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API Ninjas pricing and alternatives: email verification API

API Ninjas's sitellms.txtBest email verification API in 2026: pricing compared

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsWe rank 2,474 plans by price. treg's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 emails: $0.00 on average. treg asks one provider after another until one answers. You pay $26.95 per 1,000 emails when no provider answers.Enrich.so, GetProspect and treg are the best email verification API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API Ninjas's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/validateemail API Ninjas's only call for this API
API: Email verification API one of API Ninjas's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Address, Deliverability, Company.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 3,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send email to GET /v1/validateemail. The call returns whether the address takes mail.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API Ninjas: email verification API alternatives

The table starts with API Ninjas's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to API Ninjas's. We also show the StartupHub.ai plan. Its price is farther from the price of API Ninjas's cheapest paid plan.

API Ninjas, $2,388 yearlyStartupHub.ai, freePayPerQ, top-up, Credit balance, POST /api/minerva/validate-emailsBotoi, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/email/validateNeutrino API, $50 monthly, Tier 2, GET /email-validateEnvoAPI, $49 monthly, Launch, GET /v1/emails/disposable
$ per 1,000 emails$0.02$0.00$0.0058$0.016$0.017$0.019
Completeness50%33%17%50%50%33%
Billingyearlyfreepay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$2,388$0any amount$49$50$49
Enough for10,000,000 calls a month1,500 calls a monthas many as you pay for100,000 calls a day100,000 calls a day2,592,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownstored (MX found, MX records: live)unknownstored
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or overanyone at least 13 years old or of their country's minimum age (under 18 with a parent's or guardian's consent), not in an embargoed region or a restricted individualanyone 18 or olderanyoneanyone, for lawful, professional B2B purposes, not in a sanctioned jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

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 2026-10-30.

  1. api-ninjas.com
  2. api-ninjas.com/api/validateemail
  3. api-ninjas.com/error-codes
  4. api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
  5. api-ninjas.com/pricing
  6. api-ninjas.com/tos

Product details

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

  • Address
  • Deliverability
  • Confidence, not in the answer
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 283 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Validate Email API allows you to check whether a given email address is valid and return its metadata.
Data
What it checksformat, mail servers, disposable domains, role addresses
Keep datafor as long as your paid Subscription Plan remains active: once it ends or is canceled, you must immediately cease all commercial use of the Services and Output, and you may not continue to display, use, or provide Output in your commercial applications, products, or to your clients. Data caching/storing allowed: Yes on Business, Professional and Enterprise, No on Developer and Free
Use dataIf you are using the Free Subscription Plan, you may use the Services and Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and for development, testing, or evaluation of your Customer Applications. You may NOT: Use the Services or Output in any commercial environment. Use the Services or Output in any commercial product, service, or application, whether internal or external Share, distribute, or make available any Output or content from the Services to any third party in any form [...] Commercial use of the Services or Output is permitted while your paid Subscription Plan remains active. [...] You are strictly prohibited from using any information or Output from the Services to develop, train, maintain, or operate any API, software, database, or service that competes with API Ninjas—regardless of whether it is available on our platform or elsewhere. This prohibition extends to repackaging, redistributing, or making the Output or data accessible in any way that would compete with or substitute for our Services. [...] You agree NOT to use the Services for any purpose that: [...] Resells, redistributes, or sublicenses API access without authorization Creates competing products or services using our APIs White-labels or rebrands Output as your own data source Uses the Free plan for commercial purposes Shares or transfers API Keys to unauthorized parties [...] Attribution required: Yes (Free plan)
Plan
Pay$0
You get3,000 requests a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second0.028
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.40 s
The call
You sendemail
MethodGET
Path/v1/validateemail
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

valid, email address, domain, local part, disposable, public domain, role category, role sub-category

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