Pay only for what you need, or save more with a monthly plan.
Only pay when you need to. No subscription.
5,000 credits
$0.0038 per email
Best for small campaigns, one-time cleanups, and occasional verification.
Monthly credits, lower verification costs, and automation built in.
100,000 credits
$0.00129 per email
Best for growing teams running outbound, automated signup flows, and AI-powered GTM.
For high-volume verification, custom workflows, and teams that need dedicated support.
Starting at 250K verifications/month
Best for companies with complex stacks, security needs, or custom workflows.
Credits roll over, never expire, and verification gets cheaper as you scale.
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Start free with 100 credits — single & bulk verification. No expiration, no credit card required.
One credit equals one verified email address. Credits never expire. Every plan starts free, no credit card required.
Buy the credits you need, one-time or monthly. Unused credits roll over, with no surprise fees and no forced upgrades.
Unused subscription credits roll forward each month. If you cancel, your credits remain in your account, already paid for.
Start free with 100 credits, then move to MailValid Plus from $29/month. The bigger the plan, the lower the price per email.
Prefer no commitment? Buy email credits in a one-time pack. Every credit remains valid until you use it.
Industry benchmarks put annual email list decay at 20–30%. Here's how MailValid handles it differently.
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Email verification pricing is usually quoted per credit, but the number that actually matters when comparing providers is cost per 1,000 emails verified. Below is MailValid's rate against publicly listed pricing for the providers people compare us to most, as of July 2026.
| Provider | 10,000 emails | 50,000 emails | 100,000 emails | Free tier | Credits expire? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MailValid Best Value | $29 | $79 | $129 | 100 credits, one-time | Never |
| NeverBounce | $80 | $400 | $800 | Free trial (varies) | 12 months after purchase |
| ZeroBounce | $64 | $225 | $350 | 100/month | Never (pay-as-you-go) |
| Kickbox | $80 | $400 | $800 | 100 credits, one-time | Not publicly stated |
| Verifalia | ~$79 | ~$395 | ~$790 | 25 credits/day | Purchased: never · Daily free: expires nightly |
| Clearout | $58 | $290 | $350 | 100 credits, one-time | Roll-over |
| MillionVerifier | $39 | $89 | $149 | Not advertised | Roll-over |
| Emailable | $51 | $208 | $357 | 250 credits, one-time | Roll-over |
| Bouncer | $60 | $250 | $400 | 100 credits, one-time | Never |
| Hunter.io | ~$0.006–0.0075/ea | - | - | 50 credits/month | Resets monthly |
MailValid rates above are MailValid Plus monthly prices — pay-as-you-go packs match the same per-credit scale with no subscription. Competitor pricing sourced from each provider's public pricing page (or the current third-party pricing tracker where a vendor's page renders pricing dynamically), as of July 2026. Hunter.io bundles verification with lead-finding credits (~$0.006–0.0075 per verification if a plan's credits are spent entirely on verification).
Sign up free or log in to buy credits. New accounts start with 100 free credits, no card required.
No. MailValid credits never expire, whether they came from a MailValid Plus plan, a pay-as-you-go pack, or a top-up. Unused credits simply roll over to the next month.
On MailValid Plus the cost per 1,000 verifications falls as your plan grows — from about $2.90 per 1,000 on the 10,000-credit plan down to roughly $0.80 per 1,000 on the 1,000,000-credit plan. Pay-as-you-go packs follow the same scale.
Price per credit varies by provider and volume. At 100,000 emails, publicly listed rates range from $129 (MailValid Plus) to $800 (NeverBounce) — see the comparison table above for the full breakdown across ten providers.
At 50,000 emails, MailValid Plus ($79/month) costs far less than ZeroBounce's pay-as-you-go rate ($225) and NeverBounce ($400) for the same volume, based on each provider's published rates as of July 2026. Unlike NeverBounce, whose credits expire 12 months after purchase, MailValid credits never expire.
Yes. MailValid's Free plan includes 100 credits with no credit card required, covering single and bulk verification (up to 100 emails per batch) before you commit to a paid plan.
Yes. Pay-as-you-go lets you buy one-time credit packs — from 2,000 credits for $8 up to 1,000,000 for $899 — with no subscription and no auto-renew. Credits never expire, so you can top up whenever you need to.
You won't be cut off mid-verification. On MailValid Plus you can top up instantly with a one-time credit pack (from 5,000 credits for $19) or switch to a bigger plan — unused credits roll over and never expire either way.
No. MailValid only deducts credits when an email verification returns one of these final, actionable results:
If an email verification returns “unknown”, no credits are deducted.
Unknown results are automatically skipped during both single email verification and bulk email verification, ensuring you only pay for verifications that produce a usable result.
Free allows 10 requests/min and up to 100 emails per bulk job. Every paid plan — MailValid Plus and pay-as-you-go — gets 200 requests/min and up to 10,000 emails per bulk job. Contact support if your integration needs a higher ceiling.
Email verification is the process of checking whether an email address is correctly formatted, exists, and can receive mail, without sending an actual message. It flags invalid, disposable, and risky addresses before they cause bounces.
The terms are used interchangeably in most of the industry. Both describe confirming an address is deliverable — checking syntax, domain and MX records, and mailbox existence — before you send to it.
Yes. Removing invalid, disposable, and catch-all-risk addresses before sending is the most direct way to lower hard bounces, which protects your sender reputation and inbox placement over time.
Yes. Because MailValid credits never expire, any credits you don't use in a given month carry forward automatically — you never lose what you've already paid for.
Yes. The MailValid API returns a verdict on a single address in under 500ms, so you can validate emails at the point of signup or entry, in addition to bulk list uploads.
Yes, on every plan. MailValid flags disposable domains and catch-all addresses so you can filter out low-quality or fraudulent signups before they reach your database.
Start free with 100 credits, or scale at any tier with MailValid Plus or pay-as-you-go.
