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Email Validation vs mail.gw
Email Validation
AbstractAPI's email verification endpoint checks format, deliverability, and quality signals such as disposable, free, and role-based addresses, returning an autocorrect suggestion and quality score per lookup. A free monthly quota is available before metered paid plans apply.
mail.gw
mail.gw is a temporary/disposable email API that issues throwaway inboxes for testing signups and email-verification flows. Its Hydra/JSON-LD REST API is rooted at api.mail.gw, exposing /domains (available disposable-email domains) and /messages collections, with no API key required for the base entrypoint.
| Email Validation | mail.gw | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | None |
| Pricing | freemium | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON-LD |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
mail.gw needs no API key, while Email Validation requires API Key — pick mail.gw to start without signup.