Professional email discovery and verification platform for B2B outreach.
Hunter is an email outreach platform built around one core function: finding the verified professional email address of any person at any company, then reaching out to them. Founded in 2015 by Antoine Finkelstein and François Grante, it was built specifically to make cold email prospecting accessible without guesswork or enterprise pricing.
The tool crawls 30 million web pages every day and maintains an index of 150 million professional email addresses sourced from 650 million public web sources. Every email in the database includes the source where Hunter found it, and the company removes contact information that no longer has a public source after six months. More than 6 million professionals use it today.
Hunter is independent, bootstrapped from its early days, and not acquired by any larger company as of March 2026.
The most common solo founder use case is straightforward: you identify someone you want to contact for a partnership, a client pitch, or a sales conversation, and you need their email address. Hunter gives you that address — verified — in seconds, either by searching their company domain or typing their name.
From there, the same platform handles the outreach. You can build a multi-step email sequence with automated follow-ups, track opens and replies, and manage your entire cold email pipeline without switching to a separate tool.
A second common use case is bulk prospecting. The Discover feature lets you filter Hunter's B2B database by job title, company size, industry, and location to build a targeted list. The bulk Domain Search returns all the verified emails for a given company at once.
A third use case is email hygiene. Before sending to any list you already have, the Email Verifier checks each address and tells you whether it's valid, reducing bounce rates before they damage your sender reputation.
Type any company domain and Hunter returns all indexed professional emails for that company, with a confidence score and the public source URL for each one. No credits are charged if no emails are found. It's the fastest way to identify the right person to contact at a company you're targeting.
Type a name and a company domain and Hunter returns the verified email address for that specific person. One credit per email found, free if the email can't be found. The same search in the same billing period counts once, so repeat lookups don't burn your credits.
Check whether any email address is valid and deliverable before you send. It costs 0.5 credits per verification. Auto-verification runs automatically on emails found through Hunter on Starter and above, so you're not manually checking each address before adding it to a sequence.
Multi-step cold email campaigns with scheduled follow-ups, reply detection, and open and click tracking. They send through your own Gmail, Google Workspace, or Outlook account. Sequences are available on all plans including free, though the free plan caps you at 500 recipients per sequence.
Generates cold email copy from a plain-language description of your offer and your target audience, built into the Sequences editor. It's included on Starter and above. You don't need a separate AI writing tool to draft outreach copy.
You know the companies you want to reach and you need the right person's verified email before writing a word. Hunter finds it in seconds and lets you run the follow-up sequence in the same platform.
You've identified companies worth pitching. Hunter finds the decision-maker's email and Sequences handles the follow-up cadence so you're not manually tracking who you've contacted and when.
The Email Verifier checks existing lists before you send, reducing bounce rates and protecting the sender reputation of your Gmail or Outlook account.
Returns all indexed professional emails for a company domain with source URLs and confidence scores.
Finds a verified email for a specific person by name and company domain. Free if nothing is found.
Checks whether any email address is valid and deliverable. 0.5 credits per verification.
B2B database with filters for job title, company size, industry, and location. Basic filters on free, advanced filters on paid plans.
Multi-step cold email campaigns with follow-ups, reply detection, link tracking, and reporting. Sends from your own email account.
Generates cold email copy inside the Sequences editor from a plain-language brief. Starter and above.
Intent data tracking job changes, funding rounds, and hiring surges. 10 per month on free, 20 on Starter, 200 on Growth, unlimited on Scale.
Returns emails for multiple company domains at once. 1 credit per up to 10 emails found.
Finds emails for a list of names and domains in one operation.
Verifies a list of email addresses in bulk before sending.
Appends additional contact and company data to saved leads. Starter and above.
Automatically verifies emails found through Hunter before they're added to sequences. Starter and above.
Finds verified email addresses on any web page or LinkedIn profile without leaving the browser. 600,000 users, 4.7 stars from 12,000 reviews.
