranteed quality of their email validation services coupled with all of their additional features and affordable pricing, compared to others they really are much better than most of these companies. I have tried 6 or so from this list and after visiting Bulk Email Checker my search stopped as I know I can not find better at this time.

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• Jimmy June 6, 2016

  no, they are terrible as cant check yahoo email addresses sadly. Its the toughest one to check as its catchall and they dont mention it anywhere that they have trouble with them

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3. Roshan Jonah @ Janz.com January 22, 2015

   You seem to have missed out one of the best email verification apps that I have used – emailverifierapp. I think your visitors would find it resourceful. But good list there. Well done compiling them into one big list. These services are helpful indeed.

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4. Daniel April 19, 2015

   This company (lead-factory) also offers database cleaning API.

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5. Jacob Chandler @ Xverify May 1, 2015

   How were we left out? We have been in the game longer than most of the companies on this list, we do over 300,000,000 a month. We can give you a free bulk email verification trial to test out our service if you would like.

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• Rahul V May 2, 2015

  Thank you Jacob for suggesting XVerify.com. This email filtering service will be reviewed and included shortly.

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• Jacob Chandler @ Xverify May 4, 2015

  If you would like I could provide you with an extended free trial.

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• CEDRIC October 26, 2016

  Hi is it possible to get a free trial without filling in the credit card details…?

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6. Bhavik May 12, 2015

   I use mycleanlist and they are very good too… And I found them cheapest email verifier by price among of all of above…. give it a try…

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7. Octanego.com India July 13, 2015

   Hi Rahul, have you listed this email validating softwares rank wise or just randomly?

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• Rahul V July 14, 2015

  The list of email validating services is ordered by their accuracy, our experience with them and their user reviews.

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8. B2B Email Lists August 6, 2015

   Is there any Indian company which provide email verification service, i am looking for low cost email verification

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9. Josh September 2, 2015

   Great list!! I am looking to become a email list cleaner. Can you recommend a good email list verifier software reseller. We would love to find a good software to buy.

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• Jonno October 19, 2017

  EmailChecker.com offer white label solutions.

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10. Amanda Ward @ YouVerifyIt.com September 17, 2015

    Would love for you to try out and evaluate YouVerifyIt’s email verification service. Our founders have been in this space for a decade and have built a phenomenal email address verification engine that is soon to be released! Just fill out the contact form and we can get you started!

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11. Validmail @ Ascriii.com October 15, 2015

    We can make an offer to you in order to clean your mails. validmail.fr can validate about 99.999% of email address for you. Our products can treat about 10 millions address by day if necessary, and can treat protected mails like free.fr or online.fr which are using sender-verify technics.

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12. Bill Kaplan October 16, 2015

    If one is simply looking to ping (i.e. perform an SMTP check) on email addresses, which is what the companies listed above all do, then you’re not going to be solving your deliverability problems.

    Deliverability issues are the result of three main factors in the following order of priority:

    • The existence of spamtraps and/or honeypots
    • Excessive spam complaints – .3% (i.e. 300 complaints out of 100,000 sends) is the typical threshold used by ISPs.
    • Exceed this threshold and a dynamic block will be put up, preventing the delivery of any future emails for 24-48 hours.
    • Exceed this multiple times and you’ll find yourself blocked and/or blacklisted for good.
    • Exceeding bounce rate thresholds – 10% is the typical threshold used by ISPs but this can vary significantly across ISPs, some of which are also factoring engagement metrics into this calculation and their determination of whether or not you’re a worthy sender.

    Pinging is discouraged by many ISPs, which will shut down attempts over a certain number or provide back inaccurate information so any service that simply performs pinging only might result in more issues than you first started with as you will end up throwing out good addresses with the bad. Furthermore, pinging an email address, even if this could be 100% accurate, will not flag spamtraps, honeypots, heavy spam complainers, “role” accounts that go to multiple accounts, and other malicious addresses that can destroy one’s email program.

