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Bird pricing and alternatives: email verification API, POST /v1/lookup/email

Bird's sitellms.txtBest email verification API in 2026
50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.50per 1,000 emailsThe median plan costs $2.196 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 90% of the 1,671 priced plans.The cheapest plan is treg, top-up from $10, at $0.00 per 1,000.
Plan: Email address lookup one of Bird's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/lookup/email one of Bird's 3 calls
API: Email verification API one of Bird's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call checks the email when you make it.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Address, Deliverability, Confidence.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $15 or more. You spend all of it on calls. $15 is enough for 30,000 calls. Unused credit expires 1 year after the purchase date.
  • One call. You send email to POST /v1/lookup/email. You can also send Idempotency-Key. The call returns whether the address takes mail.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Bird: 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, like this plan.

This planBird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, POST /v1/lookup/emailVerimail, $500 packVerifySwift, $249.99 packEmailit, $250 monthly, Business, POST /email-verification-listsBouncify, $999 pack
$ per 1,000$0.50$0.50$0.50$0.50$0.50
Completeness50%50%50%67%50%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$15$500$249.99$250$999
Enough for30,000 calls1,000,000 calls500,000 calls500,000 results a month2,000,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get ita company or business: the account is created by someone “legally able to represent the company or business contracting our Services”, and the Services are “designed and intended for commercial use only and are not intended for personal or private individual or consumer use”businesses and professionals, not directed at anyone under 18anyone 18 or olderentrepreneurs acting in the course of their businessanyone outside Europe and India (its prices are set by region: the dollar ones are for the United States and the rest of the world)

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 2026-10-19.

  1. bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-email-lookup
  2. bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-email-lookup-batch
  3. bird.com/docs/api/reference/get-email-lookup
  4. bird.com/docs/guides/idempotency
  5. bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/email-addresses
  6. bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/overview
  7. bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/phone-numbers
  8. bird.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
  9. bird.com/docs/knowledge-base/billing/payment-methods-wallet
  10. bird.com/email-api/features/recipient-validation
  11. bird.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
  12. bird.com/legal/terms
  13. bird.com/lookup-api
  14. bird.com/lookup-api/faqs
  15. bird.com/openapi.json
  16. bird.com/pricing
  17. bird.com/pricing/email-validation
  18. bird.com/pricing/lookup

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, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.50
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat free3 hours
Percall
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Create a batch of email address lookups · Get an email address lookup by URL · Create a phone number lookup
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.50
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.50
In their words
Their pitchCatch address problems before the next send. Use Bird Email Lookup to check an address at signup or before a send. Read the verdict, delivery confidence and risk flags, then offer a typo correction or investigate a risky address before it enters your audience.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep data“a worldwide, limited-term, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license during the applicable Term to access and use the Provider Data” (“any data that is derived from the use of the Services”) [...], on termination or expiration of the Agreement, “you will immediately either return or destroy (at our discretion) all Provider Data”
Use data“solely for your use of the Services in accordance with the Agreement”, “designed and intended for commercial use only and [...] not intended for personal or private individual or consumer use”, “You will not transfer, resell, lease, license, or otherwise make the Services available to third parties”, “You may not use the Services to send, store, or process (as applicable): [...] messages to: [...] recipient contact information programmatically generated or scraped from the Internet”
Plan
Pay$15
You get$15
Enough for30,000 calls
Expires1 year after the purchase date
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendemail. Optional: Idempotency-Key
MethodPOST
Path/v1/lookup/email
About the plan
PlanEmail address lookup
Who can get ita company or business: the account is created by someone “legally able to represent the company or business contracting our Services”, and the Services are “designed and intended for commercial use only and are not intended for personal or private individual or consumer use”
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, valid, result, delivery confidence, role, disposable, free provider, reason, did you mean

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