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

Hunter's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026

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$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 533 plans by price. Deepline's top-up costs the least per 1,000 companies. Deepline's company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: GET /discover/people one of Hunter's 2 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of Hunter's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get companies from Hunter's database. Hunter doesn't say how old the data is.
  • None of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Type and status, Images and 9 more.
  • 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: 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.

This planHunter, free, GET /discover/peopleGetProspect, freePeopleSearch.im, freegraph8, freeAnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%62%38%69%23%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limitno limitno limit43,200,000 pages a monthno limit
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone 16 or overnew accountsverified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposesanyone 18 or over, for their own internal business purposes

Every company discovery API provider we score, ranked

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.

  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/12167093-what-is-hunter-discover
  4. help.hunter.io/en/articles/12269815-hunter-discover-faqs
  5. help.hunter.io/en/articles/14780848-running-out-of-credits-on-a-data-platform-plan
  6. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1897812-the-difference-between-monthly-and-yearly-plans
  7. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
  8. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911597-when-do-credits-reset
  9. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
  10. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1970956-hunter-api
  11. help.hunter.io/en/articles/4575325-billing-for-customers-registered-in-india
  12. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9123069-find-companies-using-hunter-discover
  13. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9920427-data-platform-plans-for-api-users
  14. hunter.io
  15. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2
  16. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
  17. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  18. hunter.io/openapi.json
  19. hunter.io/plan-calculator
  20. hunter.io/pricing
  21. hunter.io/terms-of-service
  22. hunter.io/transparency/content-policy
  23. hunter.io/transparency/our-data

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 companies$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forDomain 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 pitchReturns 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
Freshnessstored
Keep dataData minimization: not storing data beyond what is needed for the stated purpose.
Use dataData 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 get50 credits a month
Enough forno limit
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, or at least one of organization, similar_to, headquarters_location, industry, headcount, company_type, year_founded, keywords, technology, funding, job_openings. Optional: limit, offset
MethodGET
Path/discover/people
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 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

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