# Eko, top-up: Email verification API

> Catch invalid, dummy, and mistyped email addresses in real time. Verify that an email domain actually exists and can receive messages — reduce bounce rates, block fake signups, and ensure valid contact data during onboarding.

Eko's Pay per use plan for the email verification API costs $88.452 per 1,000 emails. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Eko's docs list 3: Address, Deliverability, Company.
₹8,400.00 per 1,000 emails is $88.452 at the European Central Bank's rate of $0.01053 for ₹1.
We haven't run Eko through [our email verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt) yet.
We rank 4,207 plans for email verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 emails. This plan costs less per 1,000 emails than 1% of the 4,207 plans.
[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. Disify's $9 monthly plan costs less up front than treg's top-up from $10.
[pingutil](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify/llms.txt), [looot](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/looot/top-up/llms.txt) and [MailTester Ninja](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mailtester-ninja/23-99-monthly/llms.txt) are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/eko/top-up
- [Email validation API: best verification providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://eps.eko.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.eko.in/ekoicici/v3/tools/kyc/check-email`
- API key: with the plan, on https://eps.eko.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://eps.eko.in/docs/check-email?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Eko (https://eko.in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 emails: $88.452
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch PAN Details · PAN Lite · PAN Advanced · Bulk PAN Verification · Get DigiLocker Document · DigiLocker Verification Status · Bank Account Verification · Bank Account Verification (Pennyless) · Bulk Bank Account Verification · GST Verification · Fetch GSTINs by PAN · Driving License Verification · Vehicle & RC Verification · Employee Verification (Advance) · Reverse Geocoding · Voter ID Verification · Passport Application Validation · CIN Verification · IP Verification · Name Match API · ITR Compliance Check · DIN Verification · E-Challan Verification · FSSAI License Verification · Send OTP

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Catch invalid, dummy, and mistyped email addresses in real time. Verify that an email domain actually exists and can receive messages — reduce bounce rates, block fake signups, and ensure valid contact data during onboarding.

## Data

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

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: initiator_id, email, content-type header "application/json". Optional: client_ref_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /tools/kyc/check-email

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per use
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up with a mobile number and passes KYC with PAN and address details, a one-time setup fee of ₹6,000 per verification API applies, ₹4,500 at the current 25% off

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

email address, domain, valid, disposable, domain age in days, MX records

## Eko's plans (1)

- [Eko, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/eko/top-up/llms.txt): $88.452 per 1,000, 50% complete

## Eko's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /tools/kyc/check-email`: [Eko, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/eko/top-up/llms.txt)

## Eko's APIs (2)

- [Eko: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/eko/top-up/llms.txt)
- [Eko: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/kyc/cin](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eko/top-up-pay-per-use-post-tools-kyc-cin/llms.txt)
- [Eko: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/kyc/gstin-with-pan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eko/top-up-pay-per-use-post-tools-kyc-gstin-with-pan/llms.txt)
- [Eko: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/kyc/fetch-fssai](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eko/top-up-pay-per-use-post-tools-kyc-fetch-fssai/llms.txt)
- [Eko: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/kyc/gstin](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eko/top-up-pay-per-use-post-tools-kyc-gstin/llms.txt)

## Eko: email verification API alternatives

- [Tomba, $441 yearly, Basic, GET /email-verifier, Email Verifier, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tomba/441-yearly-basic-get-email-verifier-email-verifier-full/llms.txt): $88.20 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [GetEmail.io, $178.80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/getemail-io/178-80-monthly/llms.txt): $89.40 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [MiN8T, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/min8t/45-monthly/llms.txt): $90.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Evaboot, $9 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/email-validation/single/](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/evaboot/9-monthly/llms.txt): $90.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Espysys, €98 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/espysys/98-monthly/llms.txt): $1,125.30 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://eko.in/tnc?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/docs/error-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://eps.eko.in/products/email-verification-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing