SendGrid alternative
SendGrid costs $89.95 a month, metered as 2,500 validations included with pro. SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no cap on verifications, the email finder or enrichment. Both run real SMTP mailbox checks. Keep SendGrid if you send transactional email through SendGrid and only need to validate addresses at sign-up, where the included validations may be enough.
Prices read from sendgrid.com · last checked 2026-10-12
| SendGrid | SimpleVerifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $89.95/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Per year | $1,079.40 | $359.88 |
| Verification limit | 2,500 validations included with Pro | Unlimited |
| Real SMTP mailbox check | ||
| Re-verifying a list costs again | cached 14 days | |
| Email finder included | Varies by plan | Yes, unlimited |
What it actually costs, by list size
One pass over a list, on SendGrid’s cheapest available route versus one month of SimpleVerifier. Where SendGrid sells both a subscription and pay-as-you-go, the cheaper of the two is used.
| List size | SendGrid | 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 SendGrid 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 SendGrid’s pricing bites
SendGrid charges $89.95 a month, and validation is only included from the Pro email API plan up, so a team that wants to clean a list pays for a sending tier it may not need. 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 SendGrid
Keep SendGrid if you send transactional email through SendGrid and only need to validate addresses at sign-up, where the included validations may be enough. 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 SendGrid cost?
- SendGrid costs $89.95 a month, metered as: 2,500 validations included with pro. Prices read from sendgrid.com on 2026-10-12.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to SendGrid?
- SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no limit on verifications, against $89.95 a month for SendGrid. Which is actually cheaper depends on your volume and how often you re-verify — validation is only included from the Pro email API plan up, so a team that wants to clean a list pays for a sending tier it may not need. Keep SendGrid if you send transactional email through SendGrid and only need to validate addresses at sign-up, where the included validations may be enough.
- Should I switch from SendGrid?
- Keep SendGrid if you send transactional email through SendGrid and only need to validate addresses at sign-up, where the included validations may be enough. 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 SendGrid?
- 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
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