Ideal Postcodes pricing: email verification API
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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsWe haven't run Ideal Postcodes through our email verification API benchmark 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 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) covers any number of emails. Disify's $9 monthly plan costs less up front than treg's top-up from $10.MailTester Ninja, Enrich.so and GetProspect are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of Ideal Postcodes's 8 plans
- FreeFree trial$0.00 per 1,000
- £9 pack200 credits$60.008 per 1,000
- £42 pack1,100 credits$50.916 per 1,000
- £155 pack4,300 credits$48.068 per 1,000
- £420 pack12,800 credits$43.755 per 1,000
- £900 pack32,100 credits$37.388 per 1,000
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Call:
GET / v1/ emails Ideal Postcodes's only call for this APIAPI: Email verification API one of Ideal Postcodes's 2 APIs
About this item
- Live. Ideal Postcodes checks the email when you call the API.
- 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Deliverability.
- Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 1 month.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv1/ emails tags. The call returns whether the address takes mail. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Ideal Postcodes: email verification API alternatives
Ideal Postcodes alternatives: every email verification API provider ranked
The table starts with Ideal Postcodes's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to Ideal Postcodes's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Ideal Postcodes, £900 pack | Dropcontact, €588 yearly | Postcoder, £46 monthly | Loqate, $300 pack, Pay-as-you-go $300, GET /EmailValidation/Interactive/Validate/v2.00/json6.ws | DeBounce, top-up from $45, 25K credits, GET /v1/, Single email validation, full | |
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| $ per 1,000 emails | $37.388 | $36.76 | $36.805 | $37.00 | $37.80 |
| Completeness | 17% | 33% | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | monthly | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | £900 | €588 | £46 | $300 | $45 |
| Enough for | 32,100 calls | 1,500 results a month | about 1,666 calls a month | as many as you pay for | about 1,190 calls |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | organisations only: the terms' Client "means the organisation named as the 'Client' or 'Business' or 'Company' in the registration form [...]" | professionals acting within their activity (a natural person with the power to commit, or a legal person) | anyone | anyone | anyone over 18 |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/api/api-reference.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/api/email-validation.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/cli/email.md
- docs.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/docs/guides/email-validation.md
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/email-validation
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/guides/pricing-plans
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/guides/what-is-a-lookup
- ideal-postcodes.co.uk/pricing
- terms.ideal-postcodes.co.uk
- terms.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/extended-terms-of-service/payg-lookup-licence
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Address, not in the answer
- Deliverability
- Confidence, not in the answer
- Name, not in the answer
- Place, not in the answer
- Company, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 emails | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Resolve Address · Lookup Postcode · Phone Number Validation |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Verify email addresses in real time to ensure accurate and reliable communication with your customers using Ideal Postcodes email validation API |
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| Freshness | live |
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| What it checks | format, mail servers, disposable domains, role addresses, mailbox |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Except to the extent expressly permitted by law or agreed in writing by IDDQD, the Client is prohibited from: re-selling (whether for free or by charging) the Service Output or Service, [...] The Client may not (except to the extent expressly permitted by law or agreed in writing by IDDQD or in Third Party Contracts): use the Service to provide any software or a service which competes with the Software Materials or Service, undertake any data cleansing activities unless expressly permitted by the respective Third Party Contracts, use the Service, API data, or any content obtained through our platform to develop, train, improve, benchmark, enhance or evaluate any artificial intelligence, machine learning, or automated decision-making systems, whether directly or indirectly. [...] The Service and Software Materials are provided solely for the Client's own use. The Client may not resell or attempt to resell the Service Output, or market or otherwise distribute the Software Materials or Service without IDDQD's express written permission. [...] Lookups are not transferable to third parties, nor may it be used for the benefit of third parties by the Client. [...] Any test balance disbursed on Your account (including Your initial free balance) may only be used for testing and evaluation purposes. |
| Pay | £0 |
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| You get | 50 credits |
| Enough for | 50 calls, once |
| Expires | 1 month |
| Per second | 30 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: tags |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/emails |
| Plan | Free trial |
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| Who can get it | organisations only: the terms' Client "means the organisation named as the 'Client' or 'Business' or 'Company' in the registration form [...]" |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
result, deliverable, catch-all, free, role, disposable, suggestions, response code, message