BriteVerify vs Clearout

Neither vendor prints a figure you can buy from, so this pairing turns on what each one is for. BriteVerify now lives inside Validity, sold as one control in a CRM data quality program, and briteverify.com redirects there. Clearout is a standalone verifier that spends its effort on accept-all domains and checks addresses at the signup form.

	BriteVerify	Clearout
How it's sold	One control inside Validity's CRM data quality program	A standalone verifier
Getting a price	A Validity quote; no figure on their public pages	Tier figures not on the page we read; ask for a quote
Free start	Not on Validity's public pages	100 credits, no card
Credit terms	Set inside the Validity contract	Never expire, and they roll over
Accept-all domains	Not described on the pages we read	An attempt to resolve them
At the signup form	Not on the BriteVerify pages we read	Form Guard, checking as people type
Accuracy claim	No figure on Validity's public pages	99.73%

Figures read from each vendor's own page in September 2026. Prices move, so confirm on the vendor's own pricing page before you buy.

Where each one is stronger

What each vendor does that the other does not, stated as capability rather than advice.

BriteVerify strengths

BriteVerify treats a bad address as a CRM record problem. Validity sells verification next to record hygiene and deliverability tooling, aimed at revenue teams that run on Salesforce. When the CRM is the source of truth, one vendor for the whole data quality program means one contract, one security review and one owner when a record breaks. Procurement will like that more than a new tool per job.

Clearout strengths

Clearout goes after the hardest part of a B2B file. It attempts to resolve accept-all domains instead of stopping at a label. Form Guard checks addresses at your signup form as people type. You can start with 100 free credits and no card, and credits never expire and roll over.

What separates BriteVerify from Clearout

Start with how you'd buy. BriteVerify's rate arrives inside a Validity quote, shaped by everything else in that deal, so it's a fit when the program is what you're buying. Clearout also sells its tiers through a quote, but its 100 free credits let you run your own list before that call. If you need a clean this week, that test run matters. Our BriteVerify availability answer covers the move to Validity.

Then count the company domains on your list that accept every recipient. Roughly 28% of a 10,000-address B2B sample sat on such domains, and that's the share Clearout's resolution work is aimed at. A consumer list of Gmail and Outlook signups has few of them, so the extra effort has little to touch. Our catch-all percentage answer shows what a normal share looks like.

Clearout's 99.73% counts how often a returned verdict was right, after the addresses it couldn't settle left the pool. Validity prints no BriteVerify figure. Hunter's test of 15 verifiers on 3,000 business addresses, published 3 November 2025, measured 31.2% to 70.0% overall. So ask each vendor what share of your sample got a firm verdict at all.

What BriteVerify 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 BriteVerify and Clearout

How much does BriteVerify cost next to Clearout?

Neither shows a buyable figure on its public pages as of September 2026. BriteVerify is priced inside a Validity quote, and Clearout's tier figures weren't on the page we read. Clearout gives 100 free credits with no card, so you can test a sample before you ask either for a rate.

Is BriteVerify still sold as its own product?

briteverify.com redirects to a Validity capability page, and Validity sells verification as one control inside its data quality program. Ask Validity whether a verification-only contract exists at your volume before you plan around one.

Does Clearout verify catch-all addresses?

Clearout attempts to resolve accept-all domains instead of stopping at a label. The server accepts every recipient, so no verifier gets a mailbox answer there, and the result is an inference from other signals. Test it on the company-domain part of your list and read the results row by row.

Who runs the security review for each one?

For BriteVerify the review runs through Validity as the contracting company, so request its reports early in procurement. Clearout is its own contracting company, so send the questionnaire to Clearout directly.

Sort your list by domain type before either sales call. Read the Clearout pricing breakdown and the BriteVerify pricing breakdown, then see how verification works to judge what each quote buys. Every other pairing sits on the comparison hub.