Hunter.io pricing in 2026: what each plan costs and what you get

Hunter.io pricing at a glance

On yearly billing the whole year's credits land on day one: 24,000 on Starter, 120,000 on Growth and 300,000 on Scale. A full year of Starter paid month by month costs $588, against $408 on the yearly plan.

The Free plan lists unlimited team members, so you don't pay per seat to get your team in. The paid plans add auto-verification, lead enrichment and an AI writing assistant, and they raise the sequence and inbox limits shown above. Past Starter, the extra money mostly buys more credits, more connected inboxes and bigger sequences.

What one email costs on each plan

Hunter doesn't publish a per-email price, so we divided each plan's price by its credits. The answer depends on the tool you use, because Bulk Domain Search can return up to 10 emails for one credit while Email Finder returns one.

Via Email Finder, Domain Search or Bulk Email Finder (1 email per credit)

Our maths, based on Hunter's published prices on 2 Nov 2026, assuming you spend every credit on finds.

Via Bulk Domain Search (best case, 10 emails per credit)

Our maths again, this time assuming every credit returns the full 10 emails. Real results depend on how many addresses Hunter holds for each domain, so treat this as the floor.

Bigger plans make each email cheaper. By our maths, an email on Scale billed yearly costs about a third of one on Starter billed monthly. Bulk Domain Search only helps when you want everyone Hunter knows at a company, though. If you need one named person, you're paying the Email Finder rate.

How Hunter credits work

Everything comes out of a single pool of credits. These are the rules on hunter.io/pricing:

• 1 credit finds 1 email through Domain Search, Email Finder or Bulk Email Finder.
• 1 credit finds up to 10 emails through Bulk Domain Search.
• 0.5 credit verifies 1 email.
• If no emails are found, no credits are used.
• A repeated search or verification is counted once per calendar month.

So the 2,000 credits on Starter could go on 2,000 Email Finder lookups, 4,000 verifications, or a mix such as 1,000 finds plus 2,000 verifications.

The free-when-not-found rule matters more than it looks. A list full of hard-to-find people costs less than its row count suggests, because the misses don't use credits. The once-a-month rule means checking the same address again a week later doesn't cost you twice.

Credits are counted the same way whether you work in the web app, through the API or with Hunter's browser extension.

Monthly vs yearly billing

Hunter's pricing page is plain about monthly plans: "Credits reset monthly and don't roll over." Whatever is left on the last day of the month is gone.

Yearly plans work differently. In Hunter's words, "All credits are available upfront for the whole year." Starter billed yearly puts 24,000 credits in your account at the start, and you can use them in one heavy month or spread them over twelve. Nothing carries over from a monthly batch, because there isn't one.

If your prospecting comes in bursts, with a big push one month and a quiet one the next, the yearly plan fits better, since a quiet month on a monthly plan wastes credits. The catch is the upfront payment of $408, $1,248 or $2,508.

Add-ons and extra costs

The plan price isn't always the whole bill. Hunter lists these add-ons on its pricing page:

Extra email accounts are the add-on most people run into first. Starter connects three. If you send from five inboxes, you can add two accounts at $10 a month or more each, or move up to Growth even though 2,000 credits a month covers your lookups. Run that sum before you upgrade: Starter monthly plus two extra accounts comes to at least $69 a month by our maths, well under Growth's $149.

Verification is the other quiet cost. It draws on the same pool as finds, at half a credit per email, so cleaning a list you imported from elsewhere eats into your finding budget.

Hunter also lists a Data Platform, described as API-only access to Hunter data. It sits apart from the plans above and is priced through Hunter, with no price on the pricing page.

Discounts and cancelling

Yearly billing is the main discount, at 30% off. Registered non-profits (501(c) organisations in the US) can get 30% off monthly plans. Hunter checks eligibility by email, and the non-profit discount can't be combined with other promotions.

You aren't locked into a long contract. You can take a single month and cancel. Plans can be changed or cancelled any time from the dashboard, and after you cancel you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.

How Hunter pricing has changed

Hunter's last major pricing overhaul was its April 2023 update, which took effect on 11 April 2023. Hunter explains it in its own pricing update post. The update cut the lineup to three paid plans plus Enterprise and raised the credits you get for the price. It also reduced the number of email accounts for Sequences, added overage pricing, and ended early renewals and pack purchases. Existing paid customers kept their plans.

Today's lineup is Free, Starter, Growth, Scale and Enterprise, and the current pricing page lists credit packs as an add-on on paid plans. If you're reading an older review that quotes other plan names or credit counts, check its date, because the plans changed in 2023.

Which Hunter plan fits you

Free suits anyone who wants to try Hunter on a handful of prospects. Fifty credits a month is enough to see whether it finds the people you care about.

Starter suits a founder or a solo rep who finds fewer than 2,000 emails a month, sends from three inboxes or fewer, and keeps sequences under 2,500 recipients.

Growth suits a small sales team that needs up to 10,000 credits a month, ten inboxes and sequences of up to 5,000 recipients.

Scale suits agencies and larger outbound teams running up to twenty inboxes, 25,000 credits a month and sequences of up to 15,000 recipients.

Enterprise suits teams whose needs go past Scale.

Pick the tier by whichever limit you'll hit first. For some teams that's credits, and for others it's connected inboxes or sequence size. Headcount isn't the deciding factor, since the pricing page lists no per-seat price.

Hunter.io vs Mailsfinder on price

Hunter bundles email finding, verification and cold email sequences into one product. If finding email addresses is the main thing you're paying for, the price gap is wide.

Mailsfinder Starter is $9.99 a month for 75,000 credits a month, and a find costs 3 credits. Getting 25,000 Email Finder results in a month on Hunter takes the Scale plan, at $299 a month or $209 a month billed yearly.

The Mailsfinder lifetime deal is one payment of $249 for 1,000,000 credits that never need renewing. There's also a free plan with 100 credits a day, so you can test it before you pay.

Our maths, based on each vendor's published prices on 2 Nov 2026.

Unused Mailsfinder credits are refundable within 7 days.

If Snov.io is on your shortlist too, our Hunter vs Snov.io comparison puts the two side by side, and Findymail vs Anymailfinder vs Hunter covers two more finders. For a wider look at the options, see our guide to Hunter.io alternatives. Weighing Hunter against RocketReach? Read Hunter vs RocketReach and our breakdown of RocketReach pricing.

When Hunter is the better choice

Pay for Hunter if you want finding, verification and sending in one tool. Its paid plans bundle auto-verification, lead enrichment, an AI writing assistant and cold email sequences, which you'd otherwise piece together from separate products.

It also makes sense when a whole team will use it. Team members are unlimited on the Free plan, and the pricing page sets each plan's price by credits and inboxes, with no per-seat price listed.

If you send from several inboxes, Growth connects ten email accounts and Scale twenty, with sequences of up to 5,000 and 15,000 recipients. The yearly plans suit teams with uneven months too, because the full year's credits arrive up front and a slow month doesn't burn any of them.

If you already have a sending tool and just need the email addresses, you'd be paying Hunter for features you won't use. In that case, see Mailsfinder pricing and pick a plan.

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