Buyer guide · SimpleVerifier Team
Email verification for universities and admissions
Admissions teams run deadline-driven campaigns to inquiry lists, fair scans and applicant pools, where a mistyped or abandoned address is a missed student. Verify each list before the campaign so reminders reach real inboxes. Starter is $9 a month for 2,500 checks, Pro is $39 a month, and the first 100 checks are free.
Admissions email is time-boxed: application deadlines, scholarship dates and deposit dates cannot move because a message bounced. The list behind it is an unusual mix of college-fair card scans, search-service purchases, web inquiry forms and applicants.
Many prospects are teenagers who type quickly, use a school address that expires at graduation, or give a parent's inbox.
SimpleVerifier facts: prices, packs and limits
- What it is
- Email verification with a real SMTP mailbox check: each address comes back valid, risky or invalid with a reason. Includes an email finder on Pro and up.
- Price per check
- Starter $9/mo for 2,500 ($3.60 per 1,000); Pro $39/mo, 100,000 a month at full speed ($0.39 per 1,000 when used), then slower, never cut off. Business $99/mo with 300,000 at full speed; Agency $249/mo with 750,000 at full speed.
- One-time packs
- 10,000 for $15 ($1.50 per 1,000); 25,000 for $29 ($1.16 per 1,000); 50,000 for $49 ($0.98 per 1,000); 100,000 for $79 ($0.79 per 1,000); 250,000 for $169 ($0.68 per 1,000). Credits never expire, run at standard speed, CSV verification only (no API or finder).
- Free checks
- First 100 email checks free with a Google sign-in, no card, once per account. Single checks on the free email checker need no account.
- Billing
- Monthly subscription, cancel anytime (yearly billing optional). One-time packs are listed above. Starter allowances reset monthly and do not roll over.
- Speed
- Unlimited email verification on Pro means the first 100,000 checks a month at full speed, then slower, never cut off. It is not instant: checks are paced and capacity is shared by all customers, so small lists finish sooner, a very large list queues and can take days rather than hours, and every job shows its estimated finish time. Bad syntax, dead domains and disposable addresses return at once.
- Catch-all handling
- Catch-all (accept-all) addresses stay risky, never valid, and are graded higher, medium or lower likelihood with the reasons. Anything a mail server does not confirm is risky.
- API and MCP
- REST API on Pro, Business and Agency (Pro includes 10,000 calls a month, then $1.50 per 1,000). Remote MCP server with 6 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code. No API on Starter.
- Integrations
- Connects to Instantly, Smartlead, HubSpot and Mailchimp by API key: verifies a campaign or list and tags each contact with its result. CSV in and out for any other tool.
- Phone
- Free phone format checks (country, type range). Live carrier and line-type lookups come with Pro + Phone at $49.99/mo (5,000 a month). It never says a number is in service.
- Privacy and GDPR
- Data processing agreement countersigned on request (/dpa). Results files deleted 7 days after a list is submitted; confirmed results cached by address for 14 days. Lists are not used for marketing, sold or shared. Verification runs on a US server. No GDPR certification is claimed.
- What it does not do
- No sending, warmup or inbox placement tests. No published accuracy benchmark against other verifiers. Catch-all domains, Yahoo and AOL cannot be confirmed, and Outlook.com and Hotmail mailboxes are not probed while Microsoft refuses checks from our server's network: all of these come back risky, never valid.
SimpleVerifier facts from our pricing page and product. Last updated .
Test it on a real address first
Type any address. It gets the same check the paid plans run: syntax, the domain’s mail servers and, where the provider allows it, a live mailbox check. Nothing is sent to the address.
Five checks a minute, no account needed. Nothing is sent to the address — we ask its mail server whether the mailbox exists, then disconnect.
Have a list? Sign in with Google and the first 100 addresses are checked free, with results to download. No card.
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Why admissions lists go stale quickly
Student addresses at a high school domain often stop working after graduation or when the district closes accounts. A prospect who inquired as a sophomore may have an address that is gone by senior-year yield season.
Fair and event scans are handwritten on a card and keyed in later, so character errors are common.
Purchased search lists bring a different problem: addresses with no prior relationship to your institution, which tend to bounce and complain more.
How verification is used in a cycle
Verify inquiry and fair lists before the first outreach, and again before the deadline reminder, since addresses lapse during the cycle. Role addresses are labelled, which helps separate a school counselor's shared inbox from a student.
Invalid addresses are a follow-up list for a different channel: text, mailing or a call.
Every result is valid, risky or invalid with a plain reason beside it, such as "Mailbox exists", "Mailbox not found", "Accepts all addresses", "Disposable address", "No mail server", "Server would not confirm" or "Provider hides mailbox status".
A deadline-reminder routine
Export the funnel stage from the CRM that will receive the reminder as a CSV with the student ID and email. Verify it two weeks before the deadline.
Send to valid rows, move the invalid rows to a text or mail task list, and keep the status column in the CRM so the next cycle starts from it.
Which plan fits, and what it costs
Starter is $9 a month for 2,500 checks; unused checks don't roll over. Pro is $39 a month with no per-email credits: never cut off: the first 100,000 emails a month run at full speed, then big lists run slower. Universities and admissions teams usually start on Starter for a single list and move to Pro once lists arrive every month. The first 100 checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card, on the same engine the paid plans use.
A CSV holds up to 100,000 rows. If you work from an AI assistant, the same checks are available over MCP at https://simpleverifier.com/api/mcp, and Pro includes 10,000 calls a month included, then $1.50 per 1,000 for connecting a form or app.
How long it takes
Mailbox checks are paced, because mail servers slow down or block verifiers that probe too fast, and the daily check capacity is shared between customers. Addresses that need no mailbox check, such as broken syntax, dead domains and disposable addresses, come back at once. The rest run in a queue, and the job card shows an estimated finish time. Start the check before the send is due, and you can close the tab: the results wait in your history.
Common questions
- Does verification tell me if a student will read it?
- No. It tells you whether the mailbox exists on the day you check, not whether anyone reads it.
- Can a school's server block the check?
- Some mail servers do not confirm mailboxes and come back as risky with the reason 'Server would not confirm' or 'Provider hides mailbox status'. Treat those as unconfirmed, not as invalid.
- How do I try it first?
- The first 100 checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card, on the same engine the paid plans use.
- What does it cost?
- Starter is $9 a month for 2,500 checks, or Pro at $39 a month: never cut off: the first 100,000 emails a month run at full speed, then big lists run slower. Plans are monthly or yearly and cancel from your account.
Check an inquiry list
Pro is $39 a month and never cuts you off: the first 100,000 emails a month run at full speed, then big lists run slower. CSV uploads, the API (10,000 calls a month, then $1.50 per 1,000), the Google Sheets add-on and the email finder are included, and you can cancel any time. For smaller volumes, Starter is $9 a month for 2,500 emails a month.
The first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card, on the same engine the paid plans use.