Datacircle
Company discovery API

Hunter, free

Hunter's sitellms.txt
$0.00per 1,000 companies
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: POST /discover Hunter's only call

About this item

  • Freshness. Hunter's pages don't say how fresh the list of companies a search finds is.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for no limit. Unused credits expire: at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send its inputs to POST /discover. The call returns the companies your filters find.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

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This planHunter, freeApollo, freeBetterContact, freeCompanyEnrich, freeCoresignal, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit75 pages a month500 results, once500 results, oncenot published
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone with a work email, for business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal agebusinesses and professionalsanyone of legal agethe first to sign up with a business email from each company email domain

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

  1. help.hunter.io/en/articles/12149400-hunter-api-for-data-plans
  2. help.hunter.io/en/articles/14780848-running-out-of-credits-on-a-data-platform-plan
  3. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
  4. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
  5. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1970956-hunter-api
  6. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9123069-find-companies-using-hunter-discover
  7. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9920427-data-platform-plans-for-api-users
  8. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2
  9. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
  10. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  11. hunter.io/openapi.json
  12. hunter.io/pricing
  13. hunter.io/terms-of-service
  14. hunter.io/transparency/content-policy

Product details

We list each column of this plan's row on the sheet that has a value.

Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Perpage of 100
Most per search100
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns companies matching a set of criteria.
Data
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 forno limit
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second0.83
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery (in natural language) or at least one filter, organization, similar_to, headquarters_location, industry, headcount, company_type, year_founded, keywords, technology, funding, job_openings, limit, offset
MethodPOST
Path/discover
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 22 fields in the plan's answer

domain, name, personal email count, generic email count, email count, description, industry, technologies, country, state, city, employee range, company type, founded year, keywords, already saved, total results, page size, offset, search parameters, applied filters, permalink