Clearout bundles email verification with an email finder and a wide spread of CRM and spreadsheet integrations. If you don't need the prospecting layer, BounceShift does the verification half at $0.0049 an email instead of $0.004, with ESP reputation tracking included.
TL;DR
Clearout is a verification-plus-prospecting suite with an email finder and many native integrations. BounceShift is focused email validation with crowdsourced ESP reputation tracking, pay-as-you-go pricing, and credits that never expire. Choose Clearout if you need to find new contacts and connect directly to a CRM. Choose BounceShift if you already have lists and want them verified accurately at $0.0049 per email.
BounceShift is a Clearout alternative with credits that never expire instead of lapsing after a validity window, and a stated reason on every address rather than a bare verdict. Clearout is marginally cheaper per address on a one-off clean; our monthly plans are cheaper than either if you check lists regularly. Clearout bundles prospecting and native CRM connectors, so it wins if you want finding and verifying from one vendor.
Drag to your list size. Bigger packs cost less per address, and the credits you buy stay yours.
10,000 addresses
BounceShift
$29/mo
on Starter — unused credits roll over
or $49 as a one-off, no plan. Credits never expire either way.
Clearout
$40
At Clearout's published rate for this volume
That is $-9 less, or -23% off what the same list costs on Clearout.
Clearout figures are approximate, based on published rates and volume tiers last checked 23 July 2026. Check their own calculator before you buy.
Clearout's email finder, prospecting, and integration catalog are useful, but if you only ever verify lists you already own, you're paying for a wider suite than you use.
Clearout verifies before you send, but it doesn't fold real bounce and complaint signals from your email service provider back into future checks.
Purchased credits carry a validity window. If your verification needs come in bursts, an expiry clock means you can lose what you paid for.
Clearout is built for teams whose work starts before they have an email address. Its email finder, prospecting tools, and broad catalog of native CRM and Google Sheets integrations make it a sensible pick for outbound sales and growth teams who want to discover contacts and verify them inside the same tool. If your day involves sourcing new leads, enriching records inside a CRM, and pushing verified contacts straight into a sales workflow without writing code, Clearout's all-in-one shape genuinely earns its keep. It's a prospecting-and-verification suite, and for that combined job it's a reasonable choice.
BounceShift takes the opposite posture: do one job — verification — and do it accurately and cheaply. Every address runs through multi-layer verification: an MX-record check, an SMTP mailbox probe, plus disposable, role-account, and catch-all detection. On top of that sits something Clearout doesn't offer — a crowdsourced reputation layer. When teams connect their email service provider webhooks (Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark, or Amazon SES), real bounce and complaint outcomes flow back in and sharpen future checks for everyone. Privacy is structural, not a promise: addresses are stored only as one-way hashes, so raw emails are never kept. Pricing is pay-as-you-go at $0.0049 per email, you get 100 free credits on signup with no card, and those credits never expire. You can read more about the underlying checks on our features overview. If you already have lists — from a CRM export, a signup form, or a past campaign — and what you actually need is a clean, honest verdict on each address rather than a place to find new ones, BounceShift is the leaner, lower-cost fit.
Moving over takes a few minutes and no engineering project:
There's no contract and no minimum: try it on a slice of your list with the free credits, compare the verdicts against what Clearout returned, and scale up only if you like the results. Full pricing, including volume discounts at 100K+, is on our pricing page.
What you pay, what you get for free, and whether unused credits survive the month.
| Aspect | BounceShift | Clearout |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go, no subscription required | Credit packs and subscriptions |
| Price per email | $0.0049 at 10,000, down to $0.0025 | ~$0.004 ($21 for 5,000) |
| Free credits on signup | 100, no credit card | 100 |
| Credit expiry | Never | Expires after a validity window |
| Approx. cost for 10,000 validations | ~$49 | ~$40 |
| Approx. cost for 100,000 validations | ~$250, volume discounts above that | ~$240 |
| Monthly plans | Optional: Starter $29 / 10,000, Growth $79 / 50,000, Scale $199 / 150,000 — allowances roll over and never expire | Yes |
| Per-seat charges | None, unlimited team members on one credit pool | Varies by plan |
| Time to first validation | Minutes, self-serve | Minutes, self-serve |
The checks that run on every address, and how the verdict is reported back to you.
| Aspect | BounceShift | Clearout |
|---|---|---|
| Syntax check and typo correction | Yes, a did_you_mean correction on every result | Yes |
| MX record lookup | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP mailbox probe | Yes, RCPT TO without sending a message | Yes |
| Catch-all detection | Yes, its own status rather than folded into valid | Yes |
| Disposable address detection | Yes, 3,000+ throwaway domains | Yes |
| Role account detection | Yes, info@, support@, sales@ and similar | Yes |
| Reputation from real send outcomes | Yes, crowdsourced from connected ESP webhooks | Not published |
| Confidence score | 0–100 on every result | Not published |
| Granular sub-status | Yes, documented at /developers/status-codes | Not published |
| Behaviour when a probe is inconclusive | Returns unknown or catch_all at low confidence, never rounds up to valid | Not published |
How you actually call it: real time at signup, bulk on an existing list, or automatically from your ESP.
| Aspect | BounceShift | Clearout |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time REST API | Yes, typically 200–500ms per address | Yes |
| Batch CSV | Up to 100,000 addresses per batch, processed in parallel | Yes |
| ESP webhook ingestion | Included: Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark, Amazon SES | Not published |
| Official SDKs | PHP, Laravel, and Node, all MIT licensed | Not published |
| OpenAPI spec and docs | Public, no signup: /docs/api and /docs/api.json | Not published |
| Dashboard | Yes, self-serve with usage and batch history | Yes |
Where your contacts end up once you have handed them over.
| Aspect | BounceShift | Clearout |
|---|---|---|
| How your addresses are stored | Validation results cached 24 hours, then deleted | Not published |
| Reputation data storage | One-way hashes only, raw addresses are never written to disk | Not published |
| Support | Email support on every plan, including free | Email and chat |
Clearout figures last checked 23 July 2026. Where we could not point at a published source, the cell reads "Not published" rather than "No" — check Clearout's own site before you buy.
Yes. Export your existing list from Clearout as a CSV, upload it to BounceShift (or send it through the REST API), and we re-validate every address. Batches of up to 100,000 emails are processed in parallel, so even large lists clear quickly.
On a one-off clean the two are within a few dollars of each other and Clearout is marginally cheaper. BounceShift top-ups start at $8 with 100 free credits on signup and no card required, and monthly plans go down to $1.33 per thousand — below both. Credits never expire, and volume discounts begin at 100K. Clearout sits around $0.004 per email as of 2026, so 10,000 addresses is roughly $10 here against roughly $40 there.
No. Clearout credits lapse once their validity period runs out. Ours have no window at all — buy them once, spend them across as many campaigns as it takes, and monthly plan allowances roll forward rather than clearing.
As their own catch_all status with a confidence score, never merged into valid. A catch-all server answers yes to every address, so the honest answer is that the mailbox is unproven, and you get to decide how aggressively to mail that segment.
No. BounceShift is focused purely on email verification and reputation tracking, not prospecting. If finding new email addresses is core to your workflow, Clearout's email finder may suit you better. If you already have lists and want them verified accurately, BounceShift is the leaner fit.
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