Hunter
Find verified B2B email addresses, enrich leads and send cold-email sequences from one platform.
By Hunter Web Services, Inc. · 4.5/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Sales, SDR and outbound teams that need verified B2B contact data and cold-email sequencing in one tool.
- Marketing, SEO and PR agencies running link-building, partnership and client prospecting outreach at volume.
- RevOps and product teams that want verified company and contact data inside their own apps via API or an MCP server.
- Founders, recruiters and small teams doing low-volume, high-accuracy prospecting on a limited budget.
Ideal size: 2–50 people · Small to mid-market team with an existing outbound or agency outreach motion
Not for
- Enterprises that need a full revenue-intelligence suite with intent data, conversation intelligence and deep CRM governance.
- Organisations that expect professional services, dedicated onboarding or a mandatory implementation programme.
- Buyers needing HIPAA, FedRAMP or similar attestations before they can evaluate a vendor.
- Teams wanting multi-channel sequencing across phone dialling, SMS and social alongside email.
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Same day to a few days (self-serve)
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$1,248/yr
Starts at $408 · Credit-based subscription with monthly credit allowance; monthly or yearly billing, yearly saves about 30%; credits are shared by unlimited team members.
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Unlimited team members on every plan, including Free; one pooled credit allowance per account.
Add-on costs
- Inbox Protection (email warm-up) add-on for connected accounts
- Additional email accounts from $10/month
- Managed domains and pre-configured email accounts from $6.00/month
- Credit packs, e.g. 1,000 search plus 200,000 verification credits for $6,500
Company & support
Who is behind Hunter, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2015 · 11 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsPlan not stated
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Plans name support tiers rather than hours: Regular support on Free/Starter, Priority support on Growth and Scale, and Priority support plus an account manager on Scale and Enterprise. The Contact page routes users to the Help Center first, and pricing FAQ refers customers to [email protected] for…
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Hunter sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Hunter
- Mixmax
- Typeform
- Sybill
- Anchor
- Less Annoying CRM
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Hunter. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Hunter ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
AI Assistant in Discover turns a plain-language description into Discover filters, company results and matching contacts, and suggests one-click refinements. A separate AI Writing Assistant is available on paid plans. The official MCP server lets an AI assistant call Hunter's API in natural language. No model-provider or logging details are stated in these sources.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Hunter is an all-in-one email outreach platform: find and verify B2B email addresses from a 100M+ company database, enrich leads, then run cold-email sequences with deliverability tooling such as warm-up and sender health scoring. It ships a web app, a public API and an official MCP server for AI assistants. Pricing is credit-based with a free tier and paid plans from about $408 per year, shared across unlimited seats. Setup is self-serve and measured in days, which suits sales, agency and RevOps teams more than heavy enterprise deployments.
Frequently asked questions
What does Hunter cost and how are credits counted?
Hunter offers a free plan (50 credits/month) and paid all-in-one plans: Starter at $49/month or $408/year billed yearly, Growth at $149/month or $1,248/year, Scale at $299/month or $2,508/year, plus a custom Enterprise tier. Credits cover Email Finder, Domain Search and Email Verifier usage: 1 credit per email found, 0.5 credit per email verified, and 1 credit per 10 emails in Bulk Domain Search. Repeated searches count once per billing month, unlimited team members share one credit pool, and credit packs plus add-ons such as Inbox Protection cost extra.
Which CRM, email and data-stack integrations are supported?
Native CRM sync covers HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zoho, with Zapier and Make.com reaching 5,000+ endpoints. Sending works with Gmail/Google Workspace, Outlook/Microsoft 365 and any SMTP/IMAP provider. Hunter also ships browser extensions, a Google Sheets add-on, a daily Snowflake data-warehouse sync, and a public REST API with hundreds of endpoints for building custom integrations.
Does Hunter have an MCP server for AI assistants, and is it included?
Yes. Hunter provides its own official remote MCP server at mcp.hunter.io/mcp, usable from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex and any MCP-compatible client, exposing company search, domain search, email finding, verification and lead management. It is included in all Hunter plans, including free accounts; your existing credits and limits apply, and authentication uses your Hunter API key rather than a vendor-hosted model.
How long does implementation take?
Implementation is self-serve. You can create an account, connect a sending email account and start working with verified contacts within a day; customers describe setting up in a day. Domains and pre-configured email accounts bought through Hunter are typically provisioned within about an hour, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured. There is no mandatory implementation fee, and the heaviest work is limited to optional API or MCP wiring for custom workflows.
Can we buy data access only, without the outreach tools?
Yes. Hunter offers a separate Data Platform plan described as API-only access to Hunter data, aimed at teams that run lookups and bulk verification inside their own products or pipelines. Pay-as-you-go credit purchases are available with no long-term commitment, and purchased credits stay usable for up to 12 months.
What compliance evidence does Hunter publish?
Hunter links a Transparency page and a Security page from its site footer, and states that it sources data from public web sources, works transparently and helps customers comply with data protection regulations. The vendor pages provided here do not explicitly claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP or ISO 42001 certification, so buyers with hard attestation requirements should request documentation directly.