PayPerQ pricing and alternatives: email verification API, POST /api/hunter/email-verifier

PayPerQ's site llms.txt Best email verification API in 2026

17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$34.50per 1,000 emailsThe median plan costs $2.196 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 4% of the 1,671 priced plans.The cheapest plan is treg, top-up from $10, at $0.00 per 1,000.

Plan: Pay per request with L402 one of PayPerQ's 2 plans

Call: POST /api/hunter/email-verifier one of PayPerQ's 2 calls

API: Email verification API one of PayPerQ's 8 APIs

About this item

Freshness. PayPerQ doesn't say how fresh an answer is.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Deliverability.
Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
One call. You send email to POST /api/hunter/email-verifier. The call returns whether the address takes mail.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PayPerQ: email verification API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 emails. We also show the StableEnrich plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.

	This planPayPerQ, pay as you go, Pay per request with L402, POST /api/hunter/email-verifier	StableEnrich, pay as you go	AnyAPI, top-up from $10, Manual top-up, POST /v1/run/email_verification.zerobounce	Dropcontact, €120 monthly	TrekMail, $42 yearly, Starter, POST /verify/bulk, Create a bulk job (quick)	Scrupp, $35 pack
$ per 1,000	$34.50	$30.00	$33.60	$33.759	$35.00	$35.00
Completeness	17%	50%	83%	33%	50%	33%
Billing	pay as you go	pay as you go	pay first	monthly	yearly	pay first
Pay	per call	per call	$10	€120	$42	$35
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	about 297 calls	4,000 results a month	100 results a month	1,000 calls
Freshness	not published	not published	not published	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 13 years old or of their country's minimum age (under 18 with a parent's or guardian's consent), not in an embargoed region or a restricted individual, paying each request's Lightning invoice with no account or API key	anyone 18 or over, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying in USDC from a wallet on Base, Solana or Tempo	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	professionals acting within their activity (a natural person with the power to commit, or a legal person)	anyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) and not barred from receiving services under sanctions laws	anyone at least 18 years old

Every email verification API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-22.

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

Price
$ per 1,000	$34.50
Billing	pay as you go

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	call
Also pays for	nothing else

In their words
Their pitch	Verify an email address for deliverability. Returns status (valid, invalid, risky, unknown), SMTP check results, and mail server details.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You may access and utilize our Services as long as you adhere to these Terms and all applicable laws. You must also follow PPQ.AI's policies, including our Sharing & Publication Policy, Usage Policies, and any other guidelines we provide. [...] You are prohibited from engaging in any activities that are illegal, harmful, or abusive while using our Services. Specifically, you may not: Infringe upon or violate the rights of others. Modify, copy, sell, lease, or distribute any part of our Services. Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or extract source code or underlying components. Use automated methods to collect data or generate output, such as for training other AI models. Misrepresent AI-generated content as being created by a human. Bypass security measures, rate limits, or protections implemented in our Services. [...] You acknowledge that: Output should not be used as a sole source of factual information. You must review and validate Output for accuracy before using or sharing it. Output should not be used to make significant decisions affecting individuals (e.g., employment, credit, or legal matters). [...] You must comply with applicable trade and export laws. Our Services cannot be used in embargoed regions or by restricted individuals.

Plan
Pay	per call

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	email
Method	POST
Path	/api/hunter/email-verifier

About the plan
Plan	Pay per request with L402
Who can get it	anyone at least 13 years old or of their country's minimum age (under 18 with a parent's or guardian's consent), not in an embargoed region or a restricted individual, paying each request's Lightning invoice with no account or API key

The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, SMTP check passed, SMTP server reachable, SMTP check blocked, MX found