Hunter.io review (2026): pricing, credits, free plan, verdict
Hunter.io pricing verified: Free with 50 credits a month, Starter $49 or $34 yearly for 2,000, Growth $149 or $104 for 10,000, Scale $299 or $209 for 25,000.
Hunter.io at a glance
Facts checked Oct 22, 2026 on hunter.io
- Price
- From $34 per month billed yearly for Starter with 24,000 credits a year, or $49 billed monthly with 2,000 a month; Growth $104 or $149; Scale $209 or $299; a free plan with 50 credits a month
- Pricing model
- Five plans on one credit system, with unlimited team members on every plan and a 30% discount for yearly billing. A credit is one email found through Domain Search, Email Finder or Bulk Email Finder, up to ten emails through Bulk Domain Search, or two verifications; nothing is charged when no email is found or a verification fails, and repeats are counted once per billing period. Free costs nothing and gives 50 credits a month, basic Discover filters, the AI assistant, signals from existing leads, one connected email account and 500 recipients per sequence. Starter costs $49 a month for 2,000 credits a month, or $34 a month billed $408 yearly for 24,000 credits granted upfront, with auto-verification, lead enrichment, advanced Discover filters, weekly lead suggestions, three connected email accounts, the AI writing assistant, 2,500 recipients per sequence and priority support. Growth costs $149 for 10,000 credits, or $104 billed $1,248 for 120,000, with ten email accounts and 5,000 recipients per sequence. Scale costs $299 for 25,000 credits, or $209 billed $2,508 for 300,000, with 20 email accounts, 15,000 recipients per sequence and an account manager. Enterprise is custom. Add-ons on paid plans: additional email accounts from $10 a month each, custom domains and email accounts bought through Hunter from $6 a month per account, Inbox Protection from $7.50 a month per account, or $6 billed yearly, and credit packs. A separate Data Platform sells API-only credits, $50 per 1,000 searches and $11 per 1,000 verifications, valid 12 months. Registered non-profits get 30% off monthly plans.
- Minimum order
- None; the Free plan needs no card
- Free trial
- A permanent Free plan with 50 credits a month and one connected email account
- Billing
- Monthly or annual, renewing automatically unless cancelled; cancel at any time from the dashboard and keep access to the end of the cycle; no refunds on cancellation for any reason; 30 days' notice of price changes; Hunter Web Services, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, under Delaware law
- Mailbox types
- Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, SMTP
- Setup time
- Minutes: create a free account, install the extension or Sheets add-on, connect an email account for Sequences
- DNS setup
- For domains and email accounts bought through Hunter, yes; your own accounts you manage yourself
- IP location
- Provider infrastructure; email account rotation is included in Sequences
- Warmup
- Not described on the pricing page; an Inbox Protection add-on costs from $7.50 a month per email account, or $6 billed yearly
- Replacements
- Not stated
- Domains
- Custom domains and email accounts bought through Hunter from $6 a month per account
- Integrations
- Chrome, Firefox and Edge extensions, Google Sheets add-on, CRM integrations on Starter and above, API and MCP server, with an agents.md for AI agents, Sequences with SMTP or IMAP accounts, rotation, link and open tracking, Clay, Zapier and other workflow tools
Best for: Founders and small teams that want finding, verification and sequencing on one credit pool with unlimited users and a free plan to start.
Not for: Teams that need phone numbers, refunds, or many connected inboxes without paying per account.
Hunter.io pricing
Published prices as of Oct 22, 2026 from their pricing page. Prices change; check before you buy.
| Plan | Price | What you get | Extras | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 credits a month, 1 email account, 500 recipients a sequence | — | No card; unlimited team members |
| Starter | $49 a month | 2,000 credits, auto-verification, 3 email accounts, 2,500 recipients | Email accounts from $10 a month | $34 a month billed yearly, 24,000 credits upfront |
| Growth | $149 a month | 10,000 credits, 10 email accounts, 5,000 recipients a sequence | Managed accounts from $6 a month | $104 a month billed yearly, 120,000 credits |
| Scale | $299 a month | 25,000 credits, 20 email accounts, 15,000 recipients, account manager | Inbox Protection from $7.50 a month | $209 a month billed yearly, 300,000 credits |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits and connected accounts, account manager | — | Talk to sales |
- Free$0
50 credits a month, 1 email account, 500 recipients a sequence
No card; unlimited team members
- Starter$49 a month
2,000 credits, auto-verification, 3 email accounts, 2,500 recipients
Extras: Email accounts from $10 a month
$34 a month billed yearly, 24,000 credits upfront
- Growth$149 a month
10,000 credits, 10 email accounts, 5,000 recipients a sequence
Extras: Managed accounts from $6 a month
$104 a month billed yearly, 120,000 credits
- Scale$299 a month
25,000 credits, 20 email accounts, 15,000 recipients, account manager
Extras: Inbox Protection from $7.50 a month
$209 a month billed yearly, 300,000 credits
- EnterpriseCustom
Custom credits and connected accounts, account manager
Talk to sales
What Hunter.io does well
- A real free plan with 50 credits a month, one email account and unlimited team members.
