Submit up to 1,000 email addresses and get a status back for each one, checked at the mail server rather than guessed from how the address looks. The last step before a campaign goes out - and the cheapest way to protect the domain you send from.
Getting an address and knowing it works are two different jobs. This service only does the second one.
Finding email addresses happens elsewhere in the catalogue. The Email & Contact Scraper pulls a company's published addresses off its website; Leads & Contacts Enrichment resolves a domain into named people and returns an address for each, tagged with the source it came from. Both hand you addresses. Neither tells you whether a mailbox is actually accepting mail today.
That's this page. You submit addresses - however you obtained them - and each comes back with a status. The documented status detail is SMTP validated, meaning the check is made against the receiving mail server rather than inferred from the shape of the address. Syntax checks are free and worthless; this is the other kind.
Run it last, immediately before you send. A list verified three months ago is a list you haven't verified.
The simplest service in the catalogue to run - there's only one thing to submit.
No filters, no depth setting, no locale - an address is the whole input.
One row per address you submitted:
query is the address you submitted, echoed back so a 1,000-row export stays
aligned with your input. status is the verdict. status_details
explains how that verdict was reached - the documented example reads
SMTP validated.
One thing we won't do is invent the status vocabulary. The reference documents
the field and shows a status of RECEIVING for a working mailbox, but it does not
publish the full list of values the field can take. Most verification tools advertise a tidy
set - valid, invalid, risky, catch-all - and we could print something similar and look more
complete than we are. Instead: run a handful of addresses you already know the answer for on
the free tier, and you'll have the real vocabulary in about a minute.
Taken from real exports. Seven columns arrive on every row; only the mail host is ever blank.
receiving, invalid, undeliverable and unknown.aspmx.l.google.com. The only column that is sometimes blank, at 83% of rows.Read status together with status_details. In the sample behind this list the single most common status was unknown - usually a mail server that refuses to confirm either way, which status_details then explains ("mail server policy / IP block"). Treating unknown as a failure would discard addresses that are fine. Note this sample is 18 addresses across 13 runs, so the status list above is what has been observed rather than a closed set.
Verification is genuinely useful and routinely oversold. The honest boundaries:
The documented detail is SMTP validated - the verdict comes from the mail server responsible for the address, not from a regular expression over the text.
A mailbox that accepts mail today can be closed next month when someone leaves. A status is a snapshot, which is exactly why the advice is to verify immediately before sending.
Whether a message reaches the inbox also depends on your sending reputation, authentication and content. A good status removes one failure mode; it doesn't promise arrival.
Telling disposable, free and corporate addresses apart is a different question - the Disposable Email Checker is built for it.
Where a verification pass pays for itself immediately.
Mailbox providers read bounces as a signal that you don't know who you're writing to, and the damage lands on your sending domain rather than on the campaign. Verifying first means the bad addresses never get mailed - cheaper than earning a reputation back.
Every list decays as people change jobs, and a list you didn't build yourself is an unknown quantity. Running it through before the first send tells you what you actually have, and whether it was worth what you paid for it.
Addresses that arrive from enrichment come with a source, not a guarantee. Passing them through verification turns a discovered address into a confirmed one, which is the difference between a sequence that lands and one that quietly bounces.
No subscription, no minimum, no per-seat licence. Your first 500 rows are on us - after that, pay-as-you-go.
Every new account, one-time. No credit card required. All scrapers unlocked - and on this service the free rows are how you learn what the status values actually are before you rely on them.
Roughly $2 per 1,000 addresses. Set against the cost of a damaged sending domain, verification is the least expensive insurance in an outbound stack.
Volume pricing, SLAs, dedicated workers and bespoke onboarding for teams re-verifying a large database on a schedule. Tell us your numbers and we'll quote.
LIVESCRAPER10 at checkout.Verification is the end of a pipeline. These two are the start of it.
