Hunter.io
Find verified business email addresses and run targeted cold-email outreach from one lead platform.
Finder, Domain Search, verifier, B2B Discover, enrichment, sequenced outreach, AI assistance and CRM connections provide a coherent prospecting workflow.
G2 shows 4.4/5 from 658 matching reviews, with recurrent praise for ease and prospecting speed but repeat concerns about contact freshness and coverage; no Toollers login test.
Vendor discloses Free and three paid subscription prices and credit capacity; recurring and one-time data economics plus sender add-ons complicate full-cost comparison.
CRM and automation ecosystem is unusually broad for a focused email finder; API and inbox connections are documented, although lawful outreach and account security need buyer checks.
Scored by Shikha Goyal
Quick facts
- Vendor
- Hunter (Hunter.io)
- Pricing model
- freemium
- Plan pricing
- $34/mo equivalent billed annually for Starter ($408/year); $49 month-to-month
- Free plan
- Yes — check limits
- Free trial
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- 11/4/2026
About Hunter.io
Hunter.io is a B2B prospecting and outreach platform with Domain Search, Email Finder, Email Verifier, Discover company targeting, lead management, enrichment and automated email sequences. It indexes public professional contact data and can route verified leads to a CRM or a connected sending inbox. The Free plan includes 50 recurring monthly credits, one connected sender and 500 recipients per sequence. Paid Starter costs $49 month-to-month or $34 per month equivalent on annual billing ($408/year), with 24,000 annual credits and three email accounts. Growth and Scale add data and sender capacity, while Enterprise is quoted. Teams can use unlimited Hunter seats on every tier, but contact coverage varies by company and region. Credits, email-infrastructure add-ons, privacy rules and deliverability should be examined against your actual ICP before buying.
Best for
B2B SDRs, recruiters, agencies, consultants and small growth teams finding business emails and starting personal outreach without a large sales-intelligence stack.
Hunter.io pros and cons
Pros
- Finds professional email patterns by domain and offers per-contact lookup and verification to reduce manual prospecting.
- Free recurring monthly credits allow a small trial of real lead-search and verification tasks without a paid subscription.
- Starter, Growth and Scale combine contact credits with outreach sequences and three, ten or twenty sender connections.
- All plans advertise unlimited team users, useful when multiple staff need shared prospecting access.
- Documented HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Gmail, Outlook, Google Sheets and automation connections support lead handoff.
Cons
- −Customer G2 reports indicate that some contacts are outdated, undeliverable or missing for particular companies.
- −Free has only 50 monthly credits; paid search/verify volume requires a realistic credit forecast.
- −Connected sender accounts and sequence-recipient caps are tiered, with paid extra-account and inbox add-ons.
- −Unused monthly subscription credits do not roll over according to the current plan comparison.
- −Verified email availability does not establish permission to send unsolicited messages; privacy and anti-spam compliance remains the customer's responsibility.
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Pricing — verified 11/4/2026
What you’ll actually pay
50 credits per month, one connected email account, basic Discover filters, unlimited team members and 500 recipients per sequence.
$49 month-to-month or $34/mo equivalent billed $408 annually; 24,000 upfront annual credits, 3 connected inboxes and 2,500 recipients/sequence.
$149 month-to-month or $104/mo equivalent billed $1,248 yearly; 120,000 upfront credits annually and 10 connected senders.
$299 month-to-month or $209/mo equivalent billed $2,508 yearly; 300,000 upfront annual credits and 20 connected senders.
Custom outreach credits, inbox quantities, sequence and sales-support agreement; obtain written price and contract terms.
Separate bulk/API credit pricing is calculated from search and verification volume; not an ordinary recurring outreach subscription. Vendor pricing calculator showed an example, not a universal package price.
Official pricing / availability source · Checked 4 November 2026. Confirm current taxes, regional terms and allowances. A listed plan is not necessarily the cheapest option.
Editorial verification: 11/4/2026. Check the vendor's site for current pricing.