BounceBan vs Scrubby
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentScrubby compared with BounceBan
The most instructive comparison. Both specialise in catch-all resolution and both cover Secure Email Gateways, but BounceBan's central claim is that it never sends a message and treats probe sends as a GDPR breach, while Scrubby's flagship mode is exactly a probe send observed over 72 hours. BounceBan is cheaper per credit and offers unlimited free single checks; Scrubby is a disclosed company with named leadership and an EU entity. Your position on probe sending should decide this one before price does.
Choose BounceBan if
Cold outbound teams, lead-generation agencies, and Clay or n8n operators working B2B lists where a large share of domains are catch-all or sit behind a Secure Email Gateway, and where deleting the risky bucket means throwing away real pipeline.
Choose Scrubby if
Cold outbound agencies and B2B sales teams whose lists are heavy with catch-all and gateway-protected domains, where a recovered contact is worth many multiples of a verification credit and where being wrong about deliverability costs a sending domain rather than an open rate.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | BounceBan | Scrubby |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Verification | Verification |
| Starting price | $34 for 10,000 credits on subscription ($40 pay-as-you-go), with unlimited free single verifications (free plan available) | $47 per month for 6,000 credits, with 200 free credits on signup (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Prepaid credits on a volume ladder, sold pay-as-you-go or as a monthly subscription at 15 percent off, plus a separately billed Sync subscription charged on unique emails verified per month. | Monthly credit subscriptions with rollover, a pay-as-you-go alternative with non-expiring credits, and a published enterprise volume ladder above 100,000 a month. Quick Verification costs one credit, Deep Verification three, and the same balance covers enrichment. |
| Free plan | Unlimited single email verifications in free mode, forever, at no credit cost. Bulk, API, and Sync require credits. | 200 free credits on account creation, usable for verification or person and company enrichment. No recurring free allowance. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; unlimited free single-address verification serves as the evaluation path | No time-limited trial; 200 free credits with no credit card, plus a fourteen-day satisfaction guarantee on monthly plans |
| Best for | Cold outbound teams, lead-generation agencies, and Clay or n8n operators working B2B lists where a large share of domains are catch-all or sit behind a Secure Email Gateway, and where deleting the risky bucket means throwing away real pipeline. | Cold outbound agencies and B2B sales teams whose lists are heavy with catch-all and gateway-protected domains, where a recovered contact is worth many multiples of a verification credit and where being wrong about deliverability costs a sending domain rather than an open rate. |
| Setup time | Under ten minutes for bulk or API use: sign up, buy a credit package, upload a list or copy the API key from the dashboard. The free single verifier needs no account at all for a first look. | Minutes for a bulk upload or API key, and the 200 free credits mean a first real test costs nothing. The only planning required is scheduling: a deep verification job needs 72 hours in the calendar before the send date. |
| Learning curve | Low. The result vocabulary is the standard deliverable, undeliverable, risky triad, and the only genuinely new concept is the estimated overall delivery rate attached to a mixed export. | Low on mechanics and moderate on policy. The credit model is simple, but deciding which addresses deserve a three-credit deep check and which are fine on a one-credit quick check is a judgement that determines your bill, and it takes a couple of lists to calibrate. |
| Platforms | Web application, REST API, Google Sheets, Clay, n8n, HubSpot Sync, ChatGPT GPT, Claude Code plugin | Web application, REST API, CSV bulk upload, CRM cleaning integration, Free-standing testing tools |
| Compliance | GDPR (vendor statement), CCPA (vendor statement) | GDPR compliance (vendor stated), Encryption in transit and at rest, Auto-deletion after processing, No third-party audit report published |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Not published | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Ownership | Privately held; ownership and funding not disclosed | Privately held; part of the Vendisys sales-technology group |
Strengths and limitations
BounceBan
Strengths
- The catch-all resolution is the real thing and it is the hardest problem in the category; competitors that describe themselves as handling catch-alls generally mean they label them accurately, not that they resolve them.
- Explicit coverage of Secure Email Gateways and of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, which is exactly where B2B lists concentrate and exactly where naive SMTP probing has stopped working.
- Unlimited free single verification with no cap is the most honest evaluation offer in the category and lets you audit the accuracy claim yourself in ten minutes.
- Credits never expire and roll over, so unused balance is not a stranded asset, and the 15 percent subscription discount is applied to the whole ladder rather than a headline tier.
Limitations
- The company publishes essentially nothing about itself: no founding year, no headcount, no named leadership, no funding, no registered address on the site. For some buyers that alone is disqualifying.
- No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA attestation is advertised. The compliance story stops at a GDPR and CCPA statement, which is thin next to ZeroBounce or Bouncer.
- There is no deliverability suite around the verifier: no inbox placement tests, no blacklist monitoring, no DMARC reporting, no warmup.
- Accuracy claims of 97 percent and coverage claims of 85 to 95 percent are vendor-reported with no published methodology or third-party audit behind them.
