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Hunter pricing, plans and alternatives
Hunter lists a free plan with 50 credits a month and paid plans from 49€ on its pay monthly view, read 19 October 2026. A credit is one email found, and verifying an email costs half a credit. Hunter is a finder, verifier and cold email tool, so the alternatives below are grouped by what you need next: more data, more channels or an agent that does the outreach.
Published by Sellinger AI. Numbers and settings checked on 19 October 2026 against the fact register. Report an error.
- Hunter Starter per month on the pay monthly view (Growth 149€, Scale 299€); the yearly view shows 34€, 104€ and 209€
- 49€
- free credits a month on the Free plan; one credit is one email found, half a credit one email verified
- 50
- public sources of data Hunter says it draws on, with 150,430,313 email addresses verified
- 1.2B+
What Hunter is and what it costs
Hunter is an email prospecting and outreach platform: it finds and verifies emails, searches by domain, and sends cold email sequences. Prices below are euros on the view the pricing page showed first, pay monthly.
| Plan | Monthly list price | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0€ | 50 credits a month, 1 connected email account, 500 recipients per sequence |
| Starter | 49€ (34€ on the yearly view) | 3 connected email accounts, 2,500 recipients per sequence |
| Growth | 149€ (104€ yearly) | 10 connected email accounts, 5,000 recipients per sequence |
| Scale | 299€ (209€ yearly) | 20 connected email accounts, 15,000 recipients per sequence |
| Enterprise | Custom | By quote |
Source: hunter.io, read 19 October 2026. Credits reset every month and do not roll over, and unlimited team members share one credit pool. The page does not state a VAT note.
Who should stay with Hunter
- You need to find and verify emails by domain or name, with verification built in at half a credit.
- You want a free tier to try the data, with 50 credits a month.
- You want unlimited team members on one shared credit pool, so the price does not grow with headcount.
- You want a Chrome extension, a Google Sheets add on and syncs to HubSpot, Zoho, Salesforce or Pipedrive, which its pages list.
- You want cold email sequences next to the finder, with an AI writing assistant.
Who should look elsewhere
From the vendor's own pages, not from user reviews, which this page does not collect. These describe scope, not faults.
- You want outreach beyond email. The pages checked list email finding, verifying and sequences, and no LinkedIn, WhatsApp or live chat channel (hunter.io, read 19 October 2026).
- You want an AI that answers replies. An AI writing assistant and AI searches are listed, and no agent that replies is.
- You need credits that carry over. Hunter's credits reset monthly and do not roll over.
- You need phone numbers. The pages checked describe email finding and verification.
Alternatives by need
Prices are each vendor's list price on the monthly view, with what the price counts. They are not equivalent units, so compare what the price includes before comparing the number.
| Need | Tool and price as stated | What the price counts |
|---|---|---|
| More contacts in one search | Lusha: Free $0 with 40 credits, Starter $49.9 monthly | Credits a month: an email reveal is 1 credit, a phone reveal is 5 |
| Data plus a built in CRM and sequences | Snov.io: Starter $39, Pro S $99 monthly, unlimited team seats | Flat per Sales Suite tier, metered in credits and recipients |
| Data per seat with sequences | Apollo: Free $0, Basic $65, Professional $99 per seat | Per seat per month plus pooled credits |
| Cold email sending at volume | Smartlead: Base $39 for 6,000 sends | Flat per plan tier, unlimited email accounts |
| Data across LinkedIn and email, with an agent | Sellinger: LinkedIn $198 per agent per month for 1 to 2 agents, $168 at 10 or more agents; contact lookups from $0.01 | Per agent per month, and per lookup |
| Enterprise data by quote | Cognism and ZoomInfo: no prices shown on their pricing pages | Quote on request |
Sources: lusha.com, read 19 October 2026; snov.io, read 19 October 2026; apollo.io, read 19 October 2026; smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026; cognism.com, read 19 October 2026; zoominfo.com, read 19 October 2026. Sellinger from the pricing page, checked 19 October 2026.
Where Sellinger fits, and where it does not
Sellinger fits when
- You want the search and the outreach in one product: people and companies searched over a database of 700M+ contacts, then written to by the agent.
- You want contact lookups priced per lookup from $0.01, not a seat price with a monthly credit pool.
- You want intent signals on LinkedIn included with every bundle, with 26 ready made templates in 8 categories.
- You want the agent to answer replies and book the meeting, with a CRM that holds the conversation.
Sellinger is the wrong choice when
- You only need to find and verify emails. Hunter's finder and verifier are its core, and its free tier and plans start well below a Sellinger agent.
- You want a data subscription that your own sequencing and CRM tools consume, with no use for an agent.
- You need Salesforce or Pipedrive connected today. Sellinger lists Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho as coming soon, with a two way HubSpot sync today. Hunter lists both.
- You want a published email verification price per address. This page makes no accuracy claim for Sellinger's data.
Switching notes
- Export your found and verified emails and your lists from Hunter before cancelling, and use the month's credits first because they reset and do not roll over.
- Hunter lets you cancel at any time, and its pages say a single month's subscription is possible, so moving can be a one month overlap.
- Verify any imported list before you send, because emails go stale.
- A Sellinger campaign can start in approval mode, so you read the first messages before they go out.
Common questions
What does a Hunter credit cost?
One credit is one email found and half a credit is one email verified. Plans include a monthly pool of credits that resets and does not roll over (read 19 October 2026).
Does Hunter have a free plan?
Yes, 50 credits a month. There is no free trial, and a one month paid subscription can be cancelled.
Does Hunter send cold email?
Yes, through Sequences, with recipients per sequence capped by plan, from 500 on Free to 15,000 on Scale.
Does Hunter have an MCP server?
Its pages list a remote MCP server for AI apps, and integrations with Claude and ChatGPT.
Sources and method
Hunter cells read from its own pages on 19 October 2026: hunter.io, read 19 October 2026; hunter.io, read 19 October 2026. Other vendors as linked in the table. Sellinger from the facts page.
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