Email Risk Radar vs Clearout
Clearout offers email verification plus a wider toolset — a signup-form guard (Form Guard), data enrichment (Data Pulse), and reverse-lookup tools — with 100 free credits and non-expiring, rolling-over credits confirmed on their own site. Their exact subscription dollar amounts are third-party sourced rather than confirmed directly, and flagged accordingly. Email Risk Radar doesn't offer form-embed widgets or enrichment tools, focusing instead on API-based risk scoring with full signal-level explainability.
What Clearout does
Clearout's own site documents real-time and bulk email verification, an API, and a confidence-scoring model, alongside a broader toolset: Form Guard (real-time validation embedded directly in signup forms), Data Pulse (contact/company data enrichment), and reverse-lookup tools. Integrations with HubSpot, Google Sheets, and WordPress are listed on their site.
Pricing (last checked 2026-08-18)
| Item | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Free credits at signup | 100 credits, no card required | Confirmed on clearout.io |
| Credit expiry | Never expire, roll over across plans | Confirmed on clearout.io |
| Starter (subscription, reported) | ~$23/month for ~3,000 credits | Third-party sourced — not confirmed on clearout.io |
| Pro (subscription, reported) | ~$58/month for ~10,000 credits | Third-party sourced — not confirmed on clearout.io |
| Pay-as-you-go (reported) | ~$21 for ~3,000 credits | Third-party sourced — not confirmed on clearout.io |
Feature comparison
| Feature | Email Risk Radar | Clearout |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time + bulk verification | Yes | Yes — publicly documented |
| Confidence/quality scoring | Yes — 0–100 with named signals | Yes — "confidence scoring" mentioned, exact methodology not publicly documented |
| Embeddable signup-form widget (Form Guard) | No — API-only | Yes — publicly documented |
| Contact/company data enrichment (Data Pulse) | No — out of scope | Yes — publicly documented |
| Syntax / MX / SMTP / disposable / catch-all checks | Yes, all individually confirmed | Implied by "verification" but not individually itemized in their published materials |
| Explainable, per-signal breakdown (severity, point impact, description) | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Context-aware scoring (signup / B2B lead / marketplace / payment) | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Credits never expire | N/A — quota-based plans, not credits | Yes — publicly documented |
Where the products actually differ
Clearout's Form Guard — validating an address inline as someone types it into a signup form — is a genuinely different delivery mechanism than a server-side API call, and something this product doesn't offer at all (only a server-side API and the public marketing-page demo widget). In exchange, Email Risk Radar's scoring is fully broken into named, explainable signals with per-use-case context weighting, which isn't part of Clearout's documented feature set.
Who each is a better fit for
- Clearout: teams wanting an embeddable form widget or bundled enrichment tools alongside verification, with a low-friction free-credit start
- Email Risk Radar: developers who want a server-side risk decision with full explainability, integrated into their own signup/lead flow rather than a drop-in widget
FAQ
Their pricing table loads via client-side JavaScript that isn't captured by standard page content, so the specific dollar tiers here are drawn from third-party trackers rather than read directly off clearout.io. The free-credit and credit-expiry terms, by contrast, are confirmed directly on their site.
No — it's an API-first product with a server-side check and a public demo widget on the marketing site, not an embeddable inline-validation widget for third-party forms.
No — Data Pulse is described as contact/company data enrichment (finding more information about a contact), not data-breach exposure checking, which is a different feature entirely.
No, per their own site — credits are documented as never expiring and rolling over across plans, confirmed directly on clearout.io.