Bouncer vs Verifalia (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Bouncer if

• Fits if you clean a list a few times a year and don't want a subscription
• Works for companies that want their data processed and hosted in the EU

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need a new inbox warmed up or DMARC managed, as Bouncer does neither
• Pricey if you also want placement and blocklist tests, as the Deliverability Kit is sold apart from $25 a month
• Watch out: Bouncer Shield for sign-up forms is another monthly subscription, priced by the number of checks
• Tight if you want to test first, as the 100 free credits cover a sample, not a whole list
• Watch out: the monthly credit subscription shows its price only inside the calculator

Pick Verifalia if

• Fits if you clean a list now and then and want credit packs that do not expire
• Works for developers who want to verify addresses at signup through an API

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you want more than 25 free checks a day, because the allowance resets daily and does not roll over
• Watch out: higher quality levels use more credits per address, so the headline price per check goes up
• Skip it if you want an app on your phone or desktop, as it is a web client and API only
• Pricey if you clean big lists often: Enterprise is $199 a month and Ultimate $499, before any credit packs
• Watch out: the pricing page shows monthly-billing prices nowhere we could read, only per month billed yearly

Bouncer

• Credits can also be bought as a monthly subscription that refills each month; the page shows its price only inside the calculator.
• Bouncer Shield, for form checks, is a separate monthly subscription priced by the number of checks.
• The Deliverability Kit is sold separately from verification credits.
• Bouncer does not warm up inboxes or manage DMARC records; the kit only tests them.

Verifalia

• Every plan includes only a daily allowance of credits that expires at day's end; anything beyond it is bought as credit packs, such as 10,000 credits for $49.90.
• One credit covers one standard-quality check; higher quality levels cost more per address.
• The pricing page shows plan prices as per month billed yearly; the monthly-billing prices were not displayed when read.
• Web client area and API only; there is no desktop or mobile app.

Bouncer

List verification

Upload a CSV and get each address back as deliverable, risky, undeliverable or unknown, with reasons. Catch-all domains get a deeper check.

Verification API

Synchronous and batch endpoints verify addresses from your own app, and an MCP server connects Bouncer to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools.

Toxicity Check

Scores each address from 0 to 5 for risks such as breached or widely shared addresses, known complainers and likely spam traps.

Bouncer Shield

Checks addresses as they are typed into sign-up forms and can block invalid, malicious or fraudulent entries by address or IP.

Deliverability Kit

Sends test emails to see whether they land in the inbox or spam, checks SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and monitors IPs and domains on blocklists.

AutoClean and integrations

Connects to email and CRM tools such as Mailchimp, HubSpot and Klaviyo to verify lists where they live, and AutoClean verifies a connected CRM without manual uploads.

Verifalia

Bulk list cleaning

Upload a list as plain text, CSV or Excel (.xls or .xlsx), up to 100 MB per list, then download the results and choose which addresses to keep.

Real-time verification API

A real-time API with free, open-source SDKs for .NET, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby, usable for single checks or for batches.

Detailed status codes

Each address is marked Deliverable, Undeliverable, Risky or Unknown and given one of more than 40 status codes with an explanation.

Quality levels

Standard, High and Extreme levels trade more credits for extra attempts on mail servers that give temporary or unclear answers.

Disposable, free-mail and typo detection

Flags disposable and free-mail addresses, suggests fixes for common typos, and removes duplicates at no charge.

Classification overrides

Wildcard rules such as *@example.com set how matching addresses are classified; the rule limit runs from 5 to 100 depending on the plan.

Bouncer

• Pay as you go$8

  one-time for 1,000 credits

  Credits never expire and get cheaper in bulk: $60 for 10,000, $400 for 100,000 and $2,000 for 1 million. Duplicates and unknown results are not charged.

• Deliverability Kit Starter$25

  per month for 250 test emails

  Inbox placement, blocklist, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and SpamAssassin tests, with 10 IPs or domains monitored. Sold apart from verification.

• Deliverability Kit Standard$125

  per month for 1,000 test emails

  The same tests with 25 IPs or domains monitored.

• Deliverability Kit Pro$250

  per month for 2,500 test emails

  The same tests with 50 IPs or domains monitored.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited test emails and monitored IPs or domains, multi-organization setup, custom agreements and an account manager.

Verifalia

• Free$0

  25 daily free credits; further verifications come from credit packs. Processing is best effort.

• Starter$9

  per month, billed yearly

  250 daily free credits, plus credit packs for anything beyond that.

• Professional$49

  per month, billed yearly

  1,250 daily free credits, plus credit packs. Higher plans verify submitted addresses more quickly.

• Enterprise$199

  per month, billed yearly

  6,250 daily free credits, plus credit packs.

• Ultimate$499

  per month, billed yearly

  25,000 daily free credits, plus credit packs.

Bouncer

No public discounts listed.

Verifalia

• Annual discount

  Save 10% with yearly billing

  The pricing page shows a 5% saving for quarterly billing and 10% for yearly billing on the subscription plans.