    Accordingly, marketers need to employ a service that blocks deliverable but toxic addresses, corrects hygiene errors, and validates all email addresses that survive the first two screens. Doing this properly requires expertise, experience, technology, and a knowledgebase built over years of reviewing billions of email addresses.

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• Lisa February 8, 2016

  Bill, can you suggest a good service?

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• Itchy December 14, 2016

  Hi Bill, good comments – what service do you recommend?

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• Bill Kaplan May 21, 2018

  freshaddress .com

  FreshAddress’s clients include 25% of the Fortune 100 and its SafeToSend service is literally 5 to 7 years ahead of any providers in the industry. Founded and led by the founder/leader of the MIT Blackjack Team, 1,000’s of companies, big and small, rely exclusively on FreshAddress to ensure their marketing databases are as fresh and accurate as possible.

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13. John Atkins October 30, 2015

    I used Bulk email checker for a list of about 1,000 emails that from my business contacts. The user interface was very easy to work with and the dashboard is nice. My only issue is that 54% of my emails came back as “Unknown” with the following messages:
    The address does not have a mx server.
    Is a Catchall mx server config.
    The email address does not have a valid dns.

    Is this common when you have a lot of corporate email domains?

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• Omer Sharif December 28, 2015

  Yes man this is kind of common when your list contains non free corporate domains emails.Best way to check those idz if your list is small is to mix them with known valid yahoo/gmail/hotmail email addresses & shoot-out a test email campaign with a free mailchimp account (Upto 2000 contacts) & you’ll get the best possible result!

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14. Eric Londo January 15, 2016

    I use bdwebit dot com their SMTP and Email verifier is too good. I am using their service from last 3 years.

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• Son May 25, 2016

  Can you tell me a little bit more about bdwebit Email Verifier? What’s its feature? Can it detect spam trap, honeybot,…? Is it effective? And if possible, would you please show me the screenshot of this email verification software? Thank you!

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15. Jim Warren January 21, 2016

    Hi, I recently purchased a US business database close to 500K executives and soon after my 1st campaign my mailing account was locked. Can you suggest a good email verifier to remove invalid, spam traps, catch all and other possible troublesome emails? I’m confused with the options available and dont want to be spending another bomb on this database.

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16. Scotty February 5, 2016

    An excellent article Rahul. Thank you so much for putting together a list of some of the verification vendors. We recently evaluated several vendors for verification and have found most of them to all offer the same thing. Let’s face it, verification is a commodity. Webbula is someone I noticed that wasn’t on your list and we found their service offering to be excellent because not only do the offer the same verification services as everyone else, but they offer hygiene services to identify moles, traps, complainers, and other toxic emails. That won us over.

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17. Arpit Agarwal April 19, 2016

    Nice to see your post which is very help full for all the fraternity in email marketing domain. We are an Indian startup and recently launched our venture in the same domain as verifyemaillist dot com. I request you to please evaluate the same and if possible please cover it in your any existing or upcoming article.

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18. Todd Steininger May 12, 2016

    Hello Rahul,

    Thank you for the informative article and for providing the large list of vendors. I am currently using emailverifierapp dot com to bulk verify email address in my opt-in forms since January. Their service is top notch as I have experienced a 100% uptime, an average bounce rate of just 0.33% and their speed is so fast my subscribers do not even realize their email is being verified in realtime.

    I am curious as to why they have not made this list of vendors since the service they provide seems to be a perfect fit?

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19. Scott May 27, 2016

    we have been using the bulk email checker api and are fairly pleased with it. Price wise it is less expensive that others and as far as quality and speed, I was not able to to detect any difference between bulk email checker KickBox.com as far as accuracy of the data.

    The user interface is a little odd – feels incomplete – can’t search the hard bounces, when exporting hard bounces they come back as 1 row (normally I would expect the data to come back 1 row per entry) and a few other things like that.

