Bouncer vs Clearout
You're choosing between a published price ladder and a harder technical bet. Bouncer prints every tier on its pricing page and never bills an address it couldn't resolve. Clearout goes after accept-all domains, the part of a list most verifiers only label, and sells that work on a quote.
| Bouncer | Clearout | |
|---|---|---|
| Published prices | $8 at 1,000 to $2,000 at 1,000,000 | No figures on the pricing page's static HTML; ask for a quote |
| Free credits | 100 credits | 100 credits, no card |
| Credit expiry | Never | Never, and they roll over |
| Accept-all domains | Labeled and reported | An attempt to resolve them |
| Unresolvable results | Never billed | No policy stated on their public pages |
| Accuracy claim | None published | 99.73% |
| Assurance | An EU-based company | Clearout holds ISO and SOC 2 Type II |
Figures read from each vendor's own page in September 2026.
Where each one is stronger
What each vendor does that the other does not, stated as capability rather than advice.
Bouncer strengths
- Bouncer shows you the whole bill up front: $8 for 1,000, $60 for 10,000, $400 for 100,000 and $2,000 for a million, read on their pricing page in September 2026. Credits never expire. They don't charge for duplicates or for unknowns, so the addresses they couldn't resolve cost you nothing. On top of the verdict you get a toxicity check that flags risky domains, plus a deliverability kit, and the company is EU-based.
Clearout strengths
- Clearout spends its effort where lists are hardest. It attempts to resolve accept-all domains rather than stopping at a label, and Clearout holds ISO and SOC 2 Type II, which closes a security questionnaire quickly. Form Guard checks addresses at your signup form as people type. Credits never expire and roll over, and 100 free credits start you off with no card.
What separates Bouncer from Clearout
Start with the share of your list that sits on accept-all domains, because that single count decides how much Clearout's extra work is worth to you. Roughly 28% of a 10,000-address B2B sample sat on such domains. On a file of Gmail and Outlook signups the share is usually tiny, and the resolution effort has little to touch. On a list of company domains it can be a quarter of the file, and that's where Clearout earns its quote.
The accuracy row reads as a win for Clearout at 99.73% against nothing. It isn't one. A percentage here counts the verdicts a vendor returned, worked out after the accept-all domains and silent servers left the pool. Bouncer chose not to print a figure under those conditions. Hunter tested 15 verifiers on 3,000 real business addresses (3 November 2025) and measured 31.2% to 70.0% overall, which shows how far apart the two kinds of number sit.
Billing is the quieter difference, and it's the one that shows up on the invoice. Bouncer states that unknowns and duplicates are free. Clearout's public pages state no policy on unknowns, so ask them in writing before you compare per-address rates. On a B2B file, the unresolved share moves your real cost more than the headline tier does.
What Bouncer and Clearout both run into
Vendor accuracy percentages in this category count how often a returned verdict was right. They are calculated after the catch-alls and the servers that refuse to answer have left the denominator. Hunter tested 15 verifiers on 3,000 real business addresses (3 November 2025) and measured 31.2% to 70.0% overall. Both kinds of figure are real and they are not measuring the same thing.
Questions about Bouncer and Clearout
Is Clearout's 99.73% more accurate than Bouncer?
The figure can't settle that, because Bouncer publishes no percentage to set against it. Clearout's number counts verdicts it returned, after unresolvable addresses left the pool. Run the same 5,000 addresses through both and count the rows that came back with no firm verdict. That count is the comparison.
How much does Clearout cost next to Bouncer?
Bouncer publishes $8 for 1,000 and $400 for 100,000. Clearout's pricing page showed no figures in its static HTML when read in September 2026, so you need a quote. Ask for a per-thousand rate at your volume and set it beside Bouncer's ladder.
Does a SOC 2 requirement from our security team decide it?
Clearout holds SOC 2 Type II along with ISO, so it answers that requirement directly. Bouncer is EU-based, which answers a data-residency question instead. Read your questionnaire first: it may be asking for one of those and not the other.
Do both let us start free?
Yes. Each gives 100 free credits, and Clearout asks for no card. That is enough to run one sample of your own list through both and compare the unresolved share before you pay anyone.
Export your list and count the addresses on company domains that accept every recipient. Under a tenth, Bouncer's published ladder is the simpler buy. Over a quarter, get Clearout's quote.
A third option, and we built it
100 free checks a month, no card, and credits that never expire. Unknown results are never billed.