Tomba alternative
Tomba costs $89 a month for 5,000 verifications, metered as 5,000 verification credits/mo on growth. SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no cap on verifications, the email finder or enrichment. Both run real SMTP mailbox checks. Keep Tomba if you need an email finder and domain search, with verification credits bundled alongside the search credits.
Prices read from tomba.io · last checked 2026-10-12
| Tomba | SimpleVerifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $89/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Per year | $1,068 | $359.88 |
| Verification limit | 5,000 verification credits/mo on Growth | 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 Tomba’s cheapest available route versus one month of SimpleVerifier. Where Tomba sells both a subscription and pay-as-you-go, the cheaper of the two is used.
| List size | Tomba | SimpleVerifier | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $89.00One month of the 5,000/mo plan | $29.99 | SimpleVerifier |
| 10,000 | Not publishedPlan for this size not priced on their page | $29.99 | Unknown |
| 50,000 | Not publishedPlan for this size not priced on their page | $29.99 | Unknown |
| 100,000 | Not publishedPlan for this size not priced on their page | $29.99 | Unknown |
One pass only. Every figure in the Tomba 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 Tomba’s pricing bites
Tomba charges $89 a month for 5,000 verifications, and the verification allowance is tied to the plan, so a list bigger than 5,000 means a larger plan priced outside the one we read. 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 Tomba
Keep Tomba if you need an email finder and domain search, with verification credits bundled alongside the search credits. 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 Tomba cost?
- Tomba costs $89 a month for 5,000 verifications, metered as: 5,000 verification credits/mo on growth. Prices read from tomba.io on 2026-10-12.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Tomba?
- SimpleVerifier is $29.99 a month with no limit on verifications, against $89 a month for 5,000 verifications for Tomba. Which is actually cheaper depends on your volume and how often you re-verify — the verification allowance is tied to the plan, so a list bigger than 5,000 means a larger plan priced outside the one we read. Keep Tomba if you need an email finder and domain search, with verification credits bundled alongside the search credits.
- Should I switch from Tomba?
- Keep Tomba if you need an email finder and domain search, with verification credits bundled alongside the search credits. 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 Tomba?
- 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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