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Hunter: cached email validation API pricing, 126 plans

Hunter's sitellms.txt
67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fieldsSee which
$0.00per 1,000 emails
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: GET /email-verifier Hunter's only call

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You may get Hunter's answer from an earlier check of the email.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields. Address, Its check, Confidence, Company.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send email to GET /email-verifier. Optional: domain_metadata. The call returns the answer if it's ready in time, or a job that another call reads.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Compare with similar plans

Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000. Like this plan, each is live or a copy at most a month old.

This planHunter, freeMailValid, free, Free, POST /api/v1/verify/bulkBouncer, freeEmail Hippo, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 calls a month100 results, once100 results, once100 calls, once
Freshness1 month30 days24 hours30 days
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 18 or over with a work email, a private one (Gmail, Hotmail) only after writing to Bouncer firstanyone, as an individual or a duly authorized representative for an entity (USD, GBP or EUR set by country)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-16.

  1. help.hunter.io/en/articles/11738860-credit-packs-how-to-buy-extra-credits-in-hunter
  2. help.hunter.io/en/articles/12149400-hunter-api-for-data-plans
  3. help.hunter.io/en/articles/14780848-running-out-of-credits-on-a-data-platform-plan
  4. help.hunter.io/en/articles/15899247-email-verification-faqs
  5. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1897812-the-difference-between-monthly-and-yearly-plans
  6. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
  7. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911597-when-do-credits-reset
  8. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
  9. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1935055-how-many-credits-are-used-to-verify-an-email
  10. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1970956-hunter-api
  11. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9920427-data-platform-plans-for-api-users
  12. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
  13. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-verifier
  14. hunter.io/api/email-verifier
  15. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  16. hunter.io/openapi.json
  17. hunter.io/pricing
  18. hunter.io/terms-of-service
  19. hunter.io/transparency/content-policy

Product details

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

  • Address
  • Its check
  • Confidence
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsClay: your key no Data Credits, 1 Action per call (Actions start at less than $0.01 each), paid, no fixed price · Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid $15.00 per 1,000 results · Monid: paid $12.25 per 1,000 results · Orthogonal: paid $10.00 · treg: your key free, paid $12.25
Charges
Repeat freethe same billing month
Percall
Also pays forSequences: 1 connected email account, 500 recipients per sequence · Saved Leads: 100,000 · AI Assistant in Discover: 10 included AI searches a month, 15 included proactive suggestions a month · from the same budget: Bulk Email Finder · Domain Search · Bulk Domain Search · Email Finder · Bulk Email Verifier · Multi-Domain Search reveal · Email Enrichment · Company Enrichment · Combined Enrichment · Hunter Discover (when finding emails)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchVerify any email address with a simple API call.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep dataData minimization: not storing data beyond what is needed for the stated purpose.
Use dataB2B 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. [...] Prohibited: 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 get50 credits a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
Median1.95 s
The call
You sendemail. Optional: domain_metadata
MethodGET
Path/email-verifier
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, result, score, email, syntax valid, gibberish, disposable, free email, MX found, SMTP server reachable, SMTP check passed, catch-all, SMTP check blocked, verification ID, verification date, verification status, source ID, source domain, source URL, source first seen date, source last seen date, source still on page, deprecation notice, domain, company name, following domain, search parameters

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