Clearout Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and What 1M Records Cost

The cheapest way in is Freemium: 100 credits, one-off, no card. The cheapest paid plan is Starter at $16 a month billed yearly, or $23 billed monthly, for 3,000 credits. The page marks Pro 10K as "Best Value", at $32 a month billed yearly or $58 billed monthly (Clearout pricing, October 2026).

A million credits costs $1,400 as a one-off pay-as-you-go purchase. On a subscription, Pro 1M is $800 a month billed yearly, or $1,260 billed monthly. These are list prices in USD.

One credit verifies one email. Clearout charges for definitive results only: valid, invalid and catch-all. Unknown results and duplicates cost nothing. The catch is that the same credits have three different prices, and the page opens on the cheapest view.

Plans

Clearout sells three ways: yearly subscriptions, monthly subscriptions and one-off pay-as-you-go credits. The pricing page opens on the yearly view. Each subscription shows a struck-through number beside the price. The table uses the lower, charged figure.

Credits never expire. Unused subscription credits roll over. Yearly plans are billed once a year (Clearout pricing, October 2026). The page lists no seat count for paid plans. Enterprise lists unlimited seats.

The API rate limit depends on the credit tier, in requests a minute for instant verification. It comes from the API docs, not the pricing page (Clearout API docs, October 2026).

Source: Clearout pricing, October 2026, and Clearout API docs, October 2026 for the rate limits. Per-credit figures are our arithmetic from the listed prices. Past 20 million credits the page says to contact Clearout.

What a credit buys

A credit is charged only when Clearout returns a definitive, actionable result. The charge is the same through the API, webhooks, the app and native integrations (Clearout pricing guide, October 2026).

All sources checked October 2026. The 24-hour repeat rule is account-wide, across lists, the API and integrations. Deep Verify costs more when it gives a firm answer.

Hidden costs

The per-credit rate looks low. The bill depends on billing period, top-ups, verification mode and what else you spend credits on.

• Monthly billing costs more. For the same credits, the monthly price is 24% to 265% higher than the yearly price. Pro 50K is $292 monthly against $80 yearly.
• Top-ups cost the pay-as-you-go rate. Auto Credit Replenishment adds at least 5,000 credits at the pay-as-you-go price (Clearout pricing guide, October 2026). Running out on Pro 10K means $0.0080 a credit for the extra.
• Deep Verify is 5 times the price. A list run entirely in Deep Verify can use 5 credits per address when it resolves.
• Finding costs 4 times more than verifying. One non-role email found is 4 credits. Phones are 2 credits.
• Small plans are slow on the API. Freemium allows 3 instant checks a minute and Starter 25. Pay as you go is lower than a subscription at the same size.
• Higher limits are an add-on. The docs say limits rise with an add-on option. Its price is not on a public page.
• Refunds are narrow. Clearout refunds only the addresses that bounced, only within 30 days, and not once more than 25% of the credits are used. Subscriptions are non-refundable.
• The guarantee has conditions. Safe to Send addresses must be sent within 24 hours. The 97% deliverability guarantee excludes .edu domains, free providers such as Yahoo and AOL, and servers like Office 365 (Clearout pricing guide, October 2026).
• Discounted credits can expire. Bought credits never expire, but a discount deal may add an expiry date.
• Verification only. Clearout checks addresses you already have. It does not hold a database you can search at scale.

Worked examples

Each example assumes every address is valid, invalid or catch-all, so each costs 1 credit. Unknowns are free, so real bills run lower. The 1M and 25M figures are list arithmetic, not a quote.

10k emails a month

• Credits needed: 10,000.
• Pro 10K billed yearly: $32 a month, or $384 a year (12 x $32).
• Pro 10K billed monthly: $58 a month. One-off pay as you go: $65.
• Everything in Deep Verify: 10,000 x 5 = 50,000 credits, which is Pro 50K at $80 a month yearly or $292 monthly.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 flat. At this volume Clearout is far cheaper, for a different job.

1M emails a month

• Credits needed: 1,000,000.
• One-off pay as you go: $1,400. Holding 1M a month for a year: 12 x $1,400 = $16,800.
• Pro 1M billed monthly: 12 x $1,260 = $15,120 a year.
• Pro 1M billed yearly: 12 x $800 = $9,600 a year.
• Everything in Deep Verify: 5,000,000 credits, which is Pro 5M at $4,000 yearly or $4,950 monthly.
• Speed: at 300 instant checks a minute, 1,000,000 / 300 = 3,333 minutes, about 56 hours. Use bulk files for volume, since the docs give no bulk speed.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 flat.

25M emails a month

• No public 25M price. Pay as you go stops at 10M credits for $10,000, and above 20M Clearout asks you to contact it.
• Stacking listed packs, 10M + 10M + 5M, is $10,000 + $10,000 + $5,500 = $25,500. That is list arithmetic, not a quote.
• Speed: at 400 instant checks a minute, 25,000,000 / 400 = 62,500 minutes, about 43 days. A month cannot be done one address at a time.
• LeadOcean Pro: $499 flat. A very large month is paced down to one request a minute past the fair-usage line rather than cut off. One email to support gets more headroom.

At 1M a month Clearout costs more than LeadOcean Pro, but LeadOcean does not verify a list you own. It returns people and companies with an email_status on each address.

Is it worth it

Clearout is worth it when you already own a list and need it cleaned before you send. Yearly billing makes the rate low.

• Solo founder or one rep: Start on the 100 free credits. Then buy 5,000 pay-as-you-go credits for $40, or Starter at $16 a month yearly. Nothing renews on pay as you go.
• Marketing or SDR team cleaning every week: Pro 10K billed yearly at $32 a month is the best rate on the page. Check the yearly bill first, since it is charged once.
• Developer verifying sign-ups: Instant verification returns a status and sub-status in one call. Mind the per-minute limit, since 55 a minute is a ceiling for a busy signup form.
• Agency or RevOps at 1M or more a month: Pro 1M billed yearly at $800 beats one-off credits at $1,400. Ask Enterprise for a quote above 5M.
• Anyone who needs the list built, not cleaned: Clearout is the wrong tool. Use a data source that returns the email and its status together.

For a wider comparison, see Clearout alternatives.

Alternatives with a different price model

These three charge by verification pack, by email checked or found, or by flat fee.

Hunter: separate verification credits. Verification credits are bought one-off on the Data Platform from $11 for 1,000, valid 12 months. On all-in-one plans one Email Verifier check is 0.5 credit (Hunter Data Platform, September 2026, Hunter help center, September 2026). It costs more per check than Clearout but also finds emails. See Hunter.io pricing.

Anymail Finder: fractional credits. Verify is 0.2 credits on every check. The 1M pack is $4,990, so about $0.001 a verification at that rate (Anymail Finder pricing, September 2026). See Anymail Finder pricing.

LeadOcean: flat fee. Free is 1,000 records one-off with no card. Pro is $499 a month with unlimited searches, enrichments and lookups, 100 requests per second per key and 5 API keys. There are no credits and no overage invoice. It covers 693M people and 63M companies over REST and MCP, and the app has an Exports page with a filter builder and CSV download. It has no sequencer, dialer or CRM. See pricing.

For another verifier breakdown, see ZeroBounce pricing and NeverBounce pricing.

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