Clearout review (2026): pricing, credits, free plan, verdict

What Clearout is

Clearout is an email verification and data quality platform from Clearout Inc.: a bulk and single-address verifier, an email finder with a LinkedIn Chrome extension, Form Guard to stop fake and bot form submissions, Data Pulse to validate and enrich contacts as they land in Salesforce or HubSpot, a prospect search, and a phone verifier, all drawing on one pool of credits. It says 100,000-plus businesses use it, holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and is HubSpot certified. For cold email it is a verifier first, with the finder and form guard as useful extras.

Clearout pricing explained

Credits are prepaid on three billing modes: annual at up to 20% off, monthly at up to 10% off, and one-time pay-as-you-go packs: 5,000 credits $40, 10,000 $65, 100,000 $400, 250,000 $750, 500,000 $1,000, 1 million $1,400, 5 million $5,500 and 10 million $10,000, custom above 20 million. Freemium gives 100 credits for life, one bulk verification at a time and limited integrations. Starter gives 3,000 credits a month for $16 a month billed yearly or $23 billed monthly, with two parallel bulk runs, unlimited CRM and ESP integrations, the Google Sheets add-on and chat support. Pro starts at 10,000 credits a month for $32 billed yearly or $58 monthly, with three parallel runs and live meeting support; the same card offers tiers of 50,000, 100,000, 250,000, 500,000, 1 million and 5 million credits whose prices appear when selected. Enterprise is custom with a 10 million-plus commitment, on-premise deployment, white-label and unlimited seats.

The credit rules are the fair part: one credit per valid, invalid or catch-all verification and nothing for unknowns; four credits per found email, two for role-based addresses, nothing when none is found; two per Form Guard or Data Pulse field. Subscription credits roll over and purchased credits never expire, with a caveat that discounted credits may carry an expiry. The billing rules are the firm part: the terms say payments are not refundable under any circumstances, the pricing guide allows only a 30-day refund on pay-as-you-go credits for bounced addresses, subscriptions are non-refundable, plan changes mean cancelling and subscribing again at the full amount, and California law governs.

Verifier, finder and form guard

The verifier returns valid, invalid, catch-all and unknown with a confidence level, and a separate catch-all verification product tries to resolve the catch-alls. The finder takes a name and domain, or a LinkedIn profile through the extension, and charges only on success. Form Guard checks names, emails and phones in real time on any form, and Data Pulse watches new CRM contacts and validates and enriches them automatically. The API carries per-plan rate limits, 3 requests a minute on Freemium, 25 on Starter and 55 on Pro 10K for verification.

What that means for cold email

For list hygiene Clearout is inexpensive and predictable: 10,000 verifications for $32 a month on yearly billing, with the unknowns free and the credits rolling if a month is quiet. The finder is the natural next step for named prospects, and Form Guard keeps junk out of inbound lists. The thing to plan around is the billing: a yearly Pro plan is a non-refundable commitment, and moving between tiers is a cancel-and-resubscribe.

Who Clearout is for, and who should look elsewhere

Clearout suits small teams that verify and find emails every month and want rolling credits spent only on real results. It is a poor fit for buyers who want a refund option or a pay-the-difference upgrade. ZeroBounce, Emailable, EmailListVerify and MillionVerifier are the other verifiers reviewed here, and the verification tools category sets their prices side by side. Kickbox is the pay-as-you-go rival from $5 for 500, with a one-year credit expiry. Reoon is the cheapest credible option, from $11.90 per 10,000 credits with no expiry and a free daily allowance.

Using Clearout with PureMail

PureMail’s Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes arrive with DNS configured and connected, and a clean list is what keeps their bounce rate low. Verify every list in Clearout before the first send, send only valid results from new inboxes for the first weeks, keep catch-alls as a small separate segment, and let Form Guard protect any inbound form that feeds a sequence.