# Email Hippo review (2026): is it worth $9.88 a month? > Bulk email list cleaning and real-time email validation APIs Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Email Hippo sells email verification in several products: CORE cleans uploaded CSV lists, while the MORE, INSIGHT and ASSESS APIs validate addresses in real time and add enrichment and fraud signals. A separate WHOIS API covers domain data. The company says it holds ISO 27001 certification. - **Category:** Email Verification & Deliverability - **Made by:** Email Hippo - **Website:** https://www.emailhippo.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want real-time checks on CORE, since they need a MORE, INSIGHT or ASSESS subscription. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Email Hippo is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9.88 per month and up, for 1,000 checks a month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 100 free checks, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | CORE | $9.88 per month and up, for 1,000 checks; billing basis not stated | Bulk CSV list cleaning on a monthly, quarterly or annual subscription, or pay as you go (1,000 checks is about $9.88). Up to 500,000 emails per file. | | MORE | $9.88 per month and up, for 1,000 checks; billing basis not stated | Real-time API for sign-up validation: DNS, MX and SMTP checks plus disposable, role, freemail and catch-all detection. Volumes run from 1,000 to 2,500,000 a month. | | INSIGHT | $12.26 per month and up, for 1,000 checks; billing basis not stated | Everything in MORE plus enrichment such as a marketing trust score, dark web checks and consumer or business identification. | | ASSESS | $14.63 per month and up, for 1,000 checks; billing basis not stated | Everything in INSIGHT plus fraud signals such as a risk score, domain age, IP and location analysis. Online volumes run to 1,000,000 a month. | Read from https://www.emailhippo.com/products/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Email Hippo before buying. ## Key features - **Bulk file verification (CORE):** Upload a CSV of up to 500,000 emails and pay only for unique addresses; duplicates are not charged. - **Real-time validation (MORE):** An API that the page rates at about 430 ms average response and up to 250 requests per second. - **Email intelligence (INSIGHT):** Adds a gibberish check, subaddressing detection, dark web checks and a marketing trust score. - **Fraud assessment (ASSESS):** Adds a risk score, domain reputation and age, IP and location analysis, Tor exit node checks and blocklist detection. - **WHOIS API:** A separate product for domain age, ownership and registrar data. ## Good for - Teams that want to start with 100 free checks before paying - Sign-up forms that need validation plus fraud signals in one API - Occasional list cleaning on pay as you go ## Worth knowing - Prices are shown as a starting figure for 1,000 checks; the pricing calculator loads by script and the billing basis of the starting figure was not stated. - CORE does not offer real-time checks; real-time use needs a MORE, INSIGHT or ASSESS API subscription. - A minimum transaction fee applies to pay-as-you-go purchases. - Enterprise quotes are required above 2.5 million checks a month, and above 1 million for ASSESS. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Email Hippo checks email addresses, with bulk file cleaning on CORE and a real-time API on MORE, from $9.88 for 1,000 checks. You get 100 free checks, but CORE has no real-time checks, the pricing calculator needs script to load, and the billing basis of the starting price is not stated. - **Value for money: B.** From $9.88 for 1,000 checks, inside the $10 cheaper quarter of deliverability tools. The page does not say if that is monthly or one-off, and INSIGHT and ASSESS cost $12.26 and $14.63. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 100 free checks with no card. There is no ongoing free plan. - **Features: C.** Bulk cleaning, real-time checks, enrichment and fraud signals. CORE does not do real-time checks, so each use sits on a different product. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You upload files or connect an API, so there is some setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and API, with HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Formstack and Unbounce listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Email Hippo's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email verification and deliverability tools - Email Hippo's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 61 other email verification and deliverability tools we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 45 of 61) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $9.88 a month, against a middle price of $21.50 for the category: 4 of the 43 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-deliverability ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Email Hippo does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. It costs $118.56 a year. - You could not: Checking that an address exists without writing to it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zapier among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Formstack, Unbounce **Tags:** Email verification, Public API ## Alternatives - [ZeroBounce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zerobounce): Email list verification with warm-up and DMARC monitoring in one plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/email-hippo-vs-zerobounce) - [NeverBounce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/neverbounce): Email list cleaning and real-time verification, now part of ZoomInfo. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/email-hippo-vs-neverbounce) - [Kickbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kickbox): Pay-as-you-go email verification with an optional threat score. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/email-hippo-vs-kickbox) - [Abstract Email Validation](https://toolgpa.com/tools/abstract-email): Email validation API: format, MX and SMTP checks in one call. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/abstract-email-vs-email-hippo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.emailhippo.com/products/pricing - https://www.emailhippo.com - https://www.emailhippo.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/email-hippo Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).