# ZeroBounce Email Validation API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/email-validation-api/  
**Provider:** ZeroBounce — https://apis.io/providers/zerobounce/  
**Base URL:** https://api.zerobounce.net/v2  
**Documentation:** https://www.zerobounce.net/docs/email-validation-api-quickstart

ZeroBounce Email Validation API is one of 6 APIs that [ZeroBounce](https://apis.io/providers/zerobounce/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Email Validation, Email Deliverability, and Lead Scoring. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

Real-time and batch email validation API including credit balance, API usage, file submission and retrieval, email finder, domain search, activity data and AI scoring endpoints. Authenticated via api_key query parameter. This entry covers the legacy api.zerobounce.net host, which ZeroBounce's own endpoints documentation now describes as "the previous ZeroBounce endpoint", currently serving EU validations and interactions only.

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **Documentation** — https://www.zerobounce.net/docs/email-validation-api-quickstart
- **APIReference** — https://www.zerobounce.net/docs/api-dashboard/api-endpoints
- **GettingStarted** — https://www.zerobounce.net/docs/email-validation-api-quickstart/v2-validate-emails
- **Sandbox** — https://www.zerobounce.net/docs/email-validation-api-quickstart/v2-sandbox-mode
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/authentication/zerobounce-authentication.yml
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/zerobounce-rate-limits.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/errors/zerobounce-error-codes.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/conventions/zerobounce-conventions.yml
- **DataModel** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/data-model/zerobounce-data-model.yml
- **Webhooks** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/zerobounce-webhooks.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zerobounce/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other ZeroBounce APIs (5)

- [ZeroBounce Email Validation API (US)](https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/email-validation-api-us/)
- [ZeroBounce Email Validation API (EU)](https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/email-validation-api-eu/)
- [ZeroBounce Bulk API](https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/bulk-api/)
- [ZeroBounce Validation API](https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/zerobounce-validation-api/)
- [ZeroBounce MCP Server](https://apis.io/apis/zerobounce/mcp/)

## Tags

Email Validation, Email Deliverability, Lead Scoring

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