Hunter pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, GET /discover/people

Hunter's site llms.txt Best cached company discovery API in 2026

0% complete: none of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companies

Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans

Call: GET /discover/people one of Hunter's 2 calls

API: Cached company discovery API one of Hunter's 9 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get companies from Hunter's database. Hunter doesn't say how old its data is.
None of the 13 key fields we check.
Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, which pay for Hunter's other calls. This call costs none of them: you can get as many pages as you like. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
One call. You call GET /discover/people with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the matching companies.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Hunter: cached company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

	This planHunter, free, Free, GET /discover/people	GetProspect, free	graph8, free	AnyAPI, free, Starting balance, POST /v1/run/company_search.prospeo	LeadIQ, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	0%	62%	69%	85%	62%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	no limit	no limit	no limit	about 1 page, once	about 16 results
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over	anyone 16 or over	verified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposes	one new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone, for their internal business purpose only, 18 or over with authority to bind it when accepting for a company, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted list

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Description, not in the answer
Industry, not in the answer
Type and status, not in the answer
Images, not in the answer
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees, not in the answer
Social profiles, not in the answer
Headquarters, not in the answer
Locations, not in the answer
Funding, not in the answer
Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
Parents, not in the answer
Phones, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	page of 100
Most per search	100
Also pays for	Domain Search: 50 credits per month · Email Finder: 50 credits per month · Email Finder (Found): 50 credits per month · Multi-Domain Search reveal: 50 credits per month · Email Verifier: 50 credits per month · Email Enrichment: 50 credits per month · Company Enrichment: 50 credits per month · Combined Enrichment: 50 credits per month · Add a recipient to a sequence: 500 recipients per sequence, 100,000 Saved Leads · from the same budget: Discover

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Returns the same companies as the Discover endpoint, surfaced from a people-extraction angle: each company comes with its personal and generic email counts, and the meta section adds the aggregate email totals across all matching companies.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	Data minimization: not storing data beyond what is needed for the stated purpose.
Use data	Data accessed through Hunter may be used for the following purposes: B2B outreach and prospecting: identifying and contacting relevant professional contacts at target companies for legitimate business purposes, sales, marketing, partnership, or recruitment, where the individual is being contacted in their professional capacity. [...] CRM enrichment: verifying or enriching a company’s existing B2B contact database, where the individuals are professional contacts with whom a business relationship is sought or maintained. [...] Internal research and analysis: internal analysis of company-level contact patterns for legitimate business intelligence purposes. This does not extend to bulk export of individual-level personal data for redistribution, resale, or use outside the permitted purposes in this section. [...] API integration and testing: technical integration and testing of the API using test accounts and non-production data environments. [...] The following uses are prohibited under Hunter’s Terms of Service and, in many cases, applicable law. Sending unsolicited bulk commercial email using Hunter data, in violation of CAN-SPAM, CASL, the EU ePrivacy Directive, or equivalent applicable law. [...] Contacting individuals in a harassing, threatening, or abusive manner, facilitating stalking, doxing, or targeted harassment campaigns, sharing Hunter data in contexts designed to expose individuals to harm, ridicule, or unwanted public attention. [...] Processing Hunter data in violation of applicable data protection law, combining Hunter data with special category data to build legally non-compliant profiles, sharing or reselling Hunter data to third parties without prior written authorization from Hunter. [...] Using Hunter data for political campaigning, voter outreach, or micro-targeting based on inferred political opinions. [...] Using Hunter-sourced email addresses for credential stuffing, phishing, account compromise, or social engineering attacks. [...] Contacting individuals as private consumers rather than in a professional B2B context. Hunter’s database is limited to professional contact data and must not be used for B2C marketing. [...] Using Hunter data as the sole input to automated mass outreach sequences with no individualized relevance or genuine business purpose, i.e. spam with a company name attached. [...] Under this license you may not: Build a similar or competitive service without Hunter’s prior written consent.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	50 credits a month
Enough for	no limit
Expires	at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, or at least one of organization, similar_to, headquarters_location, industry, headcount, company_type, year_founded, keywords, technology, funding, job_openings. Optional: limit, offset
Method	GET
Path	/discover/people

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over

The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, name, personal email count, generic email count, email count, total personal email count, total generic email count, total email count, total results, page size, offset, search parameters, applied filters