Email Validator checks whether an email address is valid, deliverable and safe. It validates the format, resolves the domain's mail (MX) records, flags disposable and role-based addresses, and returns a composite risk score with typo correction.
Try it — live request, no key required
No key required to try it. Get a key to use it in your app.
{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
// Email Validator response payload
}
}
About the Email Validator API
Email Validator works by checking the email format, resolving the domain's MX records, and matching the domain against free, disposable and role-account catalogs. It returns whether the address is valid and deliverable, plus a risk score and a suggested correction when a domain typo is detected.
What people use it for
- Email Verification
- Use the Email Validator API to verify email addresses. Use the data to validate emails, prevent fraud, and maintain data quality
- Lead Generation
- Validate email addresses by using the Email Validator API for lead generation. Use the data to clean email lists, improve deliverability, and optimize marketing campaigns
- User Registration
- Use the Email Validator API to validate email addresses for user registration. Use the data to verify users, prevent fake accounts, and enhance security
- Data Quality
- Validate email addresses by using the Email Validator API for data quality. Use the data to clean databases, remove duplicates, and ensure accuracy
Ways to call it
One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.
- JSON
- Default REST response
- XML
- Markup format
- YAML
- Human-readable
- CSV
- Tabular export
- GraphQL
- Query language
- MCP
- For AI agents
Other ways to use Email Validator
Same data, same APIVerve account, same credit balance — one key works on all of them.
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Request parameters — GET /v1/emailvalidator
Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.
Required
| Parameter | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
emailRequired | string | support@myspace.com | The email address to validate (e.g., support@myspace.com) email |
curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator?email=support%40myspace.com" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Authentication
Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.
| Header | When | Value |
|---|---|---|
x-api-keyRequired | Every request | Your API key. Header names are case-insensitive, so X-API-Key is the same header. |
AuthorizationAlternate | Instead of the above | Bearer <key> — for clients that only expose bearer auth. Resolves to the same account and the same billing. |
A 401 means the key is missing, invalid or expired. A 403 means the key is valid but not permitted here — blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Running out of credits is a 429.
Response — GET /v1/emailvalidator
Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.
{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
"email": "support@myspace.com",
"domain": "myspace.com",
"username": "support",
"isRegexValid": true,
"hasTypo": false,
"isMxValid": true,
"isValid": true,
"isFreeEmail": false,
"isCompanyEmail": true,
"isDisposable": false,
"isRoleAccount": true,
"suggestedCorrection": null,
"riskScore": 10,
"riskLevel": "low"
}
}
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.
| Field | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
email | string | "support@myspace.com" | The email address that was validated |
domain | string | "myspace.com" | The domain portion extracted from the email |
username | string | "support" | The username (local part) extracted from the email |
isRegexValid | boolean | true | Email passes standard regex format validation |
hasTypo | boolean | false | The address is malformed and fails format validation |
isMxValid | boolean | true | The domain has valid mail exchange (MX) records and can receive mail |
isValid | boolean | true | Indicates whether the email address is valid |
isFreeEmail | boolean | false | Domain belongs to a free consumer email provider |
isCompanyEmail | boolean | true | Domain appears to be a corporate/company domain |
isDisposable | boolean | false | Domain is a known disposable or throwaway email provider |
isRoleAccount | boolean | true | Mailbox is a role or shared address (e.g. info@, support@, noreply@) rather than a person |
suggestedCorrectionPremium | object | null | The likely intended email when a common domain typo is detected (e.g. gmial.com to gmail.com), otherwise null |
riskScorePremium | number | 10 | Composite 0-100 risk score combining deliverability, disposable, role and format signals (higher is riskier) |
riskLevelPremium | string | "low" | Risk band derived from the score: low, medium or high |
Response headers
Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.
| Header | What it carries |
|---|---|
x-api-remaining-credits | Credits left in the current cycle |
x-api-credits-used | Credits spent in the current cycle |
x-api-max-credits | The allowance for the cycle |
x-api-version | Version of the endpoint that answered |
Errors
Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.
| Status | Meaning | What to do |
|---|---|---|
400 | Input was rejected | Read error; it names the parameter that has to change. |
401 | Key missing or invalid | Check the header name and the key value. |
403 | Key valid, but not permitted here | A key restriction or an IP allow-list — never a bad key. |
429 | Rate limited, or out of credits | Read error to tell them apart, then back off or top up. |
What a call costs — 20 credits per call
Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.
| Plan | Per month | Credits | Email Validator calls | Per 1,000 calls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 200 | 10 | Free |
| Starter | $29.99 | 200,000 | 10,000 | $3.00 |
| Pro | $99.99 | 1,000,000 | 50,000 | $2.00 |
| Mega | $299.99 | 4,000,000 | 200,000 | $1.50 |
Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.
Call it from cURL — GET /v1/emailvalidator
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/emailvalidator with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/emailvalidator
Install the Node.js SDK, then call the Email Validator API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.
npm install @apiverve/emailvalidatorconst res = await fetch("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator", {
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Python — GET /v1/emailvalidator
Install the Python SDK, then call the Email Validator API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.
pip install apiverve-emailvalidatorimport requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator",
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json()["data"])Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/emailvalidator
Install the C# / .NET SDK, then call the Email Validator API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.
dotnet add package APIVerve.API.EmailValidatorusing var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var json = await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator");
Console.WriteLine(json);Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Go — GET /v1/emailvalidator
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/emailvalidator with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator", nil)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from PHP — GET /v1/emailvalidator
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/emailvalidator with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
$ch = curl_init("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;Resources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/emailvalidator
No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/emailvalidator with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/emailvalidator")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.bodyResources
Also published for
Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.
Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend
Drop an interactive Email Validator form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.
Changelog — Email Validator API
Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.
Entries are picked up from dated catalog snapshots, so the first one appears after the next snapshot that moves something. A period where nothing changed produces no entry — silence is a valid changelog for the Email Validator API.
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