Hunter.io alternatives compared: price and features
One row per tool from this page, Hunter.io first for reference: who it suits, its entry price for the same need (cold email, credits only) and what it does. The sections below explain each choice.
cold email
for reference
Building lists from a filterable database of contacts
Unlimited mailboxes with warm-up included, LinkedIn as an add-on
Email and LinkedIn sequences in one tool, with lemwarm included
Large email volumes from many mailboxes
High sending volumes, agencies includedcredits only
for reference
Phone numbers found across several providers, with campaigns and LinkedIn in the same subscription
Emails and phone numbers revealed from a B2B database, with a Chrome extension
Mobile numbers from LinkedIn, with numbers included in each licenceMonthly prices, billed monthly unless stated, excluding VAT, read on each publisher’s site (checked between October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026). Emelia’s prices follow your currency; tools billed in dollars only stay in dollars, and those billed in euros only stay in euros. –: not offered, or not checked for this need.
Hunter.io competitors at a glance: how each bills, sends, and covers phone and LinkedIn
Each tool in its own currency and billing unit, from its own pricing page. No winner is marked: a price per licence, a price per team and a price per mailbox do not answer the same question.
Hunter.io
Emelia
Apollo.io
Snov.io
Lusha
Kaspr
lemlist
Instantly
Smartlead
Monthly prices excluding tax. Hunter’s plans and extra mailboxes, Emelia and lemlist charge one figure whether you pay in euros or dollars (Hunter’s warm-up excepted); Apollo, Snov.io, Lusha, Instantly and Smartlead bill in dollars only; Kaspr has separate euro and dollar price lists.
Free plans and trials of Hunter.io’s competitors
Hunter’s free plan gives 50 credits a month, one mailbox and sequences of up to 500 recipients, with no card and no time limit. Its competitors’ free options, Emelia first:
- Emelia: 20 free credits at sign-up with a work email, and a 7-day free trial without a card.
- Apollo: a free plan with 75 credits a month and one mailbox, and a 14-day trial of Basic or Professional.
- Snov.io: a free plan with 50 credits and 100 recipients a month, and warm-up on one mailbox.
- Lusha: a free plan with 40 credits a month, for one person.
- Kaspr: a free plan with 5 phone numbers a month; work emails are capped at 15 a month on its pricing page, but its help centre lifts the cap after 3 colleagues sign up.
- Instantly and Smartlead: no free plan, but trials without a card (14 days each).
Finder plus sequences, like Hunter: Apollo and Snov.io
Two tools that combine an email finder, a B2B database and cold email sequences, as Hunter does, but charge for them differently.
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Best for: Building lists from a filterable database of contactsApollo starts from a database (240M contacts claimed on its site, 210 million on its Trustpilot profile) rather than a domain, adds phone numbers at 8 credits, and sends sequences. It bills one licence per person ($65 on Basic, $99 on Professional), where Hunter’s users are free. Against Hunter, it adds phone numbers and a dialler, while Hunter keeps a standalone email verifier and charges nothing for a search that finds no email.
- YesPhone number finder
- YesEmail finder
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- Price
- From $65/month per licence
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want a filterable database and sequences, billed per licence.
- 2
Best for: Unlimited mailboxes with warm-up included, LinkedIn as an add-onSnov.io finds and verifies emails in credits (1 per email found, including “unknown” ones; 1 per verification), searches a database (500M+ contacts claimed, “over 50 million leads” on the same page) and sends campaigns from unlimited mailboxes (up to 1,000 per team in its terms), with warm-up included (3 mailboxes at a time on Starter, unlimited from Pro S). Its plans are set by monthly credits and recipients: Starter at $39 gives 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients. LinkedIn automation is a separate subscription, $69 per account per month ($59 with a paid plan), and phone numbers are paid in enrichment tokens.
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesEmail finder
- YesPhone number finder
- Price
- From $39/month
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want unlimited mailboxes with warm-up and may add LinkedIn later.
Phone numbers: Emelia, Lusha and Kaspr
Hunter has no phone tool: it only shows a number when one happens to be in its results. Emelia looks for numbers across several providers; Lusha and Kaspr are built around contact data, emails and mobile numbers, revealed in credits from their own databases.
- 1
Best for: Phone numbers found across several providers, with campaigns and LinkedIn in the same subscriptionEmelia searches several providers one after another for each number, at 50 credits per number found; the credits are refunded when none is found. With the credit subscription alone, that is $0.95 per number on the 1,000-credit pack ($19 a month), down to $0.25 on the largest. On a LinkedIn profile, its Chrome extension finds the email and the number and adds the person to a campaign, email, LinkedIn or both.
