Email verification costs $0.00049 per address — that is $0.49 per 1000, or $4.90 for a 10 000-address list. You buy tokens once and spend them as you verify. Nothing renews, and an unused balance does not expire.
Start with 200 free tokensOne token equals one processed email. Tokens are bought in bulk — $49 buys 100 000 tokens — and the rate is flat: no volume tiers, no negotiated pricing, no minimum spend beyond the $5 top-up floor.
| Operation | Tokens | Cost per email | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Validate + enrich | 1 | $0.00049 | Syntax, MX, disposable and role detection, plus name, gender, country, provider, domain type, Gravatar and a 0–100 score |
| Deep SMTP verify | 5 | $0.00245 | Real handshake with the receiving mail server — confirms the mailbox exists and does not bounce |
| Collect from sources | 1 | $0.00049 | Per new address scraped from GitHub, Reddit, npm, Instagram and other sources. Duplicates you already own are free |
Invalid addresses are refunded after validation — you are charged for deliverable results, not for the junk that got filtered out. Addresses already verified by another user come from the shared cache at no cost to you.
Every competitor charges one flat rate per address for a full SMTP check. That means you pay premium price to discover that half your list is disposable domains and role addresses — things detectable for a fraction of the cost.
CharlyMail splits it. The cheap pass runs first and removes the obvious junk. Deep SMTP runs only on what survived, and only if you ask for it. On a realistic 10 000-address list:
Drops roughly 50% as disposable, role-based or bad-MX. You now know what is worth checking properly.
Real handshake, only against addresses that passed phase one. You can narrow it further by country, gender, provider or score before spending.
ZeroBounce charges $80 for validation alone on the same list, or about $160 once AppendIQ enrichment is added.
Same 10 000-address list, priced across services. Figures are list prices published by each vendor and should be re-checked before you commit — they change.
| Service | Check type | Per email | Per 10 000 | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CharlyMail | validate + enrich | $0.00049 | $4.90 | Name, gender, geo, Gravatar, provider — plus lead collection from 10+ sources |
| CharlyMail | + deep SMTP | $0.00245 | $24.50 | If you run SMTP on the entire list instead of filtering first |
| EmailListVerify | validate only | $0.005 | $50.00 | No enrichment |
| NeverBounce | validate only | $0.008 | $80.00 | No enrichment |
| ZeroBounce | validate only | $0.008 | $80.00 | Enrichment via AppendIQ costs a further $0.008 per email |
| BriteVerify | validate only | $0.010 | $100.00 | No enrichment |
| Hunter.io | enrichment only | ~$0.005–0.02 | $50–$200 | Subscription $34–$499 per month |
Where competitors are genuinely better: ZeroBounce and NeverBounce have longer accuracy track records and far more native integrations with ESPs and CRMs. If you need a one-click Mailchimp connector more than you need a low per-address price, they are the safer pick. CharlyMail competes on cost, enrichment depth and payment flexibility — not on integration breadth.
There is no monthly plan to cancel. ZeroBounce starts at $99 per month, Hunter.io at $34, and both bill whether or not you verified anything that month. CharlyMail bills nothing until you spend tokens, and the balance you bought stays valid indefinitely.
Every new account gets 200 tokens — enough to validate and enrich 200 addresses, or to collect a small test list from public sources. That is deliberately enough to judge data quality before you pay anything. Deep SMTP verification is unlocked after the first top-up, because each SMTP check costs us real money at our upstream provider.
Start with 200 free tokens