Same email-finding functionality as the Chrome extension for Firefox users.
Same email-finding functionality as the Chrome extension for Edge users.
Finds and verifies email addresses directly inside a Google Sheet without importing or exporting data.
Identifies websites using specific technologies. Useful for building prospect lists filtered by tech stack.
Full API access for integrating Hunter's email finding and verification into custom workflows.
Connects Hunter data into AI tools and agents for automated prospecting workflows.
Native two-way sync with HubSpot CRM.
Native two-way sync with Salesforce.
Native integration with Pipedrive CRM.
Connects Hunter to 5,000 apps via Zapier.
Export saved leads as a CSV on all plans including free.
Add as many team members as needed at no extra cost. All members share the same credit pool.
Rotate sending across multiple connected email accounts to manage deliverability. Starter and above.
Use your own domain for link tracking to improve deliverability. Starter and above.
Sequences that automatically enroll new contacts as they're added. Starter and above.
Connect email accounts via SMTP/IMAP in addition to native Gmail and Outlook connections. Starter and above.
Hunter has four paid plans plus a permanent free tier. All prices are in euros. Annual billing saves 30% across all plans.
Free — €0/month. 50 credits per month (600 per year). One connected email account. 500 recipients per sequence. Basic Discover filters. No credit card required. Enough to test database coverage for your target market before paying. Not enough for consistent outreach at any real volume.
Starter — €49/month (€34/month billed annually at €408/year). 2,000 credits per month (24,000 per year). Three connected email accounts. 2,500 recipients per sequence. Advanced Discover filters. AI Writing Assistant. Lead enrichment. Auto-verification. This is the realistic entry point for a solo founder running regular cold email outreach. At €34/month on annual billing, it covers the core use case without the credit pressure of the free plan.
Growth — €149/month (€104/month billed annually at €1,248/year). 10,000 credits per month (120,000 per year). Ten connected email accounts. 5,000 recipients per sequence. 200 Signals per month. The plan to consider if you're prospecting at higher volume or need meaningful intent signal data.
Scale — €299/month (€209/month billed annually at €2,508/year). 25,000 credits per month (300,000 per year). Twenty connected email accounts. 15,000 recipients per sequence. Unlimited Signals.
Annual vs. Monthly: Annual billing saves 30% on all paid plans. Starter drops from €49 to €34/month, saving €180/year. Start monthly until the workflow is confirmed, then switch.
Credit counting: 1 credit per email found. 0.5 credits per email verified. Free if nothing is found. The same search in the same billing period counts once. Additional email accounts can be added at €10/month per account on any paid plan.
If You Cancel: Saved leads export as a CSV at any time on all plans including free. Access continues until the end of your billing cycle. Credits aren't refunded on cancellation. No meaningful data lock-in.
⚠️ Worth knowing: Signals (intent data) is capped at 20 per month on Starter. Meaningful signal volume requires Growth at €149/month for 200 signals, or Scale for unlimited.
Prices last verified March 2026 from the official pricing page. Confirm current rates at hunter.io/pricing before subscribing.
A separate email finding tool if you're using Snov.io or a similar tool just to find contact emails, Hunter replaces it with a cleaner interface and transparent data sourcing.
A separate cold email sequencing tool if you're using Mailshake, Instantly, or Lemlist for outreach sequences, Hunter's built-in Sequences covers the same workflow without the extra subscription.
Manual email guessing the time spent testing firstname@company.com variations is exactly the problem Hunter was built to eliminate.
Your CRM Hunter integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Zoho but doesn't replace them. It feeds contact data into your CRM rather than managing the full client relationship.
Apollo.io if you need phone numbers, a dialer, or inbound lead routing alongside email finding, some teams run both. Hunter handles email-specific prospecting. Apollo covers the broader outbound stack.
Google Sheets the native Sheets add-on means Hunter works inside your existing spreadsheet workflow rather than requiring you to import and export lists between platforms.
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