Scrubby vs Truelist

Scrubby compared with Truelist

The clearest head-to-head in the category. Both target the risky bucket, but Truelist infers from SMTP, browser, and third-party signals in minutes at roughly $0.0009 per standard credit and three credits for its enhanced pass, while Scrubby will send real mail and wait 72 hours for the truth. Truelist is roughly a seventh of the price and returns answers immediately; Scrubby offers a stronger evidence standard on the hardest addresses. Most teams should try Truelist first and reserve Scrubby's deep mode for the residue that still matters.

Truelist compared with Scrubby

Both exist to resolve the risky bucket, and they take opposite routes. Scrubby's Deep Verification sends real messages and watches server behaviour over 72 hours, which is slower, more intrusive, and arguably more definitive, at roughly $0.005 per credit and three credits per deep check. Truelist infers from SMTP, browser, and third-party signals in minutes at a seventh of the price. Pick Scrubby when a wrong answer is catastrophic and you can wait three days; pick Truelist when you want most of the recovery at a fraction of the cost and latency.

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.

Truelist

Two paths on the same platform: non-expiring pay-as-you-go credits with automatic volume discounts, or flat-rate unlimited monthly plans on a three, six, or twelve month commitment. Standard validation is one credit, enhanced catch-all resolution is three.

• Free$0
• Pay-as-you-go credits$1.40 to $0.70
• Unlimited$799 to $999
• EnterpriseFrom $2,000

Truelist is priced like a budget verifier and engineered like a specialist, which is an unusual and favourable combination. At roughly $90 per 100,000 standard validations it undercuts EmailListVerify, sits near MyEmailVerifier, and costs a fifth of Kickbox, and unlike any of them it will actually try to resolve your accept-all addresses rather than shrugging. The three-credit surcharge is the honest way to price that: you pay for the hard work only when the hard work happens. The unlimited plans are the sharper instrument, converting a metered bill into a fixed cost for anyone above roughly a million validations a month, though the upfront billing and the 10,000-per-month enhanced cap both deserve scrutiny before signing. The real risk being priced here is not capability, it is vendor age: this is a company that launched in late 2024 offering flat-rate unlimited plans with a SOC 2 report, and the sensible move is to start on credits and graduate to unlimited only once you have watched the results for a quarter.