Same SMTP check. Same catch-all handling. Credits that never expire. We just charge a fraction of what they do.
Our offering on the right, theirs on the left. The numbers come straight from each pricing page.
Our list price next to theirs, for every published volume tier. The right column is what stays in your bank account when you switch.
| Volume | ZeroBounce | Bulk Email Checker | Saved | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $39.00 | $2.95 | $36.05 | 92% |
| 5,000 | $69.00 | $5.95 | $63.05 | 91% |
| 10,000 | $129.00 | $9.95 | $119.05 | 92% |
| 25,000 | $274.00 | $23.95 | $250.05 | 91% |
| 50,000 | $499.00 | $44.95 | $454.05 | 91% |
| 100,000 | $649.00 | $74.95 | $574.05 | 88% |
| 250,000 | $1,299.00 | $149.95 | $1,149.05 | 88% |
| 500,000 | $2,199.00 | $279.95 | $1,919.05 | 87% |
| 1,000,000 | $3,199.00 | $409.95 | $2,789.05 | 87% |
Pricing reflects ZeroBounce PAYG list rates as of May 2026, verified at zerobounce.net/email-validation-pricing. The 1K row reflects ZeroBounce's 2K minimum-purchase floor ($39). Credits never expire on ZeroBounce.
We match them on every core verification capability. Where we diverge, we tend to do more for less.
| Capability | ZeroBounce | Bulk Email Checker |
|---|---|---|
| Verification engine | ||
| SMTP-level mailbox verification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Catch-all detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Disposable email detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Role account detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gibberish detection | ✕ | ✓ |
| Complainer detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offensive email detection | ✕ | ✓ |
| Spam trap detection | Yes, partial | Yes, partial |
| ESP blacklists (Mailgun, Mailjet, Mandrill, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Postmark) | ✕ | ✓ |
| MX provider enrichment (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, etc.) | ✕ | ✓ |
| B2B / B2C segmenting | ✕ | ✓ |
| Stated accuracy | 99.6% claimed | 99.7% |
| Commercial terms | ||
| Credit lifetime | Never expires | Never |
| Catch-all / unknown verifications | Not charged | Not charged |
| Unlimited flat-rate tier | × | ✓ |
| Free trial | 100 free monthly verifications, business email required | 10 checks, no signup |
| Auto top-up when credits run low | ✓ | ✓ |
| Platform & collaboration | ||
| Single-email verifier (in-app quick check) | 1 email at a time | 25 at once, CSV export |
| Real-time Email Verification API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited Verification API (flat-rate) | ✕ | ✓ |
| Bulk email verification (CSV / TXT) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Webhook callbacks | ✓ | ✓ |
| No-code integrations (Zapier, Make.com, etc.) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team accounts with shared credits | ✓ | ✓ |
| Years operating | Since 2015 | Since 2012 |
Three real buyer profiles. Twelve months of monthly purchases. The dollars-saved column is the answer.
Same SMTP verification, same deliverability after sending, fraction of the invoice. The math does the convincing.
"Every time I logged into ZeroBounce there was a banner pushing their AI scoring or their deliverability toolkit or some other add-on. I don't need any of that. I upload a CSV, I get back valid and invalid, I move on. Wanted something that just does verification without trying to sell me a platform I didn't ask for."
"We originally moved to ZeroBounce from another provider specifically because their credits never expire. Made sense at the time since we were only verifying a few times a year. Fast forward two years and we are now running monthly cleans so credits never sit around anymore. The non-expiry thing that brought us there stopped mattering but the premium pricing didn't."
"At our volume the difference between ZeroBounce and Bulk Email Checker was about $900 a month. Over a year that is a full headcount worth of budget. We tested both on the same seed lists for two months and could not find a meaningful accuracy difference. Kept the budget, dropped the vendor."
If yours isn't here, email support@bulkemailchecker.com. A real person will get back to you.
Depends on what you optimize for. If price-per-email matters most, we're typically 88%+ cheaper across every published tier. If credit-expiry has burned you, ours never expire. If you need a flat-rate Unlimited tier, we offer one and ZeroBounce doesn't. Try 25 verifications free in our dashboard and decide for yourself.
Per published list pricing, we are. $2.95 for 1,000 verifications scaling to $409.95 for 1M, which is roughly 92-87% below ZeroBounce's tiers. The Pricing panel above has the full side-by-side.
No. They remain in your ZeroBounce account until used or until the Never expires window closes. Nothing migrates automatically.
Lower overhead, lean operations, no acquisition pricing pressure. Our pricing structure has not changed on renewal in over a decade.
Both services perform SMTP-level mailbox verification with handshake-stage RCPT checks, MX validation, catch-all detection, disposable filtering, and role-address flagging.
One base URL change. Endpoint shapes match closely. Our docs include a side-by-side mapping for the common verification calls.
Yes. Most teams above 1M move to our Unlimited flat-rate API, which removes per-email billing in exchange for dedicated cloud capacity at a fixed monthly rate.
Yes. Our team accounts use a shared credit pool, so multiple users on the same account draw from one balance. No per-seat fees, no separate billing.
Simple. We own our own infrastructure and don't pay for advertising. The price reflects that.
Not a dollar on Google Ads. Not a dollar on Facebook. No sales floor, no affiliate kickbacks, no conference booths, no influencer deals. Nothing.
Every other vendor in this category bakes these into their pricing. We don't carry any of them, so neither does the price tag.
We focus on one thing: email verification.
No platform pivots, no second product line, no marketing or sales departments to feed. Our biggest source of new customers is existing customers spreading the word. Over 400,000 customers and growing every single day.
Identical verification. Dramatically smaller invoice.
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