Can you trust the numbers in Icypeas?
Icypeas is a lead-finding tool that discovers valid professional email addresses, including catch-all ones, and gathers contact data at scale. Its own help pages give 4 reasons its numbers can look different from what you expect. The first to rule out: The count of emails found can be lower than the people you searched for, since Icypeas's help pages say it holds back addresses it is less than 95% sure of.
What does Icypeas keep track of?
Icypeas keeps a status on each search, so you can tell finished searches from ones still running and found results from misses.
In Icypeas's own words:
It tells you whether the search is finished and whether something was found.
Result statuses, read 2026-11-12.For a bulk search, Icypeas keeps a running tally of progress and of how many emails it found.
In Icypeas's own words:
Read it to know how far the bulk search is and how many emails were found.
Bulk search progress and stats, read 2026-11-12.Each email Icypeas finds is labelled with how sure it is, at one of two levels.
In Icypeas's own words:
We categorize our verified findings into two main confidence levels: 99% and 95%.
What is the Confidence Level?, read 2026-11-12.
What can make Icypeas's numbers look wrong?
The count of emails found can be lower than the people you searched for, since Icypeas's help pages say it holds back addresses it is less than 95% sure of.
In Icypeas's own words:
If our system calculates a confidence level below 95%, we do not consider the email safe enough for you to use.
What is the Confidence Level?, read 2026-11-12.Some checked addresses come back neither good nor bad, because Icypeas's developer docs say it cannot tell when a mail server accepts every address.
In Icypeas's own words:
We can't tell whether the address exists (for example the server accepts everything).
Email certainty levels, read 2026-11-12.A not found result can mean either that no address turned up or that the address does not exist, as Icypeas's developer docs explain, so one not found result can stand for either case.
In Icypeas's own words:
The search ran but found nothing (or the email doesn't exist).
Result statuses, read 2026-11-12.Results are not instant, so a count read too early can miss searches still in progress, given that Icypeas's developer docs say each one checks the mail server.
In Icypeas's own words:
Finding or verifying an email takes a few seconds, because Icypeas really talks to the company's mail server.
How the Icypeas API works, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check Icypeas's numbers myself?
Before counting results, check that no searches are still queued or running, so the totals are final.
In Icypeas's own words:
A search is finished when its status is not NONE, SCHEDULED or IN_PROGRESS.
Result statuses, read 2026-11-12.Since a search uses a credit only when an email is found, comparing credits used with emails found is a quick way to check the found count.
In Icypeas's own words:
Costs 1 credit only if an email is found.
Email search: find a professional email, read 2026-11-12.
How does Icypeas work with Feder?
Connect Icypeas to Feder and it joins your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Icypeas.
When you connect Icypeas, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Other apps that feed Interest
- Jotformform submissions
- Klaviyonew profiles
- Mailchimpclicks on today's sends
- ActiveCampaignnew contacts
- Cal.combookings made
- Intercomnew contacts
Questions owners ask about Icypeas
- Why doesn't my Icypeas email count match the list I sent?Results are read a page at a time, so a count taken from one page can be lower than the whole list.
- Why did Icypeas find fewer emails than usual?Rows missing details a search needs can fail to run at all, so a file with gaps can return fewer emails.
- Why did Icypeas stop returning any results?If a payment on the Icypeas account is pending, searches can be refused until it is settled.
Where do these answers come from?
Everything this page says about Icypeas comes from Icypeas's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.
Know the day a number breaks, not the month after.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
