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Hunter pricing and alternatives: company discovery API, POST /discover

Hunter's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026

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54% complete: 7 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$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: POST /discover 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.
  • 7 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Industry, Type and status, Technologies, Employees, Social profiles, Headquarters.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, which pay for Hunter's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 2,160,000 pages a month. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You call POST /discover 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

The table starts with Hunter's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 companies closest to Hunter's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

Hunter, $50 yearly, Data Platform, 1,000 Search credits, POST /discoverfreehire, $29 monthlygraph8, $948 yearlyCoresignal, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v2/company_multi_source/search/es_dslThe Swarm, $990 yearly, Premium 50, POST /v3/companies/search
$ per 1,000 companies$0.000019$0.0000056$0.000018$0.000019$0.000032
Completeness54%23%69%0%0%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$50$29$948$499$990
Enough for2,160,000 pages a month51,840,000 pages a month43,200,000 pages a month25,920,000 pages a month2,592,000 pages a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)anyone with a freehire account (“For a job board, a bot or an agent that reads the catalogue”), the plan licenses storing and showing the postings in your own product, a commercial one tooverified companies with a work email (personal addresses such as Gmail are not accepted), for internal business purposesanyone with a business emailanyone over 18

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
  • Industry
  • Type and status
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies
  • Employees
  • Social profiles
  • Headquarters
  • 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
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid $0.00 · Monid: paid $0.00 · Orthogonal: paid $0.10 · treg: your key free, paid $0.00
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 People
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns companies matching a set of criteria.
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 for2,160,000 pages a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second0.83
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.03 s
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
MethodPOST
Path/discover
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

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, Twitter handle, Facebook handle, Instagram handle, YouTube handle, technology category, technology website, technology slug, technology name, technology category label

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