    Support has been responsive and have answered questions within a few hours. I contacted support for several others and they provided the fastest responses.

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• Jimmy June 6, 2016

  they dont fully verify yahoo so pretty useless

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20. Jo June 21, 2016

    Thank you for the article. Email Hippo validates Yahoo addresses, it’s the only service that does this.

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21. Jordan Brown June 28, 2016

    Experian Data Quality has the best validation services in the game. Shoot me an email and I can set you up with a free data test and show you how it works – jordan.brown at experian.com

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22. Jeff Straight July 4, 2016

    I can’t believe you don’t have emailverifierapi dot com added to this list. Out of all the services you have listed, Email Verifier Api is the only enterprise grade service. I don’t want to deal with issues, so enterprise grade quality is the only acceptable services.

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23. Rajesh July 22, 2016

    Emailverifierapp.com is not reliable email list verifier. I bought a package of cleaning 100000 email but it cleaned only just 25000 email and rest 75000 was not cleaned. Issue was intimated to Support team . Its 5 days since issue happened and they are not able to fix.

    So be careful and better to go by small volume packages to ensure that the service and product works fine.

    I am now looking for another email list cleaner.

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24. Neus August 4, 2016

    We are looking for a company who can give officially approved document about that the verified e-mail addresses are really valid and checked.
    Do you know any company like that?

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25. Rahul August 26, 2016

    Hi Neus

    We at Locate Ventures pvt ltd can do that. Check out locateventures dot com

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26. Stephen October 8, 2016

    Thanks for collecting all services together. It helps to compare services but some of the features listed above for some services are not available. Even they do not provide what they claim for on their website. We’ve been using daily credits plan of http://QuickEmailVerification.com for more than two years now. Excellent service and support. It is Enterprise level service designed for both large and small businesses. We have already compared many other service providers in the above list and have also tried paid service from some of them but we could not get the accuracy we expected. Nearly zero bounce rate was our primary concern since we have been using MailChimp for sending email campaigns. Due to high bounce rate our account had been suspended by MailChimp and we had very hard time to get it fixed.

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27. Tamas Szabo October 12, 2016

    Hi,
    I would like to recommend our new application HuBuCo
    – Fast online validator, one by one, bulk uploads and API.
    – Very competitive pricing: e.g. $19 for 10,000 emails
    – Refund your credits for Unkown like catch all and anti spam systems

    It would be great if you tried our system (also offer 500 free credits to try) and left your comments.

    Thanks

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• Yoky @ dapurnesia.com November 8, 2017

  Hi Tamas, looks like your pricing is much higher now, $80 for 10,000 emails, is that correct?

  Thanks

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28. Carl October 24, 2016

    Hi

    Great article.
    Question: Is there any way to verify an email address if the server has been set to “accept all”.
    I am busy testing http://Www.QuickEmailVerification.Com and became aware of some of our clients who have this config. Specifically those who route their mail through websense.

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• Nikolai October 26, 2016

  Actually to identify accurately if email is “accept all” or not is also an advance feature! I believe that there is no other option to verify “Accept All” emails with 100% accuracy. Based on amount of “Accept all” emails in your list you can plan your strategy to send email campaign. After comparing some best-in-class providers in the above list (Thanks AccuWebHosting), we’ve been using http://quickemailverification.com for last four months now and have been satisfied with that service. There are many providers but very few of them having best accuracy of the service. And from those accurate service providers, only QuickEmailVerification’s price meets best to us. You may also find the one which meets with your needs from this list!

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29. Anna October 25, 2016

    I found this service proofy dot io as most accurate and obviously the best one on the market.

