Emailable vs mailfloss
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 assessmentmailfloss compared with Emailable
Emailable is the closest thing to a direct competitor: a polished, marketing-friendly verifier with ESP integrations and a policy of not charging for unknown results. mailfloss goes further on automation with its four-product autopilot stack and much further on typo repair, while Emailable is stronger as a general-purpose verifier with clearer credit terms. Choose Emailable if you want a good verifier with integrations; choose mailfloss if you want to stop thinking about the job entirely.
Choose Emailable if
Developers and product teams adding verification to a signup flow or a pipeline, and marketing teams that want fast bulk cleaning from a SOC 2 certified vendor without paying ZeroBounce prices or accepting a four-person supplier.
Choose mailfloss if
Newsletter operators, ecommerce email marketers, and small businesses running a permission-based list inside a supported ESP, who want list hygiene to be a background process rather than a recurring manual chore, and who care about keeping mistyped subscribers rather than deleting them.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Emailable | mailfloss |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Verification | Verification |
| Starting price | $38 for 5,000 credits pay-as-you-go, or $32.30 per month on subscription (free plan available) | $29 per month for 10,000 credits, with a seven-day free trial (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Prepaid credits with no expiry, sold pay-as-you-go or as a monthly subscription at 15 percent off, with a uniform one-credit cost across bulk, single, API, and widget verification. | Monthly or annual subscriptions priced by verification credits per month, with each tier carrying a volume selector, plus a separate one-time prepaid credit option with credits that never expire for teams on unsupported platforms or doing a one-off bulk clean. |
| Free plan | 250 free credits included with a new account, usable across any verification path. | No permanently free plan. The seven-day trial and the money-back guarantee are the risk-free paths. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; 250 free credits on signup | Seven days on every subscription plan; a card is required but no charge occurs until day eight |
| Best for | Developers and product teams adding verification to a signup flow or a pipeline, and marketing teams that want fast bulk cleaning from a SOC 2 certified vendor without paying ZeroBounce prices or accepting a four-person supplier. | Newsletter operators, ecommerce email marketers, and small businesses running a permission-based list inside a supported ESP, who want list hygiene to be a background process rather than a recurring manual chore, and who care about keeping mistyped subscribers rather than deleting them. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes for bulk work, and about the same for the API given the client libraries. The form widget is described as installable within seconds and in practice is a snippet plus a key. | Under a minute for the connection itself. OAuth from the dashboard, no API keys, no developer, and the vendor claims most platforms connect in under thirty seconds. The configuration that actually matters, deciding what gets deleted and what gets tagged, deserves rather longer. |
| Learning curve | Low. Three verdicts plus enrichment fields, uniform credit costs across every path, and documentation short enough to read in one pass. Inbox Reports and blacklist monitoring take slightly longer to interpret because they report on sending posture rather than list quality. | Low. The four products map to obvious moments in a subscriber's life, and the settings are per connection rather than global. The only real thinking is around removal policy, because the system acts on your live list without asking. |
| Platforms | Web application, REST API, Form widget, Node.js, Ruby, and Python client libraries, Direct, Make, and Zapier integrations | Web dashboard, Native OAuth integrations with 40 ESPs and CRMs, Real-time API, Webhooks, JavaScript form widget, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Zapier extensions |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR | GDPR compliance (vendor stated), OAuth-based platform authorisation rather than stored API keys |
| Founded | 2016 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | New York, United States, with offices in Miami, Los Angeles, and Sao Paulo | Canada |
| Ownership | Owned by Cache Ventures | Bootstrapped and customer-funded; mailfloss, Inc. |
Strengths and limitations
Emailable
Strengths
- SOC 2 Type II certified with GDPR compliance advertised, which puts it well ahead of the budget tier on assurance without ZeroBounce's price.
- The deliverability guarantee is stated precisely: no more than 1 percent of addresses marked deliverable will bounce, rather than a vague accuracy percentage.
- Genuinely fast: over 30,000 verifications a minute, 100,000 addresses in under three minutes, on 99.99 percent published uptime.
- One credit per verification across bulk, single, API, and widget, with duplicates and unknowns refunded on completion.
Limitations
- The volume price ladder is not published; only the 5,000-credit anchor appears in prose, which makes budgeting above that a signup-first exercise.
- Catch-all addresses are reported as risky with no resolution attempt, so B2B lists leave the same bucket unresolved that MillionVerifier and BounceBan try to recover.
- Compliance stops at SOC 2 Type II and GDPR; there is no ISO 27001, no HIPAA, no published EU data residency option, and no public trust centre with downloadable evidence.
