About ZeroBounce
ZeroBounce is a commercial email validation and list cleaning service. Senders upload a list or call an API to check which addresses are usable, so they can remove invalid, disposable, role-based, catch-all and spam-trap addresses before sending and protect their deliverability.
Beyond validation, the vendor sells tools in several further areas: email scoring and an email finder for locating professional addresses, sender reputation tools such as email warmup, inbox placement tests and email server testing, and inbox health monitoring through blacklist monitoring, a DMARC monitor and a deliverability dashboard. Consulting for fixing deliverability problems is also offered.
ZeroBounce is hosted software with an API, API wrappers, documentation and an MCP server for developers, plus free tools such as an email verifier, list evaluator, blacklist checker and DMARC checker. Pricing is published on its pricing page.
Key features
- Bulk email validation and list cleaning
- AI-based email quality scoring
- Email finder for professional addresses
- Email warmup and inbox placement tests
- Blacklist and DMARC monitoring
- Validation API with wrappers
- Real-time deliverability dashboard
Good fit for
- →Email marketers cleaning lists before campaigns
- →Sales teams finding professional email addresses
- →Developers adding email validation through an API
- Tags
- email-validation
- list-cleaning
- deliverability
- email-verification
- dmarc
- email-finder
- api
ZeroBounce: questions and answers
- What is ZeroBounce used for?
- ZeroBounce is a commercial email validation and list cleaning service with scoring, finder, warmup and deliverability monitoring tools for email senders. It is a good fit for email marketers cleaning lists before campaigns, sales teams finding professional email addresses and developers adding email validation through an API.
- Is ZeroBounce free?
- Yes. ZeroBounce has a free plan. Free plan with 100 validation credits a month. Pay-as-you-go starts at $39 for 2,000 validations, and the ZeroBounce ONE subscription is $99 a month.
- Is ZeroBounce open source?
- No. ZeroBounce is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Email Marketing category, open-source options include Postal, Plunk and Laudspeaker.
- What are some alternatives to ZeroBounce?
- ZeroBounce competes with NeverBounce, Hunter and Mailgun.
Open-source alternatives to ZeroBounce
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Postal
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📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail
MITvs SendGrid★ 17k
Plunk
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The Open-Source Email Platform
AGPL-3.0vs SendGrid★ 5.5k
Laudspeaker
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📢 Laudspeaker is an Open Source Customer Engagement and Product Onboarding Platform. Open
OSSvs Braze★ 2.6k
Listmonk
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High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 24k
Mautic
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Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
OSSvs HubSpot★ 11k
BillionMail
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BillionMail gives you open-source MailServer, NewsLetter, Email Marketing — fully self-ho
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 16k
SaaS alternatives to ZeroBounce
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NeverBounce
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Email list verification service that removes invalid addresses before sending
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Hunter
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Email address finder and verifier for outreach and lead generation
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Mailgun
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Email API for sending, receiving and tracking transactional messages
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SendGrid
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Cloud email delivery API for transactional and marketing messages, from Twilio
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BillionVerify
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Email address verification service with an API and AI agent integration
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Elastic Email
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Email marketing platform and transactional email API
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