Hunter pricing and review

Disclosure: Reachkit, which publishes this page, sells a cold email platform with built-in lead data. Every price below was checked in October 2026 on Hunter’s pricing page and help center.

Hunter pricing runs from free to $299 a month, with unlimited users sharing one credit pool on every plan. Prices are from hunter.io/pricing as of October 2026.

Enterprise is priced by sales. Sequences hold 500 to 15,000 recipients, by plan.

Credits: a found email costs 1, a verification half of one, and misses and sending cost nothing. Monthly credits don’t roll over. Yearly billing gives you every credit upfront for a 12-month commitment, and Hunter offers no refunds.

What costs extra (paid plans):

• More inboxes: “from $10/mo” each on the pricing page ($10 in the help center), up to 50 on self-serve plans.
• Inbox Protection warmup: $7.50 per inbox a month in the help center, “from $6.00/mo” on the pricing page’s yearly view.
• Managed inboxes: Google Workspace accounts at $6 a month, on domains from $16.51 a year.
• Credit packs: 1,000 credits cost $70, $52.50 or $35 on Starter, Growth or Scale, cheaper per credit in bigger packs, valid three months.

What a typical setup costs: a founder emailing about 1,500 new prospects a month from 10 of their own inboxes pays $119 a month on Starter plus seven extra inboxes, or $149 on Growth, which includes all 10. Billed yearly, both come to $104 a month, assuming extra inboxes stay $10 each. Optional Inbox Protection on all 10 adds $75 a month.

Hunter is a set of email-finding tools with a sender attached, founded in 2015. Its core tools:

• Domain Search lists the addresses Hunter knows at a company, with where and when each was seen.
• Email Finder turns a name and domain into the likeliest address, verified free, with a confidence score.
• Email Verifier checks syntax, domain and mail server.
• Discover filters companies by industry, headcount, location or technology, or from a typed description.

The data comes from crawling the public web: 150 million professional addresses indexed, per Hunter’s data page, or “more than one hundred million” per its Email Finder page.

Hunter Sequences sends from connected Gmail or Outlook accounts (SMTP on paid plans), 15 emails per inbox a day by default, up to 400 on Gmail or 250 on Outlook. Sequences take up to five follow-ups, tracking starts off, and replies land in a shared inbox. There’s also a paid AI writing assistant, an API and an official MCP server, the standard way AI assistants like Claude reach other apps.

Strengths

• Fair credit rules. Misses, unknown verifications and most repeat lookups are free (credits help), and saved leads are re-verified monthly at no charge (changelog).
• No seat fees. Every plan, Free included, allows unlimited users.
• Open on the free plan. The API, the MCP server and CRM sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zoho come with every plan.
• Ready-made inboxes. Since April 2026, managed Google inboxes arrive with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set, usually within an hour.

Drawbacks

• Inboxes and warmup add up. Past the 3 to 20 inboxes included on paid plans, each one costs a monthly fee, warmup is billed per inbox, and self-serve plans stop at 50 (connection limits).
• One daily limit per inbox. Sequences share it, and the oldest active sequence sends first, so a new one can wait.
• Google only for managed inboxes, and Hunter built them to be used mainly inside its own Sequences.
• No refunds, and add-ons stay active after a downgrade until you cancel each one.

Hunter holds 4.4 out of 5 on G2 from 656 reviews, 4.6 on Capterra from 714 and 4.2 on Trustpilot from 347, as of October 2026 (G2 and Capterra figures read from Google’s rating snippets). Its Chrome extension shows 4.8 stars from about 12,500 ratings and 700,000 users.

Reviewers praise ease of use and accurate addresses most. The complaints that come back:

• Credits at volume. A G2 reviewer wrote that “…the credit system can feel limiting, especially when working on larger prospecting campaigns.”
• Gaps on smaller companies. G2 reviewers mention missing or incomplete results, especially for less common addresses.
• The step up from Free. One G2 reviewer wrote that “The jump from the free to Starter subscription is sizeable for a solo…”, and another wished the dashboard were “a bit less busy”.

Hunter fits marketers, recruiters, salespeople and founders who look up particular people and want proof an address holds up. It also suits small teams sending from a few inboxes, and builders whose AI assistant needs a finder.

Look elsewhere if you need phone numbers or plan to send from more than 50 inboxes without an Enterprise deal. My practitioner note: cold email is mostly list, so judge Hunter on your own market. Spend the 50 free credits on real targets and see how many it finds before you pick a plan.

• Apollo: a database Apollo puts at 240M+ contacts, with phone numbers and sequences built in, priced per seat. See the Apollo profile.
• Snov.io: finder, verifier and sender in one, with LinkedIn steps sold per slot; Starter is $39 a month with 1,000 credits. See Reachkit vs Snov.io.
• RocketReach: emails and phone numbers per person, from $49 a month for the email-only Essentials plan. See the RocketReach profile.
• ZoomInfo: contact, company and intent data sold by quote, with a free Lite tier. See the ZoomInfo profile.
• Reachkit (our product): finds and sends in one place: search 500M+ profiles by title, company or location, add verified leads at 1 credit each, and send from unlimited connected inboxes with AI warmup, from $39 a month. Suits campaigns more than one-off lookups.