Small business▼−10Since September 2026: 33% → 23%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
23%from 33% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 1 of 51, unchanged
2 categories · RankedBouncer
143Judge labels
27First choices
2Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
27% in Email verification for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 65 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 52 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Bouncer →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 56
27%50 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 65
22%52 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise13 of 52
0%29 labels
accepted challenger
In email verification · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Bouncer for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email verification | GTM data and infrastructure | 22% | 2 of 65 | 0% | 52 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 24% → 23%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Email deliverability and testing tools | Marketing | 0% | 33 of 110 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by GlockApps at 34% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Bouncer held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Email verification · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 24% → 23%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
23%from 24% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 61, unchanged
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 6 → 11 of 50
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email verification | 24% | 23% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 24% → 23%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 65, unchanged |
| Email deliverability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 110, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Bouncer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Bouncer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct29 labels10
Paraphrase23 labels6
Comparative31 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels7
Scale-constrained18 labels4
Negative19 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative143 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 42 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“the best default choice is usually Bouncer if you want the strongest all-around mix of accuracy, speed, pricing, and usability” Perplexity Sonar · Email verification · direct prompt · first choice
“Best Overall for Accuracy & Value: Bouncer ... widely considered the top all-around choice for mid-market B2B teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email verification · direct prompt · first choice
“Bouncer is the strongest overall pick because multiple reviews describe it as the most affordable option” Perplexity Sonar · Email verification · budget prompt · first choice
“the most recommended email list validation tools are ZeroBounce, Bouncer, and Findymail” Mistral Small · Email verification · paraphrase prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bouncer, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bouncer was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bouncer, over the 143 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bouncer was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Bouncer. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 140 of the 143 answers that named Bouncer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
usebouncer.comYour site91
kickbox.com72
sender.net58
overloop.com53
hunter.io50
zerobounce.net47
sparkle.io46
mailtrap.io43
pipeline.zoominfo.com41
emailvendorselection.com38
448 of the 539 domain citations in answers naming Bouncer came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
usebouncer.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Bouncer takes 22% of first choices and ZeroBounce takes 42%.ShowHide
Search and answers
usebouncer.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Bouncer takes 22% of first choices and ZeroBounce takes 42%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “email verification service”
7
Position for “best email verification service”
6
- Searches for its name, Google
- 27,100 a month (“bouncer”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6,621 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 9,553 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,011 · 42 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,540
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
22%
rank 2 of 65 in email verification
Segment leader
42%
ZeroBounce
- First choices
- 27 across its categories
- Named in
- 143 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 140 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on usebouncer.com
10,020
subdomains included
Content
742
counted in the table below
Documentation
19
Product · Integration
0 · 11
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 497 | 10 | 2026-09-27 | Email verification, CRM | |
| Comparison | 153 | 3 | 2026-09-03 | Email verification | |
| Glossary or explainer | 66 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | Email verification | |
| Case study | 11 | 0 | 2026-05-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 6 | 2026-07-30 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 0 | 2023-03-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2024-10-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2024-09-12 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-27How to move your email list to a new platform without a bounce spike blog
- 2026-09-08Email verification mcp server blog
- 2026-09-03Prevent hard bounces newsletters blog
- 2026-09-03Tools clean old mailing list before campaign blog
- 2026-09-03Inbox placement monitoring tools global campaigns blog
- 2026-09-03Email verification vs enrichment reduce bounces comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page usebouncer.com 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.
Follow Bouncer
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Bouncer is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Bouncer is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Powerful, Secure, and Caring email verification platform
- For
- Enterprise, Saas company, Marketing agencies, Your business
- Price stated
- Fair Email Verification Pricing usebouncer.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 8 usebouncer.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free credits included usebouncer.com
- Integrations claimed
- 25 usebouncer.com/integrations
- Certifications
- GDPR CompliantGDPR compliant by design
- Hosting
- EU🇪🇺EU AWS data centres
- Customers named
- FitXMachineryBookYourDataOngageInstreamKilo HealthWoodpeckerSwitch edu-ID
What Bouncer's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: usebouncer.com, usebouncer.com/pricing, usebouncer.com/case-studies, usebouncer.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Bouncer's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Bouncer, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Bouncer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bouncer is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Bouncer, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Bouncer is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Bouncer is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideBouncer is among the products AI models recommend first in Email verification this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.