Hunter pricing and alternatives: cached email finder API

Hunter's site llms.txt Best cached email finder API in 2026

80% complete: 8 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields

$0.00per 1,000 emails

Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans

Call: GET /email-finder Hunter's only call

GET /email-finderFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Cached email finder API one of Hunter's 9 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 1 month old. You get emails from Hunter's database.
8 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification, Confidence, Catch-all domain, Where found, Name, Job title, Company, LinkedIn URL.
Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 50 calls. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
One call. You call GET /email-finder with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the email.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Hunter: cached email finder API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 emails. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old, like this plan.

	This planHunter, free	BlitzAPI, free	Lusha, free	LeadIQ, free	The Swarm, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	80%	10%	70%	80%	50%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	50 calls a month	1,000 calls, once	20 calls a month	50 results	1,000 results, once
Freshness	1 month	30 days	1 week	1 month	1 day
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over	professional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitors	anyone 18 or over with a business email	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	anyone over 18

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.

Verification
Confidence
Catch-all domain
Where found
Personal email, not in the answer
Name
Job title
Company
LinkedIn URL
Location, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	Clay: your key no Data Credits, 1 Action per call (Actions start at less than $0.01 each), paid, no fixed price · Databar: your key 0 credits a call on the Build or Scale plan, paid $118.80 per 1,000 results · Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid $30.00 per 1,000 results · Monid: paid $24.50 per 1,000 results · Orthogonal: paid $10.00 · treg: your key free, paid $24.50 per 1,000 results

Charges
Repeat free	the same billing month
Per	call
Also pays for	Discover: 30 included AI searches a month · Add a recipient to a sequence: 500 recipients per sequence, 100,000 Saved Leads · from the same budget: Domain Search · Email Finder (Found) · Multi-Domain Search reveal · Email Verifier · Email Enrichment · Company Enrichment · Combined Enrichment

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

Catch-all
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Find verified email addresses with a simple API call.

Data
Freshness	1 month
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	50 calls a month
Expires	at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over

Rate limit
Per second	8.33
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.85 s

The call
You send	domain or company, and first_name + last_name or full_name, or else linkedin_handle. Optional: max_duration
Method	GET
Path	/email-finder

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

The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

first name, last name, email, confidence score, domain, accept-all domain, job title, Twitter handle, LinkedIn URL, phone number, company name, source type, provenance, source ID, source domain, source URL, source first seen date, source last seen date, source still on page, verification ID, verification date, verification status, search parameters