Hunter
Find email addresses and send cold emails at scale
AI-Powered Summary
Hunter is an email outreach platform that finds professional email addresses by indexing public web pages across 81 million websites. It combines email discovery, verification, and cold email sequencing into a single tool, with a B2B database for lead identification. Used by over 6 million accounts, it serves marketers, salespeople, and recruiters who need to find and contact business professionals at scale.
Key Features
What makes Hunter stand out
Domain Search
Find all email addresses associated with a company by entering its domain name.
Email Finder
Get a verified email address by typing a person's name and their company domain.
Email Verification
Check if an email address is valid before sending to avoid bounces and protect sender reputation.
B2B Lead Database
Search a database of companies using filters to find leads matching your ideal customer profile.
Email Sequences
Set up automated multi-step cold email campaigns with personalization and follow-ups.
AI Writing Assistant
Get help writing and personalizing cold emails using an AI assistant built into the platform.
Email Account Rotation
Rotate sending across multiple email accounts to improve deliverability on large campaigns.
API Access
Automate email finding, verification, and lead discovery programmatically via a REST API.
What's Great
- Generous free tier with 50 credits per month and full feature access
- All-in-one platform combining email finding, verification, and cold email sending
- Unlimited team members included on all plans, including Free
- Extensive integrations with major CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho) and 5,000+ apps via Zapier
- Transparent email sourcing showing where each address was found on the public web
Things to Know
- Credit-based system means heavy users can burn through allowances quickly, especially on lower tiers
- Email sequences limited by recipients per sequence cap (500 on Free, 2,500 on Starter)
- Additional email accounts cost $10/month each beyond the plan's included accounts
- Only finds business email addresses from public web sources — not suitable for finding personal emails
Pricing Plans
All Hunter pricing tiers and features
Billed monthly or annually
Free
+16 more features
Starter
+17 more features
Growth
+17 more features
Scale
+17 more features
Enterprise
+16 more features
Real Cost Breakdown
Hidden Costs
- Additional connected email accounts cost $10/month each beyond the plan's included limit
- Bulk credit purchases for the Data Platform can cost $6,500+ for high-volume needs
- Credits reset monthly — unused credits don't roll over on subscription plans
Cost Saving Tips
- Annual billing saves 30% across all paid plans
- The Free plan includes 50 credits/month — enough for light prospecting without paying
- Repeated searches for the same email are only counted once per calendar month
- All plans include unlimited team members, so there's no per-seat cost scaling
Hunter offers strong value with unlimited seats on all plans and a usable free tier, but heavy prospectors will need the Growth ($104/mo yearly) or Scale ($209/mo yearly) plans to get sufficient credits.
Price Comparison
Compare Hunter with similar tools
Hunter is the premium choice in this category, priced 72% above the category average of $29/mo.
Best For
Sales and marketing teams running cold email campaigns who need verified contact data
Who Should NOT Use This
- B2C marketers targeting individual consumers — Hunter indexes business email addresses from professional web pages; it's not designed for finding personal consumer email addresses.
- Teams needing phone-first outreach — Hunter is focused on email discovery and email outreach. Phone numbers are not a core feature, and the platform doesn't include calling or SMS capabilities.
- High-volume senders needing 50,000+ recipients per campaign — Even the Scale plan caps sequences at 15,000 recipients, and the platform sends from personal email accounts rather than dedicated sending infrastructure.
- Users needing social media contact data (LinkedIn, Twitter DMs) — Hunter is specifically an email-focused platform. While it shows some LinkedIn/Twitter profiles in results, it doesn't provide social outreach or messaging capabilities.
Competitive Position
Hunter sources all email data from publicly crawled web pages and shows the exact source URLs, giving users transparency about data provenance that most competitors don't offer.
When to Choose Hunter
- You need an all-in-one platform combining email finding, verification, and cold email sending
- You want unlimited team members without per-seat pricing
- You value transparent data sourcing and need to show where email addresses were found for compliance
- You want a simple, accessible tool rather than a complex enterprise sales platform
When to Look Elsewhere
- You need multi-channel outreach including LinkedIn automation and phone dialing
- You require very high sending volumes (50,000+ recipients per sequence)
- You need a full-featured CRM with deal management and pipeline tracking built in
- You primarily need phone number data and calling features alongside email
Strongest alternative: Apollo.io
Learning Curve
Prerequisites
Common Challenges
- Understanding the credit system and which actions consume credits
- Setting up effective email sequences with proper personalization and timing
- Configuring email account rotation and deliverability settings for cold outreach
- Learning to use the API for bulk or automated workflows
Frequently Asked Questions
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