- One clear credit system across finding, verifying and bulk tasks, with failed searches and checks free.
- Yearly billing is 30% off and grants the whole year's credits upfront, from $34 a month.
- Sequences, a 650 million-source database with Discover filters, signals and an AI assistant on one bill.
- A named Delaware company, published cancellation rules, and MCP and API access for agents.
Where it falls short
- No refunds on cancellation for any reason, and monthly credits do not roll over.
- Connected email accounts are capped at 3, 10 and 20, with extras from $10 a month each.
- Email accounts bought through Hunter cost from $6 a month, more than PureMail at every tier.
- Upfront yearly credits suit steady users; bursty teams may overbuy or run short.
- The Data Platform's $50 per 1,000 searches is far above the plan rate, so API-only buyers pay a premium.
PureMail score for Hunter.io
Five criteria, 1 to 5 each, scored on what Hunter.io publishes. How we score.
3.6 / 5
- Price and value
- 4 / 5
- Setup and control
- 4 / 5
- Deliverability foundations
- 3 / 5
- Terms and support
- 3 / 5
- Fit for cold email
- 4 / 5
Published prices, effective cost per mailbox at 10, 30 and 100, no hidden fees. Unpublished pricing scores 1.
Time to first send, DNS automation, domain options, sequencer connection, ownership of domains and mailboxes.
Mailbox type and its inherited reputation, IP policy, warmup path, replacement policy for blocked mailboxes.
Minimum order, billing flexibility, refund and cancellation terms, support channel and hours.
Built and permitted for outbound, integrations with sequencers, warmup and verification tools.
What Hunter.io is
Hunter.io is an email finding, verification and outreach platform from Hunter Web Services, Inc. in Delaware, built on a database it says draws on more than 650 million public sources. Domain Search lists the addresses at a company, Email Finder guesses and verifies a person’s address, Discover filters the B2B database, Signals watch existing leads, and Sequences sends campaigns from connected email accounts, all on one credit system with unlimited users. For cold email it is the list-building and cleaning layer, and for small teams the sequencer too.
Hunter.io pricing explained
Free gives 50 credits a month, one connected email account and sequences of 500. Starter costs $49 a month for 2,000 credits, or $34 a month billed $408 yearly for 24,000 credits upfront, with auto-verification, enrichment, advanced filters, three email accounts and sequences of 2,500. Growth costs $149 for 10,000 credits, or $104 billed $1,248 for 120,000, with ten accounts and sequences of 5,000. Scale costs $299 for 25,000, or $209 billed $2,508 for 300,000, with twenty accounts, sequences of 15,000 and an account manager. Enterprise is custom. Extra email accounts cost from $10 a month, accounts and domains bought through Hunter from $6 a month, Inbox Protection from $7.50 a month or $6 yearly, and credit packs are available. The API-only Data Platform charges $50 per 1,000 searches and $11 per 1,000 verifications, valid for 12 months. The terms renew plans automatically and give no refunds on cancellation.
Credits, Discover and Sequences
A credit is a found email, or two verifications, and failures are free, which keeps the quoted price honest. Discover adds filters, an AI assistant with a monthly allowance of searches, weekly lead suggestions and intent signals that scale with the plan. Sequences is a real if modest sequencer: rotation across connected accounts, link and open tracking, custom tracking domains, A/B tests and evergreen sequences, with the number of connected accounts the thing that separates the tiers.
What that means for cold email
Hunter is one of the simpler ways to go from company list to verified addresses, and the free plan lets you measure hit rate before paying. The sequencer suits a founder with a few inboxes; a fleet outgrows the 3, 10 and 20 account caps and the $10 per extra account. Buy the inboxes elsewhere, verify everything, and keep the yearly plan for steady monthly volume rather than bursts.
