Clearout alternative
Clearout costs $49 a month, or $588 for a year, metered as monthly caps. SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no cap on verifications, the email finder or enrichment. Both run real SMTP mailbox checks. Keep Clearout if you want their prospecting database and integrations bundled with verification.
Prices read from clearout.io · last checked 2026-09-01
| Clearout | SimpleVerifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $49/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Per year | $588 | $359.88 |
| Verification limit | Monthly caps | Unlimited |
| Real SMTP mailbox check | ||
| Re-verifying a list costs again | cached 14 days | |
| Email finder included | Varies by plan | Yes, unlimited |
| Free public tools, no account | Limited trial credits | Yes, free tools |
What it actually costs, by list size
One pass over a list, on Clearout’s cheapest available route versus one month of SimpleVerifier. Where Clearout sells both a subscription and pay-as-you-go, the cheaper of the two is used.
| List size | Clearout | SimpleVerifier | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | Not publishedAllowance not published | $29.99 | Unknown |
| 10,000 | Not publishedAllowance not published | $29.99 | Unknown |
| 50,000 | Not publishedAllowance not published | $29.99 | Unknown |
| 100,000 | Not publishedAllowance not published | $29.99 | Unknown |
One pass only. Every figure in the Clearout column recurs each time you re-verify; the SimpleVerifier column does not, because confirmed results are cached for 14 days and volume does not change the price. Adjust for your own pattern in the cost calculator.
Where Clearout’s pricing bites
Clearout charges $49 a month, or $588 for a year, and the monthly cap resets whether you used it or not, so an uneven workload pays for capacity it never touched. That is not a criticism of the product — it is how per-address pricing works, and it is fine when your volume is small and steady. It stops being fine the month you acquire a list, inherit a CRM export, or want to re-check something you verified in the spring.
The reason we can price flat is narrow and worth stating plainly: a mailbox check is a DNS lookup plus a short SMTP conversation, and it costs us nothing per address. Metering it would be a pricing choice, not a cost recovery. The one feature with a genuine per-record cost — lead sourcing — does carry a published fair-use limit of 10,000 a month.
Who should stay with Clearout
Keep Clearout if you want their prospecting database and integrations bundled with verification. A dedicated verifier replaces one part of that, not the whole thing, and switching to shave a few dollars a month while losing a workflow you depend on is a bad trade.
Test both before you decide
Do not take either vendor’s word on accuracy. Invent an address at a real domain and verify it on both. A tool doing real mailbox checks returns invalid; one checking only syntax and MX returns valid. You can run that test on our free checker with no account.
Common questions
- How much does Clearout cost?
- Clearout costs $49 a month, or $588 for a year, metered as: monthly caps. Prices read from clearout.io on 2026-09-01.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Clearout?
- SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no limit on verifications, against $49 a month, or $588 for a year for Clearout. Which is actually cheaper depends on your volume and how often you re-verify — the monthly cap resets whether you used it or not, so an uneven workload pays for capacity it never touched. Keep Clearout if you want their prospecting database and integrations bundled with verification.
- Should I switch from Clearout?
- Keep Clearout if you want their prospecting database and integrations bundled with verification. Switch if your verification volume is spiky or large and you would rather pay one flat price than manage an allowance.
- Does SimpleVerifier do real SMTP mailbox checks like Clearout?
- Yes. Every address gets a syntax check, an MX lookup and an SMTP conversation with the recipient's mail server to confirm the specific mailbox. Anything the probe cannot confirm is returned as risky rather than valid, and 8,740 disposable domains are blocked outright.
Try it against your own list
$29.99 a month, unlimited verifications, cancel anytime. Or run the free tools first — no account needed.