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• Petko Ichev January 24, 2017

  Proofy dot io doesn’t serves its purpose well and is full of problems:
  – we have been billed 3 times to withdraw a single list of checked mails
  – One check returned status “undeliverable” for all emails in it, which by no chance is not true, cause the same list was tested in 3 other services as well.
  – Their support is **** . We issued like 4-5 notifications/tickets to their support – recieved so far 0 feedback (3 weeks so far)
  – Their statistics before withrdawal of a list are buggy as well – e.g. from a list with 3000 mails, the statistic contained 1500 emails with certain status, after downlowding the actual list, what a surprice! all entries had a status; another e.g. very often after a check is done once the statistic shows xx% pricocessing, after log out and log in – yy% processing.

  You are free to draw your own conclusions. For us – one of the worst services, we’ve used.

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• Proofy.io Support June 12, 2017

  Hello, Petko!
  We are very sorry for this situation
  In last few month service Proofy changed all support team
  We want to see what problem do you have and we ask you please send your user ID and email from proofy account
  thanks

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30. Jennifer February 14, 2017

    I used HuBuCo for verifying my email list and it was very easy. It allowed me to quickly get a very accurate list of ok emails, bad emails and even emails that forward to other addresses (so if a recent contact has left a company, I will know if the email is being forwarded or if it was just deleted from that company’s server). I scanned over 10,000 email addresses and the verification was completed within 15 minutes. Very easy and when I had questions, customer service was quick and easy to work with. They even offered help with a piece of the process they had no control over, which was very nice of them and makes me feel very comfortable recommending them as my #1 choice for verifying email address lists quickly and accurately. Hope that helps!
    Jennifer

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31. Mick March 6, 2017

    Thanks for this great list of bulk email validation tools.

    In the past, I’ve used some services of your list like Briteverify or DataValidation, but recently, I’ve switched to nojunk.io which is quite new but I think it has the best RoI :

    • results are similar to other’s, but I didn’t try them all
    • it’s cheaper than most of them

    Thanks again, this list helps a lot to discover and try new email validation services and I hope you’ll have great results with nojunk

    Mick

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32. Hiren April 19, 2017

    Hi, This blog is just phenomenal. I came across another provider: verifalia dot com. They provide 125 validations / day for free. Any experience with this provider?

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• Patty Drake April 19, 2017

  Hey Rahul
  Great post! I wanted to test and compare services and this post gave me a lot of options!
  I have been into email marketing for a few years now and I have learnt an important lesson: never use email lists that have not been cleaned. MailChimp once suspended our account and man, did we have a hard time, getting it back in action!

  So while comparing services listed here I used criteria like Accuracy, Support, Pricing and Speed, mostly in this order. While no service can score 10/10 on every criteria, I think
  http://QuickEmailVerification.com (currently # 3 in this list) makes most sense. I was particulary impressed with its Accuracy and the Support. I first used their 100 free validations and found the output was highly accurate and quick. I shot a querry to their Support (like I did for every service I tried) and QuickEmailVerification’s reponse was most helpful. And of course, their Pricing is extremely competitive so you don’t have anything else to think about.

  Of course, you may want to check it out yourself and not take my word for it – go ahead.

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33. Clay April 24, 2017

    This is a great article. Are there any email verifiers that support mobile apps integration and also if we can get update via mobile for our cleaned list and download list etc.

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• Rahul V April 25, 2017

  Thanks Clay for reaching out. Try out any of these – QuickEmailVerification, Hubuco & xVerify. They have responsive dashboard. You can access it through your mobile device, upload email list and download cleaned list. Also, Email YoYo has launched their mobile application for email cleansing. You can also consider them.

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34. Jonas April 25, 2017

    Hey Rahul, I must say its a great compilation. I had used datavalidation in past and they had been excellent so far but I am willing to cut short my budget. Can you suggest us similar provider with affordable pricing? Thanks.

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• Rahul V April 26, 2017

  Thank you, Jonas! We review many providers at regular intervals to update our blog with the best providers.I can suggest you xVerify.com.It looks similar to Datavalidation.

