Icypeas alternative
Icypeas costs $19 a month for 10,000 verifications, or $190 for a year, metered as 1,000 credits/mo from $19; a verification costs 0.1 credit. SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no cap on verifications, the email finder or enrichment. Both run real SMTP mailbox checks. Keep Icypeas if you want a finder whose credits never expire. Icypeas says unused credits roll over with no expiry date, even after you cancel, and verification costs a tenth of a credit.
Prices read from icypeas.com · last checked 2026-10-12
| Icypeas | SimpleVerifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $19/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Per year | $190 | $359.88 |
| Verification limit | 1,000 credits/mo from $19; a verification costs 0.1 credit | Unlimited |
| Real SMTP mailbox check | ||
| Re-verifying a list costs again | cached 14 days | |
| Email finder included | Yes, metered | Yes, unlimited |
What it actually costs, by list size
One pass over a list, on Icypeas’s cheapest available route versus one month of SimpleVerifier. Where Icypeas sells both a subscription and pay-as-you-go, the cheaper of the two is used.
| List size | Icypeas | SimpleVerifier | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19.00One month of the 10,000/mo plan | $29.99 | Icypeas |
| 10,000 | $19.00One month of the 10,000/mo plan | $29.99 | Icypeas |
| 50,000 | $78.002 months of a 40,000/mo allowance | $29.99 | SimpleVerifier |
| 100,000 | $89.00One month of the 100,000/mo plan | $29.99 | SimpleVerifier |
One pass only. Every figure in the Icypeas 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 Icypeas’s pricing bites
Icypeas charges $19 a month for 10,000 verifications, or $190 for a year, and finding and verifying share one credit pool, so heavy verification draws down the credits you meant for finding. 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 Icypeas
Keep Icypeas if you want a finder whose credits never expire. Icypeas says unused credits roll over with no expiry date, even after you cancel, and verification costs a tenth of a credit. 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. Run the same test on any tool you are considering, ours included.
Common questions
- How much does Icypeas cost?
- Icypeas costs $19 a month for 10,000 verifications, or $190 for a year, metered as: 1,000 credits/mo from $19; a verification costs 0.1 credit. Prices read from icypeas.com on 2026-10-12.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Icypeas?
- SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no limit on verifications, against $19 a month for 10,000 verifications, or $190 for a year for Icypeas. Which is actually cheaper depends on your volume and how often you re-verify — finding and verifying share one credit pool, so heavy verification draws down the credits you meant for finding. Keep Icypeas if you want a finder whose credits never expire. Icypeas says unused credits roll over with no expiry date, even after you cancel, and verification costs a tenth of a credit.
- Should I switch from Icypeas?
- Keep Icypeas if you want a finder whose credits never expire. Icypeas says unused credits roll over with no expiry date, even after you cancel, and verification costs a tenth of a credit. 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 Icypeas?
- 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 and API access, cancel anytime.