Verify Emails in Clay With a Flat-Price API Instead of Per-Row Credits

When you call SimpleVerifier from a Clay HTTP API column, each row is one API call billed on your SimpleVerifier plan. Pro is $39 a month and includes 10,000 API calls, then $1.50 per 1,000 on monthly billing. This is Clay's HTTP API enrichment with your own key, not a native Clay action, so what Clay itself charges to run the column is a question for Clay's pricing and your plan. We do not quote it.

The numbers on our side

Plan	Price	API calls included	After that
Pro	$39/mo	10,000 a month	$1.50 per 1,000
Business	See pricing	100,000 a month	$1.00 per 1,000
Agency	See pricing	300,000 a month	$1.00 per 1,000

Starter has no API access, and one-time packs do not include it. Each API key allows 120 calls a minute. Our post on API pricing for developers compares the model with per-check billing.

Step 1: count your rows

Calls used a month is roughly the rows you verify, minus rows with no email (use a run condition so they cost nothing) and minus repeats. Confirmed results from the last 14 days come from cache, so re-running a recent table is quick.

Step 2: price a table

A 5,000-row table with an email on each row is 5,000 calls, which fits inside Pro's 10,000. Two such tables in a month would be 10,000. These are arithmetic examples, not a forecast of your usage.

Step 3: compare on your own bill

Write down three figures from your own accounts: what Clay shows for the verification step you use now, what your plan says about the HTTP API column, and the calls you would use on SimpleVerifier. Take the Clay figures from Clay's pricing page and docs on the day you compare, since they change. Our guide to credits versus a monthly plan shows the same comparison without Clay.

Step 4: pilot one column

Keep the verifier you use today and add the HTTP API column as a second pass on one table. Compare the rows where the two disagree, and look at reason before drawing a conclusion. The setup is on the Clay integration page.

What this does not tell you

• It does not say SimpleVerifier is cheaper in your case. That depends on Clay's current rules and your volume.
• It is not an accuracy comparison. We have not run one.
• Over 10,000 calls a month on Pro, the overage is billed at $1.50 per 1,000.
• For tens of thousands of rows at once, a CSV upload is faster than per-row calls.

Next step

See the plans on pricing, or read the request and response in the API docs.