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35. jeroma April 26, 2017

    Hello Rahul, Great detailed article. I want to clean my generic free email provider list like Yahoo, Gmail and hotmail. Can you suggest a provider.

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• Rahul V April 26, 2017

  Yeah certainly. You can choose either of these QuickEmailVerification, Hubuco or BriteVerify. These email verifiers have good track records in cleaning free email providers.

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• Helena January 10, 2018

  Very nice information We have email verification tool @ b2bsprout, which is a Real-Time email verification,
  with 1000 reports free API Support.

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36. Asgar Ali May 1, 2017

    Thanks for the great share. Most of the listed providers here offer limited free trials. I need an email verifier who can offer unlimited free email validations forever. Can you suggest any?

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37. Rahul V May 19, 2017

    What was the problem with QuickEmailVerification campaign? We’d recommend any of top 3 email validation providers, i.e., Xverify, HUBUCO, Towerdata and Kickbox. You can choose as per your budget and requirements. It’d be better to take a free trial before signing up. Best of Luck.

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38. Jim Carter July 11, 2017

    The list and details are superb. Do you know any of the email hygiene provider which provides a WordPress plugin kind of solution, so even a non technical person can also use it. I know API are available but just wondering if any ready to use wordpress plugins are available?

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39. Laura July 13, 2017

    This is a really helpful list Rahul, thank you. Could you clarify whether you have listed it in order of those you think perform the best, or is there no rationale for the order? I notice that some email verifiers at the top don’t have some of the features those lower seem to offer. Also, it would be amazing if at some point you could compile a table with checks / crosses next to features offered – would really make comparison easy.

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40. Laura July 13, 2017

    Just an FYI, I’ve been running tests with each provider that offers free tests. Mailbox Validator marked every hotmail email as invalid, which is not the case.

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41. Mahendra Aitha @ Gainsight.com August 22, 2017

    Hi,

    Any email verification vendor GDPR/PrivacyShield certified? Thanks in advance!

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42. Jason-Pat September 21, 2017

    Hello Tammina, CaptainVerify does not provide completely free email verification. Their charges start from $7 for 1k email verification.

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43. sandeep November 5, 2017

    Hi Rahul,

    This is indeed a great summary of features about the different available options for email validation tools. I would appreciate if you guys can evaluate email validation from weblegit.com as well. I should point out the cons/ perceived cons that we do not do the bulk email validation. Our USP is one line integration (no API/programming knowledge required), and we validate emails for public free email providers like gmail, yahoo, outlook, aol with 100% accuracy.

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44. Chaitanya D November 17, 2017

    Of the services listed here I found #1 and #3 the most effective. Another one I’ve been using is mail mule – I think they’re a little new but the service is really good. The support team is especially supportive which means its probably quite well managed.

    So far in terms of quality mail mule, hubuco and emailchecker are good. Of all of these in pricing terms I think mailmule is the best. My own 2c naturally. I send out a fair few emails for my site and it helps to have a reliable verification service.

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45. Corina December 2, 2017

    Thank you, AccuWebHosting, for choosing us as the No. 1 email verification service. We appreciate your kind review and the fact that you’ve shared it with your audience.
    Our website https://www.zerobounce.net awaits everyone with the best prices and the best email validation system on the market. The ZeroBounce customer support team is online 24/7 to help you with any information you might need, in the shortest amount of time.
    Again, thank you for reviewing us! Your opinion means a lot to us.

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46. Corina December 29, 2017

    Hello, Rahul & friends interested in email marketing,

    I wanted to share with you the news about ZeroBounce publishing a very useful resource for everyone sending mass emails. It’s called “The Complete Guide to Improve Inbox and Deliverability” and it was created by our team of experts, who have lots of experience in this field.
    The guide is free of charge and its purpose is to help marketers who struggle with deliverability issues. We thought it would be a great extension of our email verification service and we know it is going to save people a lot of time and effort.
    Take a look, I’ll leave you the link, if you don’t mind: https://www.zerobounce.net/guide-to-improve-inbox-and-delivery.html

    Hope everyone can get real value out of it! We wish you a happy and successful 2018!

