Hunter pricing and alternatives: similar companies API

Hunter's site llms.txt

38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 companies

Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans

Call: GET /lookalikes Hunter's only call

GET /lookalikesFree$0.00 per 1,000

About this item

Freshness. Hunter doesn't say how fresh the similar companies are.
5 of the 13 key fields we check. Match, Industry and type, Employees, Headquarters, Domain.
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 send one of company_list_id or domain to GET /lookalikes. You can also send country, size, industry and limit. The call returns companies similar to the company you send.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Hunter: similar companies API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.

	This planHunter, free	Lusha, free	Mawsool International FZCO on Apify, free	InsightSocial, free	NinjaPear, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	38%	31%	15%	8%	0%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	no limit	not published	5,000 pages a month	10 pages a month	5 results, once
Freshness	not published	not published	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over	anyone 18 or over with a business email	business use only, 18 or over	anyone with a Google account	anyone, for their internal business purposes

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.

Match
Description, not in the answer
Industry and type
Images, not in the answer
Technologies, not in the answer
Employees
Headquarters
Locations, not in the answer
Funding, not in the answer
Revenue, not in the answer
Domain
Followers, not in the answer
Contact, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	page of 100
Also pays for	Domain 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 · Discover: 30 included AI searches a month · Add a recipient to a sequence: 500 recipients per sequence, 100,000 Saved Leads

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Finds companies that look like the ones in one of your company lists, or like one company given by its domain.

Data
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	no limit
Expires	at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	one of company_list_id or domain. Optional: country, size, industry, limit
Method	GET
Path	/lookalikes

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

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, name, country, industry, employee range, similarity score, result count, page size, search parameters