# HeroBounce, top-up from $5.25: Email finder API

> Enter 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.

HeroBounce's email finder API on its "Pay As You Go, under 10,000 credits" plan. It costs $10.50 per 1,000 emails. It returns 1 of the 10 key fields we check: Verification.
Half 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](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/clearbounce/3-20-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/clearbounce/4-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of emails. ClearBounce's $4 pack costs more to start than ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/getprospect/399-monthly-growth-50k-post-v2-email-find/llms.txt), [OrbiSearch](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/orbisearch/207-pack-enterprise-post-v1-email-lookup/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly-growth-post-enrich-profile-5000000-results-a-month/llms.txt) are the best email finder API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25
- [Best email finder API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-finder-api.txt)
- Get it: https://herobounce.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://herobounce.com/api/v1/email-finder/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://herobounce.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://herobounce.com/api-docs
- Sold by: HeroBounce (https://herobounce.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 10%
- Verification: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 64.1
- Price score: 75
- Data score: 58
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 75
- Performance score: 4

## Price

- $ per 1,000 emails: $10.50
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Strengths

- Strengths: found live, nothing charged when not found

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## Catch-all

- $ per 1,000: $10.50

## In their words

- Their pitch: Enter 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

- Freshness: live
- What it checks: mailbox
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Email 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 get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls
- Expires: 12 months from purchase

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 7.13 s

## The call

- You send: first_name, last_name, domain, compliance_accepted "true". Optional: include_catch_all
- Method: POST
- Path: /email-finder/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay As You Go, under 10,000 credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## HeroBounce's plans (12)

- [HeroBounce, top-up from $5.25](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25/llms.txt): $10.50 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, top-up from $9.50](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-9-50/llms.txt): $9.50 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, top-up from $42.50](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-42-50/llms.txt): $8.50 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, top-up from $75](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-75/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, top-up from $162.50](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-162-50/llms.txt): $6.50 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $17 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/17-monthly/llms.txt): $8.50 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/65-monthly/llms.txt): $6.50 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/200-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $168 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/168-yearly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $624 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/624-yearly/llms.txt): $5.20 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, $1,920 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/1920-yearly/llms.txt): $3.20 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [HeroBounce, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/contact-us/llms.txt): 20% complete, live

## HeroBounce's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /email-finder/lookup`: [HeroBounce, top-up from $5.25](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25/llms.txt)

## HeroBounce's APIs (2)

- [HeroBounce: email finder API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25/llms.txt)
- [HeroBounce: email verification API pricing, 12 plans, POST /bulk/upload/confirm](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25-pay-as-you-go-under-10000-credits-post-bulk-upload-confirm/llms.txt)
- [HeroBounce: email verification API pricing, 12 plans, POST /validation/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25-pay-as-you-go-under-10000-credits-post-validation-bulk/llms.txt)
- [HeroBounce: email verification API pricing, 12 plans, POST /validation/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/herobounce/top-up-from-5-25-pay-as-you-go-under-10000-credits-post-validation-single/llms.txt)

## HeroBounce: email finder API alternatives

- [LeadMagic, $2,490 yearly, Growth, POST /v1/people/email-finder](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/leadmagic/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $10.375 per 1,000, 30% complete, live
- [EmailVerify.io, $12,470 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/emailverify-io/12470-yearly/llms.txt): $10.392 per 1,000, 10% complete, live
- [Airscale, $3,750 yearly, Growth 720,000 / year, POST /v1/email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/airscale/3750-yearly-growth-720000-year-post-v1-email/llms.txt): $10.417 per 1,000, 30% complete, live
- [Datagma, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/datagma/948-yearly/llms.txt): $10.533 per 1,000, 10% complete, live

## 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.

- https://herobounce.com/api-docs
- https://herobounce.com/email-finder
- https://herobounce.com/llms.txt
- https://herobounce.com/mcp
- https://herobounce.com/pricing
- https://herobounce.com/terms