Scrubby
Strengths
- Deep Verification is the only widely available method in this category that establishes deliverability by actually sending and watching for delayed bounces over 72 hours, rather than by inference.
- Quick Verification already covers catch-all and Secure Email Gateway protected domains in minutes at one credit, so the expensive mode is reserved for genuinely hard cases.
- Probing happens from Scrubby's infrastructure, so the reputation cost of testing hard addresses never touches your warmed sending domains.
- Credits roll over on monthly plans and never expire on pay-as-you-go, and the same balance covers person and company enrichment as well as verification.
Limitations
- Deep Verification sends real email to the addresses being checked, which is the exact practice BounceBan positions as a GDPR problem. Anyone with a strict legal or brand position on unsolicited contact should treat this as disqualifying rather than as a tradeoff.
- Latency: 24 hours for first deep results and 72 for final ones does not fit a same-day campaign, so deep checks must be planned into a schedule rather than run on demand.
- The most expensive credit in this profile set once the three-credit deep mode is in play, at an effective $0.015 to $0.024 per deep verification.
- No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other third-party audit is published; the compliance story is a set of vendor statements.
Pricing compared
BounceBan
Prepaid credits on a volume ladder, sold pay-as-you-go or as a monthly subscription at 15 percent off, plus a separately billed Sync subscription charged on unique emails verified per month.
- Free single verification$0
- Credits (pay-as-you-go)$0.005 to $0.0013
- Credits (monthly subscription)$0.00425 to $0.00111
- SyncTiered by unique emails verified per month
Judge BounceBan on the price of a resolved catch-all, not the price of a credit. At $0.003 per credit for 100,000 addresses it costs roughly twice MillionVerifier and about a fifth of NeverBounce, and if it converts a meaningful share of a risky bucket into mailable pipeline the arithmetic is not close. On a list that is 30 percent accept-all, resolving most of that segment is worth far more than the few hundred dollars of price difference against a budget verifier. The inverse is also true: on a consumer list with few catch-alls you are paying a premium for a capability you will never invoke, and one of the cheap bulk verifiers will do the same job for a third of the money.
Scrubby
Monthly credit subscriptions with rollover, a pay-as-you-go alternative with non-expiring credits, and a published enterprise volume ladder above 100,000 a month. Quick Verification costs one credit, Deep Verification three, and the same balance covers enrichment.
- Starter$47
- Growth$97
- Pro$497
- Enterprise$0.008 to $0.004
Scrubby is the most expensive per-credit option profiled here once you use the mode you are actually paying for, and that is only defensible on a list where the risky segment is large and valuable. The arithmetic that matters is simple: if 30,000 addresses on a 100,000-row B2B list come back unknown from a conventional verifier, the question is what those 30,000 contacts are worth against a few hundred dollars of price difference. For an outbound agency selling five-figure contracts, it is not close. For a newsletter with a 2 percent accept-all share, paying $497 where MyEmailVerifier charges $99 buys nothing. The second consideration is not financial. Deep Verification sends real mail to real people to establish the answer, which is a method BounceBan explicitly refuses on GDPR grounds. If you can live with that, Scrubby offers the strongest evidence standard in the category. If you cannot, the price is irrelevant.
Editorial verdict on each
BounceBan
MomentumBounceBan is a specialist, and it should be bought as one. Its claim to resolve 85 to 95 percent of catch-all, greylisted, and gateway-protected addresses is the most aggressive in the category, and if it holds on your data it converts a segment other vendors tell you to delete into mailable pipeline, which no amount of per-credit savings elsewhere can match. Against that, the company tells you almost nothing about itself, carries no audited certifications, publishes no credit-refund policy for unresolved results, and offers none of the surrounding deliverability tooling. The saving grace is that the unlimited free single verifier makes the central claim testable in an afternoon. For a B2B outbound team whose list is thick with accept-all domains, run that test; if it holds, BounceBan is worth paying two or three times the budget-verifier rate. For everyone else, it is the wrong tool at the wrong price.
Read the full BounceBan profileScrubby
InnovationScrubby has the most defensible answer in the category to the hardest question in the category, and it charges accordingly. Quick Verification already resolves catch-all and gateway-protected domains that most competitors surrender on, and Deep Verification goes further than anyone by actually sending, waiting, and reading the delayed bounces that make lists look clean right up until they are not. The company is real and disclosed in a way several catch-all specialists are not: a named founder, an EU entity, more than 25 staff, and a group parent. The two reasons to walk away are both firm. The price per resolved address is the highest here once the three-credit deep mode is in use, and the deep method involves a vendor sending unsolicited mail to your prospects, which is precisely the practice a serious competitor refuses on privacy grounds. Decide that question first. If the answer is yes, buy the 200 free credits' worth of evidence before anything else, and reserve deep checks for the addresses whose answer is actually worth $0.015.
Read the full Scrubby profileBounceBan profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Scrubby last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.