MailCheck.ai API
Overview
MailCheck.ai (powered by UserCheck) is a free API that detects whether an email domain belongs to a known temporary or disposable email provider, helping prevent fake sign-ups without requiring authentication. It checks a continuously updated blocklist of throwaway email domains and returns a simple boolean result. No API key is needed for the basic disposable-check endpoint.
Beginner Tip
MailCheck.ai is one of the simplest no-auth APIs available — just append a domain to the URL and you get back a JSON object with a disposable field. Use it to block throwaway email addresses from your sign-up form with a single fetch call.
Measurement Record
What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.
- Request
- GET https://api.mailcheck.ai/domain/mailinator.com
- Result
- HTTP 200 · application/json · 354 bytes · compressed
- Response time
- 157 ms (median of 3) · fastest 151 ms
- Transport
- TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services
- Browser CORS
- Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
- Rate limit
- 5 per window (0 remaining at test time)
- Served by
- cloudflare
- Recorded
- 2026-08-10
Fields Returned
Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.
| Field | Type | Value received |
|---|---|---|
| status | integer | 200 |
| domain | string | mailinator.com |
| domain_age_in_days | integer | 8440 |
| mx | boolean | true |
| mx_records | array | [1 item] |
| mx_providers | array | [0 items] |
| spf | string | strict |
| dmarc | string | reject |
| disposable | boolean | true |
| public_domain | boolean | false |
| relay_domain | boolean | false |
| free_subdomain | boolean | false |
| spam | boolean | true |
| did_you_mean | null | null |
Captured Response
Captured from a real request to https://api.mailcheck.ai/domain/mailinator.com on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.
{
"status": 200,
"domain": "mailinator.com",
"domain_age_in_days": 8440,
"mx": true,
"mx_records": [
{
"hostname": "mail.mailinator.com",
"priority": 1
}
],
"mx_providers": [],
"spf": "strict",
"dmarc": "reject",
"disposable": true,
"public_domain": false,
"relay_domain": false,
"free_subdomain": false,
"spam": true,
"did_you_mean": null
} Field Reference
domain The domain name that was checked against the disposable email blocklist mx True if the domain has valid MX records configured, indicating it can receive email disposable True if the domain is on the known disposable or temporary email provider blocklist Implementation Example
Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.
const url = "https://www.mailcheck.ai/";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
How This API Fails
We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.
{
"status": 429,
"error": "Too many requests"
} Common Errors & Troubleshooting
Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
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