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Minerva pricing: email verification API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsWe haven't run Minerva through our email verification API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 3,338 plans for email verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.98 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 our benchmark.
Plan: Trial one of Minerva's 8 plans
Call: POST /v2/validate_emails Minerva's only call for this API
API: Email verification API one of Minerva's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. Minerva may answer from Minerva's stored data instead of asking the mail server. Minerva doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Address, Deliverability.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 results. You spend the results on Minerva's other calls. This call is free for up to 1,000,000 results a month. Unused results expire after 14 days.
  • One call. You send records to POST /v2/validate_emails. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send force_refresh. The call returns whether each address you send takes mail.
  • Who can get it: anyone: "No card required. 100 records free in your trial.". Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Minerva: email verification API alternatives

Minerva alternatives: every email verification API provider ranked

The table starts with Minerva's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to Minerva's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

Minerva, $4,000 yearlyReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyStopReg, $20 monthlyElastic Email, $169 monthly, Email API Starter (500,000 emails/month), POST /verifications/filesMailSift, $35 pack, Growth, GET /verify, Verify one email
$ per 1,000 emails$0.333$0.333$0.333$0.338$0.35
Completeness33%67%50%50%67%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$4,000$1,200$20$169$35
Enough for1,000,000 results a month300,000 calls a month60,000 calls a month500,000 results a month100,000 calls
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored (MX, SPF, DMARC: live)
Who can get ita company or entity, self-serve (the terms bind the Customer, "the company or entity on whose behalf you entered this Agreement")anyoneanyoneanyone at least the age of majority in their jurisdiction, with a registered accountanyone 16 or older

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.

  1. docs.minerva.io/api-reference/billing-usage
  2. docs.minerva.io/api-reference/introduction
  3. docs.minerva.io/api-reference/validate-emails
  4. minerva.io/pricing
  5. minerva.io/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Address
  • Deliverability
  • Confidence, not in the answer
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forEnrich v2 · Get LinkedIn Contact Info · Person Search · Async Person Search · Contact Append · Contact Prospect
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUse this endpoint to check if email addresses are valid and whether they exist in the Minerva database.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep data"Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement: (i) the rights granted pursuant to Section 4(a) and Section 8 will terminate, and (ii) Customer will return or destroy, at Minerva’s sole option, all Minerva Confidential Information in its possession or control" [...]
Use data"a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable (except in compliance with Section 13(b)) right to use (and permit Authorized Users to use) the Services and Output Data in accordance with the Documentation and the terms of this Agreement for Customer’s internal business purposes." [...] "Customer will not and will not permit any person or entity (including, without limitation, Authorized Users) to, directly or indirectly:" "I. Use the Services or Output Data to develop or supplement a “Consumer Report” that is subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act [...]" "II. Copy, modify or create any derivative work of any portion of the Services, Output Data or the Documentation, " "IV. Frame, mirror, sell, resell, market, sublicense, publish, distribute, reproduce, assign, transfer, rent, lease or loan any portion of the Services or Output Data to any other person or entity [...]" "VII. Access or search the Services (or download any data or content contained therein or transmitted thereby, including Output Data) through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, or any other similar data mining tools) other than software or Services features provided by Minerva for use expressly for such purposes, "
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 results
Enough for1,000,000 results a month
Expires14 days
Rate limit
Batch2,000
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendrecords, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: force_refresh
MethodPOST
Path/v2/validate_emails
About the plan
PlanTrial
Who can get itanyone: "No card required. 100 records free in your trial."
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

email address, match, validation status, last seen

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