Bouncer 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 Bouncer
Bouncer is the conservative European option: EU data residency, a bias against false negatives, unknowns capped at around 2 percent, and a refund on any deliverable that bounces within 72 hours. Scrubby pushes into the ambiguity Bouncer avoids and uses a method Bouncer would not. If a wrongly kept address is your expensive mistake, take Bouncer. If a wrongly discarded one is, take Scrubby.
Choose Bouncer if
European small and mid-sized businesses, agencies, and SaaS companies that want a verifier with EU-only hosting, a published DPA, hashed storage, and a written accuracy guarantee, at mid-market pricing rather than either budget or enterprise rates.
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 | Bouncer | Scrubby |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Verification | Verification |
| Starting price | $8 for 1,000 credits, with 100 free credits on signup (free plan available) | $47 per month for 6,000 credits, with 200 free credits on signup (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Prepaid verification credits on a fully published volume ladder with no expiry, plus two separately priced subscriptions: Bouncer Shield for real-time checks and the Deliverability Kit for placement and monitoring. | 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 | 100 free credits on signup, plus a free single-address checker and a free list sampling tool that need no account. | 200 free credits on account creation, usable for verification or person and company enrichment. No recurring free allowance. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; 100 free credits with no credit card required | No time-limited trial; 200 free credits with no credit card, plus a fourteen-day satisfaction guarantee on monthly plans |
| Best for | European small and mid-sized businesses, agencies, and SaaS companies that want a verifier with EU-only hosting, a published DPA, hashed storage, and a written accuracy guarantee, at mid-market pricing rather than either budget or enterprise rates. | 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 fifteen minutes. Sign up, take the 100 free credits, upload a list or copy an API key. Bouncer Shield needs a snippet on the form and AutoClean needs a CRM connection, each an hour at most. | 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. Three verdicts instead of a status taxonomy makes the output immediately usable, and the unknown bucket is explained rather than treated as an embarrassment. Toxicity scores take a little longer to internalise because the one-to-five scale is a risk gradient rather than a pass or fail. | 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, Bouncer Shield form widget, AutoClean CRM connector, Native integrations | Web application, REST API, CSV bulk upload, CRM cleaning integration, Free-standing testing tools |
| Compliance | GDPR by design with a published data processing agreement, EU-only data storage | GDPR compliance (vendor stated), Encryption in transit and at rest, Auto-deletion after processing, No third-party audit report published |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Wroclaw, Poland | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Ownership | Privately held, seed-stage venture backing reported | Privately held; part of the Vendisys sales-technology group |
Strengths and limitations
Bouncer
Strengths
- The most specific accuracy guarantee in the category: over 99 percent accuracy, 98 percent coverage, 100 percent accuracy on undeliverables, and a credit refund for deliverables that bounce within 72 hours.
- An explicit philosophical position, biased against false negatives, that is stated by the CEO on a public page and reflected in how the unknown verdict is used.
- EU-only hosting in EU AWS data centres, addresses hashed everywhere except the download layer, automatic 60-day deletion, on-demand permanent deletion, and a published DPA.
- The complete price ladder is published rather than hidden behind a calculator, and credits never expire.
Limitations
- Mid-market pricing: $400 per 100,000 is two and a half to three times what MillionVerifier, DeBounce, or Reoon charge for the same core job.
- The deliberate 2 percent unknown bucket means catch-all-heavy B2B lists will leave more addresses unresolved here than at vendors that guess aggressively.
- Bouncer Shield and the Deliverability Kit are separate subscriptions, so the advertised credit price is not the full cost of a complete deployment.
- No HIPAA programme and no US data residency option, which closes the door on some American regulated buyers by design.
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
Bouncer
Prepaid verification credits on a fully published volume ladder with no expiry, plus two separately priced subscriptions: Bouncer Shield for real-time checks and the Deliverability Kit for placement and monitoring.
- Small volumes$8 to $60
- Mid volumes$250 to $750
- Large volumes$1,250 to $2,000
Bouncer sits deliberately in the middle and mostly earns it. At $400 per 100,000 addresses it costs about a third of ZeroBounce and roughly two and a half times MillionVerifier, and what it buys with that premium over the budget tier is a published guarantee with a specific remedy, EU-only hashed storage with 60-day deletion, and a $1,000-per-million rate at scale that stays competitive. The entry point matters too: a 1,000-credit minimum at $8 is the cheapest way in the category to genuinely test a vendor on real data. Where the value slips is the unbundling. Shield and the Deliverability Kit are separate subscriptions, so the fully-equipped version of Bouncer is not the mid-market bargain the credit table suggests.
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
Bouncer
Bouncer is the most thoughtfully positioned verifier in this set. Its stated bias against false negatives, its 100 percent undeliverable accuracy claim, and its 72-hour bounce refund make a promise that can actually be tested, which is more than most accuracy percentages in this category amount to. The European data posture, hashed storage, EU-only AWS hosting, 60-day deletion, and a published DPA, is concrete rather than performative, and the fully published price ladder with non-expiring credits and no billing for duplicates or unknowns is exactly the transparency the category usually avoids. The costs are real too: $400 per 100,000 is well above the budget tier, the deliberate unknown bucket leaves catch-all-heavy lists partly unresolved, and Shield and the Deliverability Kit are separate subscriptions that quietly undo the mid-market pricing. For a European small business that wants to buy verification once, understand the bill, and never lose a live contact to a wrong verdict, this is the right default.
Read the full Bouncer 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 profileBouncer 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.