Lead & Email Finders

Our top three lead and email finders

The first two are close. Hunter comes first because finding and checking a work email is the job most people bring here, and it does that with little to learn and 2,000 credits a month shared by a whole team on Starter. Snov.io adds phone numbers, mailbox warm-up and a small CRM for less to start, but splits use across three allowances. Apollo.io is third for reps who need phone numbers in bulk from a large database. Clay narrowly missed: it draws on 150-plus data sources, but costs $167 a month, billed annually, and takes real setup. ZoomInfo publishes no prices.

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   First: Hunter

   Free plan · from $34/mo

   For: Most people looking for work email addresses

   Hunter finds the addresses people use at work, for one named person or for everyone it has at a company domain, and checks whether each will accept mail. The free plan gives 50 credits a month, and Starter is $34 a month for 2,000 credits, billed annually ($49 monthly), shared by unlimited team members. It runs on the web with Chrome and Firefox extensions and a Google Sheets add-on, and it can send cold email sequences too. Know the limits: it finds email addresses only, with no phone lookups, and credits do not roll over on monthly billing.

   Hunter pricing and details
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   Second: Snov.io

   Free plan · from $29.25/mo

   For: Small teams that want phone numbers and outreach on one cheap bill

   Snov.io finds and verifies work emails, searches a prospect database, pulls verified phone numbers with enrichment tokens and sends email campaigns with mailbox warm-up, all with unlimited seats. Starter is $29.25 a month for 1,000 credits and 75 enrichment tokens, billed annually ($39 monthly), and the free plan renews 50 credits every 30 days. It is second because it gives fewer lookups and has more to learn: Starter gives half Hunter's credits, use is split across credits, recipients and tokens, LinkedIn automation costs $59 a month more per LinkedIn account, and its billing FAQ rules out refunds.

   Snov.io pricing and details
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   Third: Apollo.io

   Free plan · from $49/mo

   For: Sales reps who need phone numbers from a large database

   Apollo.io searches about 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, reveals a work email for 1 credit and a phone number for 8, and runs email sequences and a US dialer from the same account, with a Chrome extension for LinkedIn and Gmail. The free plan gives 900 credits per seat a year, granted monthly, and Basic is $49 per seat a month, billed annually, with 30,000 credits a seat a year. It is third because a team costs more: every seat is paid for and all must be on the same plan, unused credits expire each billing cycle, and the web app takes longer to learn.

   Apollo.io pricing and details

Ranked on Oct 17, 2026 from what each listing shows and what people say about the tool, not from our own testing. How we rank