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Hunter pricing and alternatives: email verification API, GET /email-verifier

Hunter's sitellms.txtBest email verification API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsWe rank 2,458 plans by price. treg's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 emails: $0.00 on average. treg asks one provider after another until one answers. You pay $26.95 per 1,000 emails when no provider answers.Enrich.so, GetProspect and treg are the best email verification API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Hunter's 126 plans
Call: GET /email-verifier one of Hunter's 2 calls for this API
API: Email verification API one of Hunter's 7 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. Hunter may skip the mail server and answer from stored data.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Address, Deliverability, Confidence, Company.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Unused credits expire at the monthly reset, credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send email to GET /email-verifier. You can also send domain_metadata. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Hunter: email verification 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, $2,800 yearly, Data Platform, 1,000,000 Verification credits, GET /email-verifierMailerio, $28 pack, Pay as you go 10,000 emails, GET /v{version}/validateClearBounce, $14 monthly, Monthly Subscription 5,000 credits, POST /bulk/uploadHeybounce, $700 pack, Pay As You Go 250,000 credits, GET /validateOppora, $336 yearly, Pro, POST /email/verify, Verify email
$ per 1,000 emails$2.80$2.80$2.80$2.80$2.80
Completeness67%67%67%50%33%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$2,800$28$14$700$336
Enough for1,000,000 calls a year10,000 calls5,000 results a month250,000 calls10,000 calls a month
Freshness1 monthlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)anyone, a minor needs a parent or guardian's permissionanyone at least 18 years old, or with parental consentanyone of age: “Heybounce is not marketed and should not be used by persons under the age of 18”anyone

Every email verification 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/15899247-email-verification-faqs
  6. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1897812-the-difference-between-monthly-and-yearly-plans
  7. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911591-do-unused-credits-from-a-previous-month-or-plan-roll-over
  8. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911597-when-do-credits-reset
  9. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1911617-how-do-credits-work-in-hunter
  10. help.hunter.io/en/articles/1935055-how-many-credits-are-used-to-verify-an-email
  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-verifier
  17. hunter.io/api/email-verifier
  18. hunter.io/api/lead-enrichment
  19. hunter.io/openapi.json
  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.

  • Address
  • Deliverability
  • Confidence
  • Name, not in the answer
  • Place, not in the answer
  • Company
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 · Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid $15.00 per 1,000 results · Monid: paid $12.25 per 1,000 results · Orthogonal: paid $10.00 · PayPerQ: paid $34.50 · treg: your key free, paid $12.25
Charges
Repeat freethe same billing month
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: Domain Search · Email Finder · Email Finder (Found) · Multi-Domain Search reveal · Email Enrichment · Company Enrichment · Combined Enrichment
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchVerify any email address 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 for100 calls a month
Expiresat the monthly reset, credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
Median1.95 s
The call
You sendemail. Optional: domain_metadata
MethodGET
Path/email-verifier
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

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, free email domain, search parameters

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