Hunter

Find & verify professional email addresses

Reviews on G2 Founded 2015 · Paris, France

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Starting price

Free plan

Budget tier

Budget-friendly

Complexity

Beginner-friendly

Integrations

30+

Best for

Founders and small teams that want quick, reliable email finding and verification.

Overview

Hunter is a simple, well-loved French tool for finding and verifying professional emails by domain, plus a lightweight cold-email campaign feature. It does one job exceptionally well and is easy for anyone to pick up.

Founded in 2015 and based in Paris, France, Hunter competes in the prospecting & lead data category. It is easy to get started with, and it sits at the affordable end of the market (Free plan). In practice, Hunter is best for founders and small teams that want quick, reliable email finding and verification.

Most teams use a prospecting tool at the very top of the funnel: a rep defines an ideal-customer profile, builds a list of matching companies and people, and enriches it with verified emails and direct dials before a single message goes out. The quality of this step sets the ceiling for everything downstream, no sequence or dialer can rescue a list built on bad data.

Key features

Here is what Hunter brings to the table, and what each capability means in practice.

Email finder

Finds verified professional email addresses from a name and company, so reps can reach prospects without guessing or bouncing. The best implementations check each address against live mail servers before returning it, which keeps your sender reputation intact.

Email verification

Validates every address before you send, flagging catch-alls, risky domains, and dead inboxes. That protects your domain reputation, keeps bounce rates low, and stops campaigns from quietly landing in spam.

Bulk enrichment

Enriches an entire list in one pass, filling in missing emails, phone numbers, job titles, and firmographics. Instead of researching contacts one by one, a rep uploads a list and gets a clean, outreach-ready file back in minutes.

LinkedIn / Chrome extension

A browser and LinkedIn extension lets reps capture and enrich contacts directly while they prospect, without switching tabs. Because so much B2B research happens on LinkedIn, this is where many teams spend most of their prospecting time.

1-click CRM export

Pushes enriched contacts straight into your CRM in one click, mapped to the right fields. Keeping data where reps already work avoids the copy-paste errors and stale records that quietly erode a pipeline.

Free plan

A genuine free plan lets you trial the core product on your own data before committing budget. It lowers the risk of adoption and is a good sign a vendor is confident in the product.

API & webhooks

An API and webhooks let teams automate workflows and pipe data into their own systems and dashboards. For RevOps teams, this is what makes the tool a building block rather than a silo.

Who it's for

Hunter is built for solo founders and individual reps, startups and mid-market teams. It is a particularly strong fit for founders and small teams that want quick, reliable email finding and verification, and reps will find it easy to get started with.

It is less of a fit in a few cases. It may be more than solo users with very basic needs require, and if no phone numbers is a dealbreaker for you, it is worth weighing against the alternatives before committing.

Typical users include SDRs building their daily call and email lists, RevOps teams enriching and de-duplicating the CRM, and founders doing their own outbound before a sales team exists.

Integrations & ecosystem

Hunter connects with around 30+ tools, including HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Gmail and Zapier. That matters because a sales tool is only as useful as the rest of your stack: the tighter it plugs into your CRM and workflow, the less manual data entry your reps do and the cleaner your reporting stays.

An open API and webhooks mean Hunter can also be wired into custom workflows, internal dashboards, and the rest of your data stack, which is what RevOps teams look for when they want a tool to act as a building block rather than a silo.

Pricing & value

Hunter sits at the affordable end of the market. Free up to 25 searches/mo; paid from ~$34/mo. The value case is strongest for the teams it is built for: when that is you, the time saved and meetings booked tend to outweigh the cost. If it is not, a lighter tool may serve you just as well for less. As always, the sticker price is only part of the story: weigh onboarding time, the tier your team will realistically land on, and any add-ons before comparing it against the alternatives.

Strengths & limitations

On the strengths side, Hunter stands out for a few reasons: fast, accurate domain and email search; built-in email verifier and small campaign tool; and generous free tier and clean UX.

The trade-offs are worth knowing before you commit: no phone numbers; lighter than full prospecting platforms; and campaign features are basic. None of these are necessarily dealbreakers, but they are the points to pressure-test during a trial.

The bottom line

Hunter delivers find & verify professional email addresses, and it earns its place across solo founders and individual reps, startups and mid-market teams. The standout reasons to pick it are clear, fast, accurate domain and email search chief among them, while the main thing to weigh is that no phone numbers. If that trade-off fits your situation, Hunter is well worth a trial.