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Amazon SES pricing and alternatives: email verification API

Amazon SES's sitellms.txtBest email verification API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$10.00per 1,000 emailsHalf of the 1,712 plans we rank by price cost $2.632 per 1,000 or less. This plan costs less than 12% of the 1,712 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is treg, top-up from $10, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: À la carte pricing one of Amazon SES's 3 plans
Call: POST /v2/email/email-address-insights/ Amazon SES's only call
API: Email verification API Amazon SES's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call checks the email when you make it.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Deliverability, Confidence.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay monthly.
  • One call. You send EmailAddress to POST /v2/email/email-address-insights/. The call returns whether the address takes mail.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an AWS account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Amazon SES: 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 live data.

This planAmazon SES, pay as you goKickbox, $5 pack, 500 verifications, GET /verifylemlist, $20 monthlyMailerCheck, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, 1,000 credits, POST /check/singleMailerSend, top-up from $10, 1K - 5K credits, POST /email-verification/verify
$ per 1,000$10.00$10.00$10.00$10.00$10.00
Completeness33%67%33%17%17%
Billingpay as you gopay firstmonthlypay firstpay first
Paymonthly$5$20$10$10
Enough foras many as you pay for500 calls2,000 calls a month1,000 calls1,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an AWS accountanyoneprofessionals 18 or overanyone who is at least 18, uses it for their trade, business, craft or profession, and is not registered in a country or region sanctioned by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union or United Nationsanyone using the Services solely for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft, or profession

Every email verification 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 2026-10-25.

  1. aws.amazon.com/agreement/
  2. aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
  3. aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
  4. docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ses.html
  5. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_EmailAddressInsightsMailboxEvaluations.html
  6. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_EmailAddressInsightsVerdict.html
  7. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_GetEmailAddressInsights.html
  8. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_MailboxValidation.html
  9. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/email-validation-api.html
  10. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/email-validation.html
  11. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/quotas.html

Product details

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

  • Address, not in the answer
  • Deliverability
  • Confidence
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$10.00
Billingpay as you go
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Percall
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchAPI validation allows you to validate individual email addresses through API calls, providing immediate feedback about address validity, deliverability, and risk factors. This feature is designed for validating addresses at the point of collection, such as during user registration, subscription forms, or any other scenario where you need timely validation results.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are responsible for Your Content. You will ensure that Your Content and your and End Users’ use of Your Content or the Services will not violate any of the Policies or any applicable law. [...] “Your Content” means Content that you or any End User transfers to us for processing, storage or hosting by the Services in connection with your AWS account and any computational results that you or any End User derive from the foregoing through their use of the Services. [...] Neither you nor any End User will use the AWS Content or Services in any manner or for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement. Neither you nor any End User will, or will attempt to [...] (b) access or use the Services or AWS Content in a way intended to avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas, or (c) resell the Services or AWS Content. [...] You may perform benchmarks or comparative tests or evaluations (each, a “Benchmark”) of the Services. If you perform or disclose, or direct or permit any third party to perform or disclose, any Benchmark of any of the Services, you (i) will include in any disclosure, and will disclose to us, all information necessary to replicate such Benchmark, and (ii) agree that we may perform and disclose the results of Benchmarks of your products or services, irrespective of any restrictions on Benchmarks in the terms governing your products or services.
Plan
Paymonthly
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendEmailAddress
MethodPOST
Path/v2/email/email-address-insights/
About the plan
PlanÀ la carte pricing
Who can get itanyone with an AWS account
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

is valid, has valid syntax, has valid DNS records, mailbox exists, is role address, is disposable, is random input, confidence verdict

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