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47. Samantha January 5, 2018

    This is a really helpful list Rahul, thanks. We have just started to use a new online service from WinPure, its called Email Verifier Pro – emails dot winpure dot com
    They provide both bulk email validation and an API which can be used on webforms, forums and signups. From what we have seen so far its one of the most robust and accurate email verification services in the marketplace, and with subscriptions and pay-per-use they offer something to fit all budgets, worth a look!

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48. KP Frank January 11, 2018

    Hi,
    did you consider to evaluate and add email-validator.net to this list?
    Our Real-Time Email Validation Process (API and Bulk Upload) provides 100% accurate results and includes
    + Disposable email address detection
    + Misspelled domain detection to prevent Typosquatting
    + Mailbox existence checking
    + Catch-All testing
    + Greylisting detection

    Risk-Free: 30-Day Money Back Guarantee
    Made in Germany
    24/7 World Class Support
    Top Customers like Adobe, Citrix, Autodesk, Salesforce, Washington Post and many more.

    Thank you!

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49. Raphael January 24, 2018

    Hi Rahul ,
    Please evaluate emailexistdotcom, we recently launched beta 1.0, Tool to verify whether email exists in real world. It extracts the MX records and other proprietary techniques and strategies from the email address and connect to mail server to make sure the mailbox really exists for the email Id.
    It validates :
    – Syntax
    – Role-based
    – Mail server
    – Disposal Emails
    – catch-all
    – Server status
    – Spam Rate Calculation
    and use proprietary techniques and strategies from the email address

    Our custom API provides email verification for single and bulk emails which can use within your application, we had done with PHP library and more on the way to come .

    Note: Website is going to updated in few days

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• Jason-Pat January 26, 2018

  Thank you, Raphael! We review many providers at regular intervals to update our blog with the best providers. We will surely review emailexistdotcom and update our findings.

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• Raphael February 12, 2018

  Thanks Jason-Pat,
  will be waiting for your response

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50. Thomas Boerre February 12, 2018

    I think you should look at bouncekick.com, i have done email marketing for the last 13 years, and always looked for a selfhosted email validator – I came across this product and purchased with a one time payment of $1500, even though the system currently missing a few features their team is really working hard to make new releases of the software currently they release new updates every weeks!
    I mean validating email databases can be a costly affair, and with a one-time payment i must admit that this software really gives you value for the money – Besides that its the first selfhosted email validation software i have ever found.

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51. George April 7, 2019

    Thank you for verifying and adding emailverifier.com, after testing a lot of different tools from the lists above I settings with Emailverifier. The reason, simple. I pay $300 per lead over adwords, so I cant really afford to lose leads due to false positives, their 99% accuracy guarantee was attractive but in all honesty the reasults are very accurate

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52. Alona June 6, 2019

    Another one great solution is truemail.io.
    Convenient, easy and fast email verification tool. By the way, it has free trial and you can verify your first 1000 email for free.

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53. Frank June 19, 2019

    I really like Zerobounce.net – i think they are the most accurate

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54. Antideo August 22, 2019

    This is a nice list of email verifiers and I can see a good amount of effort that has gone into the blog. I would appreciate if you can add antideo.com to the list as well. Antideo is an API service that helps user to do a live detection of disposable email addresses and the list is auto-updated so that you always stay ahead of the curve. And the icing on the cake is that a user can make upto 5000 API/month for free.

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55. Antideo September 21, 2020

    Also like to add that we have launched a WordPress plugin, that does unlimited email validations for free, how about that?
    https://www.antideo.com/wordpress-email-validation-plugin/

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56. Veronika July 7, 2021

    Hey, have you heard of Mailercheck.com? Can you include it in your next article update, it looks like a solid verification tool.

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