The short answer
Hunter.io costs 34, 104 or 209 euros a month on annual billing (49, 149 or 299 euros monthly) for its Starter, Growth and Scale plans, with 2,000, 10,000 or 25,000 credits a month. Prices are per account, not per seat: every plan, including the free one, has unlimited users. The free plan gives 50 credits a month with no time limit. One credit finds one email address; verifying an address costs half a credit, and failed searches cost nothing. Prices exclude taxes, subscriptions renew automatically, and Hunter gives no refund if you cancel mid-term. Cheaper or different alternatives include Skrapp (from 29 dollars), FindThatLead (from 37 euros) and Dropcontact (from 59 euros, built for GDPR-minded European teams).
Every price below comes from Hunter's own pricing page and terms, read on 30 September 2026.
What Hunter costs
Plan | Annual billing (per month) | Monthly billing | Credits per month | Connected email accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Free | 0 euros | 0 euros | 50 | 1 |
Starter | 34 euros (408 a year) | 49 euros | 2,000 | 3 |
Growth | 104 euros (1,248 a year) | 149 euros | 10,000 | 10 |
Scale | 209 euros (2,508 a year) | 299 euros | 25,000 | 20 |
Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Per account, excluding taxes, unlimited users on every plan. Annual billing saves 30%. Source: hunter.io/pricing. Hunter also sells a separate, API-only Data Platform with its own credit calculator, priced in dollars rather than euros; its default example is 50 dollars for 1,000 search credits and 11 dollars for 1,000 verification credits.
How credits work
1 credit finds one email address with Domain Search, Email Finder or Bulk Email Finder.
1 credit returns up to 10 addresses with Bulk Domain Search.
Half a credit verifies one address with the Email Verifier.
No result, or an "unknown" verification, costs nothing. Repeating the same search within a billing period counts once.
Extra credit packs are available on every paid plan. Credits bought for the Data Platform can be used for 12 months. The pricing page does not say whether unused monthly credits roll over.
What each plan adds
Free: Domain Search, Email Finder, Verifier, browser extension, Google Sheets add-on, CRM connections, API and MCP access, one connected mailbox for sequences.
Starter: automatic verification, lead enrichment, advanced filters in Discover, weekly "new opportunities" signals, an AI writing assistant, three mailboxes, priority support.
Growth and Scale: the same features with higher limits: more credits, saved leads, recipients per sequence and mailboxes. Scale adds an account manager.
Paid add-ons include Inbox Protection (warm-up), extra mailboxes from 10 euros a month and managed domains.
Contract and terms
Renewal. Monthly and annual subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
Refunds. Hunter gives no refund when you cancel, whatever the reason. Only if Hunter itself ends your account does it refund the unused prepaid part.
Price changes. Hunter can change fees with 30 days' written notice.
Law. The terms are governed by the law of Delaware; the company is Hunter Web Services, Inc.
Where the data comes from, and GDPR
Hunter builds its index from the open web: it says it crawls 30 million pages a day and shows, for each address, where and when it found it. Addresses with no remaining public source are removed after six months. Its main servers run on Google Cloud in Belgium; transfers outside the EU use standard contractual clauses. Under Hunter's terms, you are an independent controller for the personal data you use, so the GDPR questions (legal basis, informing the person, opt-out) are yours to answer. People can claim and delete their own record on Hunter's site.
For European prospecting, remember that finding an address is not the same as being allowed to email it. What you may send in the Benelux covers the rules.
Reviews
Capterra shows 4.6 from 713 reviews, G2 4.4 from 651 and Trustpilot 4.2 from 345 (30 September 2026; the G2 figure comes from search snippets because G2 blocked direct access). Reviewers praise the ease of use and complain about thinner data for small companies, stale addresses, limited integrations compared with bigger platforms, and the price jump between tiers.
Alternatives
Tool | Entry price as published | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
Skrapp | Free; Professional 29 dollars a month, billed yearly | 2,000 credits a month, 2 users |
FindThatLead | Free; Starter 37 euros a month, billed yearly | Includes mobile credits |
Snov.io | Starter 39 dollars a month | Unlimited team seats, sequences included |
Dropcontact | Starter 59 euros a month | French, pays on success, built around GDPR |
Apollo.io | Free; Basic 49 dollars per seat per month, billed yearly | Database, sequences and dialer in one |
Bizzy | Free start; paid plans on request | Starts from the company: Belgian register data, then contacts and signals |
An email finder answers "what is this person's address". If your harder question is which companies to target in the first place, start with the list: how to build a B2B lead list and how to find the decision-maker at a Belgian SME.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Hunter.io cost? Free with 50 credits a month; Starter 34 euros, Growth 104 euros and Scale 209 euros a month on annual billing, or 49, 149 and 299 euros monthly. Prices are per account and exclude taxes.
Is Hunter priced per user? No. Every plan has unlimited users; you pay per account, and plans differ in credits, saved leads and connected mailboxes.
Does Hunter refund if I cancel? No. Cancelling stops the next renewal and your plan runs to the end of the period. Hunter refunds the unused part only if it terminates your account itself.
Is Hunter GDPR compliant? Hunter hosts its main servers in Belgium and says its database is GDPR compliant, but under its terms you are the controller for the personal data you use, so you still need a legal basis and must inform the people you contact.
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