# Bird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch: Email verification API

> Catch 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.

Bird's email verification API on its Email address lookup plan. It costs $0.50 per 1,000 emails. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Address, Deliverability, Confidence.
The 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](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email-batch
- Get it: https://bird.com/pricing/lookup
- Its API docs: https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-email-lookup-batch
- Sold by: Bird (https://bird.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-19

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Address: ✓
- Deliverability: ✓
- Confidence: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.50
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 3 hours
- Per: result
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create an email address lookup · 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 pitch: Catch 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

- Freshness: live
- 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 for: 30,000 results
- Expires: 1 year after the purchase date

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1,000

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: emails. Optional: Idempotency-Key
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/lookup/email/batch

## About the plan

- Plan: Email address lookup
- Who can get it: a 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

## Bird's plans (2)

- [Bird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email-batch/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Bird, contact us, Email recipient validation, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/contact-us-email-recipient-validation-post-v1-lookup-email-batch/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

## Bird's calls (3)

- `POST /v1/lookup/email/batch`: [Bird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/lookup/email`: [Bird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, POST /v1/lookup/email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/lookup/email/{address}`: [Bird, top-up from $15, Email address lookup, GET /v1/lookup/email/{address}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-get-v1-lookup-email-address/llms.txt)

## Bird's APIs (2)

- [Bird: phone validation API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/bird/top-up-from-15/llms.txt)
- [Bird: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/lookup/email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bird/top-up-from-15-email-address-lookup-post-v1-lookup-email-batch/llms.txt)

## Bird: email verification API alternatives

- [Verimail, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/verimail/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [VerifySwift, $249.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/verifyswift/249-99-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Emailit, $250 monthly, Business, POST /email-verification-lists](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emailit/250-monthly-business-post-email-verification-lists/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Bouncify, $999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bouncify/999-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-10-19.

- https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-email-lookup
- https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/create-email-lookup-batch
- https://bird.com/docs/api/reference/get-email-lookup
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/idempotency
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/email-addresses
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/overview
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/lookup/phone-numbers
- https://bird.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- https://bird.com/docs/knowledge-base/billing/payment-methods-wallet
- https://bird.com/email-api/features/recipient-validation
- https://bird.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
- https://bird.com/legal/terms
- https://bird.com/lookup-api
- https://bird.com/lookup-api/faqs
- https://bird.com/openapi.json
- https://bird.com/pricing
- https://bird.com/pricing/email-validation
- https://bird.com/pricing/lookup