Hunter review

Hunter brings business email discovery, verification and outreach into one platform. You can search by company domain, look up an address using a person’s name, verify a list, and enrich verified leads with missing company or contact details. It also lets you build automated email sequences, including A/B tests, from a connected inbox.

The same data can be accessed through Hunter’s app, API or remote MCP server. Hunter describes the MCP server as a way for AI agents to retrieve verified contact data rather than invent email addresses. That makes Hunter relevant both to sales teams building lists by hand and to developers connecting contact lookup to their own workflows.

There is a free plan, but it is limited to 50 credits per month. Paid plans start at $49 month to month or $34 per month with annual billing, according to the pricing details checked November 6, 2026.

Hunter’s main advantage is that prospecting and the first outreach steps live together. A team can search for a contact, verify the address, fill in some missing lead data and add the lead to a sequence without buying separate tools for each step. The API and MCP server also give developers and AI-agent workflows a way to use Hunter’s contact data outside the app.

The plans scale in clear steps. Starter includes 2,000 credits per month, auto-verification and lead enrichment, three connected email accounts and up to 2,500 recipients per sequence. Growth raises those limits to 10,000 monthly credits, 10 accounts and 5,000 recipients per sequence, and adds advanced Discover filters and an AI Assistant. Annual billing is listed at about 30% below month-to-month pricing.

Hunter can be a reasonable fit when the need is specifically finding and validating business email addresses, then sending sequences from connected inboxes. A Reddit thread comparing Hunter with alternatives also shows that buyers consider it for lead-list building, though the discussion does not establish that it is better than those alternatives.

The free allowance is small for ongoing prospecting: 50 credits per month, one connected email account and a 500-recipient cap per sequence. Starter costs $49 monthly, or $34 per month with annual billing, and provides 2,000 credits per month. Teams that need more volume face a steep step to Growth at $149 monthly or $104 annually, then Scale at $299 monthly or $209 annually. Scale includes 25,000 monthly credits and a 15,000-recipient sequence cap; Enterprise pricing is custom.

The listed prices may not be the whole bill. Additional email accounts start at $10 per month each, custom domains and email accounts from $6 per account, and Inbox Protection from $6 to $7.50 per email account. Credit packs are also available, but the pricing details do not give a general per-credit rate.

Data fit may vary by market. In one Reddit thread, a Hunter user said it was not optimized for Asian names, including Chinese and Vietnamese names. That is an individual report, not a measured comparison, but teams targeting those markets should check coverage before committing.

Hunter’s Free plan costs $0 and includes 50 credits a month, one connected email account, and sequences capped at 500 recipients. Starter is $49 monthly, or $34 per month with annual billing; it includes 2,000 monthly credits, three email accounts, and a 2,500-recipient sequence limit. That is the first meaningful price jump from free. Growth rises to $149 monthly or $104 annually, with 10,000 monthly credits and 10 connected accounts. Scale is $299 monthly or $209 annually, with 25,000 credits and 20 accounts. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Annual billing cuts the monthly-equivalent price by about 30%, but requires paying yearly. Watch the sequence caps as well as credits: they rise from 500 on Free to 15,000 on Scale. Extra email accounts start at $10 per month each; custom domains and email accounts start at $6, while Inbox Protection is $6–$7.50 per account monthly. Credit packs are also available; the listed example is $6,500 for 1,000 search and 200,000 verification credits, valid for 12 months.

Hunter combines search, verification, enrichment, and sequences, so switching means deciding which parts of your current stack it will replace. Its app, API, and MCP server offer different ways to use the same verified data, according to the published product information. If you rely on an existing outreach tool, check how you’ll move contacts, sequence content, and sending accounts before changing platforms.

The available published material does not specify export formats, import tools, cancellation terms, or a migration service. We’d confirm those details with Hunter before committing; do not assume your data or sequences transfer cleanly. The published pricing also ties connected email-account limits to plan tiers, from one on Free to 20 on Scale, so a move may mean changing plans or paying for add-on accounts. No Reddit posts or comments were supplied, so we can’t substantiate specific user-reported reasons for leaving Hunter. For teams considering a switch away, verify that contact records and campaign data can be exported in a usable format first.