Hunter Review (2026): Find, Verify, and Send in One Tool at Published Prices, but Monthly Credits Don't Roll Over

Skip Hunter if you need direct mobile numbers. The products shown on the official pages center on email: finding it, verifying it, and sending to it. For mobiles, read the UpLead review, where one credit opens a verified email plus a direct mobile.

Skip it if your targets have no web presence. Hunter builds its database from the public web only, and says it indexes millions of pages daily. A company with no website may not appear.

Skip it if you need an Arabic interface. The listed languages are English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Arabic isn't among them.

You sell to companies and need a verified email for the right person. Hunter charges one credit for an email it finds, and nothing when it finds none. The catch: monthly credits don't roll over, and fees aren't refundable.

The task: You sell to small software companies and need the email of 100 product managers.

1. Build: Set location, industry, size, and keyword filters in Discover, and use the AI assistant.
2. Search: Find each decision maker's email in Domain Search, using about 100 credits for 100 found emails.
3. Verify: Verify each email at half a credit per the pricing page, about 50 credits, and drop the invalid ones.
4. Sequence: Connect your inbox, write the messages with the AI writing assistant, and set up an A/B test.
5. Protect: Turn on Inbox Protection if needed, and start with a moderate sending volume.

This task uses about 150 credits, roughly 7.5% of the monthly Starter allowance. That covers about 13 similar lists. Hunter publishes no time estimates for these steps, only testimonials the company chose.

At $49/month, Starter equals about 39 minutes of your time at $75/hour. On yearly billing ($34/month) it's about 27 minutes, and Growth at $149 is about 119 minutes.

The math works even for small deals. A 100-email verified list costs about $3.68 on monthly Starter, and one $1,000 deal covers the subscription twenty times.

It weakens if you leave monthly credits unused, since they don't roll over. It also weakens if your domain reputation causes bounces. Test on the Free plan, then run Starter monthly before committing yearly.

Free: $0 with 50 credits a month, basic Discover filters, 10 AI searches and 15 suggestions a month, and 10 signals. You connect one email account, with 500 recipients per sequence and up to 100,000 saved leads.

Starter: $49/month (monthly) or $34/month (yearly): 2,000 credits a month, or 24,000 a year. It adds auto-verification, lead enrichment, advanced filters, the AI writing assistant, and priority support. You connect 3 email accounts, with 2,500 recipients per sequence.

Growth: $149/month (monthly) or $104/month (yearly): 10,000 credits a month, 10 email accounts, 5,000 recipients per sequence, and 200 signals. It suits anyone running several campaigns at once.

Scale: $299/month (monthly) or $209/month (yearly): 25,000 credits a month, 20 email accounts, 15,000 recipients per sequence, and an account manager. The page lists signals as unlimited in the table and 10,000 in the list, so check which applies.

Cost per credit: A credit costs about $0.0245 on monthly Starter and $0.017 on yearly Starter. Finding 100 emails and verifying them costs about $3.68 on monthly Starter, using the half-credit verification rate.

Monthly vs yearly: Yearly saves about 30%. That's $180 on Starter ($408 vs $588), $540 on Growth ($1,248 vs $1,788), and $1,080 on Scale ($2,508 vs $3,588).

Add-ons: An extra email account starts at $10/month. Managed domains and email accounts start at $6/month each. Inbox Protection starts at $7.50/month per account, or $6.00 on yearly billing.

Data Platform: API-only access on a pay-as-you-go basis. Credits are valid for 12 months from purchase, and a calculator on the pricing page sets the amount. Registered non-profits get 30% off monthly plans.

Price history: The official pages publish no record of older prices. The Terms say Hunter may change fees with 30 days' written notice.

If you cancel: Cancel in your account settings or by email, and it takes effect at the end of the current cycle, with no refund. If Hunter ends your access, it refunds the unused part of your prepaid subscription within 30 days.

You click "Get started for free" and create an account. The homepage advertises 50 free leads a month with no credit card and no trial, and it shows GDPR and CCPA badges.

The strongest early moment is the search result itself. You get an email with a confidence score, public sources, and the date it was found. The free Chrome extension shows name, job title, confidence score, and source while you browse a company site.

Friction comes from the Free plan's limits. Fifty credits means 50 emails found or 100 verifications, and advanced Discover filters are paid. Sending sequences also requires connecting your own email account.

A published Modgility testimonial says the team set Hunter up in a day. The company publishes no official time estimate for a first list.

The homepage presents the workflow in three stages: find leads, verify and enrich them, then engage through sequences. It also shows a dashboard that tracks signals and suggests new leads.

These are marketing pages, and the pages reviewed don't show the product interface itself. App speed and stability can't be described from official sources, although the status page shows "All Systems Operational."

• Pricing page: Yearly billing gives all the year's credits upfront. You lose the monthly reset and gain a 30% discount.
• Domain Search result: Every email shows its source and date, which sets Hunter apart from tools that hide where data comes from.
• Chrome extension: The extension is free and shows contact data while you browse. Its credits count like the app's.

The listed channels are the contact page and the help center at help.hunter.io. The pricing page lists contact@hunter.io for non-profit discount requests, and there's a status page at status.hunter.io plus a changelog.

The Terms say support is by email, with reasonable efforts to reply within three business days. Priority support comes with paid plans, an account manager comes with Scale and Enterprise, and no phone number is listed.

The service is provided "as is." Liability is capped at the fees you paid in the 12 months before the incident, and Delaware law governs.

This review doesn't use review sites or forums, so it includes no summary of independent opinions. That's a known limit of this review.

The official pages cite 7M+ users and a Chrome extension with 12,000+ reviews. They show testimonials from Planhat, Lattice, Acquire.com, Modgility, and Vocations, plus a Canva case study.

These are materials the company chose, and the rating numbers conflict across its own pages. Check current G2 and Capterra ratings yourself, and look for feedback from people targeting your industry.