Signing up to an AI service means handing over an address that will collect product announcements, pricing changes and research newsletters for years. A temporary address takes the verification code, gets you in, and then removes itself from every list it was just added to.
Copy the address above, use it on the sign-up form, and watch this page. Verification mail typically arrives in seconds and the numeric code is detected automatically and shown in a green band at the top of the message with a copy button.
That extraction matters more on a phone than it sounds — it removes the pinch-zoom hunt through a marketing template to find six digits.
An account created against a temporary inbox cannot be recovered. If you forget the password, the reset mail goes to an address that no longer exists, and support will not be able to help without a mailbox you control.
So this fits a throwaway experiment, a second workspace, or an account you would be happy to abandon. It does not fit a paid subscription or anything holding work you would miss.
Some AI services ask for a phone number on top of email, and no email service can solve that — the check exists specifically because email is easy to get. If a sign-up demands SMS, a temporary address gets you as far as the email step and no further.
That is worth knowing before you start, because the phone step usually appears after the email step. Getting a code here does not mean the rest of the sign-up will let you through.
The real cost of signing up with your main address is not the verification mail, it is everything that follows: launch announcements, pricing changes, usage summaries and re-engagement campaigns, arriving for years after you stopped using the product.
A temporary address ends that at the source. The list still has an entry for you, but it points at a mailbox that no longer exists, so nothing is delivered and there is no unsubscribe link to hunt for later.
It varies by domain and changes over time. If one address is refused, switch to the other domain in the picker and try again.
Open the message — a detected code appears in a green band at the top with a copy button. If none was detected, the full message body is right below it.
Yes, as long as you stay logged in and never need a password reset. Once the mailbox is gone, so is your recovery path.