# EmailDetective, free, GET /emails/{emailAddress}: Email verification API

> EmailDetective is an API that focuses on email validation and legitimacy scoring, helping to identify whether an email address is valid, gibberish, deliverable or disposable.

EmailDetective's email verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Address, Deliverability, Confidence, Name, Company.
We rank 2,467 plans by price. [treg's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/enrich-so/149-monthly/llms.txt), [GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/getprospect/369-pack/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best email verification API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-get-emails-emailaddress
- [Best email verification API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://emaildetective.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.emaildetective.io/emails/{emailAddress}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://emaildetective.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.emaildetective.io/docs/#/email%20info/getEmailAddressInfo
- Sold by: EmailDetective (https://emaildetective.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-20

## 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: Bulk email validation · CSV email validation

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: EmailDetective is an API that focuses on email validation and legitimacy scoring, helping to identify whether an email address is valid, gibberish, deliverable or disposable.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: a temporary copy: “Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials”, when the license ends, “you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format”
- Use data: “By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.” [...] “Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on EmailDetective's web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not: modify or copy the materials, use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial), attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on EmailDetective's web site, remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials, or transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by EmailDetective at any time.”

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: emailAddress
- Method: GET
- Path: /emails/{emailAddress}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, user, domain, did you mean, first name, last name, valid email, valid SPF, valid DMARC, valid MX, valid TLD, nonsense, role, free, disposable, score, suspicion rating

## EmailDetective's plans (7)

- [EmailDetective, free, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $24 pack, Basic, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/24-pack-basic-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.96 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $49 pack, Premium, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/49-pack-premium-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.891 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $99 pack, Enterprise, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/99-pack-enterprise-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $19 monthly, Basic, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/19-monthly-basic-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.76 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $39 monthly, Premium, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/39-monthly-premium-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.709 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored
- [EmailDetective, $79 monthly, Enterprise, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/79-monthly-enterprise-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt): $0.658 per 1,000, 83% complete, stored

## EmailDetective's calls (3)

- `POST /emails`: [EmailDetective, free, POST /emails](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-post-emails/llms.txt)
- `POST /emails/csv`: [EmailDetective, free, POST /emails/csv](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-post-emails-csv/llms.txt)
- `GET /emails/{emailAddress}`: [EmailDetective, free, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt)

## EmailDetective's APIs (1)

- [EmailDetective: email verification API pricing, 7 plans, GET /emails/{emailAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/emaildetective/free-get-emails-emailaddress/llms.txt)

## EmailDetective: email verification API alternatives

- [UserCheck, $100 monthly, Pro 500k, POST /v1/gates/{gate_id}/decisions, Decision endpoint, full](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/usercheck/100-monthly-pro-500k-post-v1-gates-gate-id-decisions-decision-endpoint-full/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Elastic Email, $99 monthly, Email API Pro (150,000 emails/month), POST /verifications/files](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/elastic-email/99-monthly-email-api-pro-150000-emails-month-post-verifications-files/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [BigDataCloud, $799 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bigdatacloud/799-yearly/llms.txt): $0.666 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [ReefAPI, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/reefapi/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-20.

- https://api.emaildetective.io/docs/
- https://api.emaildetective.io/docs/openapi.yaml
- https://emaildetective.io
- https://emaildetective.io/api
- https://emaildetective.io/faq
- https://emaildetective.io/pricing
- https://emaildetective.io/static/js/main.fe257abb.js
- https://emaildetective.io/terms