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HeroBounce pricing and alternatives: email finder API

HeroBounce's sitellms.txtBest email finder API in 2026

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10% complete: 1 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
found livenothing charged when not found
$10.50per 1,000 emailsHalf of the 1,285 plans we rank by price cost $20.00 per 1,000 emails or less. This plan is cheaper than 71% of the 1,285 plans.ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 emails: as little as $0.00074. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan covers up to 4,320,000 emails a month at no extra cost.ClearBounce's $4 pack covers any number of emails. ClearBounce's $4 pack costs more to start than ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan.GetProspect, OrbiSearch and DataForB2B are the best email finder API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Pay As You Go, under 10,000 credits one of HeroBounce's 12 plans
Call: POST /email-finder/lookup HeroBounce's only call for this API
API: Email finder API one of HeroBounce's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. HeroBounce finds the email when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $5.25 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls. $5.25 gets you 5,000 credits. That covers 500 calls. Unused credits expire 12 months from purchase.
  • One call. You call POST /email-finder/lookup. You send first_name, last_name and domain. You set compliance_accepted to "true". You can also send include_catch_all. The call returns the email.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

HeroBounce: email finder API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 emails. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planHeroBounce, top-up from $5.25LeadMagic, $2,490 yearly, Growth, POST /v1/people/email-finderEmailVerify.io, $12,470 yearlyAirscale, $3,750 yearly, Growth 720,000 / year, POST /v1/emailDatagma, $948 yearly
$ per 1,000 emails$10.50$10.375$10.392$10.417$10.533
Completeness10%30%10%30%10%
Billingpay firstyearlyyearlyyearlyyearly
Pay$5.25$2,490$12,470$3,750$948
Enough for500 calls240,000 calls a year100,000 calls a month360,000 calls a year90,000 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyonebusinesses and individuals acting in a business or professional capacity, with an active organization subscription, users 18 or overanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or overadult professionals with their own work email (not Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or a generic business address)

Every email finder API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. herobounce.com/api-docs
  2. herobounce.com/email-finder
  3. herobounce.com/llms.txt
  4. herobounce.com/mcp
  5. herobounce.com/pricing
  6. herobounce.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Verification
  • Confidence, not in the answer
  • Catch-all domain, not in the answer
  • Where found, not in the answer
  • Personal email, not in the answer
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Job title, not in the answer
  • Company, not in the answer
  • LinkedIn URL, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
Score
Overall score64.1
Price score75
Data score58
Cost to get started score93
Bundle score75
Performance score4
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$10.50
Percall
Billingpay first
Strengths
Strengthsfound live, nothing charged when not found
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$10.50
In their words
Their pitchEnter a name and company domain — HeroBounce finds and verifies the right professional email address in seconds. Every result is SMTP-confirmed before you pay a single credit.
Data
Freshnesslive
What it checksmailbox
Keep datano limit
Use dataEmail Finder may only be used for: Professional B2B outreach where you have documented a Legitimate Interest basis, Sales prospecting targeting business contacts in their professional capacity. Email Finder must NOT be used for: Consumer (B2C) targeting or contacting individuals in a personal capacity, Harassment, stalking, or any form of unsolicited non-commercial contact, Building or enriching databases for resale, Any use that would require explicit consent under applicable law
Plan
Pay$5.25
You get5,000 credits
Enough for500 calls
Expires12 months from purchase
Rate limit
Per day3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median7.13 s
The call
You sendfirst_name, last_name, domain, compliance_accepted "true". Optional: include_catch_all
MethodPOST
Path/email-finder/lookup
About the plan
PlanPay As You Go, under 10,000 credits
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, email, verification method, email pattern, credits charged, retention expires at, credits remaining

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