# Hunter

> Email finder and verifier with cold email sequences built in

Hunter finds the email addresses people use at work, either for one named person or for everyone it has on record at a company domain, and checks whether an address will accept mail. It also has a B2B lead database called Discover and a sequences tool for sending cold email from connected mailboxes. Plans are priced per account with unlimited team members, and credits pay for finding and verifying.

- **Category:** Lead & Email Finders
- **Made by:** Hunter Web Services, Inc. (since 2015)
- **Website:** https://hunter.io
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Hunter has a free plan. Paid plans start at $34 per month for 2,000 credits, billed annually.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 50 credits a month (an email found costs 1, a verification 0.5), basic Discover filters, 1 connected email account and 500 recipients per sequence.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 50 credits a month that reset and do not roll over, basic filters, 1 email account and unlimited team members. |
| Starter | $34 per month for 2,000 credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) | Auto-verification, lead enrichment, advanced filters, AI Writing Assistant, 3 email accounts and 2,500 recipients per sequence. |
| Growth | $104 per month for 10,000 credits, billed annually ($149 billed monthly) | 10 email accounts, 5,000 recipients per sequence, 450 AI searches a month and 10 million saved leads. |
| Scale | $209 per month for 25,000 credits, billed annually ($299 billed monthly) | 20 email accounts, 15,000 recipients per sequence, unlimited signals and an account manager. |
| Enterprise | Custom | A custom number of credits and connected email accounts, through sales. |

Read from https://hunter.io/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hunter before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **About 30% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Hunter's pricing page marks yearly billing -30%: Starter is $34 a month billed yearly against $49 billed monthly. Source: https://hunter.io/pricing

## Key features

- **Domain Search and Email Finder:** List the addresses Hunter has for a company domain, or look up one person by name and company. Each email found costs 1 credit.
- **Email Verifier:** Checks whether an address is deliverable for half a credit. Paid plans verify found addresses automatically.
- **Discover lead database:** Search companies and people with filters and an AI assistant; paid plans add advanced filters and weekly suggestions of new leads.
- **Sequences:** Send cold email from connected Gmail, Outlook or SMTP accounts with tracking, A/B testing and an AI writing assistant on paid plans.
- **Browser extension and Sheets add-on:** Extensions for Chrome and Firefox find addresses on the site being viewed, and a Google Sheets add-on finds and verifies in a sheet.
- **API and MCP server:** An API and an MCP server give Claude, ChatGPT and other tools access to Hunter's data; an API-only Data Platform is sold separately.

## Good for

- Teams that need work emails rather than phone numbers
- Companies with many users, since every plan has unlimited team members
- Small teams that want lookup and cold email in one tool

## Worth knowing

- Hunter finds email addresses only; the pricing page lists no phone number lookups.
- Credits reset monthly and do not roll over on monthly billing; yearly billing grants the whole year's credits upfront.
- Extra connected email accounts cost from $10 a month each on Starter and Growth.
- API-only access is sold separately as the Data Platform, with bulk credits usable for 12 months.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Hunter finds and checks work email addresses, by company domain or by name, and sends cold email too. Every plan has unlimited team members, so five of you share Starter at $34 a month billed yearly. It does emails only, though, so if you need phone numbers, look elsewhere.

- **Value for money: A.** Starter is $34 a month billed yearly for the whole team, about $6.80 a head for five, under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter ($34). That buys 2,000 credits a month, shared: an email found costs 1, a check 0.5.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 50 credits a month that reset, basic filters, 1 email account and unlimited team members. Fine for a taste, but 50 lookups won't last a working week.
- **Features: C.** Domain search, an email finder and verifier, a lead database, cold email sequences, an API and an MCP server. It does the email job fully, but that's a smaller job: the pricing page lists no phone lookups.
- **Ease of use: B.** No App Store rating on record, but this is about as simple as the category gets: type a company domain and the addresses come up, or click the extension on the site you're on.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Chrome and Firefox extensions and a Google Sheets add-on, with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Zapier and Clay, plus an API. No desktop or phone apps.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hunter's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among lead and email finders

- Hunter's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 13 of the 19 other lead and email finders we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 13 of 19) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $34 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 4 of the 14 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/lead-finders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Hunter you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 13 of the 19 other lead and email finders we grade. It costs $408 a year.

- You could make: Web clipper: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Gmail, Outlook, Zapier, Clay

**Tags:** Email campaigns, Web clipper, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Snov.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snov-io): Email finder, verifier and cold outreach suite with a small CRM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hunter-vs-snov-io)
- [Findymail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/findymail): Verified email and phone finder with plain-language company search. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/findymail-vs-hunter)
- [Prospeo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prospeo): B2B lead database with verified emails and mobile numbers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hunter-vs-prospeo)
- [Voila Norbert](https://toolgpa.com/tools/voila-norbert): Email finder that charges only for addresses it finds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hunter-vs-voila-norbert)
- [Anymail Finder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anymail-finder): Email finder that verifies each address live before charging. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anymail-finder-vs-hunter)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://hunter.io/pricing
- https://hunter.io/about
- https://hunter.io/integrations
- https://hunter.io/chrome

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hunter
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).