Turns a domain into named people with addresses and the source each came from. It finds the address; this page confirms the mailbox. The two are designed to be run back to back.
Reads a company's published contact surface from its website - addresses, phones, contact page, socials. The fastest way to build the list you then verify here.
The lightest-touch service in the catalogue, and worth understanding why.
Verification asks a mail server a question about an address. It doesn't read a mailbox, it doesn't collect anything about the person behind it, and it doesn't add anyone to a list. Nothing new is gathered here - you already hold the addresses you submit.
That said, an email address identifying a person is personal data, and submitting one for checking is processing it. The obligations that matter are the ones on the outreach itself: a lawful basis for contacting them, transparency about where you got their details, and honouring objection and erasure requests. Those sit with you as the sender, exactly as they do on Leads & Contacts Enrichment.
On our side: nothing behind a login, no third-party trackers on the data layer, and your exports auto-delete after 30 days.
The questions we hear most. Anything else? Talk to us - humans, not bots, write the answers.
status field and shows RECEIVING for a working mailbox, with status_details reading SMTP validated - but it never enumerates the full vocabulary. Most verification tools advertise a tidy set of statuses; printing one we can't stand behind would make this page look more complete than it is. Run a few addresses you already know the answer for on the free tier and you'll have the real list in a minute.Paste up to 1,000 addresses and get a status for each, checked at the mail server. Your first 500 rows are free - enough to clean a real list and see the status values for yourself.
Every outbound programme eventually runs into the same problem: the list is older than it looks. People change jobs, mailboxes close, and addresses that were correct when they were collected quietly stop working. Sending to them is worse than wasteful, because mailbox providers read bounces as evidence that a sender doesn't know who they are writing to, and the damage attaches to your sending domain rather than to the individual campaign. The Email Address Verifier is the step that prevents it. Submit up to 1,000 addresses in a run and each comes back with a status, checked at the mail server responsible for the address rather than inferred from the way the address is spelled. The documented status detail reads SMTP validated, which is the distinction that matters - a syntax check costs nothing and proves nothing, whereas a server-level check tells you something real.
It helps to see where this sits relative to the rest of the catalogue, because three services here touch email and they do different things. The Email & Contact Scraper reads a company's published contact surface from its website and returns the addresses and phone numbers it finds. Leads & Contacts Enrichment resolves a domain into named individuals and returns an address for each, tagged with the source it was discovered through. Both of those find addresses. Neither confirms that a mailbox is live, and the source tag on an enriched address describes how it was found rather than whether it will accept mail today. This service is the confirmation step, and it belongs at the end of that sequence - ideally immediately before a send, since a status is a point-in-time answer that decays as people move on.
One deliberate omission is worth explaining, because it is the sort of thing a marketing page usually papers over. The reference for this endpoint documents the three response fields - the address you submitted, a status, and a status detail - and shows a status of RECEIVING for a working mailbox. It does not publish the complete set of values the status field can take. Comparable tools advertise a neat vocabulary of valid, invalid, risky and catch-all, and we could print something similar and look more thorough than we honestly are. We would rather tell you the truth and give you a way to settle it in a minute: run a handful of addresses whose answers you already know against the one-time 500 free rows, and you will have the actual vocabulary straight from the output.
Two further boundaries keep expectations where they should be. A clean status is not a deliverability guarantee, because reaching an inbox also depends on sending reputation, authentication and message content - verification eliminates one failure mode rather than all of them. And this service does not classify what kind of address you have; separating disposable addresses from free providers and corporate domains is a distinct question with its own service in the catalogue. On the privacy side, verification is unusually light-touch: no mailbox is read, nothing new is collected about the person, and nobody is added to any list. The obligations that matter are the ones on the outreach itself - a lawful basis, transparency about where the details came from, and honouring objection and erasure requests - and those sit with you as the sender. We keep our side clean, with nothing behind a login and exports that auto-delete after 30 days. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card.