RocketReach vs Hunter
Side by Side
| Attribute | RocketReach | Hunter |
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| What It Is | Looks up a named person's verified email addresses and phone numbers, from a name and company or a LinkedIn profile, across a database it sizes at 700 million professionals, and sends sequences from the same tool. A searcher holding a company list from a state filing or a library database feeds the owners' names in to get the address and the mobile number to write and call. | Finds and verifies the work email addresses behind a company domain, and sends sequences from the same tool. A searcher who has a list of target companies but no way to reach their owners uses it to turn domains into named contacts: Domain Search returns the addresses on a domain, Email Finder guesses and checks one person's, and the Email Verifier says whether an address will bounce before a campaign burns a sending domain. |
| Category | Off-Market Data & Outreach | Off-Market Data & Outreach |
| Pricing Model | Subscription | Subscription |
| What It Costs | Published on its own pricing page, billed annually: Essentials at $33 a month ($399 a year, email only), Pro at $75 a month ($899 a year, email and phone), Ultimate at $142 a month ($1,699 a year); team plans from $6,000 a year. Monthly billing, from the vendor's own plan endpoint: Essentials $69 for 100 lookups, Pro $119 for 250, Ultimate $209 for 1,000. A free account carries 5 lookups with no card. The unit is defined on the page: a lookup is charged only when it finds and verifies an email or phone, and refunded otherwise; annual plans call lookups unlimited under a 10,000-a-month cap, and exports are the real annual meter at 1,200, 3,600 and 20,000 by tier. | Published on its own pricing page: Free at 50 credits a month, Starter $49 a month (2,000 credits), Growth $149 (10,000), Scale $299 (25,000), Enterprise quoted. Each plan shows a lower annual-billed figure beside the monthly one ($34, $104, $209). The unit is stated plainly: "1 credit = 1 email found via Domain Search, Email Finder, or Bulk Email Finder" and "0.5 credit = 1 email verified". |
| Best For | A searcher who already holds a company list and needs the owner's direct email and mobile number to write and call, especially where a gatekeeper will not put a call through | A self-funded searcher running proprietary outreach who already has a company list and needs the owner's address, and who wants the verification step in the same tool that finds it |
| Where It Fits | Define & Test Your Thesis, Source & Screen Deals | Define & Test Your Thesis, Source & Screen Deals |
| Our Verdict | The finding half of proprietary outreach, priced and metered on its own page. Bring the list; it supplies the person, and cross-check what it returns before you write. | The cheapest honest way to turn a list of target companies into owner email addresses, with the price and the unit both published. It is a sales tool, not an acquisition tool: it will not tell you which company to write to. |
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Both rows were read at source: RocketReach ↗ and Hunter ↗.
Our take
Choose RocketReach when you already hold the company list and need the person: a name or a LinkedIn profile becomes a verified email and, from the Pro tier at $75 a month billed annually, a mobile number, with a lookup refunded when nothing verifies. Two things to weigh. Phone numbers start at Pro, so the $33 Essentials tier is email only, and exports are the real annual meter, capped at 1,200 on the entry tier.
Choose Hunter when you are starting from domains rather than names: it turns a company's website into the addresses behind it, prices the unit as one credit per email found and half per verification, and its Starter tier at $34 a month carries 2,000 credits, with a free 50 a month to test on. What it will not do is find a phone number, which is the call a gatekeeper will not put through.