Email validation API
Hunter, $405 yearly
$9.00per 1,000 emailsThe median plan costs $5.24 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 21% of the 519 priced plans.
Plan: Data Platform, 45,000 Verification credits one of Hunter's 126 plans
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- $925 yearlyData Platform, 250,000 Verification credits$3.70 per 1,000
- $1,110 yearlyData Platform, 300,000 Verification credits$3.70 per 1,000
- $1,248 yearlyGrowth$5.20 per 1,000
- $1,295 yearlyData Platform, 350,000 Verification credits$3.70 per 1,000
- $1,480 yearlyData Platform, 400,000 Verification credits$3.70 per 1,000
- $1,500 yearlyData Platform, 500,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $1,650 yearlyData Platform, 550,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $1,665 yearlyData Platform, 450,000 Verification credits$3.70 per 1,000
- $1,800 yearlyData Platform, 600,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $1,950 yearlyData Platform, 650,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,100 yearlyData Platform, 700,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,250 yearlyData Platform, 750,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,400 yearlyData Platform, 800,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,508 yearlyScale$4.18 per 1,000
- $2,550 yearlyData Platform, 850,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,700 yearlyData Platform, 900,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- $2,800 yearlyData Platform, 1,000,000 Verification credits$2.80 per 1,000
- $2,850 yearlyData Platform, 950,000 Verification credits$3.00 per 1,000
- Contact usEnterprise
Call:
GET / Hunter's only callAbout this item
- A copy at most 1 month old. You may get Hunter's answer from an earlier check of the email.
- A subscription billed every year. You pay $405 for 45,000 credits a year, enough for 45,000 calls a year. Unused credits expire: 12 months.
- One call. You send email, domain_metadata to
GET /. The call returns the answer if it's ready in time, or a job that another call reads.email-verifier - Who can get it: anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only). Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Compare with similar plans
Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000. Like this plan, each is live or a copy at most a month old.
| This planHunter, $405 yearly | Anymail Finder, $89 monthly | Tomba, $899 monthly | lemlist, $225 monthly | Findymail, $5,490 yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $9.00 | $8.90 | $8.99 | $9.00 | $9.15 |
| Billing | yearly | monthly | monthly | monthly | yearly |
| Pay | $405 | $89 | $899 | $225 | $5,490 |
| Enough for | 45,000 calls a year | 10,000 calls a month | 100,000 calls a month | 25,000 calls a month | 600,000 calls a year |
| Freshness | 1 month | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only) | businesses only | anyone 18 or over, on request | professionals 18 or over | anyone 18 or over |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-16.
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/11738860-credit-packs-how-to-buy-extra-credits-in-hunter
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/12149400-hunter-api-for-data-plans
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/14780848-running-out-of-credits-on-a-data-platform-plan
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/15899247-email-verification-faqs
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1897812-the-difference-between-monthly-and-yearly-plans
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911597-when-do-credits-reset
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1935055-how-many-credits-are-used-to-verify-an-email
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/1970956-hunter-api
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/4575325-billing-for-customers-registered-in-india
- help.hunter.io/en/articles/9920427-data-platform-plans-for-api-users
- hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-enrichment
- hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#email-verifier
- hunter.io/api/email-verifier
- hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
- hunter.io/openapi.json
- hunter.io/pricing
- hunter.io/terms-of-service
- hunter.io/transparency/content-policy
Product details
We list each column of this plan's row on the sheet that has a value.
| $ per 1,000 | $9.00 |
|---|---|
| Billing | yearly |
| $ a month | $33.75 |
| Repeat free | the same calendar month |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| $ per 1,000 | $9.00 |
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| Their pitch | Verify any email address with a simple API call. |
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| Freshness | 1 month |
|---|---|
| Keep data | Data minimization: not storing data beyond what is needed for the stated purpose. |
| Use data | 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. [...] Prohibited: 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. |
| Pay | $405 |
|---|---|
| You get | 45,000 credits a year |
| Enough for | 45,000 calls a year |
| Expires | 12 months |
| Per second | 5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call or by polling |
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| You send | email, domain_metadata |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /email-verifier |
| Plan | Data Platform, 45,000 Verification credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only) |
The 27 fields in the plan's answer
status, result, score, email, syntax valid, gibberish, disposable, free email, MX found, SMTP server reachable, SMTP check passed, catch-all, SMTP check blocked, verification ID, verification date, verification status, source ID, source domain, source URL, source first seen date, source last seen date, source still on page, deprecation notice, domain, company name, following domain, search parameters