The short answer
Hunter is billed per credit (1 per email found, 0.5 per verification). It has a free tier: 50 credits/mo, API included. The paid plans we list start at EUR 34/mo discounted (EUR 49 regular) (Starter).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 credits/month, API access, 1 email account. |
| Starter | EUR 34/mo discounted (EUR 49 regular) | 2,000 credits/month. |
| Growth | EUR 104/mo discounted (EUR 149 regular) | 10,000 credits/month. |
| Scale | EUR 209/mo discounted (EUR 299 regular) | 25,000 credits/month; account manager. |
| Data Platform | From EUR 6,500 | Custom packages for API-heavy use (1,000 search + 200,000 verification credits at entry). |
How Hunter bills you
The pricing model is per credit (1 per email found, 0.5 per verification). Email-finding and verification API with clean, well-documented endpoints, a published OpenAPI spec, an MCP server and API access on the free plan, but no official SDKs and narrow person/company depth. Best suited to: email finding and verification for outreach.
What to watch for on the bill
- Free tier is only 50 credits/month
The pricing page we read
Source: https://hunter.io/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Hunter with alternatives
Other data enrichment apis: Crustdata, People Data Labs, Bright Data, Apollo.io, Explorium.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Hunter score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Hunter pricing.