Hunter
Small teams and founders who need to find and verify work emails by domain and send simple cold email sequences from one cheap tool.
Quick overview
- Pricing
- From $34/month billed annually ($49 month to month); free plan with 50 credits a month
- Plans
- Starter is $49/month monthly or $34/month billed yearly ($408/year) with 2,000 credits a month; Growth is $149/month or $104/month yearly ($1,248/year) with 10,000 credits; Scale is $299/month or $209/month yearly ($2,508/year) with 25,000 credits; Enterprise is custom. All plans, including Free ($0, 50 credits a month, 1 connected email account), have unlimited team members sharing one credit pool. Monthly credits reset and do not roll over; yearly plans get all credits up front. An API-only Data Platform sells credit bundles (example on the page: $6,500 for 1,000 search and 200,000 verification credits, usable for 12 months).
- G2 rating
- Not yet verified
- Comparisons
- Featured in 2 comparisons
Key features
- Domain Search and Email Finder with confidence scores and sources
- Email Verifier and bulk verification
- Discover B2B company database with AI Assistant and Signals
- Hunter Sequences cold email sending with tracking, A/B tests and account rotation
- Browser extension, Google Sheets add-on, CRM integrations, API and MCP server
Pros
- Low entry price and a real free plan
- Unlimited team members on every plan
- No credit charged when no email is found
- Built-in cold email sequences with clear sending limits
- Public, simple pricing with monthly cancellation
Cons
- No phone numbers
- Credits do not roll over
- Smaller, email-only data compared with full sales intelligence tools
- Deliverability add-ons cost extra
Hunter in our comparisons
Apollo.io alternatives
Lusha is the easiest self-serve swap for small teams: a free plan, public prices and phone numbers at 5 credits instead of Apollo's 8. Pick Cognism for European calling, Hunter if you only need emails, Clay for custom enrichment, or lemlist if you mainly want better sequences. Larger teams that need more data and intent should look at ZoomInfo.
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