# Encrata, free, POST /api/lookup/email/validity: Email verification API

> Email Validity checks whether an address is safe to send to: is it deliverable, invalid, disposable, a catch-all domain that accepts anything, or otherwise risky.

Encrata's email verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Address, Deliverability, Confidence, Company.
We haven't run Encrata through [our email verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 3,341 plans for email verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.985 per 1,000 emails or less.
[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.
[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.
[MailTester Ninja](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mailtester-ninja/23-99-monthly/llms.txt), [Enrich.so](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/enrich-so/499-monthly/llms.txt) and [GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/getprospect/369-pack/llms.txt) are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-api-lookup-email-validity
- [Email validation API: 160+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://encrata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://developer.encrata.com/api/lookup/email/validity`
- API key: with the plan, on https://encrata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.encrata.com/api-reference/endpoint/validate-email?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Encrata (https://encrata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Address: ✓
- Deliverability: ✓
- Confidence: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 6 months
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Email Identity · Email Gender · Email Compliance · Email Breaches · Password Breaches · GitHub Leaks · Exposed API Keys · URL Scan · QR Code Scan · Barcode Scan · Image Scan · File Scan · SMTP Verify · Bulk lookup (identity) · Bulk lookup (validity)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## Catch-all

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Email Validity checks whether an address is safe to send to: is it deliverable, invalid, disposable, a catch-all domain that accepts anything, or otherwise risky.

## Data

- What it checks: format, mail servers, disposable domains, role addresses, mailbox
- Keep data: 5. Data Handling Obligations: You must [...] delete data when it is no longer needed for your stated purpose
- Use data: Acceptable Use Policy, 3. Prohibited Use: You may not use the Service to: Stalk, harass, intimidate, or threaten any individual [...] Discriminate against individuals in employment, housing, credit, or insurance decisions [...] Violate any applicable law, including privacy and data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA) [...] Make eligibility decisions covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) - Encrata is not a consumer reporting agency [...] Send unsolicited bulk communications (spam) [...] Resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw lookup data without authorization [...] Circumvent rate limits, credit metering, or security controls [...] Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service without written permission [...] Use the Service to develop a competing product

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: email
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/lookup/email/validity

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, status, reason, disposable, confidence, role, role name, did you mean, domain, provider, free, canonical email, MX record, domain trust, person signal, SMTP probe, catch-all, greylisted, domain info, mail servers, footprint, provider answered, checked at, message, credits charged, cached

## Encrata's plans (11)

- [Encrata, free, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $10 pack, 50K credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/10-pack-50k-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $20 pack, 100K credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/20-pack-100k-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $50 pack, 250K credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/50-pack-250k-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $100 pack, 500K credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/100-pack-500k-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $250 pack, 1.3M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/250-pack-1-3m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.192 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $500 pack, 2.65M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/500-pack-2-65m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.189 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $1,000 pack, 5.5M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/1000-pack-5-5m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.182 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $2,500 pack, 14M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/2500-pack-14m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.179 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $5,000 pack, 29M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/5000-pack-29m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.172 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Encrata, $10,000 pack, 60M credits, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/10000-pack-60m-credits-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Encrata's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /api/jobs/bulk`: [Encrata, free, POST /api/jobs/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-api-jobs-bulk/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/lookup/email/validity`: [Encrata, free, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt)
- `POST /email/smtp-verify`: [Encrata, free, POST /email/smtp-verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-email-smtp-verify/llms.txt)

## Encrata's APIs (2)

- [Encrata: email verification API pricing, 11 plans, POST /api/lookup/email/validity](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/encrata/free-post-api-lookup-email-validity/llms.txt)
- [Encrata: reverse email lookup API pricing, 10 plans, POST /api/jobs/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/encrata/10-pack-50k-credits-post-api-jobs-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Encrata: reverse email lookup API pricing, 10 plans, POST /api/lookup/email/identity](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/encrata/10-pack-50k-credits-post-api-lookup-email-identity/llms.txt)

## Encrata: email verification API alternatives

- [TempMailChecker, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tempmailchecker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, 24 hours
- [VerifySwift, $1,499.99 monthly, Daily Credits 300,000 a day](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/verifyswift/1499-99-monthly-daily-credits-300000-a-day/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [StopReg, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/stopreg/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [UserCheck, $250 monthly, Pro 1.5M, POST /v1/gates/{gate_id}/decisions, Decision endpoint](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/usercheck/250-monthly-pro-1-5m-post-v1-gates-gate-id-decisions-decision-endpoint/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [VeriMails, $3,000 yearly, Agency, POST /api/verify/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/verimails/3000-yearly-agency-post-api-verify-single/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 67% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.encrata.com/api-reference/endpoint/validate-email?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.encrata.com/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.encrata.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.encrata.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://encrata.com/legal/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://encrata.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://encrata.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing