Email verification

LookValid vs DeBounce

LookValid covers part of the same ground as DeBounce with Email Domain Check, billed in credits from one shared balance. DeBounce sells email list cleaning and a validation API on pay-as-you-go credits, priced by the volume of checks.

Read 2026-10-18

Side by side

DeBounce and LookValid, term by term
Term	DeBounce	LookValid
What it sells	Email verification.	Email Domain Check
How it bills	Prepaid credits	Monthly credit plans, one balance for every lookup
Entry price	$0.00045 (Pay-as-you-go entry rate: lowest published cost per single check, one credit each) Source	1 credit per address checked
Lowest per 1,000	about $0.45 (Pay-as-you-go entry rate) Source	$2.00 to $4.95 for 1,000 billed Email Domain Check lookups across the plans
Free option	New accounts get 100 free credits, no card needed. Source	Free tools run the same data without an account, up to 25 lookups a day per visitor.
Credit expiry	Credits do not expire and stay valid until used. Source	Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months.
Contract minimum	No contract and no monthly payment on pay-as-you-go. Source	Monthly plans bought online run from $99 to $799 a month. Enterprise starts at $1,999 a month for 1,000,000 credits and is set up on a call.
API access	API use is included with no separate credit purchase. Source	One REST API and one MCP server, both on the same key and the same credit balance.

What DeBounce publishes

DeBounce published prices
Plan or product	Price	Covers	Per 1,000
Pay-as-you-go entry rate	$0.00045	lowest published cost per single check, one credit each	about $0.45

Limits DeBounce states

Add-ons cost more credits: catch-all checks use 10 credits each and data enrichment uses 20 per successful hit. Source
List monitoring is billed at twice the list size each month. Source

What LookValid offers in the same area

LookValid products beside DeBounce
Product	Credits	Docs
Email Domain Check	1 credit per address checked	API docs

Email Domain Check: Checks the domain behind an address: whether it can receive mail, how its DNS is set up, and what kind of provider it is. It does not test whether one mailbox exists. About $2.00 to $4.95 for 1,000 billed lookups across the plans.

Pricing explains credits and the plans.

Which to choose

DeBounce and LookValid overlap only in part. Email Domain Check: Checks the domain behind an address: whether it can receive mail, how its DNS is set up, and what kind of provider it is. It does not test whether one mailbox exists.

Choose DeBounce when the job is email verification as DeBounce sells it. Choose LookValid when the checks above are what you need, with one key and one credit balance for phone, email, IP and website lookups.

Questions

What is DeBounce?

DeBounce sells email list cleaning and a validation API on pay-as-you-go credits, priced by the volume of checks.

What does DeBounce cost?

Pay-as-you-go entry rate is listed at $0.00045 (lowest published cost per single check, one credit each) on the page we read on 2026-10-18. The lowest per-1,000 figure there is about $0.45 for Pay-as-you-go entry rate.

How is DeBounce different from LookValid?

DeBounce sells email verification. LookValid sells Email Domain Check and bills every lookup in credits from one balance.

Can I try DeBounce for free?

New accounts get 100 free credits, no card needed.

Sources

Pricing page on debounce.com https://debounce.com/pricing/, read 2026-10-18
Home page on debounce.com https://debounce.com, read 2026-10-18

Other email verification providers

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