- YesCredits valid for 1 year, even after cancelling
- NoBuilt-in B2B contact database
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- $19/month (credit subscription, no plan needed · 1,000 credits)
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want numbers, emails, sequences and LinkedIn in one subscription.
- 2
Best for: Emails and phone numbers revealed from a B2B database, with a Chrome extensionLusha bills a plan with licences included (1 on Starter, 2 on Pro), then $49.90 per extra licence, and a pool of credits: 1 credit per email, 5 per phone number. Its free plan gives 40 credits a month; Starter costs $49.90 a month for 400 credits. It sends sequences from each user’s Gmail or Outlook, with no built-in warm-up listed, and does not automate LinkedIn.
- YesPhone number finder
- NoEmail verification
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- From $49.90/month
- Who it’s for
- Sales teams that need direct phone numbers alongside emails.
- 3
Best for: Mobile numbers from LinkedIn, with numbers included in each licenceKaspr’s Chrome extension reveals work emails and mobile numbers on LinkedIn profiles. Work emails are unlimited on paid plans; numbers are included per licence (100 a month on Starter, 200 on Business), then sold in monthly packs. It sends no email campaigns.
- YesPhone number finder
- NoEmail verification
- YesEmail finder
- Price
- From $65/month per licence
- Who it’s for
- Prospectors who pull mobile numbers from LinkedIn profiles.
Sending tools: lemlist, Instantly, Smartlead
Hunter includes 1, 3, 10 or 20 mailboxes by plan, charges $10 per extra one (up to 50) and sells warm-up per mailbox ($7.50 a month). These three are cold email tools first: many mailboxes, warm-up included, and finding emails as an extra.
- 1
Best for: Email and LinkedIn sequences in one tool, with lemwarm includedlemlist’s Email plan is billed per team by monthly volume ($69 for 50,000 emails), with unlimited senders; its Multichannel plan adds LinkedIn at $109 per user. Finding and verifying an email costs 5 credits. Against Hunter, it trades the finder-first approach for stronger sending and LinkedIn steps, at a higher entry price.
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesEmail finder
- YesPhone number finder
- Price
- From $69/month
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want sequences on email and LinkedIn with warm-up included.
- 2
Best for: Large email volumes from many mailboxesInstantly connects unlimited mailboxes with warm-up included, and bills by emails sent and contacts loaded (Growth: $47 a month for 5,000 emails). Its lead database and email finder are a separate credit subscription. No native LinkedIn steps.
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesEmail finder
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- Price
- From $47/month
- Who it’s for
- Senders who need many mailboxes on a flat outreach plan.
- 3
Best for: High sending volumes, agencies includedSmartlead bills per account by monthly sending volume (Base: $39 for 6,000 emails), with warm-up included and mailboxes described as unlimited. Its SmartProspect database is an option on the first plans. No native LinkedIn automation.
- YesMailbox warm-up included
- YesEmail verification
- YesBuilt-in B2B contact database
- Price
- From $39/month
- Who it’s for
- Agencies and high-volume senders.
Emelia: finder, verifier, cold email and LinkedIn in one subscription
Emelia covers the two jobs Hunter does, plus LinkedIn, which Hunter leaves out. It finds emails (1 credit per email found and verified, nothing if none is found), verifies lists (0.25 credit), finds phone numbers (50 credits), sends sequences from 3 or 50 mailboxes (no cap on Scale), and runs LinkedIn invitations and messages from 1 to 10 accounts.
Plans start at $37 a month and are not billed per user; emails found each month are paid with credit packs from $19 for 1,000. Emelia has no built-in database: you bring the companies, a CSV or a Sales Navigator search, which its Chrome extension sends to Emelia with an Export with Emelia button (how it works).
What Hunter’s plans include
- Credits every month: Hunter’s plans include 2,000, 10,000 and 25,000 credits, and Starter ($49 a month) comes with 3 mailboxes. Details on the pricing page.
- A whole team on one plan: users are unlimited and free, on every plan.
- Bulk Domain Search: 1 credit for up to 10 emails of the same company.
- The API from the free plan, with 500 search requests a minute, an MCP server and native CRM integrations.
- No VAT on its invoices, since the company is registered in the United States.
Free and phone alternatives to Hunter.io: two answers
Lusha (5 credits per number), Kaspr (numbers included in each licence), Apollo (8 credits) and Emelia (50 credits). Snov.io charges them in enrichment tokens, and lemlist 20 credits. A credit does not cost the same from one tool to another, so these figures are not a ranking. Hunter has no dedicated phone tool.
Emelia features: Email finder · Cold email · Email warm-up · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a Hunter.io competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Hunter.io comes from its own website or public review sites.
