Small business▲+12Since September 2026: 7% → 19%, +12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
19%from 7% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 3 → 2 of 51
3 categories · RankedZeroBounce
223Judge labels
57First choices
15Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
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
50% in Email verification for enterprise buyers
Rank 1 of 65 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
11 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 3% of its 63 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of ZeroBounce →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business3 of 56
16%51 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market1 of 65
42%63 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise1 of 52
50%53 labels
endorsed leader
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 ZeroBounce 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 | 42% | 1 of 65 | 3% | 63 | endorsed leader | ▲+12Since September 2026: 29% → 42%, +12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Email deliverability and testing tools | Marketing | 0% | 27 of 110 | 25% | 20 | criticized challenger | |
| CRM data quality and deduplication | Revenue operations | 0% | 55 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Insycle at 43% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, ZeroBounce moved past the floor in one of three categories: Email verification, +12 points to 42%. It held within the floor in the other two.
Best category · Email verification · by segment
Mid-market▲+12Since September 2026: 29% → 42%, +12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
42%from 29% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 1 of 61, unchanged
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 51% → 53%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
53%from 51% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 50, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email verification | 29% | 42% | ▲+12Since September 2026: 29% → 42%, +12 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 1 of 65, unchanged |
| Email deliverability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 27 of 110, unchanged |
| CRM data quality | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 32 → 55 of 99 |
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 ZeroBounce 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 ZeroBounce 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 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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
Direct53 labels28
Paraphrase38 labels20
Comparative47 labels24not counted in share
Budget-constrained25 labels4
Scale-constrained30 labels5
Negative30 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative223 labels in all, every segment counted; 57 of the 85 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 email verification service for a mid-market B2B company is ZeroBounce, as it offers the best balance for mid-market list cleaning.” Llama 4 Maverick · Email verification · direct prompt · first choice
“ZeroBounce (The Premium, Feature-Rich Suite) ... Best For: Enterprise teams needing a complete email deliverability and analytics toolkit.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email verification · comparative prompt · first choice
“NeverBounce and ZeroBounce are the most recommended for their accuracy, ease of use, and feature sets.” Mistral Small · Email verification · direct prompt · first choice
“ZeroBounce is likely your best starting point due to its accuracy, integrations, and balanced feature set.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · 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.
“ZeroBounce only handles the list side of deliverability, not the content or infrastructure side.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Email deliverability · negative prompt · hard negative
“NeverBounce and ZeroBounce - While popular, tests show they can produce different results for the same emails” Kimi K2 · Email deliverability · negative prompt · soft negative
“Avoid tools that are just list cleaners (ZeroBounce, Clearout) unless you only need one-off hygiene.” Kimi K2 · Email deliverability · scale prompt · soft negative
“enterprise tools like GlockApps ($85+/month) or ZeroBounce ($99/month) would cost” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Email deliverability · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ZeroBounce, over the 223 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZeroBounce was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ZeroBounce, over the 223 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZeroBounce 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 ZeroBounce. 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 203 of the 223 answers that named ZeroBounce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
usebouncer.com90
kickbox.com80
sender.net73
zerobounce.netYour site72
overloop.com69
mailtrap.io61
hunter.io59
instantly.ai58
pipeline.zoominfo.com56
prospeo.io54
600 of the 672 domain citations in answers naming ZeroBounce came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where ZeroBounce stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where ZeroBounce stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “email verification service”
2
Position for “best email verification service”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 9,900 a month (“zerobounce”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 118 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 38,183 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,390 · 341 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,467
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 90 clicks and $778 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
42%
rank 1 of 65 in email verification
First choices
57
across its categories
- Named in
- 223 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 203 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 zerobounce.net
1,145
subdomains included
Content
617
counted in the table below
Documentation
275
Product · Integration
7 · 91
| 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.
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The company
ZeroBounce is its own company.ShowHide
The company
ZeroBounce is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Email Verification and Deliverability Platform
- For
- email senders
- Price stated
- Flexible pricing: pay-as-you-go or subscription; ZeroBounce ONE™ $99/ mo zerobounce.net
- Starting price
- 99/ mo zerobounce.net
- Free plan or trial
- Create a free account; Try our free email verifier; Get 100 free monthly email verifications. zerobounce.net
- Integrations claimed
- 40 zerobounce.net
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPRHIPAACCPACPRAEU AI ActEU-US DPF
- Hosting
- EUUSGlobal
- Customers named
- SR ProIkon TechnologiesLabyrinth DigitalUnileverStravaLinkedInCoca-ColaIntel
What ZeroBounce's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: zerobounce.net, zerobounce.net/pricing, trust.zerobounce.net, zerobounce.net/solutions/smb, zerobounce.net/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where ZeroBounce 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 ZeroBounce, 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 ZeroBounce 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 ZeroBounce is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend ZeroBounce 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.