Six services. One honest sheet.
The verification services people ask us about most, at one reference point — 25,000 addresses — each in its own currency, policies as each vendor states them.
| Question | ListCheckup | ZeroBounce | NeverBounce | Emailable | Kickbox | Hunter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25,000 verifications | €55 €2.20 / 1,000 | $274 $10.96 / 1,000 | $125 $5.00 / 1,000 | $141 $5.64 / 1,000 | $150 $6.00 / 1,000 | no packs plans from €34/mo |
| Credits never expire | Yes | Yes | No 12 months | Yes | No one year | Not stated plan quotas |
| Unknown results refunded | Yes | Yes | Not stated unstated | Yes | Yes | Not stated |
| Free credits refill monthly | Yes 100 / month | Yes 100 / month* | No 10, once | No 250, once | No first 100 | Yes 50 / month |
| One-off packs, no subscription | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No subscription only |
| Priced in euros | Yes | No USD | No USD | No USD | No USD | Yes |
| The full comparison | Not available | Read it | Read it | Read it | Read it | Read it |
*ZeroBounce's monthly free hundred asks for a business or premium domain at signup; ListCheckup's takes any mailbox you can confirm. A dash means the vendor's public pages neither promise nor deny it — NeverBounce's billing counts one credit per verification and lists no exception for results it cannot settle.
A cheap credit that expires in a drawer costs more than a dear one that keeps.
Each of these is good at something.
A comparison you can trust says where the other side wins. Here is where they do — and what we keep instead.
ZeroBounce
Buy it for the suite: warmup, inbox placement tests, blacklist and DMARC monitors around the clock.
Read the full comparisonNeverBounce
Buy it for the plumbing: a list that lives in your CRM and must clean itself, continuously.
Read the full comparisonHunter
Buy it to find addresses, not to check ones you already have — outreach is the product, verification the passenger.
Read the full comparisonEmailable
A fair mid-field verifier in dollars: unknowns and duplicates refunded, deliverability reports in the same wallet.
Read the full comparisonKickbox
Deliverability pedigree and refunded unknowns — but purchased credits carry a year to be spent.
Read the full comparisonListCheckup
The verification-only choice in euros, and every pack keeps the same four promises: credits never expire, unknowns are refunded, duplicates are billed once, and rows that are not addresses cost nothing. 100 free verifications refill every month, no card, any mailbox.
The four promises, in fullThe whole field, one sheet.
Seventeen verification services at three sizes, per 1,000 addresses, with each vendor's own free tier, unknowns policy and expiry beside the price. Senders that bundle a checker are not here — we compete with the companies that verify email, not the ones that send it.
| Vendor | Model | 5k /1k | 25k /1k | 100k /1k | Free tier | Unknowns | Credits expire |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ListCheckup | PAYG packs | €3.80 | €2.20 | €1.49 | 100 / month | not charged | never |
| Reoon | PAYG + daily-credit subs | $1.19* | $1.19 | $1.16 | 600 / month | refunded | never |
| DeBounce | PAYG (+8% monthly toggle) | $3.00 | $1.80 | $1.35 | 100 | catch-all costs 10 credits | never |
| MillionVerifier | PAYG + EverClean sub | $3.90* | $2.36 | $1.49 | 100 | refunded | never |
| EmailListVerify | PAYG + subs | $3.40 | $2.16 | $1.86 | 100 | unstated | never |
| CaptainVerify | PAYG + subs (−10%) | $7.00 | $3.56 | $2.36 | 100 | recredited | never (PAYG) |
| Truemail | PAYG | $5.80 | $3.96 | $2.99 | — | unstated | unstated |
| Verifalia | packs + daily-credit subs | $5.78 | $4.76 | $3.89 | 25 / day | charged; deep checks 2–4× | never (packs) |
| NeverBounce | PAYG + subs | $8.00 | $5.00 | $4.00 | 10, once | unstated | 12 months |
| Bouncer | PAYG + subs | $7.00 | ≈$5.50 | $4.00 | 100 | unknown free, catch-all charged | never |
| Clearout | PAYG + subs | $8.00 | ≈$6.40 | $4.00 | 100 | unknown free, catch-all charged | rolls over |
| Emailable | PAYG, or −15% as subscription | $7.60 | $5.64 | $4.20 | 250, once | unknowns + duplicates refunded | never |
| Kickbox | PAYG price table | $8.00 | $6.00 | $5.00 | first 100 | refunded | one year (help centre) |
| MailerCheck | PAYG | $9.00 | $7.00 | $5.00 | 10 | charged | never |
| ZeroBounce | PAYG + ONE sub ($99/mo) | $13.80 | $10.96 | $6.49 | 100 / month | refunded | never |
| Hunter | subscription platform | plans from €34/mo; a verification costs half a credit | 50 credits / month | failed checks free | monthly quotas | ||
| BriteVerify | enterprise, sales-only | no public pricing | — | unstated | unstated | ||
*Bought at the vendor's 10,000 minimum. Every price was read from the named vendor's live pricing page on 30 August 2026, in the vendor's own currency — USD unless marked — with no conversion. "Unknowns" is whether unresolved results consume paid credits, as each vendor states it; "unstated" means their public pages say nothing either way. Hunter sells subscriptions rather than packs and BriteVerify publishes no prices, which is why their price cells hold a sentence instead of a number. If a figure has moved since, tell us and we will correct it.
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€55 for the 25,000 on this sheet, credits that never expire, and a free hundred every month while you make up your mind — no card.
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