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Real-time email verification API: one email address, one request, one response

The core is a realtime single check: POST one email address to /api/v1/check with service_type=email. The registration status comes back in that same response — no polling, no callbacks. The same API key can also submit several email addresses at once for a synchronous response.

API endpointPOST
/api/v1/check
X-API-Key headercode · msg · data
Last updated: August 31, 2026service_type=emailread data.registered
API at a glanceThe primary endpoint is the realtime single check; the multi, async bulk and balance endpoints share the same API key contract and the same code / msg / data response shape.

Quickstart

  1. 1.Create an API key in Settings.
  2. 2.Call GET /api/v1/balance to check the current balance.
  3. 3.POST one email address to /api/v1/check, or up to 100 email addresses to /api/v1/batch-check.
  4. 4.Read data.registered in the synchronous response.

Authentication

Use an API key created in Settings and send it with every request.

X-API-Key: sk_your_api_key
Keep your API key secret
Always call this endpoint from your server. Anyone holding the key can spend your balance.

Product and result fields

email

Email Registration Check

Confirm whether an email address is registered with its mailbox provider — works on any domain, from Gmail to a company's own.

01

Single check

curl -X POST "https://emailcheckpro.com/api/v1/check" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "service_type": "email", "identifier": "name@gmail.com" }'
Registered
{
  "code": 0,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "service_type": "email",
    "identifier": "name@gmail.com",
    "registered": true,
    "provider": "gmail"
  }
}
Not registered
{
  "code": 0,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "service_type": "email",
    "identifier": "unknown@gmail.com",
    "registered": false,
    "provider": ""
  }
}
registeredbooleanWhether an account exists at the mailbox provider.
providerstringProvider resolved from the domain: gmail, outlook, yahoo, icloud, yandex, mailru or other.
02

Multi check

Pricing: per email address

Each email address in the payload is billed independently. Maximum 100 email addresses per request. Only successfully checked email addresses consume balance. If your balance cannot cover the full batch, the request is rejected before processing.

Submit up to 100 email addresses in one request; results are returned in the same order.

curl -X POST "https://emailcheckpro.com/api/v1/batch-check" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "service_type": "email", "identifiers": ["name@gmail.com", "unknown@gmail.com"] }'
{
  "code": 0,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "service_type": "email",
    "total": 2,
    "succeeded": 1,
    "failed": 1,
    "results": [
      {
        "identifier": "name@gmail.com",
        "exists": true,
        "registered": true,
        "provider": "gmail"
      },
      {
        "identifier": "unknown@gmail.com",
        "exists": false
      }
    ]
  }
}
existsbooleanWhether this email address produced a result. false means the format was invalid, the result was undetermined, or the check failed; when false, none of the fields below are present.
registeredbooleanWhether the email address is registered. Present only when exists is true, with the same meaning as the single check.
providerstringProvider resolved from the domain: gmail, outlook, yahoo, icloud, yandex, mailru or other.

Concurrency, timeouts, and retry behavior

Email registration checks are synchronous. Use the returned code to decide whether to accept the result or retry.

  • 5 requests in flight per userSingle and multi checks share this limit, and a multi request counts as one request no matter how many email addresses it carries. On top of that, only one multi check per account runs at a time; a second one is rejected until the first finishes. Hitting either limit returns code 42901 immediately with no charge, plus a Retry-After header — resubmit once an in-flight request finishes.
  • 60s single, 300s multiExceeding the time limit returns code 50400 with no charge. A multi check that times out fails as a whole — no partial results, and the full amount is refunded.
  • A multi check takes up to 100 email addressesResults preserve submission order and length. One multi check per account runs at a time; submit the next batch once the previous one has returned.

Error codes

40000Unsupported service type or conflicting request fields
40001Invalid JSON body
40002Invalid email address
40100Missing or invalid API key
40200Insufficient balance
42200The email address could not be determined at this time. No data is returned and the request is not charged
42900A usage quota is exhausted, or there are too many unfinished orders
42901All five in-flight request slots are occupied, or a multi check is already running on this account; submit after an in-flight request finishes. The rejected request is not charged and carries a Retry-After header
50303The service is at capacity right now; not charged. Wait for the Retry-After seconds and resubmit the same request
50400The check did not finish within its timeout and is not charged; retry it. A batch timeout fails the whole batch and refunds the full amount
50300Validation service maintenance

Asynchronous bulk tasks

Upload a file of email addresses and get a task id straight away. Then check the task by that id; once it succeeds, the response carries the result file download link. Occasionally the link is not ready yet — check again shortly. Those two actions are the whole API. It is built for large lists; for 100 email addresses or fewer, the multi endpoint returns results in a single request. Bulk email tasks take no country: the file holds one email address per line.

  • email_avatar_batchEmail Bulk Avatar Check1,000–100,000 email addresses per task$0.003 per email address

1. Submit a file

curl -X POST "https://emailcheckpro.com/api/v1/bulk-tasks" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_your_api_key" \
  -F service_type=email_avatar_batch \
  -F file=@emails.txt
Response: task created (status processing)
{
  "code": 0,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "id": "3f9c2a7d8e4b4c1a9f0e6b2d5c8a7e13",
    "product": "email_avatar_batch",
    "status": "processing",
    "total": 1000,
    "created_at": "2026-09-08T09:30:00Z"
  }
}

2. Check the task

curl "https://emailcheckpro.com/api/v1/bulk-tasks/3f9c2a7d8e4b4c1a9f0e6b2d5c8a7e13" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_your_api_key"
Response: task finished (result_url present once it succeeds)
{
  "code": 0,
  "msg": "ok",
  "data": {
    "id": "3f9c2a7d8e4b4c1a9f0e6b2d5c8a7e13",
    "product": "email_avatar_batch",
    "status": "success",
    "total": 1000,
    "success_cnt": 990,
    "failure_cnt": 10,
    "result_url": "https://…/result.zip",
    "created_at": "2026-09-08T09:30:00Z"
  }
}
  • One email address per line.Upload a .txt or .csv with one email address per line; country is not part of an email task. The full-address check accepts any domain in one file. The avatar check covers Gmail, Yandex and Mail.ru, and you can mix all three in one file — each address is routed to the right provider. Addresses outside those three are rejected before any charge, and the error says how many.
  • No per-email address progress.status is processing, success or failed. Large lists take a while; do not poll more often than once every 30 seconds.
  • Billing.The full file is reserved on submit. When the task finishes you are charged only for the email addresses that were actually checked and the rest is refunded. A failed task is refunded in full.
  • Result files expire.The download link is generated on demand and points at a time-limited file. Download the result soon after the task finishes.

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