# Minerva, free: Email verification API

> Use this endpoint to check if email addresses are valid and whether they exist in the Minerva database.

Minerva's email verification API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Address, Deliverability.
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.
We haven't run Minerva 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/minerva/free
- [Email validation API: 160+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.minerva.io/v2/validate_emails`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/validate-emails?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: Minerva (https://www.minerva.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Address: ✓
- Deliverability: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Enrich 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 pitch: Use this endpoint to check if email addresses are valid and whether they exist in the Minerva database.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- 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 get: 100 results
- Enough for: 1,000,000 results a month
- Expires: 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 2,000

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: records, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: force_refresh
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/validate_emails

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone: "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

## Minerva's plans (8)

- [Minerva, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $1,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/1200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $4,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/4000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $12,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/12000-yearly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, $20,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/20000-yearly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Minerva, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete, stored

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

- `POST /v2/validate_emails`: [Minerva, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)

## Minerva's APIs (7)

- [Minerva: email verification API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people enrichment API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone validation API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: reverse email lookup API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/minerva/free/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/search-jobs](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search-jobs/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/contact-append](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-append/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/contact-prospect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-contact-prospect/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: people search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /person-search/v0/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-person-search-v0-search/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: email finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Minerva: phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v2/get_li_contact_info](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/minerva/free-trial-post-v2-get-li-contact-info/llms.txt)

## Minerva: email verification API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored
- [StopReg, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/stopreg/20-monthly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Elastic Email, $169 monthly, Email API Starter (500,000 emails/month), POST /verifications/files](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/elastic-email/169-monthly-email-api-starter-500000-emails-month-post-verifications-files/llms.txt): $0.338 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [MailSift, $35 pack, Growth, GET /verify, Verify one email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mailsift/35-pack-growth-get-verify-verify-one-email/llms.txt): $0.35 per 1,000, 67% complete, stored (MX, SPF, DMARC: 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.minerva.io/api-reference/billing-usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.minerva.io/api-reference/validate-emails?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.minerva.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing