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Hunter pricing and alternatives: email finder API, GET /email-finder

Hunter's sitellms.txtBest email finder API in 2026

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80% complete: 8 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsWe rank 1,256 plans by price. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 emails: as little as $0.00074. ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan covers up to 4,320,000 emails a month at no extra cost.ClearBounce's $4 pack covers any number of emails. ClearBounce's $4 pack costs more to start than ClearBounce's $3.20 monthly plan.GetProspect, OrbiSearch and DataForB2B are the best email finder API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: GET /email-finder one of Hunter's 3 calls for this API
API: Email finder API one of Hunter's 7 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: email finder API alternatives

The table starts with Hunter's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to Hunter's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Hunter, $6,900 yearly, Data Platform, 1,000,000 Search credits, GET /email-finderLeadsforge, $9,588 yearly, Essential Plan + Extra credits (1,400,000/year), POST /enrichment/emailEmailListVerify, $346 monthlyArgorant, $349 monthly, Pro 50,000 credits a month, POST /api/v1/email-finder/findSkrapp, $349 monthly, Enterprise 50K, POST /api/v2/find_bulk
$ per 1,000 emails$6.90$6.849$6.92$6.98$6.98
Completeness80%0%20%10%30%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$6,900$9,588$346$349$349
Enough for1,000,000 calls a year1,400,000 calls a year50,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month50,000 results a month
Freshness1 monthlivelivelive30 days
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)professional use only, not minors under 18anyone 16 or over, or 13 to 15 with verifiable parental consentanyone at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract, one account per customeranyone 18 or over

Every email finder 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/12269815-hunter-discover-faqs
  4. help.hunter.io/en/articles/14780848-running-out-of-credits-on-a-data-platform-plan
  5. help.hunter.io/en/articles/15921145-faqs-about-finding-emails-in-hunter
  6. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1844277-email-finder-find-the-email-of-a-specific-person
  7. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1897812-the-difference-between-monthly-and-yearly-plans
  8. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
  9. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911597-when-do-credits-reset
  10. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
  11. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1970956-hunter-api
  12. help.hunter.io/en/articles/4575325-billing-for-customers-registered-in-india
  13. help.hunter.io/en/articles/9920427-data-platform-plans-for-api-users
  14. hunter.io
  15. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
  16. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-finder
  17. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-verifier
  18. hunter.io/api/email-finder
  19. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  20. hunter.io/openapi.json
  21. hunter.io/plan-calculator
  22. hunter.io/pricing
  23. hunter.io/terms-of-service
  24. hunter.io/transparency/content-policy
  25. 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.

  • 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 emails$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsClay: 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 freethe same billing month
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind verified email addresses with a simple API call.
Data
Freshness1 month
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 for50 calls a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.85 s
The call
You senddomain or company, and first_name + last_name or full_name, or else linkedin_handle. Optional: max_duration
MethodGET
Path/email-finder
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 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

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