# Status Check, free: Email verification API

> Validate domains and emails at scale with lightning-fast API responses. Built for developers, trusted by businesses.

Status Check's Free Trial plan for the email verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Status Check's docs list 3: Address, Deliverability, Confidence.
We haven't run Status Check through [our email verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 4,391 plans for email verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 emails. [See the best free email verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
[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. [StableEnrich's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/stableenrich/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-x402-or-mpp-post-api-minerva-validate-emails/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 emails a month: $0.05.
[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.
[pingutil](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/pingutil/free-api-key-post-v1-verify/llms.txt), [Validemail.co](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/validemail-co/9-90-monthly-9-90-month-get-api-v1-validate/llms.txt) and [looot](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/looot/top-up/llms.txt) are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/status-check/free
- [Email validation API: best verification providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.status-check.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.status-check.io/v1/check-email`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.status-check.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.status-check.io/docs/api/validation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing#check-email
- Sold by: Status Check (https://status-check.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Address: ✓
- Deliverability: ✓
- Confidence: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Check Website · Lead Validation

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## Catch-all

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Validate domains and emails at scale with lightning-fast API responses. Built for developers, trusted by businesses.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- What it checks: format, mail servers, disposable domains, role addresses, mailbox
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to provide accurate information and use the service only for lawful purposes. Prohibited Activities: Uploading or sharing unlawful, harmful, or offensive content, Attempting to reverse engineer or disrupt the service, Using the service for spamming or unsolicited outreach.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: email. Optional: timeout, returnDetails, webhookUrl
- Method: POST
- Path: /check-email

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: new accounts

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

email address, status, deliverable, catch-all, disposable, service provider, SMTP server, email type, risk level, quality score, wait time, credits deducted, credits remaining

## Status Check's plans (2)

- [Status Check, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/status-check/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Status Check, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/status-check/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Status Check's calls (1)

- `POST /check-email`: [Status Check, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/status-check/free/llms.txt)

## Status Check's APIs (1)

- [Status Check: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/status-check/free/llms.txt)

## Status Check: email verification API alternatives

- [BillionVerify, $20 pack, Starter, POST /verify/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/billionverify/20-pack-starter-post-verify-bulk/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [MillionPhones, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/millionphones/100-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [DeBounce, top-up from $200, 200K credits, GET /v1/, Single email validation](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/debounce/top-up-from-200-200k-credits-get-v1/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Listclean, $5 pack, 5K Credits, GET /verify/email/{email}](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/listclean/5-pack-5k-credits-get-verify-email-email/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.status-check.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.status-check.io/docs/api/validation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.status-check.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.status-check.io/docs/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://status-check.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://status-check.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing