Bouncer vs ZeroBounce: Price at Volume, Expiry and Free Credits

Bouncer is cheaper than ZeroBounce at every size we compared, on both one-off packs ($60 against $129 for 10,000) and monthly plans ($320 against $449 for 100,000). ZeroBounce is the pick if you want its inbox placement and blacklist tools; Bouncer if you want toxicity checks, EU data residency and credits that never expire on demand.

Neither is the best answer for everyone, and for steady monthly volume a flat plan from a third vendor can cost less than both. Prices below are what each vendor published on the dates shown.

Price at volume

	Bouncer	ZeroBounce
10,000 checks, one-off pack	$60	$129
100,000 checks, one-off pack	$400	$649
1,000,000 checks, one-off pack	$2,000	$3,199
Monthly plan, 10,000 a month	$48 (10,000)	$99 (10,000)
Monthly plan, 100,000 a month	$320 (100,000)	$449 (100,000)
Monthly plan, 1,000,000 a month	$1,600 (1,000,000)	$2,499 (1,000,000)
Smallest option	$6.40 a month for 1,000 on the entry subscription	$39 for 2,000 pay-as-you-go
Prices read	www.usebouncer.com, 2 Nov 2026	www.zerobounce.net, 30 Oct 2026

Where a size was not a listed pack, the next pack up covers it. "No subscription listed" means we found no monthly plan on the page when we read it.

Credits, expiry and free allowances

	Bouncer	ZeroBounce
Free credits	100 free credits, no credit card needed (their page, fetched 9 Nov 2026)	100 free monthly validations (Freemium plan, refilling every month; their page, fetched 9 Nov 2026)
Credit expiry	Credits bought on demand never expire (their page, fetched 9 Nov 2026)	Credits never expire while you have an active ZeroBounce ONE subscription; without one, the page says expiration rules may apply depending on when the account was created (fetched 9 Nov 2026)
Catch-all handling	Not described on the pricing page; it says unknown results are not charged (fetched 9 Nov 2026)	Not described on the pricing page; it says it never charges for Unknown results and duplicate removals (fetched 9 Nov 2026)

Where a cell says it was fetched on 9 Nov 2026, we read it from the vendor's own page that day; "not checked today" means the page could not be fetched; the rest comes from the dated pricing data above. We make no claim about accuracy for either vendor, and nobody can honestly rank verifiers on accuracy from a pricing page.

Who each is better for

Bouncer is better for you if you need their toxicity checks and EU data residency guarantees, or want credits that never expire. The catch: credit-based pricing means the second pass over a list costs the same as the first.

ZeroBounce is better for you if you need their wider deliverability suite (inbox placement testing, blacklist monitoring and email server testing alongside verification) or a free monthly allowance. The catch: credits are the unit, so the bill scales with list size and a re-check costs full price again.

A third option: SimpleVerifier

SimpleVerifier Pro is a flat $39 a month. The first 100,000 checks a month run at full speed; after that it slows down but never cuts you off. Results are split into valid, risky and invalid, and risky means risky: a catch-all or otherwise uncertain address is labelled as such rather than counted as good.

Honest limits:

• At very small volumes one-off packs cost less than $39: Bouncer's smallest option is $6.40 a month for 1,000 on the entry subscription and ZeroBounce's is $39 for 2,000 pay-as-you-go. If that is all you need, buy that.
• If you clean one very large list once, a one-off pack can beat a month of Pro. At 1,000,000 checks one-off, Bouncer was $2,000 and ZeroBounce was $3,199, all at full speed; on Pro only the first 100,000 a month run at full speed.
• If you verify 10,000 or more every month, compare Pro's $39 with Bouncer's $48 (10,000) and ZeroBounce's $99 (10,000). That is where a flat plan pays off.

Side by side pages: SimpleVerifier vs Bouncer and SimpleVerifier vs ZeroBounce. See pricing, or try a few addresses on the verify page.