Is ZapBounce more accurate than EmailAwesome?

Compare coverage before accuracy. On accuracy, EmailAwesome's entry reads: Not stated on its pricing page. Vendor accuracy claims in this market are calculated after unknown and catch-all addresses leave the denominator. ZapBounce reports coverage, the share of the list with a definite verdict, so the rest is visible, labeled and never billed.

Why switch from EmailAwesome to ZapBounce?

Pay-as-you-go prices on one page: $5 for 1,000, $25 for 10,000 and $139 for 100,000, with no monthly plan required. 100 free credits every month with no card, and paid credits that never expire. Unknown results and duplicate rows are never charged, and the pricing page says so. Coverage reported on every list, so you see how many rows reached a definite verdict. Our own SMTP check on port 25, closed before DATA, so no message reaches the addresses you check.

ZapBounce vs EmailAwesome

EmailAwesome and ZapBounce both give you free checks every month. The difference is what you pay once a list outgrows them. EmailAwesome moves you onto a monthly plan, while ZapBounce sells credits from $5 for 1,000 that never expire, so you pay per list rather than per month.

	ZapBounce	EmailAwesome
Accuracy reporting	Coverage stated: the share of your list with a definite verdict	Not stated on its pricing page
1,000 addresses	$5	See their pricing page
10,000 addresses	$25	See their pricing page
100,000 addresses	$139	See their pricing page
Free tier	100 a month, no card	See their pricing page
Credit expiry	Never	See their pricing page
Billed for unknowns	No	Not stated

EmailAwesome prices change, so confirm theirs on their own pricing page. Ours are fixed and published on /pricing.

How EmailAwesome prices it

EmailAwesome's pricing page lists a free plan and five paid monthly plans: Lite, Basic, Growth, Pro and Business, each with a set number of validations (read September 2026). That page is silent on whether unused validations carry over and on whether unknown results count. ZapBounce answers both on its pricing page: credits never expire, and unknowns and duplicates are free.

Why teams pick ZapBounce over EmailAwesome

What changes when your list runs through ZapBounce instead.

The short version

Pay-as-you-go prices on one page: $5 for 1,000, $25 for 10,000 and $139 for 100,000, with no monthly plan required.
100 free credits every month with no card, and paid credits that never expire.
Unknown results and duplicate rows are never charged, and the pricing page says so.
Coverage reported on every list, so you see how many rows reached a definite verdict.
Our own SMTP check on port 25, closed before DATA, so no message reaches the addresses you check.

Moving off EmailAwesome

EmailAwesome sells validation as a monthly plan, from Lite up to Business, sized by how many validations you get each month. If your lists arrive in bursts, a fixed monthly allowance and your real volume seldom match. ZapBounce credits are bought when a list lands and they never expire, so a quiet month costs you nothing.

Switching takes one upload. Export your list from EmailAwesome, or from the tool you send with, and drop the CSV into ZapBounce's bulk upload. Your columns come back with the result, the reason and a billed flag on each row. If your app calls EmailAwesome's API, point that step at POST /v1/verify with a ZapBounce key.

The hard addresses, and how they come back

Catch-alls, Yahoo, cloud blocks and traps

Catch-all domains answer 250 for every address, so a mailbox-level answer never exists there, on EmailAwesome's plans or anywhere else. ZapBounce sends one probe to a random address at the same domain, labels the row catch_all and bills it once. You decide whether those rows go to a slower campaign.

Yahoo and AOL accept every recipient by design, to stop address harvesting. On a ZapBounce run those rows return unknown with the reason attached, and you're never billed for them.

Gmail and Microsoft 365 throttle verification traffic from cloud IP ranges. When a server holds back its answer, ZapBounce marks the row unknown, charges nothing and counts it in the coverage figure on your results.

Pristine spam traps look like live mailboxes to every SMTP check. Warm-up and verification each leave them in place, so clean capture at the signup form still does that job.

Questions people ask about EmailAwesome

Does EmailAwesome have a free plan?

Yes. EmailAwesome's pricing page lists a free plan with a monthly validation allowance (read September 2026). ZapBounce gives every account 100 free credits a month with no card, and any credits you buy on top never expire.

Can I connect ZapBounce through Zapier, as I did with EmailAwesome?

Yes. ZapBounce connects through Zapier, the REST API, CSV upload and webhooks. Most teams moving from EmailAwesome swap the verification step in their Zap and keep the rest of the workflow as it is.

What happens to my EmailAwesome warm-up if I verify with ZapBounce?

Warm-up and verification are separate jobs, so your warm-up setup stays where it is. ZapBounce needs no plan or contract. You run list cleaning through it whenever a list arrives, from $5 for 1,000 checks.

Is ZapBounce cheaper than EmailAwesome?

Ours is $5 for 1,000 and $139 for 100,000, published, with no minimum. Credits never expire, and unknowns and duplicates are never billed, so the rate you see is the rate you pay.

Can I test both before deciding?

Yes, and you should. Run the same sample of a few thousand addresses through each and compare how many came back unresolved. That difference matters more than either accuracy claim.

Count the validations you actually used on EmailAwesome over the last three months, then price that volume at $5 for 1,000 with credits that never expire.

Run the same sample through us and EmailAwesome

100 free checks a month, no card, and the unknowns come back labeled.

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