# Tanod, free: Email verification API

> Check if an email address exists, as far as DNS can tell (the domain can receive mail, the mailbox itself is not probed): syntax, MX, null MX, A/AAAA fallback, MX host resolution, disposable domain, role account, free provider.

Tanod's Free daily allowance plan for the email verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 emails. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Tanod's docs list 3: Address, Deliverability, Company.
We ran Tanod in [our email verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt). We didn't score any Tanod plan.
This plan is free. We rank 4,337 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/tanod/free
- [Email validation API: best verification providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tanod.dev/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://tanod.dev/v1/email/verify`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://tanod.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1email~1verify/post
- Sold by: Tanod (https://tanod.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Check if an email address exists, as far as DNS can tell (the domain can receive mail, the mailbox itself is not probed): syntax, MX, null MX, A/AAAA fallback, MX host resolution, disposable domain, role account, free provider.

## Data

- What it checks: format, mail servers, disposable domains, role addresses
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Send only content you have the right to process. Do not use the service to break the law, to attack or overload this or any other service, or to get around rate limits, payment or access controls. When you ask us to fetch a page or file from another site, you are responsible for respecting that site's terms. [...] Some results come from public or third-party sources. We do not guarantee their accuracy, completeness or timeliness.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5 requests a day
- Enough for: 5 calls a day
- Expires: end of the UTC day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: email
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/email/verify

## About the plan

- Plan: Free daily allowance
- Who can get it: anyone, per IP address, within a free daily allowance (reset at 00:00 UTC), with no account or API key

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, normalized, syntax valid, local part, domain, has MX, MX hosts, null MX, implicit MX, disposable, role account, free provider, verdict, reasons, SMTP checked, notes

## Tanod's plans (4)

- [Tanod, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Tanod, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Tanod, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/1-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Tanod, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/5-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete

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

- `POST /v1/email/verify`: [Tanod, free](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)

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- [Tanod: company open jobs API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)
- [Tanod: domain WHOIS API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)
- [Tanod: email verification API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)
- [Tanod: IP company lookup API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)
- [Tanod: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tanod/free/llms.txt)
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- [Tanod: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/company/lei](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/tanod/free-daily-allowance-post-v1-company-lei/llms.txt)
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## Tanod: email verification API alternatives

- [Prime Verifier, $200 pack, Pay-As-You-Go 200,000 credits, POST /v1/verify/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/prime-verifier/200-pack-pay-as-you-go-200000-credits-post-v1-verify-single/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/payments/terms.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing
- https://tanod.dev/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=email-verification-api-pricing