Instant Deliverability Test

The Email Deliverability Tester That Catches Bounces.

Test any address against the MX, SMTP, and mailbox-state checks the receiving server runs, with 99.99% accuracy, single or in bulk, on the same 9-point engine our paid API runs.

Free to try. No signup, no card.

Trusted by 500,000+ leading GTM teams of all sizes

From paste to verdict

How the email deliverability tester works

Three steps, no signup, no card on file. Paste any address, watch the nine-check engine run the deliverability test, read the verdict in two seconds.

001INPUT

Paste the address

Drop any email into the pill — Gmail, Outlook, custom domains, or role aliases like info@ and sales@. Verify one address free right now, or upload a CSV to check a whole list once you sign up.

002ENGINE

Run the 9-check engine

Nine checks fire in parallel: syntax, DNS, and MX records, a live SMTP handshake, catch-all and disposable detection, role and domain-age signals, mailbox state, and email authentication. The full verdict then lands in about two seconds.

003VERIFY

Verdict in 2 seconds

Every address comes back valid, invalid, or risky, with a confidence score, the full per-check breakdown, and a recommended retry policy. Read the result right there on the page, or pull it straight from the API.

The plain-English version

What it really means to test

No inbox-placement guesswork. Just one question, answered: will this address accept a message, or bounce?

An email deliverability test answers one question: will the receiving mail server accept a message for this address, or is the mailbox dead and destined to bounce? Nine checks run in parallel — DNS, SMTP, catch-all, authentication, and more — and a verdict comes back in two seconds. Get this wrong and no content wins it back.

See it in action

Everything the checker does, on one screen

From one pasted address to a full CSV, every check runs the same nine-layer engine and hands you a verdict you can send on.

Single check

Verify one email in seconds

Paste an address and the checker runs all nine deliverability layers (syntax to live SMTP) and hands back a verdict, a 0-100 confidence score, and the full check-by-check breakdown. You send to a confirmed inbox, never a hopeful guess.

/dashboard/verify
Verifox verification result: a status badge and confidence score above a grid of the nine deliverability checks for a single email.
Bulk & CSV

Verify a whole list at once

Upload a CSV or paste a list, and the checker works the entire batch (the same nine-check engine on every single row), then returns a clean file split into valid, risky, and invalid, ready to export.

/dashboard/lists
Verifox bulk verification results: stat tiles for valid, risky and invalid counts above a table of verified email addresses.
API & MCP

Drop it into your stack

One REST call verifies an address and returns the verdict as JSON , with cURL, Node, and Python examples ready to copy. Wiring an AI agent instead? The same verification ships as a native MCP server.

/api-docs
Verifox API dashboard: usage stat tiles, a calls-over-time chart, and a table of API keys with copy-ready code snippets.
Analytics

Watch your list health over time

Every check you run rolls up into one activity view: volume, valid rate, and risk trends across single checks, bulk jobs, and API calls, so you catch a decaying list before it dents your sender reputation.

/dashboard/lists
Verifox List Verifier overview: total lists, total emails, safe-to-send and deliverability stat tiles above a completed list card.
Why this one

Deliverability testing, without the tradeoffs

Most free deliverability tools stop at a syntax check. Ours runs the full nine-check pipeline the paid plans use, combining MX, SMTP, catch-all, and reputation signals.

Verification engine
9

checks on every
address

The same nine-check pipeline as the paid API runs on every address, free or not.

No signup to start

Verify your first emails right here, no account, no card.

10k emails a minute

Bulk CSV in, verified list out. Same speed on every plan.

Instantly verified

Every address comes back already checked, with a confidence score.

99.99% accurate

Validated on a 10,000-address mixed benchmark including catch-all domains.

Credits never expire

1,000 free on signup. 2,500 with a work email. Pay as you go after.

Start verifying, free

Emails are never stored

Processed in memory, dropped on response. SOC 2 · GDPR · CCPA.

How we stack up

Verifox vs the other deliverability tools

NeverBounce and ZeroBounce both flag undeliverable addresses. Verifox weighs deliverability against catch-all, disposable, and reputation signals in one verdict, with the highest accuracy.

★ The accurate checkerVerifox
NeverBounce99.0%
ZeroBounce99.6%
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
NeverBounce1,000 / monthly
ZeroBounce100 / monthly
NeverBounceYes
ZeroBounceNever
NeverBounceFlagged only
ZeroBounceAI scoring
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
Pricing

Pay once, or not at all

Most tools reset your balance every month. Verifox sells credits that sit in your account until you spend them.

FreeProve it on your own list before you spend anything.$0

forever

1,000credits on signup

No card required

2,500 with a work email

Free includes

  • All 9 checks included
  • Full API and bulk CSV
  • Catch-all confidence scoring
  • No card required
Most popular
Credit packsBuy once, spend whenever. Slide to price your list.$59

one time

10,000credits

$0.0059 eachSAVE 34%

Everything in Free, plus

  • Credits never expire
  • Verify or find from one pool
  • Up to 79% off at volume
  • No contract, no minimum
Verifox ONECredits land monthly and stack on your balance.$79

per month

15,000credits a month

$0.0053 each

Unused credits roll over

Everything in packs, plus

  • Unused credits roll over
  • Our lowest per-email rate
  • 50 requests per second API
  • Cancel anytime

One credit verifies one address; a find costs 10. All prices in USD, checkout via Stripe.

What teams are saying

Built for the teams that ship outbound

Growth leads, marketers, and engineers running real campaigns on real lists, with a verified email on every byline.

Thomas George, GTM Lead at Stripe

90% lower bill, 0.4% bounces

We were paying ZeroBounce a four-figure monthly bill and still landing 3% bounces on cold campaigns. Switched the pipeline to Verifox, dropped to 0.4% bounces, and cut the bill by more than 90%.
Thomas G.GTM Lead, Stripe
Brittany King, GTM Lead at HubSpot

Catch-all finally has a verdict

Other tools flag 30% of our B2B list as 'risky catch-all' and leave the call to us. Verifox returns a real verdict on those addresses, with a confidence score. We send more, we send safer.
Brittany K.GTM Lead, HubSpot
Dale Micallef, GTM Lead at Slack

Reputation rebuilt in 6 weeks

We had a Gmail spam-folder problem after a bad list import. Verifox cleaned the list and the warmup ran on the same engine. Back in primary inbox in six weeks. One vendor, half the cost.
Dale M.GTM Lead, Slack
Erica Kovalkoski, GTM Lead at Discord

0.7% bounce on 50k

Ran a 50,000-address outbound list through Verifox before our quarterly campaign. Bounces landed at 0.7%, sender reputation didn't move, replies were up 22% over last quarter.
Erica K.GTM Lead, Discord
Greg Lindsay, GTM Lead at OpenAI

MCP in 10 minutes

Their MCP server let me wire email verification directly into our internal Claude agent in about ten minutes. Zero glue code. No other vendor in this space has thought about that workflow.
Greg L.GTM Lead, OpenAI
Rini Vasana, Product Manager at Vercel

10k/min held under 400ms

Tested Verifox at 10,000 verifications per minute on a Tuesday morning. Latency held under 400ms median, no soft failures, no rate-limit walls. The vendor we benched throttled at 2,000/min.
Rini V.Product Manager, Vercel
Jonathan Aharon, GTM Lead at MongoDB

Hygiene that doesn't break pipeline

Our SDRs were enriching from three tools and 14% of the emails were invalid before they hit the sequencer. Verifox sits in the pipeline now and the team stopped seeing 'undeliverable' replies the next week.
Jonathan A.GTM Lead, MongoDB
Emma Fox, GTM Lead at Linear

Bulk that actually ships

Bulk upload, sorted CSV back in twenty minutes, plug into our growth stack. The half-day list-hygiene project per cohort turned into something the marketing intern runs on autopilot.
Emma F.GTM Lead, Linear
David Hare, GTM Lead at Snowflake

Scores you can act on

Verifox returns a 0-100 confidence score per address, not just a label. We thresholded at 75 for the cold sequencer, 60 for nurture, and our deliverability team finally has a knob they can tune.
David H.GTM Lead, Snowflake
Trust & compliance

Enterprise-grade security and scale

Every layer of the stack carries a third-party attestation, so you can ship into regulated industries without rebuilding your compliance posture.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in jade-green clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the words SOC 2 TYPE II embossed in cream clay on its face.

    SOC 2 Type II

    Independently audited to the SOC 2 Type II standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in cobalt-blue clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word GDPR embossed in cream clay on its face.

    GDPR

    Built for the EU with full GDPR data-subject rights.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in rose-pink clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word CCPA embossed in cream clay on its face.

    CCPA

    California opt-out, do-not-sell, plus DSAR handling.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in terracotta clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 27001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 27001

    Information security held to the ISO 27001 standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in lilac-purple clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 42001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 42001

    AI governance aligned to the new ISO 42001 standard.

Free field manual

The Dead List

An investigation into the money leaking out of your list - and the nine checks that decide whether your email is read, or never arrives at all.

The Dead List field manual, held up by the Verifox fox
Get the free manual

57 pages, free PDF, no signup

Common questions

Email deliverability test, answered.

Common questions about deliverability testing: what the nine checks cover, why an address bounces when the domain looks healthy.

Is the email deliverability tester actually free?

Yes. You can test 4 addresses per day for deliverability from this page without an account. No card, no signup.

Create a free account and you get 1,000 tests on the spot, or 2,500 if your signup email is a work address. After that, credits are pay-as-you-go and never expire on any paid plan, with volume pricing shown for your region. If you hit the daily cap while anonymous, you can either wait 24 hours or claim those signup credits instantly, no card required for that tier either.

What does this email deliverability test actually check?

Nine checks run in parallel on every test: syntax and format validation (RFC 5321 / 5322), domain existence and MX-record presence, the SMTP handshake and mailbox-exists ping, disposable-domain match, role-address detection, catch-all domain detection, domain-age scoring, email authentication signals (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and an AI-confidence pass on catch-all addresses.

The MX + SMTP pair confirms the domain can receive mail and the specific mailbox is live — a deliverability verdict before you send.

Does this test inbox placement or spam score?

No, and that is on purpose. This tool tests address-level deliverability: whether a mailbox exists, is live, and will accept mail, or whether it is dead and will bounce. It does not run a seed-list send, score your message content, or report which folder you land in.

Inbox placement depends on your sending domain, your reputation, and the message itself. Cleaning out undeliverable addresses first is the foundation that makes the rest of your deliverability work pay off.

How does testing tell me whether an address will bounce?

A bounce is just the receiving server telling you, after the fact, that an address is dead. The deliverability test runs the exact MX lookup and SMTP handshake that server would, without delivering anything, so you get that verdict before the send instead of as a failure report after.

Addresses come back as deliverable, undeliverable, or risky with a confidence score. If your angle is specifically bounce prevention on a send, the email bounce checker frames the same engine around hard-bounce risk.

How accurate is the deliverability test?

Same engine as the paid plans. 99.99% accuracy on a 1,000-address benchmark list, including catch-all domains.

The free tier doesn't trade accuracy for the price tag. It caps volume only. Every check the paid Email Verification API runs to judge deliverability is the same check the tester on this page runs.

Can I test a whole list for deliverability in bulk for free?

Yes. The free tier gives you 1,000 tests (2,500 if you sign up with a work email), so you can run a deliverability check across most small lists outright before a send.

For larger lists, our paid credit packs are pay-as-you-go and never expire, with pricing localized to your region on the pricing page. CSV upload, API access, and bulk parallel processing are included from the free tier up.

What is a good email deliverability rate?

On the address level, you want effectively all mailboxes on your list to be live before you send. Mailbox providers start throttling once hard bounces cross roughly 2%, so the practical target is under 1% undeliverable.

Testing deliverability up front is the cheapest way to protect the sender reputation that every later send depends on. Pair it with a blacklist check to cover the domain-reputation side of the deliverability picture too.

Do you store the emails I test?

No. Addresses are processed in memory and discarded the moment the deliverability test completes. Nothing logged, nothing retained, nothing sold.

We're SOC 2 Type II compliant with the full Trust Center report on request. Read the privacy policy for the byte-by-byte breakdown of what we touch and what we don't.

How fast is the API and what's the SLA?

A single-address deliverability test returns its verdict in about 380 ms at the median, and sub-50 ms when cached, fast enough to gate a signup form on the live verdict. Bulk testing runs at roughly 10,000 emails per minute on the standard tier.

SLA is 99.9% uptime on Starter, 99.99% with an annual Volume contract. Implementation details are in the API docs, and live uptime + incident history are tracked at status.verifox.ai in real time.

Can I add deliverability testing to my own app or AI agent?

Yes. The REST API reference documents the inbound and outbound shapes for every endpoint, so you can drop real-time deliverability testing into signup forms, CRMs, or any tool that speaks REST. HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Brevo all connect out of the box.

Verifox also ships native MCP server support so AI agents (Claude, Cursor, custom LLM apps) can test deliverability without glue code. Drop the MCP URL into your agent config and the tools are wired.