> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://orbisearch.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# OrbiSearch: Email Validation

> OrbiSearch verifies email addresses in real-time and at scale, giving you clear Safe, Risky, Invalid, and Unknown results before you send.

OrbiSearch is an email validation API that tells you whether an email address is deliverable before you send to it. It checks DNS records, MX records, and mail server responses to determine whether a mailbox actually exists — without sending a real email.

Use OrbiSearch to:

* **Clean email lists** before a campaign to remove invalid addresses and protect your sender reputation
* **Validate email addresses at point of entry** so bad data never enters your system
* **Enrich contact data** with deliverability signals, email provider, and account-type flags

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/docs/quickstart">
    Make your first API call in minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authentication" icon="key" href="/docs/authentication">
    Get your API key and authenticate requests.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Verification Statuses" icon="circle-check" href="/docs/concepts/verification-statuses">
    Understand Safe, Risky, Invalid, and Unknown.
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  <Card title="API Reference" icon="code" href="/docs/api-reference/verify-email">
    Full endpoint reference and response schemas.
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## Verification statuses

Every email OrbiSearch verifies returns one of four statuses:

| Status    | Meaning                                             |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `safe`    | Mailbox confirmed to exist and accept mail          |
| `risky`   | Cannot confirm — catch-all domain or policy block   |
| `invalid` | Mailbox does not exist; will bounce                 |
| `unknown` | Verification failed due to a transient server issue |

Each result also includes a `substatus` with the specific reason, a plain-English `explanation`, the detected `email_provider`, the `mx_record` for the domain, whether the domain is a catch-all (`is_domain_catch_all`) or sits behind a secure email gateway (`is_secure_email_gateway`), and boolean flags for `is_disposable`, `is_role_account`, and `is_free`.

## Pricing

Each verification costs **0.2 credits**.