Clearout vs EmailListVerify

EmailListVerify is a long-running budget verifier that prints a short, cheap ladder. Clearout sells a heavier service: a resolution attempt on accept-all domains, and a signup-form checker. Both keep your credits forever, so the real question is what you need done to each row.

	Clearout	EmailListVerify
1,000 checks	Tier figures not on the page we read; ask for a quote	$5
10,000 checks	Quoted by volume	$27
100,000 checks	Quoted by volume	$186
Free credits	100, no card	100
Credit expiry	Never, and they roll over	Never
Accuracy claim	99.73%	97%

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.

Clearout strengths

Clearout puts its effort into the rows other checks leave as a label. It attempts to resolve accept-all domains, which matters most on lists of company addresses. Form Guard checks addresses on your signup form as people type. You start with 100 free credits and no card, and paid credits never expire and roll over.

EmailListVerify strengths

EmailListVerify keeps it cheap and simple: $5 for 1,000, $27 for 10,000 and $186 for 100,000, read on their pricing page in September 2026. You can price any job in your head from three numbers. Credits never expire, 100 free credits start you off, and the company has run long enough to build a wide set of free tools in several languages. Their headline accuracy claim is 97%.

What separates Clearout from EmailListVerify

Start with your mix of domains. On a list of Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook signups, few rows sit on accept-all company servers, and EmailListVerify's $5 per 1,000 covers the job. On a B2B file, roughly 28% of a 10,000-address sample sat on such domains, and that's the slice Clearout's extra work targets. Our normal catch-all share answer helps you size yours.

Price is easy to read on one side only. EmailListVerify's ladder is public, so a 100,000-row clean is $186 before you talk to anyone. Clearout quotes its tiers, so get a per-thousand rate at your volume. Ask both vendors how they bill rows they couldn't settle, since that moves the real cost of a B2B clean. Our unknown billing answer lists who states a policy.

The accuracy gap, 99.73% against 97%, looks like it settles things. It doesn't. Each figure counts how often a returned verdict was right, after the addresses a vendor couldn't settle left the pool, and each vendor picks its own sample. Hunter's test of 15 verifiers on 3,000 business addresses, dated 3 November 2025, measured 31.2% to 70.0% overall. Compare the unresolved share on your own sample instead.

What Clearout and EmailListVerify 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 Clearout and EmailListVerify

Is EmailListVerify cheaper than Clearout?

EmailListVerify publishes $5 for 1,000 and $186 for 100,000, read in September 2026. Clearout's tier figures weren't on the page we read, so you need a quote. Ask for a per-thousand rate at your volume and set it beside that ladder.

Is Clearout's 99.73% better than EmailListVerify's 97%?

The two figures can't be ranked against each other. Each counts correct verdicts among the ones the vendor returned, on a sample the vendor chose. Run the same 5,000 addresses through both and count the rows with no firm verdict.

Do credits expire at either vendor?

No. EmailListVerify's credits never expire, and Clearout's never expire and roll over. That lets you buy a larger pack for the lower rate and use it at your own pace.

Count the company domains on your list, then pick. Under a tenth, the published ladder does the job. Over a quarter, get Clearout's quote. See DeBounce vs EmailListVerify, the comparison hub and our own pricing for a third ladder.