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Hunter.io pricing runs from a free plan to $299 a month, and each plan includes 1 to 20 mailboxes.
Hunter prices its plans on credits: 50 a month free, then 2,000, 10,000 or 25,000 credits for $49, $149 or $299 a month. One credit finds one email. Sending is limited by mailboxes, 3 on Starter up to 20 on Scale, and extra ones are listed from $10 a month each. To send 25,000 emails and find 2,500 new leads each month, Hunter costs $219 a month.
Emailchaser Our pickEmailchaser sends from unlimited mailboxes and found more emails than Hunter in our test.
Pro is $97 a month for 125,000 emails, 25,000 contacts and 5,000 lead credits, with no limit on connected mailboxes. Sending 25,000 emails from Hunter takes about 17 mailboxes, which is Growth plus 7 extra mailboxes, $219 a month. Emailchaser found 88 of 100 contacts in our August 2026 test versus 67 for Hunter.
Hunter charges by mailbox, so the same sending volume costs far more than on Emailchaser.
Hunter's plans cap connected mailboxes, not emails. This counts one mailbox per 1,500 emails a month, 50 a day, the level Emailchaser's gradual build-up holds each mailbox at.
Emailchaser
HunterStarter5,000 emails, 1,500 lead credits
$52.10$59Pro125,000 emails, 5,000 lead credits
$114$889Max500,000 emails, 10,000 lead credits
$392$3,389| Tier | Emails a month | Lead credits | Hunter | Emailchaser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter1,000 contacts | 5,0004 Hunter mailboxes | 1,500 | $59Starter $49 + 1 extra mailbox $10 | $52.10Starter $47 + verification $5.10 |
| Pro25,000 contacts | 125,00084 Hunter mailboxes | 5,000 | $889Growth $149 + 74 extra mailboxes $740 | $114Pro $97 + verification $17 |
| Max100,000 contacts | 500,000334 Hunter mailboxes | 10,000 | $3,389Growth $149 + 324 extra mailboxes $3,240 | $392Max $358 + verification $34 |
Starter: 5,000 emails, 1,500 lead credits
Pro: 125,000 emails, 5,000 lead credits
Max: 500,000 emails, 10,000 lead credits
Monthly billing, USD, from hunter.io/pricing on 4 October 2026. Extra mailboxes are listed from $10 a month each, so these Hunter totals are the least it could cost.
Move the two sliders to see your monthly bill on both.
One lead credit adds one person with a work email, and checking the address costs $0.0017 to $0.0034 more. Hunter prices from its pricing page on 4 October 2026, at one credit per email found and one mailbox per 1,500 emails a month, with extra mailboxes at the lowest listed $10. Emailchaser adds credit top-ups only when a plan's included credits run out: $33 per 1,000 credits, or $20 per 1,000 when you buy 5,000 or more at once.
Hunter needs 17 mailboxes for this at 50 emails a day. Emailchaser connects as many as you like on every plan.
Here is every plan on Hunter's pricing page today.
| Plan | Monthly | Credits a month | Mailboxes | Recipients per sequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 | 1 | 500 |
| Starter | $49 | 2,000 | 3 | 2,500 |
| Growth | $149 | 10,000 | 10 | 5,000 |
| Scale | $299 | 25,000 | 20 | 15,000 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
One credit finds one email and half a credit verifies one; searches that find nothing are free. Every plan has unlimited team members sharing one credit pool, and extra mailboxes are listed from $10 a month each.
Hunter is an email finder first, and its sending is capped by mailboxes.
- Starter connects 3 mailboxes and Scale 20, so cold email at volume means paying for extra mailboxes on top of the plan.
- Each sequence reaches at most 2,500 recipients on Starter and 15,000 on Scale.
- Emailchaser found 88 of 100 contacts in our August 2026 test versus 67 for Hunter, written up in the best email finder tools.
- Emailchaser connects unlimited mailboxes on every plan and includes 1,500 to 10,000 lead credits a month, and two independent providers check every address before it is sent.
These are the questions people ask about Hunter's pricing.
Is Hunter.io free?
Yes, there is a free plan: 50 credits a month, 1 connected mailbox and 500 recipients per sequence. Paid plans start at $49 a month.
How much does Hunter.io cost per month?
$49 for Starter (2,000 credits, 3 mailboxes), $149 for Growth (10,000 credits, 10 mailboxes) and $299 for Scale (25,000 credits, 20 mailboxes), on monthly billing. Enterprise is quoted on request.
How do Hunter credits work?
One credit finds one email through Domain Search or Email Finder, and half a credit verifies one. Searches that find nothing are free, and the whole team shares one monthly pool.
What are the limits of Hunter's free plan?
50 credits a month, which find up to 50 emails, plus 1 connected mailbox and sequences of up to 500 recipients.
Does the Hunter API cost extra?
The API draws on the same monthly credits as the web app and the browser extension. Hunter also sells API-only credit bundles for larger volumes through its Data Platform.
Is Hunter cheaper than Emailchaser?
For a few lookups a month, yes: the free plan costs nothing. For cold email, no. Sending 25,000 emails with 2,500 new leads a month costs $219 on Hunter and $105.50 on Emailchaser Pro with every lead's address checked, because Hunter charges for each mailbox past its plan's limit. Emailchaser starts every plan with a 7-day free trial.
Send from unlimited mailboxes with the lead credits included.
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Partner at Emailchaser, and CTO & Head of Growth at Momentum Labs, the B2B SaaS studio behind it.
I also run Prymatica, a done-for-you cold email agency, so most of my weeks are spent inside real outbound campaigns.
Self-taught: I started as a frontend developer in 2012 and have been building B2B SaaS ever since.
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