4 categories · RankedZeroBounce
ZeroBounce is an email verification and deliverability platform for email senders · zerobounce.net ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 1 of 54 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Bouncer has 24%.
Ranked first. Next is DeBounce at 13%. 13 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is BulkEmailChecker at 7%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose ZeroBounce if you want an all-in-one deliverability suite with top-tier security and spam-trap detection.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, ZeroBounce offers the best balance of accuracy, features, and pricing.”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“ZeroBounce is widely considered the best email verification service for a mid-market B2B company.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“ZeroBounce is the clear leader for mid-market B2B companies seeking an email verification service”Mistral Small · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Address-verification services such as ZeroBounce, Kickbox, or comparable vendors: treat results as risk estimates, not proof of consent”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Competing platforms, including ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, Kickbox, and Bouncer, charge $0.008 per verification or higher.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“More expensive per-credit than the budget leaders; only worthwhile if you need the extra features”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“"Valid" emails bouncing (both soft and hard bounces); precision issues with certain domains”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ZeroBounce, over the 273 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 162 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 141 | 5 | View → | |
| 113 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 4 | View → | |
| 43 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 1 | View → | |
| 38 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 15 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of ZeroBounce →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ZeroBounce's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- email senders
- Price stated
- Flexible pricing: pay-as-you-go or subscription; ZeroBounce ONE™ $99/ mo
- Starting price
- 99/ mo
- Free plan or trial
- Create a free account; Try our free email verifier; Get 100 free monthly email verifications.
- Integrations
- 40
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, CPRA, EU AI Act, EU-US DPF
- Hosting
- EU, US, Global
- Customers named
- SR Pro, Ikon Technologies, Labyrinth Digital, Unilever, Strava, LinkedIn, Coca-Cola, Intel
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 250 of the 273 answers that named ZeroBounce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
492 of the 642 domain citations in answers naming ZeroBounce came from a third party's page. Forty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 401 | 11 | 2026-09-14 | Email verification, SEO | |
| News or press | 113 | 1 | 2026-09-01 | Email verification, Email marketing | |
| Conference or event | 27 | 0 | 2026-06-18 | ||
| Comparison | 19 | 0 | 2022-12-12 | ||
| Case study | 18 | 0 | 2021-02-04 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 14 | 0 | 2026-05-15 | ||
| Template or tool | 10 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2021-11-05 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2026-05-15 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2025-06-03 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Confident email communication blog
- 2026-09-10Business case for email validation blog
- 2026-09-04Ai agents ai managed inboxes blog
- 2026-09-01Ai managed mailbox detection news or press
- 2026-08-21Catch all invalid emails blog
- 2026-08-07Vibe coding blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zerobounce.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.