- Pricing at $0.0076 per address at the entry anchor is four to six times the cheap end of the category for the same core verification.
mailfloss
Strengths
- Typo repair across more than 250 patterns is a genuine differentiator with a direct revenue argument, and no other verifier profiled here treats it as a product.
- Forty native two-way OAuth integrations with per-connection rules, which turns list hygiene into a background process instead of a recurring CSV chore.
- The four-product lifecycle coverage, signup-time blocking, next-day sweep, and scheduled decay re-verification, is more complete automation than any other verifier here offers.
- Genuinely cheap entry at $29 a month, from a bootstrapped company that states low pricing as a principle rather than a promotion.
Limitations
- No catch-all resolution at all, which rules out B2B outbound work entirely.
- Subscription plans require one of forty supported platforms, and the fallback for everyone else is prepaid credits and manual CSV uploads, which is the exact workflow the product exists to eliminate.
- Poor value as a bulk cleaner: $209 a month for 125,000 credits against roughly $100 to $190 for a one-off clean of the same volume elsewhere.
- No permanently free tier, and the seven-day trial requires a card, which is less generous than the daily free credits at MyEmailVerifier and Verifalia.
Pricing compared
Emailable
Prepaid credits with no expiry, sold pay-as-you-go or as a monthly subscription at 15 percent off, with a uniform one-credit cost across bulk, single, API, and widget verification.
- Pay as you goFrom $38
- SubscriptionFrom $32.30
- EnterpriseCustom
At the published anchor of $0.0076 per address, Emailable is a mid-to-upper-market price: cheaper than ZeroBounce, roughly comparable to NeverBounce's entry rate, and several times more than MillionVerifier or Reoon. What justifies it is the combination of SOC 2 Type II, a precisely worded 1 percent bounce guarantee, genuinely fast processing, 24/7 support, non-expiring credits, and refunds for duplicates and unknowns. The 250 free credits also make evaluation painless. The weak spot is transparency: refusing to publish the volume ladder in a category where competitors publish theirs in full makes the vendor harder to compare and forces a signup to get a number, which is a small but real friction.
mailfloss
Monthly or annual subscriptions priced by verification credits per month, with each tier carrying a volume selector, plus a separate one-time prepaid credit option with credits that never expire for teams on unsupported platforms or doing a one-off bulk clean.
- Lite$29
- Business$59
- Pro$209
- Prepaid creditsOne-time purchase
Judge mailfloss on labour and retention, not on price per address. Per credit it is unremarkable, around $0.0017 to $0.0029, which is more than MyEmailVerifier or Truelist charge for a straight bulk clean. What you are buying is that the clean actually happens, every day, inside the platform where your contacts already live, with removals and tags written back automatically, and that mistyped subscribers are repaired rather than deleted. For a marketing team, the recurring cost of forgetting to clean, plus the acquisition spend wasted on deleted typos, plausibly exceeds the subscription. Two conditions have to hold for that to be true: your platform must be among the supported forty, and your list must be permission-based rather than cold. If either fails, mailfloss is the wrong shape and a bulk verifier at a third of the price does the job you actually have.
Editorial verdict on each
Emailable
Emailable is the well-run middle of this category. SOC 2 Type II, a precisely worded guarantee that no more than 1 percent of deliverables will bounce, genuinely fast processing, 24/7 support, non-expiring credits, refunds for duplicates and unknowns, 250 free credits, and the best client-library experience of the group add up to a product that is easy to recommend to a developer or a marketing team that wants no drama. Two things hold it back. It does not publish its volume ladder, which in a category where Bouncer, DeBounce, MillionVerifier, and ZeroBounce all publish theirs looks like a choice rather than an oversight, and it makes no attempt on catch-all addresses. Buy it when the API is going into a production path and the vendor has to clear a light security check. If your problem is a large accept-all bucket or the lowest possible bill, the answer is elsewhere.
Read the full Emailable profilemailfloss
mailfloss solves a different problem from every other verifier in this category, and it solves it well. The others answer the question is this address valid. mailfloss answers the question why is nobody cleaning this list, and its answer is to connect natively to forty platforms, run four automations continuously across the whole subscriber lifecycle, and write every removal, tag, and typo correction straight back where your contacts already live. The Typo Fixer alone is a defensible reason to buy it, because repairing a mistyped address keeps a customer you paid to acquire and every competitor simply deletes them. It is cheap, it is bootstrapped, and it has been doing this since 2017. The boundaries are clear and worth respecting: no catch-all resolution, so B2B outbound teams should look elsewhere entirely, and no value as a bulk cleaner, since $209 a month buys volume that a one-off competitor cleans for less. If you run a permission-based list inside a supported ESP and list hygiene is nobody's actual job, this is the right purchase and $29 a month is not a serious sum.
Read the full mailfloss profileEmailable profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; mailfloss last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.