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Hunter pricing and alternatives: people search API, GET /domain-search

Hunter's sitellms.txtBest people search API in 2026

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8% complete: 1 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 487 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 people.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, QuickEnrich and AnyAPI are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: GET /domain-search one of Hunter's 2 calls for this API
API: People search API one of Hunter's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get people from Hunter's database. Hunter doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 1 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 50 pages. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send domain or company to GET /domain-search. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Hunter: people search API alternatives

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

Hunter, $6,900 yearly, Data Platform, 1,000,000 Search credits, GET /domain-searchSignalbase, €99 monthlyLeadMagic, $249 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/people/employee-finderProspeo, $249 monthlyMillionPhones, $980 monthly, Pro 140,000 credits/mo, GET /search/people
$ per 1,000 people$0.69$0.557$0.623$0.664$0.70
Completeness8%15%15%31%15%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$6,900€99$249$249$980
Enough for1,000,000 pages a year2,000 pages a month400,000 results a month15,000 pages a month1,400,000 results a month
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)smaller recruitment agencies and solo recruiters running their own business developmentbusinesses and individuals acting in a business or professional capacity, with an active organization subscription, users 18 or overanyoneanyone with a work email

Every people search 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/1830792-domain-search-find-emails-from-companies
  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
  16. hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
  17. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  18. hunter.io/openapi.json
  19. hunter.io/our-data
  20. hunter.io/plan-calculator
  21. hunter.io/pricing
  22. hunter.io/terms-of-service
  23. hunter.io/transparency/content-policy
  24. 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.

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perpage of 10
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, page size not stated, this call or another Hunter call · 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, page size not stated · treg: your key free, paid $2.45 per 1,000 results
Charges
Repeat freethe same billing month
Most per search10
Also pays forDiscover: 30 included AI searches a month · Add a recipient to a sequence: 500 recipients per sequence, 100,000 Saved Leads · from the same budget: Email Finder · Email Finder (Found) · Multi-Domain Search reveal · Email Verifier · Email Enrichment · Company Enrichment · Combined Enrichment
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne key feature of Hunter is to search all the email addresses corresponding to one website.
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 for50 pages a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.34 s
The call
You senddomain or company. Optional: limit, offset, type, provenance, seniority, department, decision_maker, required_field, verification_status, job_titles, aggregations, saved_leads, location (sent by POST)
MethodGET
Path/domain-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, disposable domain, webmail domain, accept-all domain, email pattern, company name, linked domains, email ID, email, email type, source type, provenance, confidence score, source ID, source domain, source URL, source first seen date, source last seen date, source still on page, first name, last name, job title, raw job title, seniority, department, decision maker, LinkedIn URL, Twitter handle, phone number, verification ID, verification date, verification status, total results, total results approximate, page size, offset, personal email count by department, decision maker count, personal email count, generic email count, search parameters

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