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EmailDetective pricing and alternatives: cached email verification API, GET /emails/{emailAddress}

EmailDetective's sitellms.txtBest cached email verification API in 2026
83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emails
Plan: Free one of EmailDetective's 7 plans
Call: GET /emails/{emailAddress} one of EmailDetective's 3 calls

About this item

  • Stored. EmailDetective may skip the mail server and answer from data it keeps. EmailDetective doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Address, Deliverability, Confidence, Name, Company.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls.
  • One call. You send emailAddress to GET /emails/{emailAddress}. The call returns whether the address takes mail.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

EmailDetective: cached email verification API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 emails. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

This planEmailDetective, free, Free, GET /emails/{emailAddress}graph8, freeEmailit, freeKaijuVerifier, free, Free, POST /api/v1/jobsStrale, free, trial credits, POST /v1/do, Bulk Email Validation
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%33%67%50%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for1,000 calls a monthnot published600 calls a month100 results a monthnot published
Freshnessstoredstoredstored (has MX records: live)storedstored
Who can get itanyoneverified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposesentrepreneurs acting in the course of their businessanyoneanyone who signs up, one trial credit per email address

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-20.

  1. api.emaildetective.io/docs/
  2. api.emaildetective.io/docs/openapi.yaml
  3. emaildetective.io
  4. emaildetective.io/api
  5. emaildetective.io/faq
  6. emaildetective.io/pricing
  7. emaildetective.io/static/js/main.fe257abb.js
  8. emaildetective.io/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Address
  • Deliverability
  • Confidence
  • Name
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Percall
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Bulk email validation · CSV email validation
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchEmailDetective is an API that focuses on email validation and legitimacy scoring, helping to identify whether an email address is valid, gibberish, deliverable or disposable.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataa temporary copy: “Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials”, when the license ends, “you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format”
Use data“By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.” [...] “Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on EmailDetective's web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not: modify or copy the materials, use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial), attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on EmailDetective's web site, remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials, or transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by EmailDetective at any time.”
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendemailAddress
MethodGET
Path/emails/{emailAddress}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, user, domain, did you mean, first name, last name, valid email, valid SPF, valid DMARC, valid MX, valid TLD, nonsense, role, free, disposable, score, suspicion rating

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