Who Hunter.io is for, and who should look elsewhere
Hunter.io suits founders and small teams that want finding, verification and sequencing on one credit pool with unlimited users and a free plan to start. It is a poor fit for teams that need phone numbers, refunds, or many connected inboxes without paying per account. Tomba and Skrapp are the cheaper credit-based finders, Snov.io pairs a finder with a fuller sequencer and warm-up, Apollo brings a bigger database with phones, Dropcontact charges only for found emails under French law, and the Hunter Email Verifier profile prices the verification on its own. The lead data category compares them.
Using Hunter.io with PureMail
Find and verify in Hunter, then send from a sequencer connected to PureMail’s Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 inboxes on separate outreach domains, or connect those inboxes to Hunter Sequences within its account caps. The inboxes arrive with DNS configured and ready to warm in your sequencer, and cost less than Hunter’s $6 managed accounts; Hunter finds the people, the inboxes and the sending discipline decide whether the emails land.
Hunter.io alternatives we have reviewed
Tomba
Email finder and verifier on a credit slider: $49 a month for 5,000 credits, $89 for 10,000, half to find and half to verify, with 25 free searches a month.
Snov.io
Finder, verifier, warm-up and sequencer in one suite with unlimited seats: Starter $39 a month or $29.25 annual, Pro $99 to $369; free plan renews monthly.
Apollo.io
B2B contact database plus a built-in sequencer: free tier, then $49, $79 and $119 a seat a month billed annually, with credits for emails and phones.
Skrapp
Email finder for LinkedIn and Sales Navigator: free with 50 credits, Professional $29 a month yearly ($39 monthly) for 2,000 credits, Enterprise from $262.
Dropcontact
GDPR-first email finder priced per credit: Starter from 29€ a month for 500 credits, Growth from 35€ with carryover, a yearly discount and 50 free credits.
Hunter Email Verifier
Email verifier inside Hunter: 100 free checks a month, 5 a day with no account, $11 per 1,000 API credits, or half a credit per check on plans from $49.
Hunter.io FAQ
How much does Hunter.io cost?
As of 22 October 2026, Free gives 50 credits a month at no cost. Starter costs $49 a month for 2,000 credits or $34 a month billed yearly for 24,000 credits upfront, Growth $149 for 10,000 or $104 for 120,000 a year, and Scale $299 for 25,000 or $209 for 300,000 a year. Enterprise is custom, team members are unlimited on every plan, and non-profits get 30% off monthly.
How do Hunter credits work?
One credit buys one email found through Domain Search, Email Finder or Bulk Email Finder, or up to ten emails through Bulk Domain Search, and half a credit buys one verification. Nothing is charged when no email is found or a check fails, and the same search or verification repeated in a billing period counts once. Credits count identically in the web app, API, extension and Sheets add-on.
Does Hunter.io have a free plan?
Yes, and it does not expire. The Free plan gives 50 credits a month, basic Discover filters, the AI assistant, signals from existing leads, one connected email account for Sequences with 500 recipients per sequence, and unlimited team members. It is enough to test hit rate on your own target accounts before paying, and the terms let you subscribe for a single month and cancel.
Can I send cold email from Hunter.io?
Yes, through Sequences. Starter connects three email accounts, Growth ten and Scale twenty, with SMTP or IMAP accounts, rotation, tracking, A/B tests and evergreen sequences, and sequences of 2,500, 5,000 or 15,000 recipients. Extra accounts cost from $10 a month, accounts bought through Hunter from $6, and Inbox Protection from $7.50 per account, or $6 yearly.
How does Hunter.io fit with PureMail?
Use Hunter to find and verify the addresses, then send from a sequencer connected to PureMail's Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 inboxes on separate outreach domains, or connect those inboxes to Hunter Sequences within its account caps. PureMail's inboxes cost $3.30 each for 10, $3.10 for 30 to 100 and $2.90 for 101 or more, below Hunter's $6 managed accounts, and arrive with DNS configured.
Sources
Disclosure: PureMail sells Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes and competes with some tools in this directory. We do not assign star ratings and we do not take payment for placement. Spotted an error? Email [email protected] and we will correct it within a week.
More tools in the directory
Apollo.io
B2B contact database plus a built-in sequencer: free tier, then $49, $79 and $119 a seat a month billed annually, with credits for emails and phones.
Browse AI
No-code web scraper on credits: free plan with 50 a month, Personal $19 a month billed yearly for 12,000 a year or $48 monthly, Professional from $69.
Cognism
B2B contact and mobile data with intent signals, sold by quote: Standard and Pro packages with 5 seats included, one credit per revealed contact.
Setup guides from PureMail
How to Set Up SPF, DKIM and DMARC for Cold Email Domains
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