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Melissa

Global data quality and enhancement solutions to profile, verify, clean, update, match, and integrate People data. [1]

www.melissa.com · Agent JSON · Last verified 2026-06-06 · Source confidence: high

Melissa provides global data quality APIs to verify, clean, match, and enrich people data, including address, email, phone, and identity verification across 240+ countries and territories. Pricing is published and self-serve, and three SDKs are available. The platform carries SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance with a published SLA.

Scores

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Pricing & procurement

Pricing model
Hybrid (base + usage) [2]
Published pricing
Yes [3]
Free tier
Yes [4]
Free tier details
GAV Free: $0 for 250 Records / Month (Global Address Verification free plan) [5]
Self-serve signup
Yes [6]
Requires sales call
No [7]
Enterprise plan
Yes [8]
Published prices [9]
PlanItemPerAmountSource
Pay As You GoUS Address Verification10,000 credits$40source
SubscriptionUS Address Verification1,000,000 records/year$5145source
UnlimitedUS Address VerificationUnlimited records$16000source
FreeGlobal Address Verification250 records/month$0source
SubscriptionGlobal Address Autocomplete10,000 records/year$350source
SubscriptionGlobal Address Verification1,000,000 records/year$12600source
Monthly Top-offVerification Feeone-time fee (tops up up to 1,000 credits/month)$4.97source
Credits10,000 credits$40source
Credits100,000 credits12.5% + $350source
Credits1,000,000 credits20% + $3200source
SubscriptionProperty Cloud API100,000 records/year$1760source
SubscriptionPersonator Consumer w/Move Update Cloud API1,000,000 records/year$12300source
SubscriptionPersonator Enrich Cloud API1,000,000 records/year$14300source
SubscriptionSmartMover Cloud API1,000,000 records/year$2205source
SubscriptionBusinessCoder Cloud API100,000 records/year$8000source
SubscriptionStreet Route Cloud API100,000 records/year$475source
Personator3 credits per check—source
Property Data9 credits per check—source
BusinessCoder15 credits per check—source
Global Address Check10 credits per address check—source
Global Name Check1 credit per check—source
Global Phone10 credits per record check—source
Basic Email Check1 credit per record check—source
Mailbox Email Check4 credits per record check—source
IP Locator2 credits per check—source
U.S. & Canada Check - Check1 credit per record checked—source
U.S. & Canada Check - Verify2 credits per match—source
Move Update0 credits per move updated—source
Name Append4 credits per name appended—source
Address Append5 credits per address appended—source
Phone Append4 credits per phone number appended—source
Email Address Append10 credits per email appended—source
Demographics1 credit per demographic appended—source
Geocode (Listware)0 credits per record—source
GeoPoints2 credits per record—source
MatchUp0 credits per record—source
People Search - unmatched/multi-matched1 credit per unmatched or multi-matched record—source
People Search - partial/matched9 credits per partial matched or matched record—source
Global Address Check (Listware)8 credits per address—source
Global Geocode - Rooftop Level5 credits per rooftop level geocode append—source
Global Geocode - Street Level1 credit per street level geocode append—source
Caller ID (Phone)3 credits per record checked—source
Phone Check (live)10 credits per record checked—source
SSN-Name Verify20 credits per record—source

Capabilities

Supported actions
Global Address Verification, Global Express Entry (address autocomplete), Global Email Verification, Global Phone Verification, Global Name Parsing, Global IP Geolocation, Personator Consumer (contact verify), Personator Identity, Personator Search, People Business Search, US Business Coder, SSN Name Match, Property Lookup, Reverse GeoCoder, Street Route, SmartMover US (NCOA), SmartMover Canada, LeadGen Business, LeadGen Consumer, LeadGen Occupant, LeadGen Property, Cicero (legislator lookup), Data Retriever, Contribution, Token Server, Melissa Releases [10]
Regions
240+ countries and territories [11]
Input types
JSON, XML [12]
Output types
JSON, XML, JSONP [13]
Webhooks
No [14]
Sandbox / test mode
No [15]
SDK languages
Python, C#, Java [16]
MCP server
No [17]

Trust & compliance

SOC 2
SOC 2 Type II [18]
HIPAA
Yes [19]
GDPR
Yes [20]
ISO 27001
Unknown [21]
PCI DSS
No [22]
Published SLA
Yes [23]
Rate limits
Pay-as-you-go (Credit) User: ~5 records/second; Self-Service Subscription: ~12 records/second; Business Subscription: ~50 records/second; Enterprise Subscription: ~100 records/second [24]
Known restrictions
US address lookup = 3 credits; Global address lookup = 10 credits, Rate limit figures are subject to change, Requests are throttled across all requests using your subscription, Batch requests should be split into chunks of 100 records, If a 429 error is returned, wait a second and re-send; if repeated, scale down the speed, Unless otherwise specified, you may view and download the materials on this web site only for your personal, informational, and noncommercial purposes [25]

Developer surface

Docs rendering: static · llms.txt present

Integration

SDKs

  • Python
  • C#
  • Java

Other Address Validation APIs

  • Jumio

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    Sales-led

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References

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  1. ↑Description: melissa.com
  2. ↑Pricing model: melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  3. ↑Published pricing: melissa.com
  4. ↑Free tier: melissa.com
  5. ↑Free tier details: melissa.com
  6. ↑Self-serve signup: developer.melissa.com · melissa.com
  7. ↑Requires sales call: developer.melissa.com · melissa.com
  8. ↑Enterprise plan: melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  9. ↑Pricing: melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  10. ↑Supported actions: developer.melissa.com · developer.melissa.com · docs.melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  11. ↑Regions: melissa.com · lookups.melissa.com
  12. ↑Input types: docs.melissa.com
  13. ↑Output types: docs.melissa.com
  14. ↑Webhooks: docs.melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  15. ↑Sandbox: developer.melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  16. ↑SDK languages: github.com · github.com · docs.melissa.com
  17. ↑MCP server: github.com · developer.melissa.com
  18. ↑SOC 2: melissa.com · melissa.com · melissa.com
  19. ↑HIPAA: melissa.com
  20. ↑GDPR: melissa.com
  21. ↑ISO 27001: melissa.com · dataclap.digital
  22. ↑PCI DSS: melissa.com
  23. ↑Published SLA: melissa.com
  24. ↑Rate limits: docs.melissa.com · docs.melissa.com
  25. ↑Known restrictions: docs.melissa.com · melissa.com · docs.melissa.com

Change history

Every field change, who made it, and when — from our audited data pipeline and editors.

  1. 2026-06-08 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://www.melissa.com/llms.txt
  2. 2026-06-08 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.melissa.com
  3. 2026-06-08 Docs URL: (none) → https://docs.melissa.com
  4. 2026-06-08 Llms Txt Present: (none) → Yes
  5. 2026-06-08 Rendering: (none) → static
  6. 2026-06-07 Summary Md: (none) → Melissa provides global data quality APIs to verify, clean, match, and enrich p…
  7. 2026-06-07 SDK Packages: (none) → Python, C#, Java