BounceBan alternatives
If you're leaving BounceBan, it's usually over the catch-all rows: either the rate you were promised or the credits they used up. This page sets out what the same list costs and returns on ZapBounce.
| Service | 100,000 addresses | Credits expire? | Bills unknowns? |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZapBounce | $139 | Never | No |
| ZeroBounce | Subscription only | Credits roll over while the subscription is active | Not stated |
| Bouncer | $400, and 1,000,000 for $2,000 | Never | No |
| Emailable | Custom | Never | No |
| Clearout | Not listed | Never | No |
| Kickbox | $500 ($1,100 for 250,000; $2,999 for a million) | Credits expire one year from purchase | No |
| BounceBan | See their pricing page | See their pricing page | Not stated |
Read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. Prices move, so confirm theirs before you buy. Ours are published in full on the pricing page.
Why people look elsewhere
People usually start looking past BounceBan when they try to budget it. The price per credit sits behind a JavaScript calculator, so a finance team can't read a rate off the page, and the catch-all percentage it markets is a claim you have to take on trust.
BounceBan sells volume tiers either pay-as-you-go or on a monthly plan, one credit per verification, and shows the figures only once the page's script runs. ZapBounce prints every tier as plain text: $5 for 1,000, $25 for 10,000, $139 for 100,000 and $949 for a million.
What ZapBounce changes for a BounceBan user
The differences that show up on the first invoice and the first results file.
The short version
- Published prices on one page, from $5 for 1,000 to $949 for a million.
- Four fixed results, catch_all among them, with the literal SMTP code on every row.
- Unknown results and duplicate rows are never charged, and the pricing page says so.
- Credits never expire, and 100 free credits arrive every month with no card.
- Our own SMTP check on port 25, closed before DATA, so no message reaches the addresses you check.
Before you move off BounceBan
Run the same sample through two vendors and the interesting number is not how many came back valid.
Read BounceBan's rate in a browser
Open the pricing page, let the calculator load, and write down the per-credit rate at your usual volume. That figure is what you set beside $25 for 10,000.
Test the catch-all claim on your own rows
Pick a slice of addresses BounceBan resolved on catch-all domains and send to them in a small campaign. The bounce count is the real resolution rate for your list.
Plan where catch-all rows go next
On ZapBounce they come back labeled catch_all. Decide before you switch whether they get their own campaign or leave the list.
Count your unknowns separately
Unknown rows are never billed on ZapBounce, so tally them apart from the rest. It shows which part of your spend went on answers and which on servers that never replied.
What switching actually involves
BounceBan takes a file or an API call, and so does ZapBounce, so moving is mostly repointing one endpoint. Keep your BounceBan export of the catch-all rows: when you re-run them here they come back as catch_all, labeled, and you decide what to do with them.
What stays true whichever verifier replaces BounceBan
Questions about moving off BounceBan
Do BounceBan credits carry over if I stop using it?
Check BounceBan's own pricing page for its current terms before you leave. ZapBounce credits never expire, with or without a plan, so a pack bought today still works in two years.
Will ZapBounce mark my old BounceBan catch-all rows as valid?
ZapBounce returns them as catch_all when the domain accepts every address, because that is the answer the server gave. You get the literal SMTP code beside the result, so the call on each row stays yours.
Why do people leave BounceBan?
People usually start looking past BounceBan when they try to budget it. The price per credit sits behind a JavaScript calculator, so a finance team can't read a rate off the page, and the catch-all percentage it markets is a claim you have to take on trust.
How hard is it to switch verifiers?
For bulk cleaning, no harder than uploading the file somewhere else. For real-time checks on a signup form it is an API swap, which is an afternoon.
Before you move, send a small campaign to the catch-all rows BounceBan resolved. That bounce count settles the question faster than any percentage.
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