Sales and marketing · Data and enrichment
Hunter
Email finder and verifier with simple cold email sequences.
- Vendor
- Hunter
- Pricing model
- Freemium with tiered monthly plans and pay-as-you-go API credits.
- Runs on
- Vendor cloud (SaaS), browser extension and API
- Agentic OS layer
- Context
- Industries
- Any industry
- Last reviewed
- November 2026
Our verdict
A simple, trusted email finder and verifier with light sequencing.
What it is
Hunter finds and verifies professional email addresses by company domain or by person. It also offers a company search, a basic cold email sequencer and an API, Chrome extension and Google Sheets add-on.
Best for
Founders, marketers and small sales teams who need verified emails without a big data contract.
Not the right fit
Teams needing phones or advanced multichannel outreach.
Key capabilities
Domain search
Emails at a company.
Email verifier
Check deliverability.
Campaigns
Simple cold email sequences.
API
Lookups at scale.
Strengths
- Easy domain search and email finder
- Generous free plan to test
- Clean API and Sheets add-on
Watch-outs
- Weaker coverage outside web-visible domains
- No phone numbers
Pricing
Freemium with tiered monthly plans and pay-as-you-go API credits.
Pricing summarised in October 2026 and not re-checked since. Vendors change plans often, so confirm current pricing with Hunter before you budget.
Security and governance
Contact data is personal data. Ask how the vendor sources and refreshes records, its legal basis under GDPR and similar laws, how opt-outs flow back to you, and for a data processing agreement. Enrich only the fields you need and record where each value came from.
How we would roll it out
- Define the fields you needEmail, phone, title and firmographics only for your ICP.
- Test on a known sampleMeasure match and bounce rates on 500 records you already trust.
- Write back with source and dateStore where each value came from so you can refresh or delete it.
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Choosing between Hunter and the alternatives?
Book a call. We look at your systems, data and governance together and tell you which platform fits, and what to build on it first.