Kickbox vs Scrubby
Choosing between Kickbox and Scrubby usually comes down to how each one deals with the addresses your list actually struggles with. Kickbox is a developer-first verifier with a clean real-time API and a deliverability score. Scrubby is a specialist that recovers catch-all and gateway-protected addresses others skip. Below we walk through how they price, what they do with catch-all addresses, and how accurate each claims to be, and we show where Giggal.ai lands on the same list so you have a third number to weigh.
How Kickbox, Scrubby and Giggal.ai compare
| Kickbox | Scrubby | Giggal.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Pure verifier | Catch-all specialist | Catch-all and SEG verifier |
| Resolves catch-all | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catch-all cost | Flagged via an accept_all field, not resolved | Deep (catch-all) verification is 3 credits per email | 1.5 credits in the same run, 2 credits standalone |
| Secure email gateways | No | Yes | 15 gateways |
| Price at 10,000 | $70 | $80 | $9.90 |
| Price at 100,000 | $500 | $800 | $76 |
| Price at 1,000,000 | $2,999 | Quote only | $680 |
| Credit expiry | Not published | Pay-as-you-go credits never expire; plan credits roll over | Credits never expire, with no condition. |
| Free tier | 100 verifications | 200 credits | 1,000 credits, no card, usable on bulk |
| Charges for unknown results | No | - | No |
| Accuracy figure | - | Claims 98.7% | Claims 99% |
Every price and policy here comes from the vendor's own pricing. Where a tool does not sell by volume, the cell shows "Quote only", "Per seat" or its monthly plan price instead.
How Kickbox and Scrubby handle catch-all
Kickbox flags accept-all addresses with a field rather than resolving them. Scrubby resolves catch-all through a deep check at 3 credits per address. Catch-all domains accept mail for every name, so a normal check cannot tell a real mailbox from a dead one, and this is usually where a list quietly loses good contacts.
How Giggal.ai handles catch-all. Giggal.ai resolves catch-all addresses to a real deliverable or undeliverable result at 1.5 credits in a run, or 2 standalone.
Kickbox vs Scrubby pricing
Kickbox is $70 at 10,000, $500 at 100,000 and $2,999 at a million. Scrubby is $80 at 10,000, $800 at 100,000 and Quote only at a million. Both numbers come straight from each vendor's own pricing, so put them next to the volume you send each month.
How Giggal.ai prices it. Giggal.ai publishes a flat pay-as-you-go price, $9.90 at 10,000, $76 at 100,000 and $680 at a million, with credits that never expire.
Secure email gateway support
On enterprise domains a gateway like Mimecast, Proofpoint or Barracuda often sits in front of the mailbox and blocks the usual check. Kickbox does not cover those gateways, and Scrubby does too.
How Giggal.ai handles gateways. Giggal.ai detects 15 named secure email gateways including Mimecast, Proofpoint and Barracuda, and returns a real result on addresses behind them.
Credits, free tiers and expiry
Kickbox does not publish a credit-expiry policy, and offers 100 verifications to start. Scrubby pay-as-you-go credits never expire; plan credits roll over, and offers 200 credits to start.
How Giggal.ai treats credits. Giggal.ai credits never expire, it does not charge for unknown results, and every list starts on 1,000 free credits with no card.
Why teams pick Giggal.ai over both
Kickbox and Scrubby each leave a pile of catch-all and gateway-protected addresses unconfirmed. Giggal.ai returns a real result on those at 1.5 credits, verifies behind 15 secure email gateways, and publishes a flat $9.90 per 10,000 with credits that never expire.
Verify 1,000 emails freeFrequently asked questions
It depends on your list. Kickbox suits developers building verification into an app through a well-documented API. Scrubby suits teams whose main job is recovering catch-all and risky addresses. If catch-all resolution and secure email gateway coverage matter most, Giggal.ai handles both at $9.90 per 10,000.
Kickbox is $70 at 10,000, $500 at 100,000 and $2,999 at a million. Scrubby is $80 at 10,000, $800 at 100,000 and Quote only at a million. Giggal.ai is $9.90 at 10,000, $76 at 100,000 and $680 at a million, with credits that never expire.
Kickbox flags catch-all without confirming the mailbox. Scrubby returns a result on catch-all addresses. Giggal.ai resolves catch-all to a real deliverable or undeliverable result at 1.5 credits in a run and also verifies behind 15 secure email gateways.
Giggal.ai is built for the hard addresses both tend to skip. It resolves catch-all to a real result at 1.5 credits, verifies behind 15 secure email gateways, and publishes a flat price of $9.90 per 10,000 with credits that never expire. You can run a list on 1,000 free credits, no card.
Yes. Giggal.ai gives 1,000 free credits with no card, usable on a bulk upload, so you can run the same list you would test in Kickbox or Scrubby and compare the catch-all rows.
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