# Dev.me, free: Email verification API

> Real-time email verification that reduces bounce rates by 95%. Detect disposable emails, validate MX records, and prevent fraud.

Dev.me's Free plan for the email verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Dev.me's docs list 5: Address, Deliverability, Confidence, Name, Company.
We haven't run Dev.me through [our email verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 4,767 plans for email verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 emails. [728 email verification API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt) [pingutil's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 82.3 out of 100.
[treg's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 emails: $0.00 on average. treg asks one provider after another until one answers. You pay $68.365 per 1,000 emails when no provider answers. [StableEnrich's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/stableenrich/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-or-mpp-post-api-minerva-validate-emails/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 emails a month: $0.05.
[Disify's $9 monthly plan (/email)](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/disify/9-monthly-starter-post-email/llms.txt) covers any number of emails, and costs less up front than treg's top-up from $10.
[Validemail.co](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/validemail-co/9-90-monthly-9-90-month-get-api-v1-validate/llms.txt), [pingutil](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify/llms.txt) and [looot](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/looot/top-up/llms.txt) are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/free
- [Email validation API: best verification providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.dev.me/v1-get-email-details`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.me/open-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing#tag/email/GET/v1-get-email-details
- Sold by: Dev.me (https://dev.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Address: ✓
- Deliverability: ✓
- Confidence: ✓
- Name: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 emails: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 41 other Dev.me calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time email verification that reduces bounce rates by 95%. Detect disposable emails, validate MX records, and prevent fraud.

## Data

- What it checks: format, mail servers, disposable domains
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: email. Optional: verifyMx, verifySmtp, detectName, suggestDomain, checkDomainAge, checkDomainRegistration, timeout
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1-get-email-details

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

email address, valid format, valid MX, valid SMTP, disposable, free, detected first name, detected last name, name confidence, original domain, suggested domain, suggestion confidence, domain age in days, domain creation date, domain age valid, domain registration created, domain registration updated, domain registration expires, registrar, registrant organization, registrant country, domain registration status, email quality score

## Dev.me's plans (5)

- [Dev.me, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Dev.me, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Dev.me, $35 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/35-monthly/llms.txt): $0.583 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Dev.me, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Dev.me, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Dev.me's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1-get-email-details`: [Dev.me, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)

## Dev.me's APIs (5)

- [Dev.me Domain WHOIS API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Email verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me IP company lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Phone validation API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)
- [Dev.me Web scraping API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/dev-me/free/llms.txt)

## Dev.me: email verification API alternatives

[Dev.me alternatives: other email verification API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/dev-me-alternatives.txt)

We list Dev.me's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Dev.me in price per 1,000 emails.

- [Dev.me, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/dev-me/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [BillionVerify, $720 yearly, Business, POST /verify/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/billionverify/720-yearly-business-post-verify-bulk/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [NullBounce, $1,500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/nullbounce/1500-pack/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [BounceVerify, $150 pack, Ultimate, POST /api/verify/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bounceverify/150-pack-ultimate-post-api-verify-bulk/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [CleanTalk, $3 monthly, 10,000 checks a month, 1 month, GET /, email_check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/cleantalk/3-monthly-10000-checks-a-month-1-month-get-email-check/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

- https://dev.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/json/open-api.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/products/validation-apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.me/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing