BounceBan Alternatives: Do You Need Catch-All Rates on Every Address?

If most of your list sits on ordinary domains, you don't need catch-all pricing on every address, and a flat plan usually costs less than BounceBan. BounceBan is a catch-all specialist. When we read its pricing page today, a 10,000-credit pack was $40 and 100,000 was $300, with one credit used per successful verification. SimpleVerifier Pro is $39 a month, with the first 100,000 checks a month at full speed, then slower, never cut off. If catch-all domains are most of what you send to, keep BounceBan.

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What BounceBan charges

The BounceBan pricing page sets its price from a per-credit table built into the page. Read on 9 November 2026:

Credits	Rate per credit	Pack price	Monthly subscription (15% off)
10,000	$0.004	$40	$34
25,000	$0.004	$100	$85
50,000	$0.0035	$175	$149
100,000	$0.003	$300	$255
250,000	$0.0025	$625	$532.50
500,000	$0.002	$1,000	$850
1,000,000	$0.0017	$1,700	$1,450

Monthly prices are our arithmetic from the page's own discounted rates. Rules from the same page:

• "1 credit is needed for every successful verification via Single, Bulk, and API."
• "Your unused credits will rollover to the next period and they won't expire."
• Free single checks: "Single email verifications in Free Mode are free and won't cost your credits."
• No test sends: "No, we do not verify emails by sending messages."

Our BounceBan comparison page keeps the figures we track, with the date we read them.

What BounceBan is for

A catch-all (or accept-all) domain says yes to every address at the SMTP step. A normal verifier can tell you the domain is catch-all, but not whether jane@ really exists there. Many company domains, and many behind security gateways, behave this way.

BounceBan's pitch is resolving those rows to deliverable or not without sending an email. We haven't tested it, so we can't tell you how well it does that. What we can say is that this is a different job from checking an ordinary Gmail, Outlook or company address, which any SMTP verifier can do.

If you're new to the problem, start with catch-all email verifiers compared.

The cost of using a specialist for everything

Say you verify 100,000 addresses a month, and 20,000 of them are on catch-all domains.

Setup	What you pay a month
Everything through BounceBan, monthly	$255
Everything through SimpleVerifier Pro	$39, catch-all rows graded, not resolved
Pro for all 100,000, then BounceBan for the 20,000 catch-all rows only	$39 plus a 25,000-credit subscription at $85

The third line is usually the sweet spot for cold email teams: a general check for the whole file, and specialist credits spent only where they add something. Your split will differ, so measure it first. The bulk catch-all checker shows how many of your domains are catch-all.

When to stay with BounceBan for everything

• Your list is mostly catch-all. Enterprise prospect lists can be. If 70% of rows are catch-all, a pre-filter saves little.
• You need one tool and one result format. Two tools means merging two exports.
• You verify in small amounts. Free single checks may cover day-to-day lookups.

When an alternative fits better

Your situation	Why a general verifier may fit better
Most rows are on ordinary domains	No catch-all rate on addresses that don't need it
You clean newsletter or customer lists	Those lists are mostly free webmail, not catch-all
You re-check lists before every send	Each pass spends credits again on a credit plan
You verify 100,000 or more a month	Pro is $39 for the first 100,000 at full speed

What SimpleVerifier Pro includes

SimpleVerifier Pro is $39 a month (or $390 a year). Email verification is the first 100,000 checks a month at full speed, then slower, never cut off.

Per the pricing page, it also includes:

• CSV upload, up to 100,000 rows per file
• Real SMTP mailbox checks, not just syntax
• Catch-all, disposable and role-address detection
• Export valid, risky or invalid separately
• An email finder and website enrichment
• API: 10,000 calls a month included, then $1.50 per 1,000

On catch-all rows we're direct about the limit: we detect them and grade them by likelihood; we don't resolve them. How catch-all scoring works explains what the grade means.

A two-step workflow

1. Verify the whole file at /verify.
2. Export by result. Valid goes straight to your sequencer. Invalid goes to suppression.
3. Take the risky catch-all rows and decide per segment. High-value accounts can go to a specialist; low-value ones can go into a slow, small send.
4. Send to catch-all rows carefully. Lower daily volume, and watch bounces per campaign. Catch-all leads in sequences has a safe setup.
5. Track bounces by source with the bounce rate by source tool, so you learn which lists are worth the extra spend.

How to compare results fairly

1. Pull 300 to 500 random rows with the email list sampler.
2. Verify them in both tools on the same day.
3. Line up the results with compare email lists.
4. Look at the disagreements, especially on catch-all domains.

We don't publish accuracy figures for other tools or ours. Your own sample, and your own bounce logs afterwards, are the fair test.

How to measure your catch-all share

Before you pick a setup, find out how much of your list is actually catch-all. It changes the answer more than anything else.

1. Pull the domains from your list with the email to domain extractor.
2. Check them with the bulk catch-all checker. You check each domain once, not every address.
3. Count the rows on catch-all domains. Ten addresses at one catch-all company are ten rows.
4. Split by segment. Enterprise prospect lists often have more catch-all rows than lists of small businesses or consumers.

If the catch-all share is small, a general verifier for everything plus specialist credits for those rows usually costs least. If it's most of the list, a specialist for everything may be simpler. Either way, keep the numbers, because the share changes as your targeting changes.

Quick answers

• Is BounceBan a full email verifier? Yes, it checks any address, but it's priced and marketed for catch-all work.
• Can I use BounceBan and SimpleVerifier together? Yes. Verify everything with Pro, then send only catch-all rows to BounceBan.
• Does SimpleVerifier send test emails? No. It checks addresses at the SMTP level without sending a message.

Try it on your own list

Upload a sample at /verify. The first 100 checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.

Pro, $39 a month: Unlimited email verification.* Never metered, never cut off. See pricing.

*Fair use: the first 100,000 checks a month at full speed, then slower, never cut off.

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